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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali
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Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) for email. I wish it was possible emails sent are erased from the recipient's email client. I want to own the parts of the email conversation that I wrote. The reason to want this is to not leave an elect
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The most important thing you can understand is that these concerns aren't the most important thing to worry about. Content is more important. Though, if you had to pick only one feature to work on next, mobile might be it. As for the r
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I recommend you do less visually. Design will be a big part of a sharing service and you don't want things to look cluttered. I also wonder if the one sentence description can be shortened.
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Ask HN: Is there something valuable in being imprecise?
1 points by read 12y ago|4 comments
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Pay close attention to guilty words like: just, always, never, everything, nothing, all, none, very, actually. They are an alarm that indicates you are going to an extreme to justify a position. If what you say is evidently true, you wouldn
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(off-topic: can you answer something I asked you?) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7545852
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Can I ask you how you trained yourself to do this? Is there a trick that helps focus on important problems?
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A similar question: how soon can you see results from a code change? Another question: does pushing code interrupt the app? I'm slightly embarrassed to say I hack on the server when I can, because it lets me have feedback quickly after
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I can understand paying attention to what competitors do. I can also understand tying all your products together. But how human is this? so we further lock customers into our ecosystem My personal favorite is: what about email? It shows
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I love the idea of getting feedback on what you sent. It took me posting to HN and Reddit to realize how unimportant most things I work on are. It's one of those things that should be obvious but aren't until you are confronted wi
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What has put me off Tarsnap was not realizing that the price per GB is for compressed storage. So while it looks high compared to Amazon's per GB pricing, it's a lot cheaper. I don't recall if this was on Tarsnap's websi
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What I hate most about PCs is that there's so much hardware that needs drivers. At a minimum, you need a driver for each type of network card there is. If all PCs disappeared and were replaced by something like the Raspberry Pi, then w
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If that's true, it suggests taste for interesting problems might be a different kind of taste (is there a difference between taste for problems and taste for solutions?) Either way it begs the question: how do you cultivate taste for i
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I wonder if there's a bigger trend here. What stood out for me was this response: I look for interesting problems that I can solve. I don’t care whether they’re important or not, and so I’m definitely not obsessed with solving
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If you came late in this thread or somehow still believe keybase.io equals rolling your own system, sokrates wrote a good description of what keybase.io does lower in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7465349
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There is Neocities: https://neocities.org/ But the simplicity in the design is gone, possibly forever.
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I make bad decisions to do things that are not as important as other things. It's as if I'm perpetually missing something at the point in time where I could make a better decision. I'd love to hear how to change that.
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If you could automatically have a history of emails from people you know, do you still need to know if a new email is from a person you know for you to manually process it? And if so, why? I'm not so sure if I would want to destroy an
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Why do you want to know if an email is from a person you know?
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Ask HN: Can you score blogs by truthfulness?
4 points by read 13y ago|8 comments
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To know how good you are at something requires the same skills as it does to be good at that thing. Which means if you are absolutely hopeless at something you lack exactly the skills that you need to know that you are absolu
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No, it won't work; I'm a security expert
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No, it won't work; I'm not a security expert
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Yes, it will work; I'm not a security expert
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Yes, it will work; I'm a security expert
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From the article: Maybe talented people just practise more and try harder at the thing they're already good at - because they enjoy it? There's a profound implication here: that you can train yourself to enjoy something you orig
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What popped out for me was different: - A cool trick by the headteacher is to be available: to be at the school gate at the start and end of every day. - Wisdom by the conciliator: stress is created when people aren't in control. - D
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Have you tried constraining yourself to doing less? I don't mean taking a vacation or sleeping more. I mean setting as a goal that you'll accomplish less every day, and with zero expectation about what to do with the free hours th
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Thanks. The Harvard goals study doesn't exist. After hearing of this myth, Gail Matthews at Dominican University tried to perform the goals study: http://www.dominican.edu/academics/ahss/undergraduate-progra..

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