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Some of what you say doesn't contradict the author. You might also have an incomplete understanding of some others. (1) A prevention and a promotion focus are two types of focus people have a disposition to. You can't adopt a prev
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The applications aren't the test that matters.
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The point is to make it impossible to do what you just described. For example, to make it impossible for code sent by a server to execute any Javascript (or other scripting languages) at all. The server could instead send a data structure (
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Is it really impossible to make browser crypto a reality? Browser crypto can be scary! Do you have a malicious extension installed? We can't tell. Further, how can you guarantee we haven't been tortured into serving you custom, t
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I wish school taught reverse engineering. Or perhaps I should say breaking things apart. You often need to reuse software written by someone outside your team and soon realize the software either has bugs you have to fix yourself or needs f
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For some strange reason posting this content makes my post instantly marked as [dead]. It must have triggered some kind of spam detector. I hacked around it by first posting a comment containing the word "test", and then editing t
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Yes, the complexity of the parser is related to the size of the language. A smaller language needs a smaller, easier to write parser. Have you ever written a recursive descent parser for C? I realize now what was inaccurate about what I wro
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It's a misconception parsers are easy to write. Plus, they do an unfathomable amount of damage. Parsers are far from harmless pieces of logic you can just throw together. And not just because they take time to write - parsers are physi
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It's neither. The most important thing is to produce results in as little time as possible. You don't even know if you're solving the right problem most of the time. So you want to better understand what's the problem yo
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I Find That The Hardest Part is Deciding What To Do It's also the one with the most impact.
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If you want another example, checkout coffeemug's cl-cont [1], with the full source here[2]. It's no accident some of the best software like RethinkDB have people behind them that are deeply rooted in the mind-blowing. [1] - http
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the core of what writing is really about–sharing ideas, naturally This sentence might not be true. Writing is partly about sharing ideas and partly about discovering them. In an essay at least, most of the ideas reveal themselves after yo
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Is your analysis able to answer the questions "Is a sentence true?" and "Is this paragraph true?" That's something I'd like to have.
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The instant autocomplete feedback of the UI, which is a big strength, isn't visible to the user when they type a search term in news.ycombinator.com.
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I wonder how much http://hn.algolia.com will be used if it continues to not be linked to from http://news.ycombinator.com
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Wealth is not bad, turning it into power is. It's easy to see how 67% of people would agree with the sentence: "the rich have too much influence over where this country is headed" . What's might not be as easy to see is
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What stood out for me was this sentence: From a distance I can see what I couldn’t see then Why is it that when you are close you're unable to see something for what it is?
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(1) Automate. Besides saving time, it helps generate different kinds of ideas. (2) Have a bug tracker, and create in it smaller subtasks for a task. It dumps thoughts out of your mind, which helps focus on individual subtasks.
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This is a great example of challenging assumptions. One of the most valuable lessons I learned is to look at something in its existing, boring state and try to imagine what it's opposite would be like. Looking for opposites seems to be
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It's dangerous to claim anything is the only reason something happened because it increases the odds you could be wrong. they simply do not care If it's negligence that you're implying, consider a more valuable alternative.
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You're not far off to assume it hijacks your thinking process and steers it to the unimportant. The change to the code base would be easy. You can increase the expiration timeout or keep around more closures. It would come at the expen
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Anyone who has maintained Makefiles will also have a strong opinion on compiled languages.
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How much are you willing to pay per passive candidate for the opportunity to contact them?
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I'd try to remove complexity, not increase it, starting from: (1) Replace HTML/Javascript with a Lisp and the browser with a REPL. (2) Make a processor that executes only core Lisp axioms; there would be no other processor instruc
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Random question: why is there a random-length HTML comment in your blog post?
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It's pretty impressive the Decoy Effect practically doubled choice selection. Thank you for this. Two questions: (1) would trying this with products that don't include anything physical alter the effect? (2) how ethical is it to u
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Perhaps it doesn't work that well because people don't have any software that can pay attention to that automatically.
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Constraint is no less important than freedom.
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What does that mean?
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I liked how you're unwilling to compromise on bad design.

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