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by theboywho 7y ago
The numbers are positive, so if anything, this is an elaborate marketing campaign.
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by theboywho 7y ago
This is awesome, can you go a little bit deeper into how you organized your week? Topics you covered each day and how you devided the book to fit into a 1-week study? I’d love to do this myself with other people! The idea of a "retreat
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by theboywho 7y ago
This looks like a good basis for a color scheme for code (vscode, terminal, emacs, etc), anyone working on this ?
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by theboywho 7y ago
That's like saying "Open Source" won't work because I don't want to be my own maintainer. It's not about one person. You not wanting autonomy or being your own bank doesn't matter. People on coinbase aren&
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by theboywho 7y ago
One can argue black markets don't have a central authority and are more effective
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by theboywho 7y ago
Thinking is limited by intelligence, so just because you think it's the best solution, doesn't mean it's a universal truth, it only means that maybe the human level of intelligence can't think of a better solution.
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by theboywho 7y ago
Well bitcoin is a killer app, I didn't talk about it being _the_ killer app. I also don't think it's smart to compare and take sides when it comes to technology, Bitcoin and Ethereum are both interesting technologies, and one
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by theboywho 7y ago
One of Blockchain's killer apps is...Bitcoin. There is no need to talk about "the crypto dream", people are using what they find useful (coinbase is currently #5 top YC company), and I personally see it inevitable that everyt
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by theboywho 7y ago
Why not mention the startup name instead of saying China, which just makes it sound like if the Chinese government is behind it ? Do Chineses newspapers say US phone instead of iPhone ?
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by theboywho 7y ago
It all depends on how you define "finishing" a book. I want to argue that once you tweak your definition, you'll no longer have a problem with forgetting information from a book. This might be off topic but let me explain: On
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by theboywho 7y ago
Has there been any studies on adopting a baby? Does it yield the same results on men? If yes, then it might as well be a matter of social construct, where a new vulnerable addition to the group needs protection for example. Another curious
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Ask HN: Looking for ideas
21 points by theboywho 8y ago|21 comments
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Ask HN: How are some successful OSS projects being run?
5 points by theboywho 8y ago|1 comments
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by theboywho 8y ago
The Ottoman Empire did not rule North Africa since they were never capable of conquering Morocco, they only got Algeria to join the empire since algeria was looking for protection from Spain.
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by theboywho 8y ago
Give me 1 million and let's be friends and deal with our sudden wealth. Joke aside, you already got plenty of good advice here, I would just suggest you invest a fair amount in Bitcoin.
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by theboywho 8y ago
It's funny to see nobody is even questioning the question. What does it even hold as a value to be the project of the highest code quality in the world ? How can it exist as a consensus if we can't even agree on best practices ? I
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by theboywho 9y ago
Reminder that you should check things first before commenting. Slack's status page is in a different infrastructure, somewhere using digital ocean while slack.com is using AWS.
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by theboywho 9y ago
I used to ask the same questions when younger and I used to feel guilty many times simply because I would go out with friends some weekend instead of Learning or working on my next big idea. So my advice is there is no best way, aim for the
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by theboywho 9y ago
I've noticed most HN comments transformed from being discussions about the _content_ of the article to comments discussing the _topic_ of the article being posted, not sure if this is healthy, but the risk is HN becoming an echo chambe
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by theboywho 9y ago
I don't know Haskell but this looks like Phantom Types in Scala. Can anyone who knows both languages enlighten us ? More on Scala Phantom types here https://gigiigig.github.io/tlp-step-by-step/phantom-types.ht...
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by theboywho 9y ago
> It's not like someone is arguing to have the conference in France... Not sure if you have read the comments but unless I'm mistaken that's exactly what people are pushing for: EU being a final solution to the US issue. &
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by theboywho 9y ago
I was referring to suggestions of EU as a final solution to the US issue. What you are referring to is to decide on hosting locations on a year to year basis, which joins my idea of portable conferences.
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by theboywho 9y ago
Another idea (which I'm sure is not going to be popular but is probably a pretty good one): choose countries where the head of the state is stable: eg. Open Kingdoms, like Morocco, where the royal family is there for more than centurie
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by theboywho 9y ago
People suggesting to move conferences to other countries like France or Germany are wrong: you can't guarantee that your country is not going to turn into a US-like isolationist in the future. The US wasn't and your country is als
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by theboywho 9y ago
You probably did not read the article, as it does not talk about smartphones being a substitute tool for some tasks we used to do using our brains. The study is about the attention efforts required by our need to always check our phones for
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by theboywho 10y ago
"what's the best X" is why most programmers waste their time shasing a myth. There is no best thing for all, it all depends on the individual. A better question would be "what's a good enough X" And then go fro
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by theboywho 11y ago
"However, the researchers also point out that they “cannot show a causal relationship” between cannabis use and dopamine deficit, explaining that they can’t be sure" Ok thanks bye.
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by theboywho 11y ago
again, you only seem to want to discuss the off-topic subject related to GNU and the FSF positions in general. the thing is, no matter what your position on the GNU/Linux debate is, it doesnt change the fact microsoft brought GNU to wi
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by theboywho 11y ago
You are wrong in so many ways. First of all, you are confusing "Microsoft bringing GNU to Windows" with "this is the first time GNU is brought to Windows." Then you go on to make it seem like if the GNU/Linux debate
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by theboywho 11y ago
GNU is like Leonardo DiCaprio few years ago; never getting the Oscar. Microsoft did not bring Linux to Windows, it brought GNU. Linux is a kernel and there is not even a single bit of it in what microsoft brought to windows. It's techn

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