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by thunk 17y ago
Pirate-proof in the sense that works can't be pirated? Or pirate-proof in the sense that piracy is unnecessary because works are already free? I'm pretty sure the former is impossible.
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by thunk 17y ago
Yeah, emacs and vim would never have gotten where they are if it weren't for their simple, intuitive interfaces. The Simple UI camp is wrong: It's not complexity you want to minimize in a UI -- muscle memory will take care of that -- it's t
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by thunk 17y ago
It seems to me that TDD works against both bottom-up and exploratory programming. Bottom-up programming develops tiny functions that are each trivially correct. These tiny functions form a base on which the next layer of tiny functions is b
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by thunk 17y ago
Invoking Parkinson's Law is incorrect. That would require Arrington to be uninteresting, and your main point to be intimidatingly profound, neither of which are true. This was plain old Distraction By Shiny Objects. I think "see randomness"
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by thunk 17y ago
There's another reason people "dislike" the color of the bike shed: they love participatory righteous indignation, and the bike shed's color is something convenient to complain about. That so many bike sheds are this color makes me think th
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by thunk 17y ago
No, no, no. It's: "If you quit, I'll take you more seriously than you could possibly imagine."
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by thunk 17y ago
There's another reason people "dislike" Arrington: they love participatory righteous indignation, and Arrington is willing to play sink to it. The ability to bear that, and even revel in it, is something many great people share, and makes m
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by thunk 17y ago
I think he chose it specifically because of the pleasing self-similarity -- it's sort of a joke. After all, what kind of problem is a mutable date? A time problem, of course.
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by thunk 17y ago
Oh, I wasn't suggesting it was. I thought it was a good post.
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by thunk 17y ago
I'd love an explicit ban on pop-sci health articles in the guidelines. Most of them are pure upvote-garbage. They can make HN look like a tabloid.
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by thunk 17y ago
There isn't a project page I can point you at yet, but I'll submit it here soon. Feel free to email me if you think you missed the post.
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by thunk 17y ago
I got so fed up with the entire composition/synthesis/recording software genre -- for reasons I'll soon document elsewhere -- that I've written a new music authoring platform specifically for hackers. And it's Different. I've mentioned it h
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by thunk 17y ago
I would have gone for fulldisclojure.com -- a little longer but seems to better represent the intent. Still, nice job.
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by thunk 17y ago
How could you possibly miss the opportunity for a README or FIXME reference?
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by thunk 17y ago
It might improve flagging accuracy if you included it on users' profile pages. Give people a metric and they'll tweak it. The result might be dramatic.
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Tell HN: Chromium nightly (linux) appears to have stable support for Flash
8 points by thunk 17y ago|6 comments
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by thunk 17y ago
I thought he made his take on making money with information pretty clear: You make money off information others can make money off :) Now just think about types of information with which people can make money. Hint: It ain't just stock tips
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by thunk 17y ago
I count a belief in "the singularity" as to some degree religious. Composed of equal parts millennialist eschatological zeal, denial of the lack of compelling evidence for the emergence of the requisite strong AI, and even its own Heaven (s
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by thunk 17y ago
And sometimes it feels like: "Hacker News - Go away", and I'm just fine with that, too. :)
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by thunk 17y ago
Hrm, I think you've misunderstood wu wei. Wu wei has nothing to do with immutability. Quite the contrary. Wu wei achieves great things by applying the least amount of force at the location of greatest leverage -- by piggybacking on the stro
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by thunk 17y ago
Sometimes it feels like: "Lisp - Go away". And sometimes I'm just fine with that.
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by thunk 17y ago
If we take the assumption that the mind is a physical system, then it would still only be a matter of time before we found the reason for the difference in computational ability I don't see how the latter follows from the former. The phys
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by thunk 17y ago
The novel is finally waking up from its 100-year carbonite nap. Old hierarchies of taste are collapsing. Genres are hybridizing. The balance of power is swinging from the writer back to the reader, and compromises with the public taste are
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by thunk 17y ago
3? 2: Make desirables
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by thunk 17y ago
I found the final sentence of the post exceptionally poignant: Interested in agile? See how a world-leading software vendor is practicing agile.
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by thunk 17y ago
Perhaps you have no choice but to generalize from experience. But some people are better than others at avoiding over generalization. Anyway, the juxtaposition of "Everyone ... At least I do" seems to peg it as a joke, given the subject.
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by thunk 17y ago
God damn ... I remember reading that piece years ago and thinking to myself, "Man, DFW really knows what's up. Deep down, he's really got it together. There's a lot of fucked up shit in this world, and he's looked at it head on, and come to
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by thunk 17y ago
Nice. You were joking, right? Sometimes it's hard to tell.
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by thunk 17y ago
There's a pleasant irony here , too, since that's an overgeneralization.
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by thunk 17y ago
Precisely. Emptiness as practiced by a lone determined fool. See niece/nephew of your comment. I did it through disciplined meditation on emptiness and compassion in turns, and a sort of retreat from the world, as I had a little money put a

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