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David Kadavy's "Design for Hackers" now on Amazon(amazon.com)
174 points by tsycho 15y ago|62 comments
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by tsycho 15y ago
I'm in for this. A chapter every 2 weeks sounds like a good pace without any unnecessary pressure. How do we coordinate? @gruseom, would you like to take the lead?
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by tsycho 15y ago
I love HNL. How do you monetize it? Or is it a do-good-and-earn-long-term-karma thing?
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by tsycho 15y ago
Wow. This is an extremely well written document. I wish other lawyers would write in such "plain" English. Assuming (hopefully) that this leads to a better understanding of the claims by judges, juries as well as the media, do you folks see
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by tsycho 15y ago
AFAIK, all the investment banks (in the US atleast) have a mandatory annual two-week vacation policy for all front-office (traders/sales etc.) employees. Furthermore, you are supposed to be totally switched off during those two weeks (no wo
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by tsycho 15y ago
Hi V1, great work on Observer. Are you going to continue working on it? If not, are you going to open source it? I think its a very good tool, and can see myself using this.
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by tsycho 15y ago
Reminds me of http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ :)
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by tsycho 15y ago
Cool, thanks.
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Ask HN: How do you organize your code snippets?
1 points by tsycho 15y ago|2 comments
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Tell HN: 18 Kurt Vonnegut Kindle books for $3.99: Any recommendations SF lovers?(amazon.com)
2 points by tsycho 15y ago|1 comments
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by tsycho 15y ago
Reading the comments here gave me an idea....google your own credit card numbers to check if its already in some scammer's index. While no results might not necessarily mean you are safe, a positive match is a clear red flag.
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by tsycho 15y ago
Very interesting comment, hadn't heard of Sortition before. However, I see a few practical problems with this. First, it makes it harder to fix any errors/cheating. You can ask for a reevaluation of exam papers or a recount of the ballot if
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S&P president Sharma [who downgraded US debt] to leave(sfgate.com)
1 points by tsycho 15y ago|0 comments
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by tsycho 15y ago
+1 for Kleinberg-Tardos. I had already read Cormen before, and dabbled in TAOCP before I found Kleinberg-Tardos, and found it the most interesting (while remaining rigorous) of the three. I loved the structure of the book as well - focusing
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The rsync algorithm(olstrans.sourceforge.net)
6 points by tsycho 15y ago|1 comments
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by tsycho 15y ago
>> There is a tiny bit of logic behind the thinking that some users prefer lists this way ... I thought it had more to do with ads. The more pages you load, the more ads Time (and similar sites) can display.
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by tsycho 15y ago
Gradual descent. I used to put 4 teaspoons of sugar in my tea, it just wouldn't taste right without it. Then I decided to cut down. So I started reducing it in very gradual steps. 6 months down the road, I was down to 1.5 teaspoons.
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by tsycho 15y ago
Does any one know of a good Ruby equivalent of such a library?
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by tsycho 15y ago
While some stories definitely get a lot of attention, especially the YC ones, many others however drop off without ever reaching the front page. For many fledgling startups, the initial HN mention can be very important, and a special page f
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by tsycho 15y ago
But that's a good thing. If you had signed up with high hopes, expecting something else, and then the product disappointed you, then you might write a bad review/blog post etc. potentially turning away other users who might have liked the f
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A Revenge Plot So Intricate, the Prosecutors Were Pawns(nytimes.com)
10 points by tsycho 15y ago|0 comments
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by tsycho 15y ago
> Are there many developed countries where father, son and grand-son, or uncle and nephew ALL become PMs in the past 30 years? Not in 30 yrs (more like 60), but India. J. Nehru, followed by his daughter Indira Gandhi, followed by her so
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by tsycho 15y ago
Unfortunately, I don't see why any government (including western democracies) would support a system that reduces their ability to censor traffic within its borders.
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by tsycho 15y ago
>> assume that in described world, a selected type of "magic" is possible (handwaving it into a scientificly-sound concept for the sake of the reading experience) and extrapolate the consequences. What can be done with it, and - mo
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Microsoft, Baidu to Expand Web-Search Partnership(bloomberg.com)
1 points by tsycho 15y ago|0 comments
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by tsycho 15y ago
Reminds of that other saying about most users using only 10% of features in Microsoft Excel......it's just that every one uses a different 10% of features (or apps in this case) :)
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The passive startup founder(maxkle.in)
3 points by tsycho 15y ago|0 comments
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by tsycho 15y ago
I second that. Please change the background to FFFFFF, it looks much more professional. rokhayakebe, are you a designer? Would you be willing to have a look at my site - grepfiles.com? If you do get a chance, please email me any feedback at
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by tsycho 15y ago
Well, if they actually wrote that, the developer might not feel as bad.
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50% off on Javascript ebooks at O'Reilly(oreilly.com)
5 points by tsycho 15y ago|0 comments

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