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by zck 13y ago
>I noticed the results immediately. I became more focused, more energized, more productive, and found myself solving problems more easily. It's easy to make a change and become excited that it'll make you more productive, so it becomes
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by zck 13y ago
It seems like he's better. From the second page of the article: >For example, the number of calls to the city’s “311” complaint hotline was considered to indicate which buildings were most in need of attention. More calls equaled more s
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by zck 14y ago
This doesn't say much about what they've actually done so far. They say it's "currently in production", but don't specify what that means. Have they interviewed anyone? Who? Who's agreed to be interviewed? It's going to be a very different
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by zck 14y ago
I wonder whether one could do something similar to concert tickets, and allow resales at face value, but not greater. Louis CK did that for his recent tour, and there wasn't (unless I missed it) widespread outrage; rather, people were happy
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by zck 14y ago
>Money is most optimal when it is fixed in value just as commerce is facilitated when we have fixed weights and measures. When you buy a pound of hamburger you expect to get 16 ounces of meat. But you don't pay for a pound of hamburger
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by zck 14y ago
What better way to learn what kind of things convince VCs to invest than by being a VC ? Even if you never invest a dime in any other company, you'll be a better entrepreneur if you do this.
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by zck 14y ago
>HN in some way tries to emulate the early days of reddit, but now it's time to follow reddit's example and rewrite HN in a more common language. Why? HN isn't a startup needing to hire a bunch of people to hack on the codebase; it's a
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by zck 14y ago
If you try to log into your bank with PASSWORD instead of password , does it work? They could be converting your password to numeric as a first step to using it for anything.
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by zck 14y ago
Hang on. The author went out of her way to say that it wasn't just because there were women in it, and made suggestions as to how it could be acceptable. Could you read this blogpost ( http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/09/06/shut-up-and-lis
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by zck 14y ago
>Soylent contains all of the nutritive components of a balanced diet, but with just a third of the calories... This worries me. It's not a misquote, either. From his blog^0 : >...I get all the nutrition and energy I need with about
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by zck 14y ago
If you measure something, people will try to increase it. Just by presenting the number, people are encouraged to maximize it.
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by zck 14y ago
If someone's running an executable you give them without knowing what it actually is, their security is already lost. So yeah, that's a problem, but nothing specific to Legit or git.
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2600's radio tribute to Aaron Swartz(boingboing.net)
1 points by zck 14y ago|0 comments
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by zck 14y ago
No; Kingdom of Loathing is run by Asymmetric Publications ( http://asymmetric.net/ ), which is only a few people: http://asymmetric.net/people.html . And if Zynga didn't steal game mechanics or the business model from KoL, what did they t
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by zck 14y ago
If I remember one of pg's posts (that I can't easily find right now), it was intended that YC is the way that HN is monetized. HN encourages smart people to start startups and apply to YC.
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by zck 14y ago
It's...the home row for Colemak: http://colemak.com/ At first I thought they somehow figured out how I remapped my keyboard, but it's still treated as qwerty.
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by zck 14y ago
Let's assume this site does exactly what the author thinks it does, and by clicking "accept", you agree to never give anyone the url submitted here. How, then, could runn1ing have submitted this link? Let's look at the page containing the l
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Losethos submits OS to reddit, answers questions(reddit.com)
10 points by zck 14y ago|1 comments
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by zck 14y ago
Alternately, people are less likely to attack others, steal or damage something if they know there's video being taken.
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by zck 14y ago
The problem is not if the bank's site breaks; the problem is what happens when a phishing site displays "error: connection to ConfidenceWord database failed". What percentage of users will say "oh, the bank's site is messed up; let's go in
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by zck 14y ago
The first graph here is wrong. Recall the constraint that only you and people you invite can enter. If you invite n friends, you have n+1 votes. Since each of your invites also gets a vote, there are (n+1) + n votes total, or 2n + 1
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by zck 14y ago
Well, here's an example where not having first-class macros is confusing: in takes any number of arguments, and returns whether the first argument is repeated in the rest of them: arc> (in 2 1 2 3) t arc> (in 0 1 2 3)
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by zck 14y ago
>...there's a situation where your project is cool enough for company to use but they won't because of GPL. He obviously realizes that. From the article: >I would actually rather nobody use my software than be in a situation where e
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by zck 14y ago
In DuckDuckGo, searching for map! place I'm going to redirects you to google maps with the same query.
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by zck 14y ago
This page really has a different lesson than what you think. The lesson is not "respond quickly"; that only shows that you can think on your feet. While that's useful, you don't build a business by thinking on your feet. The real lesson is
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by zck 15y ago
Additionally, we only hear about what they've decided to launch with. If they start with a grandiose idea, start it and find it impossible, we only hear about the twitter app they salvaged from the wreckage. If they have a plan to get to w
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by zck 15y ago
The larger risk for someone stealing your fingerprints at the gym is them taking a print off a door handle.
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by zck 15y ago
But usually, those links expire, or are only able to be used once. So the password the user creates is secure, and the period the attacker can use the captured link is only from the time the user requests the password reset until the time t
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by zck 15y ago
Would you be able to send him photocopies, as "letters"?
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by zck 15y ago
Does this comprise updates to the Arc codebase, a rewrite in Arc, or something else entirely?

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