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by zeroxfe 5y ago
I really think that action changes attitude faster than attitude changes action. Learning this the hard way in my 40s, it's been really life changing for me. Particularly when you're depressed, demotivated, find yourself procrasti
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by zeroxfe 5y ago
Yes! I have no idea how I botched that!
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by zeroxfe 5y ago
I've always found that writing lots of code and reading a variety of real world code are the most effective ways to learn new languages. But I recently discovered coding livestreams, and the good ones are really amazing! It's real
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by zeroxfe 5y ago
These very commonly considered success-probability multipliers and derisking factors -- at this stage, the makeup, expertise, and reputations of the individuals leading a company are the biggest success factors. Even if the acquisition fail
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by zeroxfe 5y ago
It's perfectly reasonable (and quite common) to have acronyms for your major personas, and generic terminology for the tail.
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by zeroxfe 5y ago
Most of the world works this way.
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by zeroxfe 5y ago
Or more charitably, while the UX/DX distinction isn't very meaningful for this project, there are lots of products (e.g., payments) that target both (non-developer) end users and developers. It helps to be able to separate the per
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by zeroxfe 5y ago
Think of them as a defence-in-depth that protect from accidental misconfiguration, software bugs, local exploits, etc.
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by zeroxfe 5y ago
> and then hold down left alt key. okay, that was just plain cool!
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by zeroxfe 5y ago
ugh, would you please explain why you think that isn't possible instead of throwing around your credentials and calling gp delusional.
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by zeroxfe 5y ago
About 7 years ago, I got an invite to the highest level of two programs for a year (platinum? vibranium? i don't know.) I used travel about once a month for work, which is not nearly enough to earn those levels. It was amazing -- loung
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by zeroxfe 5y ago
Taking this one more step forward, generating spectrograms with neural networks: https://0xfe.blogspot.com/2020/03/generating-spectrograms-wi...
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Show HN: Improve your singing with real-time visual feedback(pitchy.ninja)
1 points by zeroxfe 5y ago|0 comments
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by zeroxfe 5y ago
In this case, the cost is justified. The potential cost of kernel vulnerabilities is extremely high, and in some cases cause irrecoverable harm.
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by zeroxfe 6y ago
Hiring and managing a team is extremely hard, and can get very stressful. The care and nurturing of organizations, while keeping them productive and resilient to constantly changing environments, is probably the hardest job.
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by zeroxfe 6y ago
When startups are exploring new spaces, there are always challenged with basic fundamentals. There's just too many uncertainties and unknown unknowns to nail down even remotely concrete projections. So VCs resort to other metrics (part
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by zeroxfe 6y ago
When you start managing people, you quickly realize that things aren't so black and white.
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by zeroxfe 6y ago
Their evaluation and decision making process is quite clear: https://esp.ethereum.foundation/en/guide/
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by zeroxfe 6y ago
Ethereum is on the forefront of some of the hardest problems in distributed systems and security today. If anything, public blockchains have really pushed the edges of research in some of these spaces, particularly around consensus, crypto,
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by zeroxfe 6y ago
So, what would you do differently? Say you run an organization with 200 engineers all with different levels of skill. You have a budget, maybe a year of runway, and a set of deliverables. How would you, as a leader, keep track of how your o
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by zeroxfe 6y ago
I agree with the first part about release groups and reputations, etc. But the income comparison is not fair: it's far worse for an individual to lose their real savings (no matter how small), than for them to lose (e.g.) $10,000 of pi
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by zeroxfe 6y ago
> I wonder if he would have done better simply investing in Bitcoin. Hindsight's 20-20. Especially when it comes to investment.
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Building a transparent supply chain with blockchains(hbr.org)
4 points by zeroxfe 6y ago|0 comments
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by zeroxfe 6y ago
A Merkle tree is just one component of a blockchain. It also requires: a byzantine consensus mechanism, a p2p network stack, public key crypto, and a set of economic incentives to keep it going. You can't build a public database on a M
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The most terrifying fact about blockchains is rogue AIs you can't switch off(twitter.com)
14 points by zeroxfe 6y ago|36 comments
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by zeroxfe 6y ago
Cryptopals was by far the most fun and the most educational set of puzzles I've worked on. It was also a great way to spend my unemployed Covid summer, right after my startup went bust. I used Go to solve them, which are here incase an
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by zeroxfe 6y ago
Anyone have experience with this? I love the idea of it being daemonless.
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by zeroxfe 6y ago
https://pitchy.ninja -- An online vocal and ear trainer using real-time pitch detection.
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by zeroxfe 6y ago
> Humor aside, intercourse and discourse are synonyms. TIL, thanks. I've never heard the term "public intercourse" before, always "public discourse", so I thought it was a typo.
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by zeroxfe 6y ago
> It'll be interesting to see if whoever replaces Ajit Pai holds a different view on public intercourse over the airwaves. Really hoping you mean "public discourse" :-)

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