Kisil

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by Kisil 15y ago
I agree that we are too slow to point the blame at ourselves. It's healthy to be self-critical. That said, there are programmers who are legitimately lacking both in basic skills and desire to attain those skills. It's orthogonal to the pro
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by Kisil 15y ago
And I've said this before, but I'd love to see votes for [dis]agreement, even if votes for contribution/karma may be better hidden.
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by Kisil 15y ago
I would vastly prefer not to die at all, and science is moving us in that direction. That said, I don't think death is necessary as a motivator to "make today count." Today is a motivator to make today count. The living is the thing. Every
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by Kisil 15y ago
Side-note: Many users vote, or withhold votes, based on some sense of what the comment "should have scored." Awarding karma only for quality votes allows the reader to register assent/dissent without running up the score. There's a frequent
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by Kisil 15y ago
How about separating "quality" and "agreement" into separate scores? While it complicates the interface, it would be much more useful for both authors and readers. It naturally leads to measuring controversy - the most interesting comments
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by Kisil 15y ago
I believe the idea was to package the ideas in an approachable (and perhaps potentially more viral) format. The ideas are more succinctly expressed at http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences , but I can't see your average Harry Potter fan
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by Kisil 16y ago
Services make sense when you add value on an ongoing basis. Since it's not only possible but pretty simple to build this as an app, it makes much more sense to sell it as an app. More importantly, anything that depends on having active serv
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by Kisil 16y ago
I see this cash discounting frequently, and it makes sense, as it's easier (faster, more certain) for the doctor to take the cash than to deal with billing the insurance company.
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Notion Ink taking sign-ups for more Adam pre-orders(store.notionink.com)
1 points by Kisil 16y ago|0 comments
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by Kisil 16y ago
For more discussion of the subject by the same author, see his blog post: http://www.quickanded.com/2011/01/the-most-important-higher-...
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36% of US college students learn nothing in four years(chronicle.com)
1 points by Kisil 16y ago|1 comments
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by Kisil 16y ago
And did you find out how many of the up and neutral clients also came from the yellow pages? That bit of information is useful only if it draws a distinction, e.g. what if the agency only had one working form of advertising? (Of course thi
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by Kisil 16y ago
Perhaps in an ideal world some people should self-select out of voting; I haven't thought enough about that ideal world to say. But HN in general, and this page in particular, is the wrong forum to push for such self-selection. I would be
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by Kisil 16y ago
(Waring: US-centric answer) I agree that capitalism relies on government-supported stability and infrastructure, but I don't think Carmack was arguing the opposite point: >>This is not to say that it doesn’t provide many valuable an
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by Kisil 16y ago
It seems obvious to you and many others here that everyone slides down the slippery spending slope. I have the same problem understanding this position that I have understanding "compulsive shoppers" who buy luxury goods on credit cards.
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by Kisil 16y ago
Not to recurse on your comment, but can we build a web app for this some weekend?
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by Kisil 16y ago
>> When someone says "you're too smart", or "you sound too smart" or "try to dumb yourself down", most of the time they're not really saying that you're too smart. They're saying "can the act." Perhaps some people who use big words
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by Kisil 16y ago
I imagine it's also for tracking how far through the article readers get. That would be useful feedback for the writer: "Katy, you lost 44% of the audience after page three..."
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by Kisil 16y ago
Your comment reminds me of this story: http://www.astatespacetraveler.com/have-you-ever-wondered-wh... Broad strokes: Startups directly create new value, which by definition makes the world a better place, at least for someone. In contr
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by Kisil 16y ago
The seeds of innovation were there earlier, though. The rifle industry comes to mind - I remember reading that innovative rifles with better range played some part in colonial militias' success in the US revolutionary war. One could argue
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by Kisil 16y ago
Right: how GM foods affect health is an entirely separate question from how processing affects health, yet the two are conflated all the time. I'm sure it doesn't help that the most common wrong reasons for opposing processing (e.g. "getti
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by Kisil 16y ago
His analysis of the difference between the trustee and participatory models is insightful, but he didn't address how what he's building is different from aggregators like HN or reddit. Loosely, it sounds like he's putting together a news-f
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by Kisil 17y ago
Shorter version of the article: Meritocracy, when it even works, makes the winners smug and the losers depressed. Economic gains do not equal what we lose in community. We should discourage some necessary conditions for meritocracy (e.g.
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by Kisil 17y ago
>If you want to tell your children they can be anything they want, you can't end up with a perfectly egalitarian society as a result. Perhaps an easier solution than the author's don't-let-anyone-excel would be to de-stigmatize lower-ta
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by Kisil 17y ago
But there's a difference between the common weakness ("I focus on trivial details at the expense of the big picture") and the common bullshit response ("I work too hard"). I don't ask this kind of interview question, but I imagine one coul
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by Kisil 17y ago
I doubt the correlation between length and value is that strong. Brevity is the soul of wit; let's not penalize high information density.
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by Kisil 17y ago
Theft The business model is predicated on other people's honesty.
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First class graduates Kurzweil's Singularity University(sfgate.com)
19 points by Kisil 17y ago|17 comments
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by Kisil 17y ago
Leil Lowndes' "How to Talk to Anyone" is an excellent primer.
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by Kisil 18y ago
It's a brilliant essay, but then what do you expect from Paul Graham? It's eloquently put and finely crafted. This is a really interesting analytical tool. I think there's some amusement to be found in an agreement hierarchy: AH-0: Ra

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