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by read 10y ago
Try to do nothing. You wouldn't be able to if you tried. Your subconscious would start pulling you to things you really like.
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by read 11y ago
What convinced you California is out of the question? If anything was possible, would you want to live in the Bay area, find a co-founder, and grow the bootstrapped product into a company? I say this because your comment is contradictory. Y
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Get Creative Insights on the Boundary Between Sleep and Wakefulness(artofmanliness.com)
6 points by read 11y ago|1 comments
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by read 12y ago
It's true creativity is connecting things. Daniel Kahnman in Thinking Fast and Slow referred to it as associative memory working exceptionally well. Additionally, being in a good mood has been proven to make people more creative and in
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by read 12y ago
As a Lisp, it has macros and treats data as code. Other languages don't. As an improvement over Lisp, it's succinct. You use fewer tokens, which helps write less code. You couldn't write less code in a different language even
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by read 12y ago
Better by what measure? If you accept succinctness is power, Arc is the most powerful language there is. Python's goal seems to contradict wanting to be powerful. http://paulgraham.com/power.html And if what you are wr
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by read 12y ago
This tangent might sound mean but I often wished there was some glassdoor-like site or startup for shaming bad behavior, especially lying. Starting with rental agents. If you stuck to reporting facts, how would that put you in danger?
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by read 12y ago
Arc. Besides boosting your productivity, it will stretch your mind in ways you have yet to imagine.
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by read 12y ago
Quotes are content, or at least a specific aggregation of them. The article's title is context. What I found as a dangerous idea was pointing out things you notice when you are not sure why you notice them. Which is how the subconsciou
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by read 12y ago
I'm starting to believe there's an odd property to curiosity. Unique observations are threatening to people's identity. Those were two actual questions asked to Elon along with his responses, and the two that stood out for me
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by read 12y ago
Q: What daily habit do you believe has the largest positive impact on your life? A: Showering Q: Would you ever consider becoming a politician? A: Unlikely
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by read 12y ago
"What surprised you the most?"
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by read 12y ago
I would pay for a safe proxy. Why are there no proxy-as-a-service companies?
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by read 12y ago
In one study, where they tried learning both ways, people felt like blocked practice was better, even though their ultimate performance was measurably better after the random practice! Though you might improve at a task during practice,
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by read 12y ago
I don't know of such a succinct manual with practical advise (as opposed to they air "you can do it"). I wish someone wrote one actually.
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by read 12y ago
I just realized I asked you the same question before. If the server got hacked, could it send Javascript that steals a users password (which you say "never leaves your computer"), decrypts user data, and sends the password and th
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by read 12y ago
the best predictors of productivity were a team’s energy and engagement outside formal meetings We’ve been able to foretell, for example, which teams will win a business plan contest, solely on the basis of data collected from team membe
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by read 12y ago
Make Arc use all cores. Although it's already multi-threaded, all threads use a single processor. Or make Arc scale out on multiple machines by modifying its webserver to shard based on username. If this works it can run HackerNews.
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by read 12y ago
Lisp will emerge as a threat to Javascript.
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by read 12y ago
1. Realize it's impossibly unlikely for two people to build the same thing, even if they were sitting next to each other sharing their plans. The only competition is with yourself. 2. As a consequence: stop sprinting. Stop trying to re
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by read 12y ago
> Your emails and data are encrypted from the beginning with a secret phrase that never leaves your computer. Do you use a browser plugin?
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by read 12y ago
One special trick I've used is to write an idea down when I have it. Another is to write more often to unearth my ideas. What's more valuable that storing existing knowledge is generating new knowledge. You won't reach your m
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by read 12y ago
The problem with what you mention about Australia is regression to the mean. 'Market salary rate' means average salary, which is not what a great programmer is worth. What danmaz74 suggested is better.
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by read 12y ago
(1) You objected to the term "anti-immigration". If that phrase could be changed to something else that roughly means "oppose immigration" what phrase would you have used? (2) If a phrase that you suggest is used, woul
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by read 12y ago
What label would you have used instead?
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by read 12y ago
I didn't remember this one. Worth paying attention to by any politician or economist. "Modern invention has been a great leveller. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege an
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by read 12y ago
But why? Why do you panic? Why are your body or subconscious convinced you are about to enter a stressful, risky situation and start to react this way? What conditioned them to believe this? It happened to me too by the way, both the night
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by read 12y ago
Is a warrant canary even legal? If it isn't, what's the point of having them? From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary The US security researcher Moxie Marlinspike states that "every lawyer we&#
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by read 12y ago
Write an essay about it. You seem to understand it well enough to explain, and care enough to keep explaining in spite of how exhausting it is. You practically wrote half of the essay with that comment alone. Sort out all arguments against
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Ask HN: What is the one thing you are afraid of doing in 2015?
4 points by read 12y ago|8 comments

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