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by tpyo 17y ago
Can you please, um, reformat your comment. Two newlines in the textbox makes a line in the actual comment. Edit: It was fixed by the time I submitted this.
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by tpyo 17y ago
The number of points you get is how many people also want more social engineering stories.
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by tpyo 17y ago
Couldn't you just press the Close button?
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by tpyo 17y ago
"If you think ... think again." Why do so many journalists write in such cliched ways?
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by tpyo 17y ago
Does anyone what that interview is from footnote 8?
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by tpyo 17y ago
I think in Aristotle's Poetics he discusses the "best" plot for a play to have.
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by tpyo 17y ago
What does Wikipedia need $100'000s for?
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by tpyo 17y ago
"Educators say that, for adults, one way to nudge neurons in the right direction is to challenge the very assumptions they have worked so hard to accumulate while young. With a brain already full of well-connected pathways, adult learners s
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by tpyo 17y ago
"Prediction #16: ... Spelling by sound will have been adopted, first by the newspapers." Language varies too much and too quickly. Wasn't that why we adopted spelling in the first place?
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by tpyo 17y ago
How did Hoffman and Kernighan meet?
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by tpyo 17y ago
This is the wonderful thing about Hacker News: it's always reminding you to work when you aren't.
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Ask HN: What did Santa bring you?
1 points by tpyo 17y ago|1 comments
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by tpyo 17y ago
My father taught me when I was young. Learned a few languages by myself. Tried making websites. Too easy. Tried making games. Too hard. I stopped programming. Because I tried making games, programming is not for me. Maybe if I was not so am
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by tpyo 17y ago
"Omit needless words!"
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by tpyo 17y ago
Which would you consider the Sonic Youth of today: Philip Glass or Lady Gaga?
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by tpyo 17y ago
The mammogram examples are everywhere! Where did it come from?
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Schneier: The Value of Privacy(schneier.com)
109 points by tpyo 17y ago|20 comments
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by tpyo 17y ago
A sea mushroom!?
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by tpyo 17y ago
But this is what VCs like YCombinator do. They give the money to people who can create value, and get more on average back, thus letting them invest in more people later. And they get rewarded for it. Isn't this just the same, but more abst
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by tpyo 17y ago
How did you escape that terrible, terrible prison?
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by tpyo 17y ago
What is meant by intuitive thinking?
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by tpyo 17y ago
P(winning the lottery) * winnings - (cost to play) < 0 I think this is false with startups, but the chances of succeeding are still low.
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by tpyo 17y ago
Why did they stop?
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by tpyo 17y ago
Intelligence helps society more.
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by tpyo 17y ago
Did anyone find the Beethoven subtly similar to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata?
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Keeping Score: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring(youtube.com)
1 points by tpyo 17y ago|0 comments
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by tpyo 17y ago
Ah... so what is the plot in The Story of Ping?
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by tpyo 17y ago
I would consider straw men arguments more difficult to point out because you need to actually know about the subject to find them.
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What I.Q. doesn't tell you about race(gladwell.com)
31 points by tpyo 17y ago|29 comments
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by tpyo 17y ago
It already was a cheap solution to a complicated problem.

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