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Can you say a bit more? I'd like something short and simpler.

I don't blog. I'm afraid people will make fun of what I write if I do.

I have a similar feeling on HackerNews, that people will jump on me. It's also why I don't use Twitter.

seeingon Ask HN: I'm taking 2 weeks off work to build a prototype. Any advice?

Build only 1 feature, only 1 page, and make it as appealing as possible before building anything else. Measure the appeal by number of users. Spend the first day launching, however far you get.

seeingon Lessons Learned from 30 Years of MINIX

Lesson. If marketing the product according to plan A does not work, invent plan B.

If you can make Minix run on a MacBook Air, AND get wifi working without me having to do anything, I'm willing to try it. Neither Linux nor FreeBSD have been able to do this.

seeingon Wealth Inequality Is Even Worse in Reputation Economies

  There’s no objective measure of ‘‘merit’’ so there’s no
  way to know whether your society is meritocratic or not.

Is this true?

seeingon Ask HN: Why do you blog?

To explain something complex I learned that most people may not know.

seeingon The power of ignoring

  The study suggests that the ability to pay attention to
  something is driven by inhibition.

This is controversial.

Inhibition sounds like the opposite of openness, and openness is considered vitally important to being a good programmer according to http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/programmers-are-a-tin...

seeingon Fixing the Inequity of Startup Equity

Why 10 years and not 100 or 1000?

If this is a legal limit, can anyone explain the rationale behind the limit?

seeingon XtreemFS – Fault Tolerant Distributed File System

How are XtreemFS and Quobyte different than GlusterFS?

seeingon What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

The article contradicts your first point, and suggests too many takeaways are a sign of trouble.

Was it better to let everyone speak as much as they wanted, or should strong leaders end meandering debates? Was it more effective for people to openly disagree with one another, or should conflicts be played down? The data didn’t offer clear verdicts. In fact, the data sometimes pointed in opposite directions. The only thing worse than not finding a pattern is finding too many of them.

seeingon Harper Lee has died

Harper Lee's words: all I want to be is the Jane Austen of South Alabama.

seeingon History of massive-scale sorting experiments at Google

  We haven’t found a single use case for the problem as stated.

Impressive nonetheless.