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I like this anecdote, it does seem very much like Bill G. I think a lot of people answer this very generically like "be smart" or saying don't focus on career growth focus on writi…

Hi HN, I am in the process of writing a book and on a smaller scale a small blog post exploring the factors that contribute to a software engineer's success. I'd love to understand…

The intention was not to write a bot which uses unethical trickery, but one that was a productive poster. I include the posts to reddit the bot made in the article. I understand ho…

Yes, what I was trying to articulate at the end was that the bot which finds urls to post only generated 3.7k karma after 1.5 months. Given additional time there's nothing stopping…

Thanks for the tip!

Anyone know of a list of open puzzles/riddles like Fenn's poem, Kryptos, etc?

ego depletion is the idea that the more you stop yourself from doing things, the harder it gets to stop yourself. It sounds like they looked at a bunch of studies on this effect an…

The main take away I got here was that using a representation that decompresses the terse mathematical notation that you can interact with builds intuition about the system. If you…