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composer

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About composer

Originally named composed. See

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128645.

But an openid deprecation turned the account into a dangling pointer.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #28674824

    > An estimation has two components: location and uncertainty ReRe's Law of Re petition and Re dundancy [5] could benefit from a refinement that accounts for the inverse relationshi…

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    Comment #28332043

    oathtool -w1 --base32 --totp $secret Add a space before the command depending on your shell. Some shells will keep your secret out of history logs.

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    Comment #27078476

    I like this argument and would like to strengthen it in sligthly diffent dimension... Every time I hear/read a "net offset" justification like in the greatgrandparent comment my br…

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    Comment #25826591

    [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19249822

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    Comment #25826476

    ReRe's Law of Re petition and Re dundancy [4] somehow does not apply to you: A programmer can accurately estimate the schedule for only the repeated and the redundant. Yet, A progr…

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    Comment #25797519

    ReRe's Law of Re petition and Re dundancy [3] agrees with you: A programmer can accurately estimate the schedule for only the repeated and the redundant. Yet, A programmer's job is…

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    Comment #25795217

    > $2.5 Trillion every year Actually it will cost $3T ONCE, one-time. Actually the USA has already paid for a UBI from just its pandemic-related stimulus alone, e.g. CARES Act. The …

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    Comment #25575806

    That is also a good idea because people are motivated more to act when something goes wrong; and a close second is when they are excited to share a good discovery. The DefaultRevie…

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    Comment #24712586

    Similar to floatrock's proposol [1] of turning reviews upside down... Imagine being able to track broken-ness (when, how, why) in the field across all products of the same model. A…

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    Comment #19249822

    ReRe's Law of Re petition and Re dundancy [2] seems appropriate here: A programmer can accurately estimate the schedule for only the repeated and the redundant. Yet, A programmer's…

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    Comment #16782398

    Giving is exactly what turned one blogger's bipolar struggles into something manageble [1]: "I felt trapped, waiting for the descent, wondering how steep, prepared somewhat for its…

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    Comment #14984697

    That's funny. But I like the idea of signaling the market some way. In a sufficiently competitive market even your opt-out signaling would would work. In the deaf market of the air…

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    Comment #14984111

    DHH posted about his bad airline experience[1] in 2013. An app for addressing both your experience and his experience is feasible for the HN crowd. Please steal this business plan[…

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    Comment #14817610

    I'm reluctant to say this... But future generations will probably laugh at us. Our rule of thumb about deprivation of oxygen and brain damage is based on the idea that brain damage…

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    Comment #12150889

    Or how about: ReRe's Law of Repetition and Redundancy [1] A programmer can accurately estimate the schedule only for the repeated and the redundant. Yet, A programmer's job is to a…

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    Comment #11625280

    (Pardon the incredulous-sounding intro but...) Actually you can pay for it. Exactly because any regular ordinary person can pay for it. Exactly because abundance is inherently free…

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    Comment #11576683

    ReRe's Law of Re petition and Re dundancy A programmer can accurately estimate the schedule only for the repeated and the redundant. Yet, A programmer's job is to automate the repe…

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    Comment #2571390

    kiba, if by "spammy" you mean continuing to call for focus of the hack-space's collective intelligence on one of its most fundamental problems... then spam on brother... spam on.

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    Comment #2571379

    Wow. The article is significant because it identifies and proposes a solution to a fundamental problem everyone has (even if they don't recognize it yet). Craig Newmark concurs wit…

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    Comment #1876252

    Why this is significant: Think outer space. In orbit, on the Moon or near Mars, a JTEC's sun facing side has a huge temperature differential than the shadow side. And on a lighter …

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    Comment #1876178

    My tinfoil hat theory: The passion of a vocal minority is not a reflection of the hacker collective, but rather the reflection of an impressively-run facebook-sponsored astroturfin…