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mustafa0xon Ask HN: Is Cloudflare Down for You?

I'm noticing very high latencies accessing my sites. Nonproxied they work fine. Also, friends in the MENA region says the sites are fast.

AI wrote a bash script to compare accessing a site directly (via ip) vs proxied https://gist.github.com/mustafa0x/f11eb7f694a1798af89818888f...

    === Differences (origin - DNS) in seconds ===
    dns:      -0.001840
    connect:  0.176602
    tls:      0.395706
    TTFB:     -57.478392
    total:    -56.314747

CF added 1 minute

mustafa0xon Tell HN: Google Play suspends new app for crashing

- The app was accepted to the app store without issues

- I'm allowed to upload the app under another id and name, but changing both with be a pain, especially the name

- Also, if they flag another app, the whole account gets banned

- It seems like there are lots of complains about this new policy: https://old.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1ck1wyp/did_goo...

- Big tech really needs an ombudsman

mustafa0xon Some things I've learnt about programming

> Programming is much closer to a craft than a science or engineering discipline. It's a combination of skill and experience expressed through tools

You seem be implying that the latter statement doesn't apply to the disciplines of science and engineering. "skill and experience expressed through tools" is highly important in both watchmaking and bridge building. I would advise anyone who says elsewise to reconsider.

I understand your point, but why create a hugely false dichotomy between a craft discipline and the science and engineering disciplines?

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I strongly concur with points 2 and 6.

mustafa0xon Hang Around with People who Get Shit Done

You seem to be saying that who you're around isn't of great importance. If so, I believe you should reconsider. If not, please clarify.

mustafa0xon What Startups Can Learn From Sun Tzu’s The Art Of War

You seem to be using destroy and open warfare synonymously. The Art of War is about one of these, not the other:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/destroy

  de·stroy  (d-stroi)
  v. de·stroyed, de·stroy·ing, de·stroys
  v.tr.
  1. To ruin completely; spoil: The ancient manuscripts were destroyed by fire.
  2. To tear down or break up; demolish. See Synonyms at ruin.
  3. To do away with; put an end to: "In crowded populations, poverty destroys the possibility of cleanliness" (George Bernard Shaw).
  4. To kill: destroy a rabid dog.
  5. To subdue or defeat completely; crush: The rebel forces were destroyed in battle.

See 5.

mustafa0xon The HN login page seems highly insecure- Can any of you pros give an assessment?

It was the point drcode was making (which FuzzyDunlop misunderstood):

> The only real danger is for bozos who use the same password for HN as they do for their citibank account

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Excuse my pedantry, but I'd advise against saying "That isn't the point.", for it conflicts with a well known writing technique: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show,_don%27t_tell

If you insist on doing so, consider a more polite alternative. E.g. "it's seems you've missed the point", "perhaps you've misunderstood", "I feel that so-and-so was saying something else".

mustafa0xon The HN login page seems highly insecure- Can any of you pros give an assessment?

Users who have the same password for HN and their bank are indeed bozos.

mustafa0xon Timeline of the far future

We are certain of one, not the other.

mustafa0xon Trust Me, I'm Lying

I share your sentiments.

mustafa0xon Trust Me, I'm Lying

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Someone found it interesting?

mustafa0xon Sign up in seconds...and then what?

Failing to inform can be as deceptive as misinforming.

mustafa0xon Sign up in seconds...and then what?

Deception. More verbosely, you allowed the user to assume something, yet contradicted this assumption. Somewhat similar when a woman strings a man along, then requests payment.

mustafa0xon The Startup Resume

> Overall, startups are looking for employees who are exceptional in the one key thing that they will be doing

Key - in my opinion - being the operative word. In other words, you may be doing many things, but how good you are at those things aren't as relevant as how good you are at this key thing.

mustafa0xon How Geniuses Think

> but the nature of their intelligence couldn't be more different.

This statement is false. They could be more different in ways you can't even imagine, for no one currently completely understands the nature of intelligence.

mustafa0xon Serious About a New Language? Begin With Lesson 1

> It's going to change the world.

The world does not simply "change". :)

edit: more seriously, making this statement is rarely advisable and is usually made in haste.

mustafa0xon Show HN: Official Release of Gmelius, A Better Gmail in Chrome, Firefox & Opera

> There are ways to critique something without calling it "really useless".

Words that needed to be said, thank you for doing so.

@Khao: Tone is critical when giving sincere opinion. Moreover, tone is hard to convey through text. I believe you should choose your words more carefully. Your post (to me) is somewhat fussy.

mustafa0xon Why Can't We See Evidence Of Alien Life?

> It's really not hard to imagine that the search for alien life is a problem of asking a question for a rare/over-specified solution.

Life is quite messy and obvious. It seems quite likely that traces would exist.

mustafa0xon What good is experience?

> If you are lucky enough to get an education, it's another foundation to work from, but it will not make up for experience resulting in a track record.

> Experience and track record of results will always beat education.

I see these as two very separate things. Why do you compare them?

mustafa0xon What good is experience?

> Or... nobody would ever try anything to gain experience, always someone better.

Could you please clarify?

mustafa0xon What good is experience?

> but it is in fact good advice for everybody else

If so, then please don't nitpick advice which is good for everybody else. Magnus Carlsen can do that for himself.

mustafa0xon 4 Months Of eBook Sales

Thanks.

Did you use a code editor for the markdown? I'm working on a book, and would use vim, but I'd like to see the TOC at all times. Something like Word's navigation pane.

mustafa0xon 4 Months Of eBook Sales

I'm not sure if this whether you're being serious or not. If you aren't, than could you please explain the relation between ebooks and college? I see the knowledge-is-pricey relation, but I find it weak. Writing a book and building a school, hiring staff, etc. is not a strong comparison.

If you were being serious, than the reason college is costly is because everything that goes into me being able to attend a college costs money.

mustafa0xon 4 Months Of eBook Sales

Congratulations on the success of your ebook. Also, thank you for your words of inspiration, that's quite thoughtful.

Could you detail the technical side of writing? I.e. what tools were used in getting this done?

mustafa0xon Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb

Ah, I see now. I was indeed mistaken, thank you.

mustafa0xon Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb

  Because if he’s smart, and he knows he is smart, he will:

  a) stop learning
  b) stop being critical towards his own work

The logic here is quite flawed.

  Because he doesn’t accept the parameters suggested to him 
  that someone thinks make up the problem.

While there are cases when a programmer should simply answer the question (or solve the problem), those are exceptional. So, as said here, programmers (and others) should always ask questions; should always learn the reasoning behind things.

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I hate to distract from the content, however I found the article's use of semicolons to be incorrect throughout. (edit: disregard)

mustafa0xon For Women to Think Mathematically, Colleges Should Think Creatively

> Half the DNA in each women comes from a man, and half the DNA for a man comes from a woman.

See: http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm

  Recent research using DNA analysis answered this question about two years ago.
  Today’s human population is descended from twice as many women as men.

Will look for sources.