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sensemakeron Google+'s Real Goal is Not to Kill Facebook, but to Force it to Open

What about Google+ effect on Diaspora, or is the project already dead?

sensemakeron For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance

At least there are enough security against dumb attackers.

sensemakeron Facelette: On TechCrunch in Three Hours and $0

Only efforts to self-train and be competent to carry out the implementation are not so cheap.

sensemakeron Indian man of 100 goes back to university for PhD

I don't think how it's useful to you matters, since we're talking about "intrinsic" value of knowledge. Unless I misunderstood the meaning of the word.

sensemakeron Indian man of 100 goes back to university for PhD

The problem with the statement is 'Like any successful PhD' ... There should be some analysis to back that up.

sensemakeron The Only Way to Become Amazingly Great at Something

I am not sure that I learned much from the article. Pretty much, it summed up to "work hard". HN crowds are probably more enlightened to know how much that "hard" is, compared to average people who think going through related education would be enough.

Anyway, those fast-track programming books are not totally useless. I started with those too. The important think is to not stop there, but continue to work with more technical books and actual standard/specification.

If I want to learn new language i.e, Clojure, F# etc, I'd probably start with fast track books (free ebooks) too. It has become a habit, I guess.

sensemakeron Ask HN: I have a startup idea, the project is 90% done. But..

seriously, where is the local startup gathering in Malaysia? anyone around KL?

I'm Malaysian too.

sensemakeron China is choking the Internet

>> Take it while you till have that option. >Are you suggesting they will restrict his ability to travel? Jail him perhaps?

I think he meant to say, "while there are still free countries in this world".