A new study found that people who believe they have built-in interests just waiting to be discovered are more likely to give up on their newfound interest when they hit the inevitable roadblock.

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I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned 8 years ago

Is this DJ Khaled?

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What happened, Gmail? 8 years ago

does the new design allow me to sort my emails in date order received?

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Avoid Else, Return Early (2013) 8 years ago

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7264145/if-less-programm...

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Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time 8 years ago

this is really not all that hard to do ... all you need are 2 photographers equipped with cameras that can to better than 12 frames per second (EOS 1Dx for example) and fire away simultaneously at the same subject ... then go through the bursted images and find the files that match ...

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How did a 30 year-old Su-22 defeat a modern AIM-9X? 9 years ago

still waiting for the answer, how was it able to do it?

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JSON Feed 9 years ago

stopped reading after "JSON is simpler to read and write, and it’s less prone to bugs." ....

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Fluent Design Is Microsoft's New Metro UI for Windows and More 9 years ago

does it fix the scrolling with WPF?

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Ask HN: How do you define DevOps and is it dead? 9 years ago

The issue that I have with that definition that it suffers from abstractionitis...

Just try replacing DevOps with just about any computing paradigm that entered the market in the last 5 years and hopefully you'll see what I mean. Care should be exercised to separate marketing out of product definitions. Focus on concrete, measurable improvements the product brings to the table rather than producing statements that are generally agreeable.

I'm also slightly peeved by use of the phrase "delivery of value" -so broad, so sterile, its almost as if its chosen as a result of a search for the least objectionable phrase. I think it smells of intellectual laziness to use terms that we don't care to define and conveniently enough punt to the almighty end user.

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House OKs Bill Allowing 'Mentally Incapacitated' Veterans to Buy Guns 9 years ago

On another point, I've never understood the fascination with the ease of being able to own guns in the US.

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Trump Is Right: Silicon Valley Using H-1B Visas to Pay Low Wages to Immigrants 9 years ago

just make the H1-B visa transportable (not tied to an employer) and the problem fixes itself.

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A new generation of Chromebooks, designed to work with millions of apps 10 years ago

will they be able to run Skype without hackery?

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Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi 10 years ago

+1 for Ubiquiti UAP-AC, uptime 248 days and counting