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michaelhart | 14 years ago | on: Skype IP Lookup

Not true if you use a secure/intelligent email client, like Gmail. It will prompt you with a yellow bar above the email before loading any images.

It also implies that they'll open the email, which most average people won't do unless they know the sender or are otherwise expecting an email.

michaelhart | 15 years ago | on: Sergey Brin when he was not Google's Sergey Brin

You guys never did male beauty pageants for charity? We have them like twice a year here, and they're quite successful and overall a lot of fun (granted, I never dress up... just laugh at my friends a lot).

And if he's actually a cross-dresser, props. He's probably the richest cross-dresser in the world.

michaelhart | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why is there so little innovation in education?

I'm working on a project now that will aggregate self-motivated learning online. Watch a lecture on YouTube? (Many universities post them). Get credit for it. Start a discussion with others who also watched it. Ask and answer questions. Find like-minded people and learn with each other, set your own challenges and goals.

That's only half of it, but the core idea is this: We learn online already. Pave the cowpaths. Give people credit for what they already do.

I'm also looking for a co-founder. Anyone interested in this project (suggestions, more info, etc.), I'd love to chat: http://scr.im/michaelhart

michaelhart | 15 years ago | on: Google fires employee who leaked memo on raises

Large companies have often used internal memos on purpose for leaking information. On some level, they want the information to be leaked (companies with thousands of staff makes it nearly impossible for it not to be).

michaelhart | 15 years ago | on: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday

The interface'll have the be unbelievably amazing and innovative for this to even make a dent in people's minds. And as others have pointed out, Facebook.com is not associated with professionalism (unless you're a recruiter or tech blogger or something).

All in all, I think nobody will care at the end of the day.

michaelhart | 15 years ago | on: Sir Ken Robinson: Why Should You Care About Creativity?

Not probably, it definitely is. Sir Ken Robinson is amazingly brilliant, and his value for creativity is revolutionary. Creativity defines the world we live in. He defines creativity as "the process of coming up with original ideas that have value." Just think about that. Everything in the world that we use and take for granted is the result of some creative person somewhere taking a risk. The importance of creativity is the most undervalued characteristic of people in the world. We focus more on SAT and ACT scores, both of which are only a fraction as important.

michaelhart | 15 years ago | on: Security questions, re-imagined

The problem isn't really what questions are being asked, it's that questions are being asked at all. Verify by phone/text, and encourage it's kept up to date (by periodically confirming). It's really convenient/simple and it's more secure than asking a question. Based on the questions you provide, anyone who knows me IRL (friend or not) could easily gain access to my accounts protected by them. This is not true security, it's imagined security. Security just in place to make us feel better.

michaelhart | 15 years ago | on: Install Android 2.2 on a jailbroken iPhone over the air

CPUs today are a lot less based on raw MHz/GHz and more about the technologies in which they achieve them. This can be easily seen with some single-core CPUs out-performing dual core and a few quad core CPUs. Who cares if you have a 3.2 GHz quad core CPU if this other single-core CPU at 2.8 GHz is better? While these situations aren't too common, they're prime examples of how raw speed doesn't matter.

michaelhart | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Good Twitters to follow?

My advice is to do searches of your interested... Find people who talk about what you care about; even more importantly, people who interact with their followers. It all depends on what you care about.

michaelhart | 15 years ago | on: Realtime Hacker News

It's getting quite a bit of users, and the average session length is 14 minutes. Quite interesting :) I love it. It's sort of like Gmail, minus the notifications through my phone (which is a good thing, because it would be way too spammy). I can rest assured that when I visit that tab, I see the latest stuff. No refreshing or checking both pages. I have them both, always up to date, and at a glance.
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