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by AccountAccount1 5y ago
Interesting. The idea of "getting into flow" is one of the most powerful and imperative to understand. I'll add it to my list.
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by AccountAccount1 5y ago
"Rationality: From AI to Zombies" is a very influential books. This is one to pick if you want something impactful to your system of belief. I would also recommend a book I think is very similar to this (if for some reason Yudkows
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by AccountAccount1 5y ago
When you are time-constrained, you really have to pick the best books. Love the "in case of emergency break glass" category.
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by AccountAccount1 5y ago
My goodness, "Clear and Simple as the Truth" is one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. They also lay out a theory about what writing actually is (how thought is translated to language) as well as providing an appeal
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by AccountAccount1 5y ago
What stuck with me is how we basically discover that we could work with physics (he has a story that goes something like this: "We had discovered that energy can produce force way before we had trains, when we cook the bowl seemed to m
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by AccountAccount1 5y ago
Good recs. I should get started on brothers karamazov, feel like it's required reading at this point.
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by AccountAccount1 5y ago
Yes! Unsong. I love this book, Scott Alexander is such a genius. He has knowledge of modern physics, of Jung psychology, ethics, biblical stories, and he intertwines everything in this book. Also, he is witty man! In my opinion, his fiction
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by AccountAccount1 5y ago
"Code" from Charles Petzold as well. Gave me solid, primary intuition on how to understand what a computer is.
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by AccountAccount1 5y ago
This year I revisited "A Cultural History of Physics" quite a tremendous book. It goes to the entire history of physics while parallelly highlighting cultural events with emphasis on how one influenced the other.
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Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?
515 points by AccountAccount1 5y ago|631 comments
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by AccountAccount1 5y ago
Vercel
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by AccountAccount1 5y ago
Hasura is at that level of being a full-featured back-end platform. I think that the best way to get started with Hasura is https://www.nhost.io
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by AccountAccount1 5y ago
Nhost.io does functions, database, Graphql API, rate-limiting, authentication. Basically everything you need.
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by AccountAccount1 5y ago
I would say that for me sleep is the number one most important thing; and it did take me a while to figure this out, but the difference is very noticeable relative to when I don't sleep as proper as I should. Again, sleep is the NUMBER
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by AccountAccount1 5y ago
This guys lives in the future. "If instead, we RESTify our GraphQL APIs, we can put any public CDN provider in front of our API. Just give each persisted Operation a MaxAge Cache Control Header, an ETag and optionally a StaleWhileReval
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by AccountAccount1 5y ago
Also, he has written a lot of short story fiction like "The Study of Anglophysics," "it was you who made my blue eyes blue," etc...
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by AccountAccount1 5y ago
The book is amazing, but Scott Alexander having such a prodigious writing pace (he also kept writing his blog posts, and working full-time as a psychiatrist) hurts the final rendering of the book. It definitely needs some editing made and c
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Nhost – open-source Firebase alternative with GraphQL(blog.graphqleditor.com)
2 points by AccountAccount1 5y ago|0 comments
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by AccountAccount1 5y ago
Incredible deep dive on a complex GraphQL infrastructure (Gateway + Engine). Awesome!
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by AccountAccount1 6y ago
I remember seeing a post on their blog about exactly this. I cannot find it now but if you dig around you might find the data dumps.
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by AccountAccount1 6y ago
https://opensyllabus.org/