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by DarkTree 9y ago
Your experience seems related to my issue ever since I left college. I really enjoy my personal time and relish the idea of coming home on a Friday with no social plans or obligations, so that I can do my own thing, read, or program some pe
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by DarkTree 9y ago
Man, I just never get tired of reading pretty much anything about Id. I think I speak for a lot of programmers, and not just game devs, when I say that the romanticization of Id's history has painted one of the most ideal programmer st
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by DarkTree 9y ago
So I'm pretty ignorant to the history of personal identity/credit breaches, but for those who aren't, is this only getting to get worse? More and more companies are holding more and more data, to the point that these breaches
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by DarkTree 9y ago
Yeah I can understand the motivation for creating this. When I first started browsing HN, I couldn't believe how supplemental, civil and noiseless the comments were. However, after several years, I've started to jump straight to t
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by DarkTree 9y ago
In Bill Bryson's book, A Short History of Nearly Everything, he talks about the dangers of Yellowstone and how catastrophic the eruption would be, however, he also points out that these potential eruptions are often preceded by a perio
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by DarkTree 9y ago
I think a lot of people can relate to this. I was always afraid of asking questions when surrounded by people more knowledgable than myself. I didn't want to appear stupid, or ignorant by not knowing something I assumed I should have a
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by DarkTree 9y ago
I really envy your ability to get hypnotized by a book, and I've heard others have similar binge reading sessions quite frequently. I love reading. I read every morning and night, but I can only read for about an hour at a time. I do r
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by DarkTree 9y ago
You can see a visualization of the approaching hurricane here: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ort...
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by DarkTree 9y ago
> I'll never understand what motivates people to shit all over content they consider below them. Almost always rooted in the person's own insecurities
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by DarkTree 9y ago
I agree. But man, what an incredible world we live in that we have people literally willing to put their life on the line for causes like this.
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by DarkTree 9y ago
I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I believe you meant, "the medium doesn't change the message". I disagree that everyone feels this way, based on evidence of how I feel when receiving a text message vs. a phon
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by DarkTree 9y ago
Yeah I only found this by searching for it after hearing about its existence from another news source. Pretty sad
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by DarkTree 9y ago
I agree with your skepticism of the author's conclusion. For example, we only know that the location/timing of the asteroid impact was so devastating because it did in fact hit there and so we were able to study it and find the &q
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by DarkTree 9y ago
Honestly, it may not be at the level you are describing here now, but I have been overwhelmed by the ability I've had to find small figments of memories with Google search. For example, I had a faint memory of a movie I watched as 4 ye
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by DarkTree 9y ago
Cool blog post about how NatGeo's 3D tour of the fossil was created using Three.js in the browser. https://source.opennews.org/articles/resurrecting-dragon/
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by DarkTree 9y ago
This still supports your argument, but the wikipedia entry has a different meaning of the phrase "Apple of my eye". From the wiki entry[0]: "Its meaning does indeed derive from an expression signifying the pupil of the eye, o
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by DarkTree 9y ago
There's also Bell Lab's "picturephone" from the 19060s(!), that despite market research showing would be a hit, ended up being quite a market failure. http://ethw.org/Picturephone
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by DarkTree 9y ago
Wow, didn't know about that feature. Thanks for mentioning!
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by DarkTree 9y ago
I've had Spotify for 5 years or so, and mostly used it to look up songs I already liked, and to create playlists to listen to while studying/working/programming. It was already pretty awesome for that. Then I started checking
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by DarkTree 9y ago
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson). It's a cursory overview of all of history (title) from the dawn of time to the evolution of humans. It seems to be only slightly dated in some information, but really interesting to l
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by DarkTree 9y ago
> "I woke up one guy and he sort of said, 'Oh, hey.' Then when I went by, I think he discreetly woke up his buddies because when I looked down they were all three standing there like 'What the f *?' " What
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by DarkTree 9y ago
Seems to load and run faster than most webpages. Really cool and a promising example of WebAssembly
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by DarkTree 9y ago
Yeah this describes my habits as well. I used to think that reddit served a similar, though watered-down purpose that HN does. I've since accepted that Reddit is more entertainment for me, much as FB is. The comments section on popular
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by DarkTree 9y ago
I get this sentiment, but man, there are some really great, high quality (cinematography, acting, sound, creativity) tv shows being made today, albeit most on streaming/premium services. I've experienced tv that has moved me as mu
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by DarkTree 9y ago
> What you want to do is start from the bottom and build up (essentially building a software 3D engine) How do you suggest starting this?
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by DarkTree 9y ago
Thanks for the comparison. Though they are complementary, would you recommend reading one before the other?
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by DarkTree 9y ago
I'll check them out, thanks!
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by DarkTree 9y ago
I just bought Gilbert Strang's Linear Algebra so that I can read it along with watching his MIT lectures. I'm wondering how that will compare to this book/course. Has anyone here already taken a similar path and what did you
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by DarkTree 9y ago
Work out right after work to clear my mind and reenergize, as well as get a little non-work related social interaction. Make a nice dinner, shower and get warm and clean, then work on some side programming projects in my lamp-lit bedroom (w
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by DarkTree 9y ago
Yet another example of how the tv show, Silicon Valley, hits the nail on the head [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAEAbqrE5Zw

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