Gormisdomai

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by Gormisdomai 5y ago
Loads for me now too. Wow, that is indeed an impressive list! And yes, definitely don't want to detract from the community effort, the huge list of individual contributors is impressive in itself.
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by Gormisdomai 5y ago
[edit - the link below now loads, very cool to see all the companies involved, especially given Pharo crops up here every few months] I'd be curious about who, if anyone, funds Pharo development - especially if there are any medium-lar
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Ask HN: What would you be doing if you weren't working in software?
1 points by Gormisdomai 5y ago|8 comments
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by Gormisdomai 5y ago
There's a nice quote about this in Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e2/bc/96/e2bc964c94ddefc86a99... A serious answer from me would be how to ask for help when stuck
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by Gormisdomai 5y ago
It's not the end of the world if you do, but if you do find yourself repeating the same news or information in several one on ones it's probably better to just discuss it in broader meetings.
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by Gormisdomai 5y ago
For me it's almost certainly the risk to mental health - a lot of founders I know are chronically stressed, anxious or lonely, even the ones doing great work.
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by Gormisdomai 5y ago
Would you say the main risk here is ultimately financial in your eyes? Namely that you won't be able to raise money to pay yourself a salary and then won't be able to find a new job or return to your old one?
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Ask HN: What are/were the main bottlenecks preventing you starting a company?
4 points by Gormisdomai 5y ago|5 comments
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by Gormisdomai 5y ago
I shared this because I think the pictured wheelchairs are an example of how there are likely many low hanging fruit when it comes to technology to materially improve the lives of the elderly.
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Elderly pair giggle like children as they dip their toes in the sea (2019)(metro.co.uk)
1 points by Gormisdomai 5y ago|1 comments
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Solving the halting problem in Microsoft Excel(twitter.com)
1 points by Gormisdomai 5y ago|0 comments
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In Arabic there are 12 levels of friendship(twitter.com)
5 points by Gormisdomai 5y ago|1 comments
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by Gormisdomai 5y ago
I'm UK based and can't hit it on home wifi
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by Gormisdomai 5y ago
This is a useful note on using PACs to set up proxies for just one site: > Incidentally, you do not need to be running a web server to use the .pac file. You can access it via a file:// type URL. For example (note the 3 slashes
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Modified respirator to shield myself and others from Covid(fragile-credences.github.io)
1 points by Gormisdomai 6y ago|0 comments
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by Gormisdomai 6y ago
"On first reading, it seems magical and deep, but once you grok the proof, it feels like a relatively trivial observation. The whole thing is just about ____ composition!" I think if you replace _____ with the right word almost ev
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by Gormisdomai 6y ago
This name makes it very hard to give to end users.
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How to test your startup idea(medium.com)
1 points by Gormisdomai 6y ago|0 comments
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Goldman Sachs open sources its data modelling platform FINOS(linuxfoundation.org)
8 points by Gormisdomai 6y ago|1 comments
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by Gormisdomai 6y ago
my physics teacher would always say that "Gravity is not a force, but we experience a force due to gravity and call it weight"
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by Gormisdomai 6y ago
Yeah Iran remains massively homophobic and hostile to LGBT rights - the variety of approaches taken shows that there is scope for the laws to be interpreted as compatible. I'd argue that claiming that LGBT rights are irreconcilable wit
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by Gormisdomai 6y ago
I think "impossible to reconcile with the codified teachings of religion X" and "would receive negative feedback / appear intolerant to people currently practicing religion X" are different claims. Though I totally
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by Gormisdomai 6y ago
Your high level point about universal tolerance stands - but you might like to challenge some of your object level assumptions about world religions and LGBT. Iranian theocratic leadership for example officially does not think that being t
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by Gormisdomai 6y ago
Presumably this won't work on mobile because there's no hover to trigger the pre-loading. I wonder if there's something else that could be used there.
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by Gormisdomai 6y ago
Related and potentially interesting to HN, a short memo from the creator of the Oberon language (that backs the OS) comparing it to LISP: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Miscellaneous/Styles.pdf
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Programming Styles (2008) [pdf](people.inf.ethz.ch)
3 points by Gormisdomai 6y ago|0 comments
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by Gormisdomai 6y ago
I've always wanted to write something about how this is a more general philosophical problem that goes beyond computer security. Even Descartes failed to be skeptical enough to account for it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/
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by Gormisdomai 6y ago
This is very cool! What was the overall cost of running the rest of the infrastructure (beyond just the Lambda bit)?
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GPT-3 can nearly pass a phone screen(twitter.com)
39 points by Gormisdomai 6y ago|4 comments
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Microsoft Excel is a halting oracle(twitter.com)
1 points by Gormisdomai 6y ago|0 comments

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