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by ahussain 8y ago
For me, writing prose (mostly short stories, journals, memoirs) is more emotionally taxing. To write well I need to find ways to silence the self-censorship that will inevitably prevent me from expressing the things I really want to say. Th
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by ahussain 8y ago
I quite like this short piece as a way to explain why things like exiting early and not nesting loops are important: https://medium.com/@matryer/line-of-sight-in-code-186dd7cdea...
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by ahussain 8y ago
"red book algorithms" will get you there
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by ahussain 8y ago
It doesn't answer this question directly, but Aaronson's paper "The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine"[1] is a great read. It talks about the relationship between quantum mechanics and free will. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by ahussain 8y ago
I feel like this quote[0] from David Foster Wallace is relevant here: "perfectionism is very dangerous because, of course, if your fidelity to perfection is too high you never do anything, because doing anything results in... it's
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by ahussain 8y ago
There is also this book - "Confessions of a Sociopath by M.E. Thomas" which seemed to be popular a few years ago. It's unclear how reliable the narrator is but I remember it had a jarring effect on me: https://www.
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by ahussain 8y ago
"You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, nor be attached to inaction." - from the Bhaga
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by ahussain 8y ago
I remember reading a great article a while ago about how, since the industrial revolution, it is common to judge people against the same criteria that we judge machines. So we ask about "productivity", "efficiency", and
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by ahussain 8y ago
Judging from the commentary surrounding the piece, it seems like it was mostly tongue in cheek. I think something productive to take away from the piece is to sincerely ask whether any of the points he raises are valid, and I think some of
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by ahussain 8y ago
> Causal linkage just means that that event participated in causing this event. The sun being in the sky is causally linked to me believing it's day time, for example. Great example! In Ptolemy's time "the sun being in the
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by ahussain 8y ago
The problem with this dismissal is that "knowledge" is not just a word, it does in fact refer to something solid and concrete (insofar as most of us intuitively believe there is a difference between genuine knowledge and just beli
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Telegram Cancels Public ICO After Raising $1.7B in Presale(ccn.com)
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by ahussain 8y ago
React? There seems to be a consensus forming that it's the best. You can get started really quickly with create-react-app
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by ahussain 9y ago
Which chapter is that? I'm looking through the table of contents but none of these terms are mentioned there explicitly. Does he talk about LISP directly or only in passing?
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by ahussain 9y ago
Well, for what it's worth, I thought your point was valid and well made. I think it represents a strong critique of the oft-stereotyped "Silicon Valley tech culture" - it's the same tendency that leads people to try and
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by ahussain 9y ago
I guess one of the problems with Peterson (and also with people like Zizek) is that he manages to say some completely indefensible things (i.e. he seems to tie so many of the world's problems to "liberal professors in the universi
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by ahussain 9y ago
It is a shame that people cannot engage substantively with Jordan Peterson's decent arguments because of his tendency to be inflammatory. What exactly about his argument that nihilism is "the easy way out" is problematic?
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I'm not conflating the two. I'm merely citing two examples of people (among many others) who have offered approaches to dealing with nihilism.
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by ahussain 9y ago
With a title like this I was expecting a little more from this piece. The best responses I've heard to nihilism are from Ernst Becker's Denial of Death [1] which argues that the best way to overcome nihilism is to stop thinking so
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by ahussain 9y ago
I wonder if there is a Simpson's paradox effect at play here, and that it is rationally sensible to be more afraid of planes than cars. Even though in absolute terms there are more deaths by automobile, that is also because people ar
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by ahussain 9y ago
Because all your friends already have Facebook accounts.
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by ahussain 9y ago
One of the incredible things about the time I spent living in India is that in Indian society there were far more excuses to talk to people. For example, to ask for directions (Google maps often not great), or to ask if a restaurant is any
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by ahussain 9y ago
You can deactivate your FB account and still use Messenger (and hence keep your contacts). You would lose Groups and Events though
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Ask HN: What are the best conferences to learn Software Engineering
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by ahussain 9y ago
https://monzo.com/ - not in the US, but in the UK some start ups have started overcoming the regulatory hurdles.
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by ahussain 9y ago
> The big change I have done is to accept that not everyone is learning all the time and not to try to do the same (its software engineering not research) What do you mean by this?
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by ahussain 9y ago
Surely the two can go hand in hand. Most issue trackers provide an asynchronous/threaded environment, and slack is useful if you have a real time question
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Are there any writers who dive into this a subject area?
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The Guardian's new "Tabloid" redesign(theguardian.com)
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How flies perceive motion(youtube.com)
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