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by krmboya 10y ago
Most fascinating for me as an outsider, is that perhaps, maybe, Americans decided to go against status quo, to vote against the establishment.
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by krmboya 10y ago
This seems to make sense, given how I'm in the past few years starting to realize how things actually work in the world..
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by krmboya 10y ago
I hope he backs down a bit, consults widely and work with the regulators looking into his company's product, even while exploring other markets. Still personally rooting for him because I personally think his product is amazing, and is
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by krmboya 10y ago
Reminds me of this interview by Knuth [1], where he says, because of his initial insecurity that he was not good enough, he started by out doing twice as many math exercises as his classmates. He at first put in a lot of effort, but eventua
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Python by Contract: A Zero-Defect Approach(infohost.nmt.edu)
2 points by krmboya 10y ago|0 comments
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How to Design Perfect Software Products(hintjens.com)
4 points by krmboya 10y ago|0 comments
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by krmboya 10y ago
I wonder how this will compare against geohotz' comma.ai aftermarket self driving kit that he promises to ship by end of year. He calls his company's technology level 3, which is more like autopilot, as opposed to level 4, which i
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by krmboya 10y ago
Hence the 'platonic language ideal' that the author speaks about in the last paragraph?
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by krmboya 10y ago
From my perspective, I see that several other skill-based professions assume novice hires, and emphasize a some sort of on-the-job training as part of career progression. In software dev, as much as we have stack overflow and such where we
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by krmboya 10y ago
This is excellent.. with more people here (Kenya) getting internet at home due to falling prices and affordable wifi hotspots cropping up in various locations, I'm sure the next few years are going to be very interesting for tech in Ke
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by krmboya 10y ago
I used to have problems falling asleep, but after I got on a strength training program known to be effective [1], the problem mostly went away. I turn off the lights, do some reading in bed (with flux on), and just drift off into sleep. [1]
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by krmboya 10y ago
Very interesting. Perhaps if he'd managed to skip undergraduate studies straight to graduate school as adviced he'd be wrestling with hard enough problems not to think about writing programs for the upcoming PCs of the era
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by krmboya 10y ago
Thanks to all who made this happen. It was really mind bending trying to parse and understand both the questions and responses, like simultaneously traveling to both the past and the future of computing. Since then all other HN threads have
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by krmboya 10y ago
Some may find the plain text version easier to read: https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=111558822710356&q=raw
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by krmboya 10y ago
Did udacity block access to any of the earlier courses though? I can still access all free courses I've ever found on the site (and with the videos available on youtube)
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by krmboya 10y ago
This is so compelling! I'd like to experience such a place. However being from some part of this planet I googled a few keywords and came across this: https://www.vice.com/read/guide-to-european-racist-leagues The
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Why Students Pay for Professors' Research(lemire.me)
4 points by krmboya 11y ago|2 comments
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by krmboya 11y ago
So, just some unanswered questions in my mind concerning startups that get bought out then shut down. Do they end up creating more value than was invested into them in the course of their lifetime? Who captures most of this value? What does
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by krmboya 11y ago
I view memorization as a shortcut that allows one to operate on higher level concepts with ease. Much like abstraction mechanisms in programming.
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by krmboya 11y ago
> I agree, but I'll go further than you - I don't think this essay is confusing at all. It's simply nonsense - the kind of thing someone clever writes when they're discussing a subject completely outside their area of
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by krmboya 11y ago
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled" - Richard Feynman
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by krmboya 11y ago
Felt the name sounded familiar and realized that I'd previously read that Tom Knight (of the Lisp Machine fame) is also one of the co-founders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Knight_%28scientist%29
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by krmboya 12y ago
Maybe OP, but if Elon Musk makes actual technical contributions to his companies, I'd be super impressed.
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by krmboya 12y ago
I suppose the focus should be on who your users are, and what kind of devices they have, to help one decide between client-side and server-side rendering. Reminds me of this article by Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com
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by krmboya 12y ago
> WhatsApp- You download it when you go abroad, you use it there for a bit before going back to iMessage and Facebook Messenger, you delete it. I know tons of people who use it to communicate with friends they made abroad, but I feel lik
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by krmboya 12y ago
This might help: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacking-howto.html
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by krmboya 12y ago
Maybe a bit OT, but I've just started learning programming for MMIX, Donald Knuth's RISC computer. I've been wondering when, or if, it could one day be implemented in hardware.
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Interviews Can Be a Terrible Way to Identify Good Programmers(thecodist.com)
1 points by krmboya 12y ago|1 comments
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by krmboya 13y ago
So I was speaking to a musician part of a music startup they've funded and he told me 88mph got them a software dev from Europe to handle the tech side of things. That just sounded wrong..
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by krmboya 13y ago
This is a project I'd definitely be interested in. I am a webdev by day (Python/Django) but recently started learning x86 assembly at home (after which I can pick off from where I left in C at college). Some of my colleagues think

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