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by robinsloan 11y ago
This is fantastic: "When you read that word cosmos, you might begin to imagine the most expansive physical world your mind can build. Deep fields of glittering, star-filled galaxies stretching out in every direction, and maybe into for
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by robinsloan 12y ago
Do you have that collection of bookmarks posted/shared anywhere? Always curious to see more stuff like this.
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If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript, the Book(nostarch.com)
1 points by robinsloan 12y ago|0 comments
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The Architecture of Rust: Documenting Player-Created Structures(irondavy.exposure.so)
1 points by robinsloan 13y ago|0 comments
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by robinsloan 14y ago
Author here: Cool to see this here, bpierre. Thank you. I really hope some HN readers decide to give this book a look; it's really shockingly good, all the more so for having been written in 1997. I'm a decidedly amateur programmer, but eve
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by robinsloan 14y ago
Yes, many! On the submission form, I even referred folks to Wikipedia's list of prime numbers but, alas.
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by robinsloan 14y ago
Author here: I am also fascinated by this sense of certain numbers sounding prime (or more prime than others). For instance -- maybe this is just me -- I think 109 (the first winner) doesn't sound prime at all. But 17! Yes! It can't shut up
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by robinsloan 14y ago
Author here: You're right that it's a big claim, and I think it requires a lot of imagination & even some suspension of disbelief. It's safer to be skeptical. But specifically re: competition of all shapes & sizes, I do think that t
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by robinsloan 14y ago
Author here: I'm with you. The steady success of the self-driving cars has made me take some of these other projects much, much more seriously. Maybe it's simply the Thrun factor?
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by robinsloan 16y ago
"Powered aircraft pilots practice engine-out scenarios as part of emergency training. A checklist is brought out that usually sets a good glide angle and starts the pilot thinking about a place to land. However, glider pilots per
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by robinsloan 16y ago
I'm curious to know if anybody here on HN has anything to say about the analogy. How might this extend beyond the domain of programming? Where else could this pattern apply? E.g. there's a terrific comment over on Snarkmarket that talks abo
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by robinsloan 16y ago
That's a fair point -- a crash handled gracefully & completely sorta ceases to be a crash at all. I think one distinction the authors of the original paper make is that an app's off switch ought to be external to the app. More like "kil
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by robinsloan 17y ago
1. Sell tickets to the events! 2. Sell advertising around the media they generate. But #1 is the foundation, I think. Event attendance is rival & excludable in a way digital media isn't, and people's willingness to pay to attend a cool