rooundio

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Waves of Successful Generative Tech Startups(nfx.com)
2 points by rooundio 4y ago|0 comments
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by rooundio 4y ago
Reminds me of this Science article in 2017: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6354/880.2#1504269... on why scientists need social media influencers …
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by rooundio 5y ago
I am not associated with that company, but the nomatic (original) backpack completely transformed my travel experience to something hassle free - I got it years back right in the aftermath of their kickstarter campaign.
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by rooundio 7y ago
Switched to https://refind.com instead of bookmarks.
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Xenobots(wired.com)
2 points by rooundio 7y ago|0 comments
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by rooundio 7y ago
The reasons you raise are very true (I have been there), but most of them are mere symptoms of something deeper. I believe the root causes are exactly the kind of social dynamics discussed in the article. Terrible pay / other opportuni
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by rooundio 7y ago
Unfortunately true for most scientific communities and the reason why the current academic system is badly broken and talented young minds decide to quit academia before even submitting a dissertation.
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by rooundio 7y ago
https://web.stanford.edu/~montanar/RESEARCH/book.html
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Ask HN: Did anyone ever use YC's SAFE outside the US?
2 points by rooundio 7y ago|0 comments
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by rooundio 7y ago
bullish on this as well
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Show HN: 9 weeks habit building newsletter to fix the email overload(simplifight.com)
1 points by rooundio 7y ago|0 comments
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by rooundio 9y ago
6) believing your technical opinion matters -- I've seen way too many VP's making technical decisions that they are too far from the work to make, trust your team! This! It needs management people who understand their role as bein
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by rooundio 10y ago
My "functional programming epiphany" came in a talk by Martin Odersky, who remarked that imperative programming is like thinking in terms of time, whereas functional programming is like thinking in terms of space. Don't think
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Knuth 1980: ALGORITHMS IN MODERN MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE [pdf](i.stanford.edu)
5 points by rooundio 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: GO9800 - an emulator of HP 9800 desktop calculators (1970s) in java(hp9800e.sourceforge.net)
3 points by rooundio 10y ago|0 comments
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by rooundio 10y ago
tl;dr "Classical" (natural) scientist: "X is only understood once I found first principles that x can be reduced to." "Modern" scientist: "X might be so complicated that there are no first principles that
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by rooundio 11y ago
Gotham by Tobias Frere-Jones. A very similar open source alternative is Montserrat by Julieta Ulanovsky
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by rooundio 11y ago
Excellent. In German there is a word for this trust in yourself and that things are happening when they are happening: "Gottvertrauen" (literally: "trust in god", although often used in a non-religious context)