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by sireat 11y ago
Even with all the positive support from parents this kid is an extreme outlier. Terrence Tao supposedly knew numbers from Sesame Street at age 2, but I do not know of any avid kid readers at age 2. I know plenty of kids ages 3-4 who know th
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by sireat 11y ago
How does Waterfox compare to something lean and mean such as: K-Meleon ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Meleon K-Meleon has been around for a while and does subjectively feel much faster than Firefox and Chrome and pa
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by sireat 11y ago
I am trying to come up with a target market for these boards at these prices. The development board could $500 or could be $1500 that is understandable, the big question is where is the market for the actual devices with the $300 board insi
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by sireat 11y ago
The undercurrent running through "I Am a Strange Loop" was the grief of losing his wife to brain cancer. The playful discourse evident in GEB was no more.
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by sireat 11y ago
Interesting product, but not really much of an improvement in speed if you have to do the page turns yourself. The foot pedal for scanning saves a tiny bit of time, but it is still cumbersome to scan a whole book. Also strange to emphasize
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by sireat 11y ago
I kept thinking,how would robots know when to switch directions? That is when I realized that robots do not have to crash head on but overtaking is sufficient. This is one case where I am glad that I did not read HN comments before solving.
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by sireat 11y ago
And the worst part is that last 1% is different for 99% of people. ;) http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html
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by sireat 11y ago
Was the cancellation form in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard"? :) How can the gyms get away with this?
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by sireat 11y ago
I tried Cypher and Gremlin when working on smallish graph of about 3M nodes and 20M edges a few years ago Back then both were pretty rough, Gremlin looked more polished but wasn't really (most promised features in the documentation wer
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by sireat 11y ago
Awesome game! Just like the similary addictive classic Drug Wars ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugwars ) game you just have to buy low and sell high which is not so easy in RL.
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by sireat 11y ago
An example relevant to 2015: we wouldn't have so many hoverboard related startups/projects if not for Back to the future. No matter how aware you are of your fallacies and biases (as Kahneman attests) you are still influenced by t
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by sireat 11y ago
He was prophetic but some of the eerie similarities of today's world to Gibson's imagined is that people shaping today were influenced by Gibson.
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by sireat 11y ago
Fantastic writing (Full Disclosure: using uBlock origin I had none of the ad distractions that some mentioned). Why this case is so puzzling is that it mixes the seemingly pro level like hit with the unpredictability of the location(it took
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by sireat 11y ago
On Lichess, you can just click on Create a Game and select the rating range you want, this is pretty much a standard feature of all top chess sites.
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by sireat 11y ago
lichess has a nice clean interface and it is a joy to play on it and also it is nice to have easily exportable games (i am looking at you chess.com!) The one problem with everything free philosophy and relying on donations is that top playe
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by sireat 11y ago
True Names and other dangers.
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by sireat 11y ago
Interestingly enough in the example he gave 303 x 13 I actually didn't look at the last digit to see that 5074 is wrong, I did an instant mental calculation of 300x13=3900 and saw that 5074 can't possibly be right before reading o
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by sireat 11y ago
There was a long discussion on the validity of this (here on YC and on reddit) achievement when Poudade's program was first released. I still do not consider it a proper chess program as castling and en passant have been an integral pa
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by sireat 11y ago
Anecdotal evidence: I was shocked how quickly web degenerates when you disable adblocking. Start with a reputable major news site, click on one business clickbait article -> a bit sleazy but still somewhat readable site opens -> click
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by sireat 11y ago
This film steers into "Grave of the Fireflies" territory, something that may be great, but you have trouble watching it once without weeping.
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by sireat 11y ago
Many people are quite happy to pay for their tools, what they do not want is to be forced into a situation when it is pay for the tools this month or lose access to them. Jetbrains could have avoided all this negative backslash by keeping t
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by sireat 11y ago
Two anecdotal data points on somewhat similar sites from an employed programmer and father. Codehunt (from Microsoft Research), very addictive yet nice concise format, polished interface, allowing Java or C# a plus. Minuses - Requires some
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by sireat 11y ago
I still can't believe that investors are willing to trust Larry and Sergey in perpetuity(same goes for Zuckerberg and there are many other corporate doing this gambit). Sure, I like all the weird sideprojects, but what happens when the
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by sireat 11y ago
Counterpoint: My friend's architecture office has Occulus, and everyone, clients and architects love it. I asked her if anyone experienced any headaches or seasickness but since there is no action happening just a visual walk through b
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by sireat 11y ago
You are correct, but then there is even less sense for Steamboat Willie to be still copyrighted (besides the obvious use in opening credits of recent Disney features, which the cynical me thinks is some attempt to extend the copyright prote
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by sireat 11y ago
About companies this is what I think: If Mickey Mouse goes off copyright, sure there would be copycats making Mickey toys and not paying royalties/fees. Possibly somebody non-Disney approved would be making a Mickey Mouse movie. Howeve
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by sireat 11y ago
I am generally very anti-copyright ( I hold that ten- to twenty years should be enough for the creator/their family) but I really like this exponential tax proposal.
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by sireat 11y ago
I do wish Baltics had something similar to ghost trains but I understand it is the privilege of richer countries. The train infrastructure has fallen badly since Soviet times and it will be another 20 years until Rail Baltica https:/&
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by sireat 11y ago
Mark Cuban is actually a rare example of someone who bootstrapped from smaller successful businesses into larger ones. His success with Microsolutions led him towards creating AudioNet -> Broadcast.com . Sure, he benefited from nice timi
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by sireat 11y ago
I am actually shocked to hear that any Danes have a clothes dryer. In most of Europe clothes dryers are relatively uncommon (people use clothes lines or for inside use you have drying stands ). So with the Danish emphasis on energy conserva

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