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by trwhite 2y ago
Love the site dude! Feel glad to have been part of this transient joke with a bunch of strangers on the internet
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by trwhite 2y ago
I really hope Bob picks up that milk
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by trwhite 2y ago
This strikes me as really dumb. An efficiency that the diner would never notice and he wants to make his staff work harder to prove a point. Way to make people resent their work.
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Ask HN: I don't want to be a Software Engineer any more. What else could I do?
35 points by trwhite 2y ago|46 comments
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by trwhite 2y ago
What's your username (if you don't mind me asking)?
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by trwhite 2y ago
> A lot of people hate rote learning - but elementary math classes, meaning all the way up to calculus (or prior to more rigorous proof based classes), do require a bunch of memorization A lot of people still think reading and re-reading
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by trwhite 2y ago
Yes, many
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by trwhite 2y ago
I recently read and enjoyed "A Mind for Numbers" by Barbara Oakley, full of lots of techniques for learning maths and science
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by trwhite 2y ago
Thank you :)
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Ask HN: How should I structure my mathematics self-teaching?
12 points by trwhite 2y ago|12 comments
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by trwhite 2y ago
I agree. I find myself disengaged as soon as someone makes fun of the hard work of others. Intelligent people don't typically do this.
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by trwhite 2y ago
Years ago I worked on a calendar application with recurrence. After lots of research I settled on using RRules to represent this, which I was very pleased with. That initial work was when I was at an agency. Later I joined the company full
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by trwhite 2y ago
What is BEAM?
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by trwhite 2y ago
Link?
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by trwhite 2y ago
Because most people aspire to do the right thing?
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Why do people drop litter?(notoriousbfg.com)
14 points by trwhite 2y ago|16 comments
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by trwhite 2y ago
Not sure why my previous comment got flagged. HN doesn't seem to allow you to appeal a flagging. How is other people's judgement of what constitutes a rules-break better than mine? It's sad that Elon's waves of fans come
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Ask HN: What are some interesting maths problems/exercises for programmers?
2 points by trwhite 2y ago|2 comments
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by trwhite 2y ago
Gah. So it looks and functions more or less like the last one, albeit a bit faster? Consumer tech is so boring - Nobody dares do something even a little different
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Guardian Angel, a Short Story(notoriousbfg.com)
1 points by trwhite 3y ago|0 comments
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Internet Archive down (SSL cert expired)(archive.org)
1 points by trwhite 3y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What to do with small units of time during the working day?
17 points by trwhite 3y ago|19 comments
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by trwhite 3y ago
Thanks! I'll check that out Edit: Exactly the kind of thing I was looking for
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Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?
377 points by trwhite 3y ago|182 comments
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by trwhite 3y ago
This is something I think about a lot. I sleepwalk and sometimes have night terrors (where I hallucinate an intruder or spiders on the walls/ceiling). Lately I've been having them almost every day, despite practicing good bedtime
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I wrote a program to help me make better fantasy football decisions(notoriousbfg.com)
1 points by trwhite 3y ago|0 comments
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by trwhite 3y ago
https://notoriousbfg.com Some of my favourite posts: Building Software, Sharing Knowledge https://notoriousbfg.com/building-software-sharing-knowledge... Code and Context https://notoriousbfg.com&#x2F
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Ask HN: Best desktop and mobile podcast experience?
1 points by trwhite 3y ago|0 comments
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by trwhite 4y ago
I think it's in Hackers & Painters that Paul Graham talks about the commonly held view that wealth is like a pie, that one group of people having more somehow means others must have less. He's also immensely wealthy, so I take
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Ask HN: What are household items that can be repaired but people often replace?
38 points by trwhite 4y ago|118 comments

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