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There are so many presumptions in your comment (and your comment below) that I don't know where to start, but I find it very amusing :) My original comment was based on the reading…

"Ana Bell, lecturer in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chooses the best books to learn computer science and…

Her recommendations are poor. You dont read books on software development methodologies when "learning to program". Nor would you learn type theory. That's like suggesting to someo…

Sorry but neither the article nor the subject can be said to pique "intellectual curiosity". Working hard and winning an unheard of competition? Yeah very fascinating. Understand t…

Why is this on HN? Irrelevant, poorly written, lacks credibility.

Have a goal in life. What do you want to achieve in the long term? This is a very hard question. Most people don't think about this because they are too depleted in the short term …

Jesus, can you be more melodramatic, self-congratulatory and pointless all at the same time?

The problem is that most people conflate social media with the predominant mode of social media use, i.e., smartphones. Many of the jedi mind tricks that the mobile apps play to ke…

You claimed a contradiction but didn't present it. And you go on to assert exactly the things that I said. I am saying that the system failed the students by forcing them to prepar…

The people referenced in the article, who attend several years specialized coaching preparing for these exams, paying large sums of money in the process, are hardly doing so in "a …

The answer is a bit nuanced and I am suggesting that it is the case, perhaps about the same instead of being exactly the same. You can argue that the apparent cost of not studying …

The pressure to succeed is immense everywhere, this is hardly a notable feature of Indian society. Others have mentioned this already on this thread but let me paraphrase, basicall…

Without a doubt all the years of exam preparation in the teenage years come at a steep cost. For a young person in their teens to not have the time to reflect, be self-aware, and e…

This is a pretty inane article for placing too much emphasis on a stupid gimmick like anti-suicide ceiling fans, when the underlying issue is a serious mental health issue of extra…

Eloquently formulated case against the blind acceptance of digital devices into our lives, and outsourcing ever more of what makes us human to algorithms. While we have always been…

I haven't read the book but I wonder.. as a billionaire he clearly stands to gain a lot from spreading a message of optimism and collective progress over the last century presumabl…

Yes that is in essence all that needs to be said. Work is just one manifestation of competition between individuals driving us to outdo others. Of course if we weren't occupied by …

I see people downvoting my comment, but honestly if you think this is anything but hilarious then you may be too deep in this speculative bubble!

Hahahahaha this is hilarious, where are all the bitcoin fanatics now hmmm? Does this confirm its singular status as a vehicle of enormous speculation or do we have to wait till peo…

It is not a currency today, just a source of endless speculation that is bound to end badly for many. Let's not forget that above all it's just a horribly inefficient way to trade …

I am not romanticising the past. I am not advocating to stop using smartphones altogether. What I am saying is that people by and large don't seem to use it in a healthy way. It se…

The way mobile phones are being used in the present day, by both children and adults alike, is unhealthy and at the very least it can be said that the potential ill effects are not…

What OP is saying is if you invoke undefined behavior in your program (like the Heartbleed bug for example) it doesn't matter that in the end the compiler is correct. And this does…