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> But that the first cell just randomly happened in the primordial soup - that looks extremely unlikely, I don't understand this. Aren't cells just spherical structures that would …

> A simulation is not the process itself. Sometimes a simulation IS the thing. A simulation of a wall clock IS a functioning clock (e.g. the clock icon on our smartphones). An auto…

> "Software Stalins," managers who grab onto one indicator and think that driving it to zero (or 100, or 11 for you Spinal Tap Fans) will resolve all other problems. Paul O’Neill f…

I have a pet theory that '#' and '*' have such prominent roles in C because Thompson and Richie developed B at Bell Labs in 1969 when the first push button phones were appearing wi…

And was called "Vi IMitation" not "Vi IMproved"? Interesting.

Including the trademark for "Model E", which is why we have the Tesla "Model 3" and S3XY.

Does that apply to “Hacker” in Hacker News?

Explanation: If both tests fail, return the 'id' (identity) function which when applied to (show n) will return the number as a string. If one or both tests succeed, return a 'cons…

The underground parts of the Colosseum require special tickets for entry so make sure you get those ahead of time if you want to see those. In the nearby Forum, look for the Temple…

And the reason you can't write "Hello world" in Haskell without using a monad is that functions in Haskell are "pure", meaning they cannot have side effects like outputting to the …

* Dynamic Programming and the related concept of Memoization. * Recursion - most complex problems seem to have a recursive solution which you can actually implement in a language l…

> Wheeler called upon J.R.R. Tolkien, as Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University, to investigate the etymology of the name "Nodens" referred to in the curse. Whaat..?!

I built a Chrome extension that makes Twitch chat messages easier to read. It allows you to: • Focus on a user, keyword, or conversation • Highlight users or keywords • Filter/Mute…

I'm not buying it either. NASA wasted billions on the space shuttle and single-use rockets until a programmer from Paypal showed them how to build re-usable rockets. Musk regularly…

I've read lots of books (Eat That Frog, Getting Things Done, The Pomodoro Technique, The Now Habit) and tons of blog posts on procrastination and rarely do I find them very actiona…

The Wikipedia page quotes one Director of DARPA (Stephen J. Lukasik): The goal was to exploit new computer technologies to meet the needs of military command and control against nu…

Yes, you probably don't need QM to design a gun bomb, but to build one you do need 64kg of enriched U-235 and for that you need a Manhattan Project and for that you need Einstein t…

Quantum Mechanics led to the development of nuclear weapons which led to the development of the packet switched Internet Protocol designed to maintain connectivity even during a nu…