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Only slightly related but I read "masters of doom" recently and I can't recommend it highly enough. It is a very entertaining read even if you are not crazy over video games. It te…

I think it again depends on what you mean by hacker. If a web developer is passionate about web development, learns everything he can about it, enjoys doing it, and approaches it l…

I think the problem is more (6) deliberate practice is hard to define. Some people believe that just sitting and doing problem sets is deliberate practice. Some people believe that…

If so this should really have been made clearer in the press coverage because it is very different from the way I and probably other people understood it. I understand that soundcl…

Didn't know about unmode! I checked it out and I like it very much, thanks for sharing!

Didn't know about unmode! I checked it out and I like it very much, thanks for sharing!

That was exactly my thought when I read the comment. I would be very curious to know if I'm missing something here, but it seems obvious to me that if a publicly owned company can …

I agree with your remarks. One reason, however, why I still enjoy reading articles on the site from time to time is that they almost always make me think. Their perspectives, howev…

I had a similar thought when I watched the video. Actually, I thought about the concept of 'Quality' as introduced in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Two moments in part…

Ok, so I do believe that CEO's are usually overpaid with regard to their performance. That being said, I am not convinced by the methodology used in the study, specifically the per…

Genuine question: The article goes on and on about how making the apps paid in developing countries would make more sense than using ads, etc, etc.. Ok, I see the point. But is it …

I'm not a specialist of FP, so please take what I say with a grain of salt. Before answering your questions, here's a preliminary point: 0) The problem is that FP is not really def…

These are only speculations, but here are points based on my own habits: 1) The most important criterion for me when looking for a store, is walking distance. I don't want to bike,…

Thanks for sharing, that was a wonderful essay, highly recommended!

"None of the executives who signed the letter are scheduled to appear at today’s Senate hearing. Witnesses on the agenda include Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole, NSA Deputy…

Let me quote an excerpt from Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman (p. 127 from my edition): "... I had a very good group [..] clever boys from high school who had an engineering abilit…

Off the top of my head: * John Karmack's game engines for Commander Keen, Doom, Quake * Palmer Luckey's original Rift design * Feynman's "parallel" computer at Los Alamos And many …

I read the book a while back and it is absolutely fantastic. What I understand about monads, I learnt it from this book (no other exposition of monads ever made sense to me), and I…

It seems like this depends on the universities (and maybe also on undergrad vs grad), but I've done my masters, and am currently doing my phd at an Ivy in the US, and I've been ple…

I know that it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, and that given the awesome work they are doing, this is worth the hassle. But I'd like to make a comment concerning the…

... and this is why, selfishly, I would like to see the system implemented somewhere, albeit not necessarily where I live. People keep throwing peremptory statements here and there…

A few points: 2) I've also switched to DDG, but I still find that google gives me somewhat better results for things related to programming are academics. Apart from that, I like D…

"And as the company grew, the founders soon realized that managers contributed in many other, important ways—for instance, by communicating strategy, helping employees prioritize p…

If you look only at the latest youtube thing, it might not be the worst google's been through. But if you look back at all the examples you compiled, two of them happened in the la…

A few comments: > valuable service I'd think that what makes a good api should be characterized independently of what makes a good service. You can have a useless service, with a f…