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Definitely going to take a look at that! Our foundation with respect to distributed systems isn't really formally rigid (I'm still trying to understand how Raft and Paxos work) and…

Hi everyone! This is my post! (Proof [1]) Feel free to ask me any questions about this. [1]: https://twitter.com/emsal1863/status/847905495679516676

A course designed around using a particular "modern" web technology stack will have to change too often (every time it doesn't become "modern" anymore) for it to be sustainable. Im…

It will be interesting to see how this fact will come up in legislative discussions. Has it happened before -- that so many people ended up relying on a single corporations that th…

That's also true, but you still see a ton of ex-academic physicists on Wall Street.

Despite any implementation problems, I don't believe that someone should have a worse chance of keeping their life in the face of disease just because they are not as wealthy. That…

I recommend checking out Libgen (libgen.io).

Competing at the top level of any sport (athletic, mental, or otherwise) requires the right training and support almost as much as the right mindset, work ethic, and talent. The tr…

Reading the full text, I can't help but notice the mention of "Episodic" meaningfulness, which means that meaningfulness peaks at certain times rather than being present at a const…

All of those installation steps and disjoint applications make this comment sound like one of the early detractors of Dropbox commenting on its Show HN thread.

Anecdotally, I feel that it's mostly because of stereotypes that nerds are socially awkward. In American culture, there's a lot of emphasis on being popular.

They do measure that, and they also measure +/- for a similar purpose.

This comment completely glosses over the cases of people who can be pushing the button but can be affected by circumstances that they really can't control (like a mental illness). …

One of the labs in my school's second intro to CS course does some paper computer stuff, and I found it pretty fascinating. http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~cs121/2015W2/Labs/Lab9/lab9.…

It's mostly about the user experience of the follower, I think (more than the fact that the stories go away after 24 hours). Snapchat allows a follower to consume all of the storie…

Would like to give my congratulations to my school, the 99th place University of British Columbia. The team is composed entirely of first-time World Finals participants!

Incredibly well written and I definitely didn't expect to learn so much.

I have a feeling that a lot of the advances of the Golden Quarter have a lot to do with the Cold War. Parties on both sides of the war were pushed to create progress in order to be…

Just beat this game. Nice spin on things.

Does working toward your side projects without necessarily writing code count? There are some days where I devote myself to figuring out something on my system that's essential for…

I'm stupid, so I must ask: What does this mean for the future of C# on Linux?

I still think that if you live in a large city that it's unsafe to let your kid ride on the bus by themselves too early. I might be totally wrong in using this analogy, but just be…

Honestly my answer to this is a bit more complex than the poll, and is best described as I'm not sure. Here's my two cents: if an intelligent being created the universe, then what …