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We will finish the Anton Calculus 'Brief Edition' textbook with 1 month left in the year. So after integrals we'll have covered Infinite series as well, to give you a sense of what…

Literate programming making a comeback! (If it was ever in vogue anyway?)

It's not really time. Seniority here is more of a quality than it is just something determined purely by time. So "Senior Software Developers" are those with some of the correlated…

I was looking at slime mold recently [0][1] and thought that it'd be cool to try and test its network mapping capabilities against that of a human designed algorithm, and see how t…

Bit off-topic, but love that the URL is just the straight up path to the file on the Windows machine.

This seems like one of the best uses of computers for educational media, one of the ways digital instruction can really shine through compared to physical text which can often requ…

It seems ironic to me that the HN crowd seems to support these circumvention of Apple's insular app distribution strategy, but on the other hand also supports Apple's clamp down on…

Nice little Daft Punk easter egg in the panel with the "Nothing Found" example page ( https://genius.com/Daft-punk-digital-love-lyrics ), and the ending statement "We are humaaan a…

For people who use YouTube and would like to remove distractions, I use the simple CSS script below along with the CSS styler extension Stylus to remove distractions and stop me fr…

It seems so incredibly generous of this that I caught myself being so cynical as to doubt any ulterior motives at attracting just more companies to YC overall. But it seems to me t…

This man Winston Sterzel [0] has been predicting something like this will happen in China, as they have no tolerance for drugs due to the horrors of the opium crisis. [0] = https:/…

I would recommend for you to read and implement the organization/productivity system from Getting Things Done by David Allen [0]. It discusses essentially your main problems of div…

It's not the fact that Mozilla sanitizes or does not sanitize the ads to prevent user tracking. It's the fact that there was never any explicit knowledge that ads like this would e…

To clarify any misunderstandings from the title, the people paid but never actually got to fly, so they (fairly) want their money back.

Instead of the sarcasm, please elaborate on the harmful effects of complete mosquito removal (those that carry diseases) from the ecosystem. These bugs cause an immense number of d…

The facebook/linkedin AR, personally, does not sound so exciting... feels far too dystopian to me.

While these web-app things may be nice for quickly trying out these programs, for actual long-term use on my machine and workflow besides all of the other programs, they don't stan…

Here goes sadly one of the last remaining examples of a respectful and dignified politician, no matter the political party of the other.

The funny thing is, even if Google does go back into business in China, it won't be long before its IP and servers are looted in exchange for the bolstering of native Chinese busin…

This is some serious whataboutism. Our government may have done horrible things, but that doesn't justify China's in any way either.

I don't think it's too cynical given this move at this point. They have willingly entered into a market where corporations are sponsored for their loyalty to the state, which has d…

For many of us whose use of these blue-light emitting computer and phone screens is necessary, what can we do about it?

I'd recommend anyone who would like to clean the air of the home to use products from SmartAir [1] which is as inexpensive as just a fan attached to a filter, both of which they se…