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Virtual Field | Software Engineer | REMOTE (USA only) | Full-time | https://virtualfield.io | $100k plus $5k for insurance At Virtual Field, we use VR headsets to perform medical e…

I finished Confessions a few weeks ago, and this review does it justice. The first few chapters, which are autobiographical, completely changed how I view antiquity. From "ah, thes…

Even if you don't write Clojure code in your project, the Clojure REPL can be used to experiment with Java code in the same way the Groovy or Scala REPLs can.

I totally agree. It is an imperfect comparison, and by no means did I intend to directly compare the horrors of war with a few years spent in a hacker house. But it is interesting …

> “Teens have a greater risk tolerance. They can live in conditions we would find inhospitable. They have a fresh mind; they have so much optionality, youth, and stamina.” Sounds l…

I built a shell in Haskell for a class project this semester. At some point I'll get around to releasing it on Github. It doesn't do much aside from backgrounding tasks, piping, an…

I was about to comment with the same observation after looking at your parent's link. Has the hacker news audience really grown that much in the last 2 weeks?

I thought roughly the same thing until this semester, my fourth in university. I took my first class with under 10 people, a combinatorics class, with an outstanding teacher. The c…

I once worked with an engineer who implemented the card game hearts in every language he learned. After the first implementation, you don't have to spend so much time thinking abou…

To be fair, the science section of the ACT is testing the ability to understand graphs and read short passages on scientific topics. In this sense, it is more of a reading comprehe…

Oddly enough, I find movie soundtracks to be the single most distracting music selections during work. I constantly find myself zoning out and thinking about movie scenes. For me, …

Thanks for sharing. Just downloaded and am using it right now. Just the fact that I can comment once again is a huge improvement over my last daily. I was really beginning to miss …

I think this issue is causing real identity problems for many in the Republican party. As noted above, the libertarian wing is clearly against surveillance. However, IMO some of th…

I guess I rationalize spending the money for University in two ways: First, the cliché: You are almost guaranteed to make enough money coming out of college to pay off debt incurre…

Funny to think that the experience gained by attending Harvard for 4 years wouldn't be worth anything if you couldn't tell people you attended Harvard (due to the NDA). Just goes t…

Wow, that's an option I hadn't even considered due to North Korea's closely watched borders. I guess it's hard to imagine a terrorist style nuclear strike from NK.

I fail to understand why North Korea is seen as a serious threat. The country can't fire a missile much further than Japan, failed miserably when attempting to launch a microwave-o…

I'd be interested to compare the benefits of a 4 day week with those of a 5 day, reduced hour week. I'm inclined to believe that the reduced hour week would give you more productiv…

We were actually allowed to use Mathematica on our Linear Algebra exams this semester. I think it made the tests a lot more effective because you didn't have to go through the alge…

Literally just finished this exam. Too bad I didn't see this summary 4 hours ago!