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This reminds me of my all-time-favourite HN comment[0] (and a life lesson too): This idea is captured nicely in the book "Art and Fear" with the following anecdote: "The ceramics t…

Looked up for "jeeves and wooster", so, you're British then. This makes this little conversation interesting for me, because I'm not American, not even European and so our exposure…

Thank you for your recommendations. I am aware that his novels will be different. The (memoir) I mentioned just made me like the guy, so his other writings interest me now.

# Catch-22 (by Joseph Heller) - had been seeing it mentioned on HN (and other sites) for years, I finally read it and it was one the best novels I've ever read. # The Universe and …

Still no consensus on how to pronounce "gif".

Is there any research about memory efficiency of spoken languages that is collaboratively conducted by neuro and computer scientists? This may sound a little weird (and even stupid…

Dive Into Python 3 (by Mark Pilgrim) - https://diveintopython3.net/

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19393432

I use Okular for that. It's open-source and present on three major platforms. I really got surprised to find out how feature-rich it is. It has a lot of basic/important features - …

Thank you for this! I've just tested it on desktop and I think it's wonderful.

Hi HN. Hope you're all well. I'd really like to hear/read the thoughts of this community about the good (in any field of life) that can come out of the hard times we're in nowadays…

>The professional therefore acts in the face of fear, when the amateur fears a big creative endeavor he waits for the fear to disappear, the professional knows this will never happ…

Jane Austen was the first author to came to my mind as I saw this thread. I've read two of her books (Sense and Sensibility & Pride and Prejudice) ~2 years ago. What they made me r…

I've watched the show (only once, for now ) and I love it but didn't understand the reference :|

> as a woman I was always better with words than numbers As a man and a mechanical engineer, I was and still am way better with words than numbers and I think it's perfectly OK. He…

Here's a recent short documentary about Hokusai: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTnZN08CQdI

Previous (from 7 months before) thread (with a different link): Mercury is closer to Earth, on average, than Venus [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19372323