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As an experienced programmer, I have spent enough time trying to understand and make sense of some aspects of pure/higher math, specifically logic, that I feel qualified to say thi…

Touch typing is not that hard. You can learn, and then try yourself and see if you like mouseless work.

You don't touch type I assume? Touch typing is not only about typing faster. It gives you this other ability of "running your control panel" out of the home keys only (four fings o…

Well. Looks like the hacks, gimmickers, and salesmen have succeeded wonderfully.

> Is there a reason to make this distinction here? The original method, by Whitted, that looked much better than any previous methods, and yet looks horrible by today's standards, …

As always, path tracing is not ray tracing.

You missed one comparison: C infra (no C++). (well strictly speaking, additionally you could also have hand-written assembly infra).

Machine learning is nowhere close to replacing the human coding activity. Nonetheless, machine learning is creeping up into newer and newer areas of application in surprising, unpr…

Can't you spin up your own software in a docker instance on the cloud? what does official support mean here? New to cloud.

I just want to point out one thing, for the record. I'm sorry "Stop Monday Morning Quarterbacking (MMQ)" isn't directed at you per se, but the general direction of whoever is readi…

MySpace was massive when Facebook was a year or two old. I had accounts on both and MySpace looked way more attractive compared to FB (it had the feel of Instagram). So no, FB did …

Homebrew is 11 years old. I'm willing to bet there are as many people (likely fewer) people who knew Guido in 2002, when Python was 11 years old, or even 2005, when Google hired Gu…

> This is Guido van Rossum. If I were him and asked to solve puzzles, I'd tell the hiring company to fuck off. Not sure what you're trying to get at: MacOS homebrew creator is an e…

I agree what you say while also pointing out that unix home directory has become a complete mess. Anyone (any installed software) can do whatever they like, there is no mechanism o…

> YC application needs one to clearly articulate who ones target customers are, what they do today, why is it such a pain, and what one is building to solve that pain-point ... Whi…

> Dear ImGui – Bloat-free graphical user interface library for a bloated programming lanugage FTFY

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24982942

On their reddit AMA thread [0], can you point me to a single of their over a hundred answers which expresses concerns that media is overhyping and running away with the story? On t…

> ... scientists themselves weren't sensationalizing their findings ... Yeah right. They were saying things like "please prove us wrong" while doing interview rounds, and (I'm sure…

Uhhh ... by playing the kind of competitor that nVidia couldn't have imagined in their wildest wet dreams?