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Still one of my favorites: On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and to know when not to use abstraction.

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I was thinking the same; there are so many articles explaining the basics. For me it would be more helpful to start off with a real-life scenario where the mentioned method can be …

> I don't think I'd add it there, isn't it handled by firewall / infrastructure than app directly? Although most DDoS attacks happen on the layers 3, 4, and 6 of the OSI model, you…

Your features list is a bit misleading, then. On your app's homepage you specifically mention the tracking of bounces as part of the app's features. I'm all for launching early and…

Exactly, that's what we did with our solution, too; we maintaned our own bounce list with a TTL that we kept up-to-date by subscribing to SNS notifications generated by SES. My que…

Looks good from a first look at it, congrats on launching it! Just checked if you mention bounces and saw that you track bounces; how does your app show / keep track of the bounces…

I think openness to experience is only one part of the equation. There are other parts, e.g., what are your goals? How do you deal with your emotional state if the experience doesn…

Good point! Sadly, I don't have access to the Harvard study ( https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mksc.2019.1200 ), so maybe someone with access to it could check it, but th…

There's even a third option when you bet on people: The company can get acqui-hired by a bigger fish who's already a big presence within the almost same problem space.

Just wanted to say that I have almost the same bedtime-routine as OP and it has been life-changing for me. I can wholeheartedly recommend this. From time to time I also add a 5-min…

Yep, that buyer is https://twitter.com/theroaringkitty Here [0] he talks the first time about the GME stock; the video was uploaded on the 28th of July, 2020 and the stock was at $…

A semaphore can be used to control thread access to a resource. A latch allows one or more threads to wait until a set of operations being performed in other threads completes [0].…

Thanks a lot for your reply! Scraping websites can be quite the messy business, since some websites change their document structure more often than others. Nonetheless, it's still …

By real datasets you mean company-specific ones? Or do you happen to have some examples that are openly available which helped you a lot? I definitely concur with your first point,…

Very good point. Additionally, with insert and delete we might need to apply the rules of broadcasting [0]. For example, if I have a 2-dimensional array and I insert a scalar value…

Perfect timing. After having used Linux full-time in private and at work for the past 13 years, I had to switch to Windows 10 at my new job. I miss the hell out of my shell, my .zs…

Same here. Every time someone checks out my bookshelf I tell them that I only read a few select pages from most of those books during my studies and that's it. No regrets, too!

Thank you very much for the link! Dr. Kleppman also provides notes for that specific lecture [0]; they contain all the slides with the corresponding detailed text, which is really …

+1 for Heffron's book, which was posted here 2 weeks ago [0]. He also published all the solutions to the exercises! [1] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24892907 [1] http:/…