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I waited for this thread for 10 years (check my username) and then didn't log into hacker news on the day it was posted :) I wouldn't shower more praise on this game than folks hav…

"I would lose the verbs. I love the verbs, I really do, and they would be hard to lose, but they are cruft. It's not as scary as it sounds. I haven't fully worked it out (not that …

"Dubliners there was the unlovable A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which starts well, charting bold, clear routes, like “Araby,” through the trackless waters of childhood,…

Quit a highly paid job with a big company (my decision). Joined a smaller company (my decision). Found great people to work with (luck) who are humble, smart and willing to teach -…

The article doesn't dig into some important possible reasons why the growth may be slowing down. When a company is shipping at a large scale (~80 million devices a year), macro fac…

I fully agree. Does anyone have an insight into: Why doesn't he make the source the code he uses in his presentations (e.g. the demo in 'Inventing on Principle') available? It woul…

Going to meet --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Witten Some consider him to be in the same league as Einstein and Newton. Meeting him for lunch -- just a random opportunity …

As we see this latest tragedy in Paris unfold, and seeing law enforcement trying to capture the mastermind - do you think differently about surveillance -- more importantly, should…

One of the best (and incidentally, very recent) illustration of your point was seen an AMA by Bill Murray [1]. The Reddit mod was simply transcribing sentences as Bill was saying t…

I hope this prize leads to a more systematic (re)look at traditional medicine - both Chinese and Indian. It would be important (and exciting) to understand what thousands of years …

I had the good fortune of reading his autobiography. I highly recommend it. It explains the events described in this article (eg the ostracization; allegations of being a communist…

There is no immediate need of a hierarchy. Depending on the size of the team, this is a good thing. As long as you have one "alpha", a designated or undesignated person who makes a…

Post ends with: "This project was fun. It was very exciting to bring it to life step by step, and such a pleasure to see it working after we put so much effort in it. But this is n…

I didn't know about Julian Schwinger's life before this. Two of the many awe-inspiring paragraphs from the text: Bethe describes his meeting with Schwinger: "I entirely forgot that…

I do. And you are right. I think we will get to a place where one company does it right, before we agree on an interoperable standard.

One of the companies that is solving this very problem is Xiaomi. Their method is quite crude - that is, they make everything themselves. But the end result is that everything they…

Couldn't agree more.

As my username probably reveals, this is my favorite game, and one of the most enjoyable / funny gaming experiences that I have had. The part that I still remember, after all these…