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Probably more Socrates or Plato, but I feel like Emerson needs to be mentioned in this thread somewhere.

What do you like most about it?

This is exactly what's needed to get general users off of Windows. Anecdotal, but whenever my friends/family are looking for a basic laptop I almost always suggest a Lenovo for the…

What would you like to see improved?

That’s kind of how I understand it as well.

I think that’s why the author put “vector” in quotes. I kind of imagine it as an ephemeral, infinite list where for some real, when we use that real value as an index into our “vec…

This. When an alarming number of friends (all under 40 years old) from the same small neighborhood in my hometown were diagnosed with leukemia I started to look into the superfund …

Thank you for your work on this, truly.

This is one of the most impressive demos I've ever seen. Truly incredible. I have been dreaming about working on something like this for a while. Open to help?

re: DuoLingo, I always hear the same thing and feel the same reaction :) If you are looking for another team member I'd love to help.

I've been building https://heylangley.com as a solo side project for a little while now. The initial MVP took about 2 months, though I have not had much time to market it. It's pre…

This reminds me of a time when I was meditating in my dimly lit office after work some years ago. For context, I had been meditating daily for 20-30 minutes quite consistently at t…

This is very similar to what I've been building at heylangley.com, for use in language learning/speaking practice.

Blame Hollywood. The mythos of a lone, brilliant genius doing feats unimaginable to “normal people” is everywhere, unfortunately.

I’ve been learning Mandarin recently but can never find people to practice speaking with (who are available when I am) so I built this to practice my listening and speaking skills …

Just bootstrap a second fusion power plant with the first, then continue on, similar to how compilers for a language can be written in the language itself.

Interesting – I was just looking into visiting/living in Svalbard for a couple of months for the unique experience of it. Unfortunately, I could only find one apartment building [1…

I have ADHD-I and I'm feeling almost exactly the same way, right up to a falling out with a company I had significant ownership in/was part of the founding team. How are your daily…

To me, it means understanding the basics of data structures and algorithms, and knowing when and how to apply them to solve problems. A couple of examples: Seeing a sorted list of …

This article just kind of did that for me. Loved that they likened Lisp to Lego blocks a few paragraphs after I had the exact same thought (when they mention that "everything is an…