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Computer Science is neither a science nor about computers. Computer Science has more in common with Magic.

Many in this community already know the value of framing — thanks to thinkers like Paul Graham, or through direct startup experience. This essay builds on that idea, but pushes it …

SEEKING WORK | REMOTE I’m looking for freelance work doing functional programming. I have long and deep experience with Elm, Erlang and Swift. Can also do C, Ruby and Haskell. I’m …

Yeah. Lol. So I’m going to be talking my code? Will be super popular in the office. “Hey Siri! Put that statement in an if-clause. …no, not that one. The other one. Argh!!!” throws…

The thing that amazed me the most with the presentation was that they never showed typing on a virtual keyboard. It seems like you need an actual physical keyboard to do any typing…

No, you are misinterpreting what the law is saying. The purpose of the law is to protect from the collection of data points (height, age, political opinions, etc.) about individual…

Well, a private message sent via Messenger is not personal data (PII), so is not covered by GDPR. This is a very simple concept that critics of GDPR seems to ignore or get wrong ov…

Dear HN, A friend of mine came to me with a business idea and wanted me to join him as a technical co-founder. I wasn’t sure I wanted to commit to that but offered to help him buil…

I have been experimenting with deep reinforcement learning since watching the DeepMind lecture series on YouTube a while back. I'm also an obsessive runner, so I figured a good fir…

I tried to create a Twitter account for my new startup a couple of days ago. Wanted a business account to promote my app and get feedback from users. But it was simply impossible. …

SEEKING WORK | REMOTE/PART-TIME/FULL-TIME Location: Sweden Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Mobile and app development (Swift, ObjC, C/C++, iOS, watchOS, macOS, etc) Design work…

To further complicate the pancake taxonomy there is also the curiosity of “plättar”. Very small pancakes made in a special frying pan for more festive occasions. Not sure about the…

Improved error messages is great. But one area specifically that is in desperate need of some love is the type errors from Dialyzer. They are rarely helpful to identify what is act…

Art schools that teach you visual art and craft is a thing. So I don’t see why it would be impossible to teach the art of building software. We just need to change our methods.