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What's an example of a product that could be created with this technology that would be difficult otherwise?

What's the TLDR of this? Is it scheme that transpiles to LLVM? If you want to code in lisp, why use this over clojure(script)?

ClojureScript targeting nodejs. - more concise/elegant/beautiful than python - since it targets nodejs, startup time = fast => blazing fast scripting - clojure = fastest protoyping…

Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Walter Rudin

After reading Bezos' biography a few weeks ago, this sounds like something that he would never, ever do. Amazon is the everything store. What's going on?

What did you learn, if you don't mind me asking?

Well said.

Replace "universe" with "God" and this starts to feel like a philosophical argument for theism.

- Forum posts (with multiple usernames and/or different email accounts) - Managing email polls - Polling friends. - Using freelance researchers Are there people who find it difficu…

Does anyone know if this possible? In particular, I'm curious if you can do things like: 1. Use the keyboard for smartphone #1 on smartphone #2. 2. Copy text on smartphone #1 and p…

What do people think about wrapping a Natural Language Processing interface around the command line (for educational purposes)? For example: "Show me all of my files, including my …

Can't we make text-based programming visual with some IDE/plugins? It would be interesting to drag functions around (and so forth) in blocks.

http://focusr.co

JackDB already does this?

Are there any practical applications or new technologies at the intersection of mathematics, programming, and hardware?

Practical applications of Probability Programming Languages?

In fairness, "nobody gives a shit how the sausage is made." If this product adds value to people's lives, why does it matter if they lifted the website design?

Very cool.

Interesting -- how was the quality? In my experience, the machine readers aren't 100% comprehensible; you always have to stop and look at the actual text and it becomes hard to get…

Is this something that would be useful to people?

A helpful tool to combat distraction: http://focusr.co

I think "rolling solo" as a guy doing cold approach pickup is one of the most badass learning experiences you can have. It has taught me so much about how to fearlessly socialize w…