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We can take your train of thought further still. If AI ever becomes super good at lawyering, why would we even need law firms and lawyers at all? We could feed legislation and cons…

Margaret Hamilton (checks wikipedia) studied mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1955. Back in 1955, "computer science" wasn't a thing yet. Computers were the domain of el…

Sylvan Clebsch and Sophia Drossopoulou (credited on Project Verona in a slide) work on the Pony, which has been described as a cross between Rust and Erlang.

I had to google for what "^H" meant. Found an interesting answer and backstory: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/386870.html

Isn't this bundling what caused the subprime crisis ? How is this time "guaranteed to work well" ?

Maybe it's social media that is broken.

It seems that the downloadable pdf doesn't have a couple of tweaks that have landed in master ( https://github.com/crypto101/book ). Any plans to generate a slightly updated versio…

The entire series of 20 lectures (uploaded by MIT) is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY&list=PLE18841CAB...

Rust + Rpi interests me and I might wanna follow along. Are they using an available kit from an online retailer ? Getting/shipping individual parts is a pain where I'm from.

> Here is another thought. One has to realize that nobody wants an operating system. People only use them because it is the only way to run the applications the users actually want…

Because they actually live there ? As opposed to transient visitors ? It's like going to your friend's house and rearranging the furniture there because "we were all born on planet…

I was a little disappointed to see there wasn't any internet connection on Windows 2000. All I wanted to do was to open Firefox, goto https://bellard.org/jslinux/ , and fire up the…

Its not as simple as that. Humans are social, and want to feel that they are "useful", that their presence / skills are needed. Not having a job takes that away from them, which ca…

Competing laptop manufacturers have options for more ram.

There's a comment [1] in the other reddit thread that somewhat rules this out. > That doesn't even make sense when you're flying within the Solar System. Stuff moves, so you have t…

> Some Vine stars charge as much as six figures for a branded Vine, a pricey bet for buyers. 6 figures, for 6 seconds of video. Sounds about right.

It's probably fair to say the DVCS accelerated the growth of the entire software industry. Was BitKeeper the first version control system to "think distributed" ?

The waiter provides a service in exchange for money. Hedge fund managers literally move money around. Their value add is debatable.

Granted they are skilled at what they do, but I think the point is that they don't create much, if anything of actual value.

> This is so quintessentially Linus. He's criticizing this idealized tech startup CEO character with a big passionate vision, (...) I don't think he's criticizing anyone in particu…

If you have serious money problems, you can't spend the "extra" $600 you have on an iPhone, even if it supposedly pays for itself after 24 months. You spend $600 on food and necess…

Hmm. Can you share what these failure patterns are ?