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Don’t forget your investors and your board.

It was already tried in the US. The agreed upon results were that humans want alcohol and the downstream effects made society worse e.g. increase in alcohol consumption, empowering…

“New Kids on the Blech” is spot on.

Thanks for sharing your work. I too have the problems you’re attempting to address. Makes me think of LabView (which I would recommend checking out for inspiration if you’re unawar…

Yeah, that original iPhone launch keynote is something I like to watch every so often. It really emphasized we’re only doing this because we see what’s wrong with smartphones and t…

That’s what I was trying to express. We implemented the features that were unique and interesting too late. We should have led with them and build some compelling demos

Yeah that’s pretty much what happened. What I was thinking was we over estimated what the table stakes were. We were building a collaborative SQL editor aka notebooks. We spent way…

I learned something similar founding a startup. If I could do it again, I would have aggressively avoided pursuing the table stakes feature in our space. Instead we should have don…

I’ve had this same thought but was unsure what the licensing for the data would be.

I have a daily updated dataset that has the HN data split out by months. I've published it on my web page, but it’s served from my home server so I don’t want to link to it directl…

A few are dated but number 74 is one I think about a lot when programming. Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole …

If you are distributing software to an audience who want to use your thing without having to build it, then something like this is much more appealing than virtualenv.

And not every optimization is worth the effort.

Let’s not forget sl

Makes me think about Dijkstra being horrified to learn that the US was sending astronauts into space using unproven computer code [0]. Eventually, we'll have programmers trusting t…

There’s a neat documentary from the late 1970’s, “Farewell etaoin shrdlu”. It’s about the final day the New York Times was printed using their linotype machines. https://youtu.be/1…

I went through it at the beginning of the year. In the end, a cold inbound from a recruiter for a leadership position that I wasn’t right for led to her referring me to another rec…

I look at videos like these as gateways to get someone excited about a subject, not as scholarly works. What you say is good to keep in mind on any video. You can’t get the full de…

Veritasium has an excellent video explaining the proof and the historical context. https://youtu.be/HeQX2HjkcNo

Without any context or followup, this seems like old news that doesn't need to be rehashed on the front page today. This event pre-dates the Microsoft purchase of Github.

I was wrong, there was a very light grey close button X at the top right, but I definitely got a timelagged interrupt to sign to read more modal on Firefox on Linux.

I was wrong, there was a very light grey close button X at the top right, but I definitely got a timelagged interrupt to sign to read more modal on Firefox on Linux.

And you have to sign up for a newsletter to read more than 20% of the article.

A friend of mine had some content reach the front page maybe 6 months ago. I don't know this for 100%, but I think for cool projects that dang thinks are of interest to the communi…