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I actually think Linus has had some of his rough edges smoothed out over the years. This was not nearly as combative as it could have been or may have been in the past!

Finite Automata and the Theory of Computation. Lots of Turing Machines and constructing proofs. I'm not sure I would have passed if it wasn't for my friend who worked with me on th…

My private hypothesis here is that we're doing a better job as a society of encouraging "disconnection" from being "always online," which is documented to aggravate mental health i…

I made a safe-to-wake light for my son out of a Raspberry Pi. It serves up a responsive website on the local network so you can manually change the lights or update the schedule. B…

Sure! For the first job, I bill hourly for the time I spend working. Here, I develop web applications to validate machine learning models for a company; I help organize results in …

I transitioned from full-time employment to contracting in April 2022. I am currently over-employed and working two gigs simultaneously. All leads have come from my personal networ…

It took learning another language (Japanese) for me to finally make sense of my native language (English)'s grammar. I still remember the day I learned the difference between trans…

What a luxury to work at a place where tickets are defined and work is scoped out for you :) If you're chafing there due to the lack of autonomy, I promise there are places hiring …

Are there any copyright concerns around doing this kind of thing? Surely SEGA will come after him for providing this as a free download?

This is like saying "you can't really leverage Java well without knowing JVM bytecode." Which is to say: I also disagree with you :)

I think the real advantage is scripting with a REPL in your IDE. Whipping up a script becomes trivial because you can test every data transformation (heck, every expression!) with …

I wonder how much of this changed due to public sentiment driven by pop culture? Movies like Fern Gully[0] and TV shows like Captain Planet[1] definitely had a hand in shaping my g…

What is it about America (or other countries) that makes you think this couldn't happen anywhere else?

Maybe not once you consider the R&D costs of figuring out how not to melt a solid gold Merlin engine ;)

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Typically, there's a "cliff" after the first year, at which point it switches to quarterly. So you get nothing the first three quarters, but after quarter 4 (your first year at the…

I'm not sure I would classify that as "talking plainly." Words like that would put anybody on the defensive, and being on the defensive does not make people receptive to positive c…

Blastomere links to Nick Szabo blog posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=blastomere ...links to: http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html

Thanks for pointing that out -- I've updated the title :)

Do you think it's worth editing the title? Will I step on any metaphorical landmines because the HN community (for example) prefers immutability?

This idea is explored in Walkaway: A Novel, by Corey Doctorow. If you enjoy reading fiction, I highly recommend it!

They linked a study from a medical journal. Are you asking for additional qualifications? Should there be restrictions on who is allowed to share scholarly articles?

How are things in PR these days? I can't imagine what it must be like to deal with a pandemic while simultaneously trying to rebuild basic infrastructure. Have you been able to get…