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The main bottleneck as an engineer is no longer writing or testing code. It is how long it takes to understand complex systems. This is a really nice approach that, if you have the…

This sort of thing has not been at all uncommon for Google over the past few years. I’m looking forward to the day when they no longer have this level of power to make or break tin…

I think this is a more compelling idea than people in the comments are giving it credit for > The problem is that you can easily come up with 100 different hypotheses for what’s go…

Would suggest checking out pyquery. It uses JQuery-like syntax. It's been around a long time and in my opinion, it's way easier to use https://pypi.org/project/pyquery/ .

This is actually really helpful. I'd be concerned that deleting the browser would result in other apps breaking but that's probably a risk worth taking.

I'm currently reading Digital Minimalism from Cal Newton and have started preparing for a 30-day digital declutter. So I was really excited to read this title and immediately disap…

The two are very similar. I wrote the first version of this almost 10 years ago and only became aware of the existence of Sourcetrail while doing the rewrite a few months back. On …

Wow. Seeing your open source project while scrolling through hacker news is something that really brightens your day. I’m happy to answer any questions people have.

If we are judging by one completely objective measure (high school graduation rates) California is currently the lowest-ranked state in the country: https://worldpopulationreview.c…

I maintain a similar (but less popular) open-source CLI that generates flow charts for dynamic languages (Python, JS, Ruby, PHP) - https://github.com/scottrogowski/code2flow/ The t…

Yes. This is a "Very Online taxonomy". While I think it's useful to think about mechanisms of collapse, the author seems to have a clear bias towards the belief that collapse will …

Oh man this brings back memories. I must have been 6 years old. My dad came home with a computer that they were getting rid of at his work. He set it up that night and, having neve…

Ah. I think I understand a little better. Knowing nothing else about what you're doing, the way I would structure that would be to run multiple fastmap tasks with crawler + process…

Hey, a couple of thoughts: I think you identified the tradeoff correctly. What I'm building is designed for when compute needs outweigh the data transfer overhead. This works for s…

ONSITE - Location TBD I'm a solo founder and am interviewing next week in the final stage of a somewhat well-known tech incubator. The open source framework / SaaS I'm developing i…

Not a biologist but I understand that isolation is an important factor of diversity and by default, this simulation wouldn't have that. So it makes sense to evolve in different are…

Very cool. Interesting to hear that they actually managed to evolve. Would be curious to see what happens when they can eat each-other. Though I recognize that might be significant…

This is amazing. My question is whether there are emergent structures in a long-running sandbox environment? The videos that were posted appeared to have quite complex structures b…

Interesting concept! Personally, I'm not seeing much in terms of a practical application here but possibly a recreational one? I'm imagining a game of clue where you follow the not…

"scientists like me and my colleagues are on the threshold of gathering data that may be relevant to the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. But this evidence involves …

I really like the duck-typing analogy for addiction. Addiction is a complex set of causes, symptoms, and consequences and every addiction is different.

It's nice but it's no Mongita ;) https://github.com/scottrogowski/mongita In all seriousness, it seems like there's a lot of demand for embedded Mongo-like databases. Congrats on a…