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Not really tech related, but the most memorable for me is "Tense Present"[1] by David Foster Wallace in the April 2001 issue of Harper's Magazine. It's a beautiful exploration of l…

After reading this article[1] and the HN conversation about it[2], I realized I didn't know much about the theory or evidence around dark matter. I'd love to know more. What should…

> when you struggle on a freaking leetcode problem I'm all for the message of "get help if you need it," and it sounds like OP needs the help of a professional, so I upvoted your c…

Some friendly feedback: I clicked through to your article about the two pointer technique and, AFAICT, there's nothing for me to do or read here. It says "In this guide, we'll cove…

Very nice! Is there a way to provide feedback on a given item? For example, this[1] seems to have a typo in the title (and thus the URL). I'm sure you've already thought of this, b…

There is also https://expediadotcom.github.io/haystack/ , an Open Tracing-compliant distributed tracing system.

Actually, even God couldn't beat dollar-cost averaging[1]. [1]: https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...

I'm friends with several philosophers since I took it fairly seriously in undergrad and befriended several grad students. From my perspective, the "trolling" is generally just poin…

Really good point. By the same token, someone should let Dan Patrick know that it's already illegal to surveil and harass people in bathrooms.

First, this is a good thing for the community. The ecosystem has been pretty well prepared for 3.x adoption for a while, but we just haven't done it. Still, when Django switched it…

Seriously? Was this a professional program or something? Maybe I was a particularly poor undergrad, but I can't imagine being able to afford a separate computer, even a shitty one,…

I'm uncomfortable with how willing I am (and others are) to just make/accept claims about how terrible the JS community is without evidence. In this thread there are tons of people…

I have a question. Our first child is due this week, and we also got a box from babyboxco. What did/do you use as sheets for the box's pad? We noticed this week that the sheet that…

It's important to note that you can often "go prove it to yourself and get a developer to believe in your potential company" without coding a thing. For example, a non-technical fr…

Or create your own junior devs and turn them into mid-levels in a couple years. Take a look at the University of Texas's Software Developer Training Program[1]. They have similar p…

I think you're using the wrong standard here. From Wikipedia: > Hate speech - outside the law, is speech that attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as gender, e…

> all of its rounds after seed funding were debt rounds, including one at the end of July This surprised me. They burned through a round in just a few weeks? And looking at their f…

This is critical. IME, you're probably not going to get very good at programming while in school. That only comes with doing it several hours a day for a long time. So, certainly w…

This is a great story. Thanks for sharing. If you don't mind my asking, what materials did you use to develop your curriculum, and have you shared the curriculum anywhere? (Apologi…

That article was published today. I'm guessing this is just a cheeky swat back at the SEC. Especially since the original article prefaces the link with "Your tax dollars at work."

Looks great. One thing I loved about HackerNode was the fact that I could send an article to Chrome. (Maybe I'm blind, but I can't figure out how to add Chrome to the iOS 8 activit…

FWIW (and I know I'm beating a dead horse), I did an informal survey on Facebook about this. The question was, simply, "Are dresses formal attire?" The universal consensus is "no."…

Eh. "Accepted" is probably a relative term here. As in, she was probably not "accepted" the way a man would be in casual attire. She just had slightly fewer hurdles to jump. In any…

I don't think this is about whether it's natural to have assumptions. It's that the "tiny minority" (although I think your numbers are wrong) are consistently saying that those ass…