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Any recommendations on materials that teach these subjects?

I don't think it's your mistake. It seems HN automatically removes certain leading/trailing words from titles so as to reduce clickbait but it doesn't seem to be very smart about i…

If you assume all trees have no value in their context and/or no intrinsic value and/or the same value as any other...

https://github.com/machow/siuba for one

> When you turn a tree into a house you create value. Of course, because the tree has no value, right? As long as you call things you don't care about "externalities" you can trivi…

Nice. Now I'm curious, is there a list somewhere of other projects Google open sourced after abandoning?

The right pronunciation is Luigi board. https://youtube.com/watch?v=15nNY7uofNw

It's been possible in other languages for ages, and some of them don't even require parentheses or a semicolon!

I might just be biased by selective attention, but it seems like more and more of these are popping up lately. I feel like we will eventually recognize a variant of Greenspun's Ten…

This is common in the functional paradigm, although syntax and semantics varies in sometimes important ways among languages. There's a long-standing TC39 proposal to add it to JS. …

I mean, Excel does have LET and LAMBDA now...

"Treat ideas like cattle... Except this idea."

> Spaced repetition and incremental reading don't have to be a conscious effort > The valuable part looks like to be in the effort of understanding, thinking deeply and widely and …

> they should care about [...] And there's your problem. Regular users do not give a rat's ass about your should s. In addition, for example, I've never seen any serious UX bugs in…

What does this prove? If you have lots of data and dimensions, I bet you could just as likely find distributions that are roughly 50/50, 60/40, 90/10, 100/0 if you looked for them.…

Maybe in the same sense that meth or krokodil are "disliked".

Sure, but I bet they don't have to watch all kinds of traumatizing events as they do it.

> I even know the percentage roughly. No, you don't. This "principle" is not a law of physics, it's just a rule of thumb that may or may not be wildly off the mark for an arbitrary…

I did, but I shouldn't have because I was too lazy to explain what it is. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33311958

Nix + home-manager. Boom.

If you only send to space people whose dream already was to go to space, of course they're going to have a strong reaction when they do. That's like observing that Olympic athletes…

Two plus two equals four is true, but not funny! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4Ph02gzqmY

Good news, the link provided ticks all your boxes: - You didn't have to search for it - Someone's (Rich Hickey's) opinion - He has worked with Clojure - He has worked with another …