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You should consider redesigning the website colors to spare visitors' eyes. I mean, the posted link opens a page with white text on black background, but clicking on the "immutable…

Chinese is the spoken Lisp.

But the dependence on monsoon balances it out, even makes it lopsided, except may be in some northern parts that rely on snow fed rivers.

This is just alarmist. The bravado shown on TV is surely not taken seriously by the authorities themselves for they know the consequences. So even if the point of impact coincides …

This will go against the grain here on HN. I don't know how anyone can imagine self driving even succeeding in real world, leave alone in the so called third world, unless all vehi…

Simply because writing is the best form of communication of ideas after speech, and using speech to program is just silly, not to mention cumbersome and not productive. Writing, si…

I am interested to know everything - how it started, who approached, what the negotiation was like, how it affected your life, what you did next - everything. I am a single ambitio…

> Yet it was a simple mechanical invention. It would seem to require no brilliant inventive insight, and certainly no scientific background. That's a seriously weak premise. A bicy…

Can someone explain why its fair or acceptable to force Google to make its index public, the one it built with its own time and money, instead of having some open source initiative…

I think the correct way to go about this is to just encourage people to plant trees suitable and native to their (people's) environment. And let it scale. Better, also tell them no…

In life? No. At work? Yes. How did I handle it? I quit.

Sounds promising. Will have to check out some time.

> Programmers don't change their ways when new features get added. The good ones do. > This is why most of the times, you just start using a totally new language, that way you buy …

Until we program in natural language, I don't see why we must even bother with this. Its fun but useless. For programming as it is today, its just a bunch of English words that we …

I am self taught in C++. I learnt it when I realized my BE FORTRAN wasn't going to enable creating GUI simulation. I did have a few hiccups like any beginner but soon it was alrigh…

> C++ was originally "C, with Classes", so OOP was the whole point of C++ existing in the first place This is like describing a middle aged man based on what he did in middle schoo…

No. OOP is just one aspect, but the most popular one.

> OOP encourages adding layers of abstraction, indirection, and generic stuff [...] Generics/templates and indirection are not OOP. Procedural style encourages them as well. You ca…

The main problem with these kinds of exposition topics is that the steps involved are quite dense. By that I mean something like density of real numbers; between any two real numbe…

I am nearing completion of my application. I need cloud storage for my user data. Since I will charge my users for storage + processing, I am looking for a top quality service prov…

I actually love this ongoing cat and mouse game. I don't follow the events in this field keenly so I don't know if it exists, but the challenge is to find antidote to this concocti…

The biggest problem I have with sleeping on floor is that I have to literally walk on the mattress or blanket in order to lie down or get up, which is just so icky to me. If that i…

There are two kinds of generalists - those who think they are and those who actually are. The distinguishing feature of the latter is that they are polymaths in the making, a journ…

This is a series more for engineers who want to delve into the depths of "computer science" that takes them to the magical world of mathematics. That way, its not worth if you are …

You do realize that JEEP is still basically JavaScript and one doesn't need to learn yet another language and its tooling?