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Grant (the 3Blue1Brown guy) has an uncanny ability to explain difficult concepts and the fundamental intuition behind them. In many of his videos, he explains topics from the persp…

The author of this article either didn't actually read 12 Rules for Life or already made up their mind before going in. > Jordan Peterson appears very profound and has convinced ma…

Way to ignore the article completely and dismiss an entire class of people in one sentence. Bravo.

I wouldn't even go this far. An amateur can have tons of experience, and even be an expert in their field. It's true, many people use the word "amateur" to mean unskilled, beginner…

An amateur isn't really someone who knows nothing about a particular subject. On the contrary, every amateur by definition knows at least something about their subject matter. An a…

> an excess of analytical thought, particularly when applied to "what if" scenarios. > This leaves me usually exceptionally well prepared for most situations life throws at me, thr…

Thanks for the feedback! If you have any ideas about how you would change the syntax, I'd love to hear them. And that overloading helper function is cool :)

> Books aren't like software where you can release often and iterate. That's not true at all. Check out https://leanpub.com/ , Manning's MEAPs, The Pragmatic Programmers' Beta book…

I don't agree with you. Therefore you lack the mental wherewithal to understand my point of view. I mean just look at all these connections I make between unrelated things. I also …

If any law would make suicide illegal, or any government would exert any control over you should you fail, then it stands to reason that those people making those laws, and those p…

It's a toy, that looks like a gun, and shoots plastic balls filled with air that afaik wont break skin. Toy gun is not only not weak, it's accurate.

Until things change, this is arguably the most important US issue we are facing right now, and is thus always relevant. So no, there are not too many NSA stories on HN.

Please redirect your shock toward the US government. And by the way, at the time of writing 27 of the top 30 articles don't mention Snowden in the comments, so...

No problem at all :) Glad I could help you out.

Maybe that's where the confusion was. I was talking about browser development. Thanks.

Does whoever downvoted me care to explain why or offer another opinion?

Not that this invalidates what you said, but NPM and Grunt (and just enough Node.js to use them) are required learning for JavaScript developers nowadays IMO.

I think I can explain how to get started with require.js pretty quickly. I've attempted to do so with a short gist: https://gist.github.com/willurd/6054834 (much shorter than the O…

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there aren't people out to get you.

I was actually going to suggest $1099. Can I pay that instead?

Invited. Thanks!

I've come to accept that HN is the place I go to satisfy my "intellectual curiosity" and more focused lists are where I go to get my learn on. For example, for JavaScript stuff: * …