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The art of game design: Even if you're not aspiring to be a game dev, this book teaches you a lot about project scope, management, psychology, mechanics, balance and user experience.

Flight of the buffalo: An excellent book about leadership.

Moneyball: I'm not into novels, so this might be the closest thing to it. It's a fantastic book about thinking creatively and working with what you have. It's about baseball, but even if you don't like it, it's quite entertaining and insightful.
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1. Thinking fast and slow - Kahneman

2. Godel, Escher and Bach - Hofstadter

3. On Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins
Interesting, "geflügelte Worte"(winged words) is a quite common expression in German (meaning, and I have to repeat myself here, "a commonly used expression of literary or historical origin"), but I never realized it originally came from the Illiad.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geflügeltes_Wort
No, it just means that self reflection must be based on something other than an arbitrary and meaningless distinction between things that existed before humanity and things that existed after humanity.
As for 3, I too am curious: the article made it seem like they normally do a 3-1, 1-3 split on limbs but can each do 2-2 if they want. From a control theory standpoint, that make sense -- you have one person focused on arms and one focused on legs, instead of an even split. (Probably not so different from being right or left handed.)

Is this accurate?

Also interesting: the one that controls more arms is the outgoing and high-strung one, while the one that controls more legs is the quieter and relaxed one. It seems unlikely that these facts are uncorrelated, though the causal relationship is anything but clear.

Incredibly, in an article full of pictures, they never actually tell you which twin is which and only address them as a unit of 'twins' in descriptions, which seems incredibly rude and depersonalizing to Krista and Tatiana. (Or, alternatively, never mention that the twins prefer to be spoken of as a unit -- which is itself an incredibly interesting fact.)
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The Incerto series by Nassim Taleb. They taught me about the importance of tail events, and started my interest in probability theory. More importantly, they taught me how to live a good life.
> Jerry Seinfeld's "Don't break the chain" idea is nice.

He has officially stated that the X was not his idea:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ujvrg/jerry_seinfeld...
The way I understood the situation it's two brains fused together, not one brain in control of two bodies. The twins were described as having different personalities.
I think one quick glance around yourself these days and you can see that these principles have failed completely to account for the society that they would produce. In fact the insistence on Correctness implying superiority and the Right to undermine all other approaches is itself the first best example of how bankrupt this approach has become in the face of the problem of unifying a society around common beliefs and goals.
The thing that surprises me about many of these comments is the yearning for the "good ol' days" when Apple released major software or hardware revisions that didn't have issues. As someone with affection for Apple but also a reasonably good memory of its history, I don't believe those days existed.

Antennagate. iBook solder fails. Bendgate. Apple Maps (for which Forstall famously apologized). Touch disease. Various Crackgate(s). MobileMe. Slowgate(s). Batterygate. Wi-Fi Assist eating excessive mobile data. Locationgate. Staingate. iTunes. The Mac Pro debacle. Keyboardgate.

When it comes to Apple, waiting for the .1 or .2 update (or the "refresh" release of a major hardware revision) has never been a bad idea.
If you put the main center of lift (wings) offset from the center of mass, you will have a VERY difficult time flying!
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You misunderstand me. What I’m saying is that the House and Senate could impeach a President for smiling too much if they wanted to. The requirement that it be for “crimes” is meaningless except politically.
accelerando - Charles Stross

It blew my mind from beginning to end. Loved every shred of concept and potential.

Glasshouse is close 2nd

Demon Haunted World is a solid 3rd
The Masks of God, Joseph Campbell.

Deep examination of the human meta-mind.
I could give GUI design a tenuous connection if pressed, but what on Earth does advertising have to do with computer science?
My experience is that the curriculum and what is taught is the same in many places but the assignments & exams are much more difficult at top schools. My bar for what "learning" something meant became much higher after constantly being beat down by insanely hard assignments/exams. Now I think testing is just as important as teaching in determining how much someone learns - hard tests expose sloppy learning very quickly and give you feedback on what you didn't learn as well as you thought.

Not to say that non-elite universities can't be as rigorous - some certainly are, and some students will be better than others. The brand is definitely a part of it too.
Technically since Learn Anything is fully Open Source website published under MIT licence, there is no owner. But I did start the project, yeah. :)

And I understand your concern with a learning path being a personal thing and something that is quite helpful to make yourself. However this website will very soon be completely open to the community and thus anyone will have a say in what they they think the best path for learning some topic is.
It's been ~8 years since I read it, but I think "The Sciences of the Artificial" by Herb Simon might make my list. It's about design, engineering, intelligence (artificial or human), and building things.
Traditional "mainstream" media are not dead, but they struggled to keep up with the challenge imposed by the new media. Readership habits changed: free content, physical vs virtual, advertisement model ...

Journalistic freedom and space found (self-censorship) in the mainstream media are directly or indirectly affected by this. How many articles have not been published in the past because of the relationships with advertisers? (Hollywood is a big player in this)

Now there's a different barrier for stories to get published. Sometimes it's a better thing, other times it's not.
I personally feel that assigning copyright on commit is a stopgap.

What if you die? What if you abandon the project? How can a fork of your project work with that if they want to change the license down the road? Copyright basically lasts forever now, so any choice about "assignment" will last forever.

Personally I really feel we need a solution that allows the current "maintainers" to have control over it. I don't really know what that would legally look like, but I've been hit by issues from open source copyright too many times to consider it a "solved problem".

Perhaps a new license "framework" that allows each contributor to say how they want to allow their contributions to be used in the future? I honestly don't know, but the current solutions are holding us back in some ways.
Oh yes, of course. Ignore my parenthetical statement then.
Can you expand a little bit more on this please? Did you gradually trained yourself to focus more?
> We definitely need a bill of rights and constitution under the net-states. One that our liberal institutions can defend.

A constitution, and institutions that may uphold it, would be internal and specific to a particular net-state. Just like with real states, they can't be enforced on a net-state from outside except by extreme use of force.

This is a good thing: I don't want a single Net-wide constitution for all present and future net-states, because I don't trust any single body to write or enforce it! Variation between net-states is broadly good, as long as emigration is easy.

So I'm not sure what you mean by "our liberal institutions", but if you mean "our US non-net liberal institutions", then as someone who's not a US citizen I don't want them to have power over me.
I find it infuriating that autocorrect constantly subs out correctly spelled words with other words it thinks I meant to type. It would be understandable if their suggestion made more sense contextually than what I typed, but that is frequently not the case. When I start typing "I had" it likes to change it to "I has" as if I'm some kind of a cat meme. Where is that even coming from? I can guarantee it's not coming from analyzing my past typing.
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Keep in mind that mathematics is only falsifiable in that sense because it is built entirely on assumptions.

Mathematics isn't really a science.
It's intriguing that this can lead to a conversation on existentialism.
Yes I think it depends heavily on the type of open source project and it shouldn't be frowned upon for certain kinds of projects.

I run an open source project which is technical and is designed to integrate into other systems; it's ideal for fast growing companies and large organizations that have money; because of this, inbound leads for consulting, technical support, sponsorship, partnership and contract work trickle in on their own. So in my case, a very permissive MIT license makes sense even financially.

If you have a relatively simple product which is more like an external stand-alone tool (not designed to be integrated into proprietary systems at the API level), then it will be impossible to monetise it through consulting or sponsorship.

Also, other kinds of open source projects which are difficult to monetize are those which implement established and well understood industry standards.

Adhering to standards helps with adoption and greatly increases your project's chance of success but it's not creating any new markets; you're tapping into an existing user base and competing with other implementers in a race-to-the-bottom in terms of performance, efficiency and usability and it's hard to capture any value out of that.
If you want to really make Python feel like a typed language, and still be idiomatically Pythonic, learn to write constructors that raise ValueError in appropriate ways.
As I understand things, it's possibly the biggest employer of people with computer science degrees, as well as the biggest revenue driver for the software industry.

But perhaps to generalize, the relationship between "look at how creative this discipline is" and "look at what people actually do with it in the real world" is an issue facing every academic field.
The same can happen to schizophrenic patients. They are still one person (from a juridical point of view). Neuroanatomically, what I see here in this situation is a highly intermingled brain, so intermixed that it is impossible to separate without killing both personalities and their bodies as well.
Are there more products with the same model as Sidekiq which have the same level of financial success and are one man show?
This is ignoring the fact that autocorrect can fix massively incorrect words. If you’re off by half a centimeter for a while word it could be complete gibberish if not for autocorrect.
My guess would be, that channel is limited, and vision requires much more data.
How about replacing it with nothing?
> what is the point of the system, if you can create a parallel one whenever you feel the existing one is not convenient?

This is hyperbole. Nobody can create a military tribunal “whenever they want”. Specific circumstances led to Gitmo’s creation, circumstances not easily replicable domestically. American courts are still, by and large, impartial, independent and fair.
Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss I am not a fantasy fan in general, but this is my favorite story of all time. The story within a story within a story, characters, world just about perfect.

Daemon - Daniel Suarez So little of the SciFi I read is memorable. This book explores SO many topics in memorable ways that I am blown away.
I'll contribute one takeaway. When you read information and in the moment understand what its saying, you feel like you've learned it, but you really haven't.

To learn it you have to try writing it yourself, then checking it against the source to make sure you didn't miss anything or make errors. Once you can discuss an idea fully and correctly, then you've learned it.
Other contributors were using a very permissive license, that allows sublicensing. They were okay with a proprietary software company embedding their code into a proprietary product and selling it, they should be okay with this as well.
I'm from the Midwest, from the Cedar Rapids area, moved to Chicago, and I have to say I would NEVER EVER move back there.

People from these areas are extremely conservative and xenophobic.

The restaurants and any business you might frequent are of lower quality.

These cities are not world class cities. Claiming that they are is just ignorant. You end up trapped in a little bubble with nowhere to escape to, surrounded by boring white people.

There is NOTHING TO DO.

What if you want to go out on Friday night and see a rock show? Or get a decent dinner? I hope you like commuting to Chicago...

You will be surrounded by insurance salesmen with none of the diversity and vibrancy a larger city offer.

That is to say: These places have no culture. No diversity. They have nothing going on, nobody creating anything, no one performing anything. Just going about their little lives selling insurance.

Additionally: Their nature sucks. I hope you're fine with never hiking through any interesting terrain, going skiing, or rock climbing, or really doing any interesting outdoor activities. ( I guess hunting is popular? )

Also.. where are you going to work? I'm a software developer: Where am I going to work in Cedar Rapids, IA? Some insurance firm doing meaningless banking bullshit?

"But I moved there for my kids!"

What if your kid wants to start a rock band, or be a painter, or do anything creative or interesting? Or, what if they are extremely intelligent and want to progress through a decent, competitive school system?

I can answer this one from personal experience: They will be completely alone surrounded by mediocre, extremely homogeneous racially and otherwise, people with no community of peers driving each other forward.

There will be no friday-night rock shows, no musical culture in general, no museums or after-school clubs or protests to attend. Nowhere to go. Nothing to do. Nowhere to explore.

So, after all I've said: What's left to inspire you, or your kids, in these mediocre little cities?

So I guess if you're willing to do nothing and be nowhere and be nothing, wasting your days watching television, moving to a smaller city is a great bet. Personally, I'd rather live in a decent city than slouch though a mediocre one.
It's not just himself he is putting in danger. There are people surrounding the airport that could be hurt in a crash. If he were able to go to an airport with no people around then it could be safe. I'm not very familiar with India's geography, but I doubt he could easily find an airport that isn't surrounded by people.

The Virgin Galactic crash was during an approved test flight from the FAA. That means that the FSDO (flight standards district office) was satisfied with their design process and believed that they had taken necessary precautions (like testing it in the desert). The VG plane was designed by a team of engineers, and this plane was designed by a pilot (contrary to popular belief, pilots are not all-knowing).

India has a similar requirement, and their regulators say this guy doesn't meet the standards. Is it because of corruption? Is it because of incompetency and being unwilling to waste their time to examine his plane? Or is it because they looked at it and know that his design is actually unsafe?

I don't know the real answer. The article claims they aren't giving him a fair shake. There are convincing arguments in this thread that the plane won't fly well.
I wrote something similar for Ruby/Rails parameter validation. All of the solutions that were around at the time weren’t what I was looking for. It ends up looking like: https://gist.github.com/ezekg/f525a9d006c97cbcba231aa43e5ac9.... Is that something people would be interested in me open sourcing?
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Not very relevant to OCaml though.
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It looks similar to voluptuous. Browsing READMEs, the other three examples expose their own library level representations for primitive types (e.g. Field.int() or {"type": "int"} instead of the primitive Python type int).
I did not ever expect to see my old hometown of 30k people on HN. Growing up there in the 80s and 90s, it was a nice enough place, but basically 0 tech jobs outside of doing basic IT or support. My parents still live there (my dad an EE at the mentioned Cummins), but the fortunes of the town are tied to Cummins' stock price. They've done a lot to revitalize the downtown in the last decade, it used to be pretty run down. That said, its still in Indiana, with hot muggy summers and wet cold winters where you don't see the sun for 4 months. People are generally friendly, as long as you're "normal". There's a lot of casual racism and homophobia, I didn't even recognize it until I moved away and had my eyes opened.

I moved to Indy to get a programming job in the early 2000s, and then to Colorado a few years after that. I'm much happier with the climate, the people, and the tech out here. However, the house I close on this month cost 3x what my parents' place is worth.
Amen. AoE, a desk drawer packed with assorted components and a couple of veroboards basically got me through university.

Heck, I even got called to an EE professor's office after a circuit design exam - was told a couple of my answers clearly showed I had spent more time studying AoE than the curriculum. "So - we're going to have to give you a mediocre grade, but no worries, you'll do brilliantly in industry; I'd be happy to write you a recommendation to that effect."

He actually did; it is framed and proudly displayed on my office wall.
Many big companies are shipping Rust. There's ones we know about, like Oracle, and there's ones we've only heard whispers of, like a poster on the Reddit who claims they are shipping Rust at a Fortune 500 company.

That said, Go makes sense for a lot of the things DO does.
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I think you get that response because the computing industry has been constantly attacked with very flimsy, weak and agenda-driven accusations of unethical behaviour, for a very long time. So these sorts of accusations have lost their power, there were too many boys crying wolf.

A large part of this was driven by the decline of the newspaper industry. At some point Murdoch decided that Google was evil because of Google News, and the future of news was the iPad. This from a guy who never even uses email. So he gave some speeches and the orders went out and the Murdoch press immediately started attacking Google with very dubious stories, alleging unethical behaviour. I remember this inflection point quite well. For instance the WSJ paid someone to go digging and they found that the behaviour of Safari had changed with respect to third party cookies, in ways that weren't following the specs, and now some old code Google used was setting cookies too widely or something. This regression had of course not been noticed by anyone because everything still worked. So they blew it up into a major drama and claimed it was all an evil conspiracy, instead of a bug in Safari. Meanwhile Apple got glowing praise and a free pass.

It wasn't just Murdoch of course. The whole industry started attacking internet companies and it was all about money. See the "Google Tax" in Germany, Spain etc. So the supposedly unethical behaviour they were trumping up was very often not unethical at all, or only unethical by some totally meaningless redefinition of the word (e.g. all advertising being considered unethical).

So when Kumail tweets - and the purpose of tweeting is to get noticed and spread a message, so I give him no slack for that - and this gets picked up and inflated by the media, my impression of Kumail goes from neutral to bad. Twitter is not a reasonable place to start a debate about the ethics of technology and if he was an engineer and not an actor, he'd know that. But he's just an actor. So why give a shit?
Persons with Split Brain (to the Corpus callosum) can perceive their right part of their body different from the left. Schizophrenic and other highly psychotic patients can have multiple personalities.

They still seem to have ONE thalamus and that says a lot about their ability to perceive each other side.
Yup this is generally handled very well by Emacs modes and quite useful. But the electricity in C++ mode can be super frustrating when using C++17 which it seemingly hasn’t been updated to handle yet. For example, it keeps double-indenting things inside “if constexpr(...)” environments.
There are plenty of nutty mathematical or physics theories around.

History is roughly as falsifiable as astronomy or biology.
My favorite book is "A Thousand Plateaus" by Deleuze and Guattari. It's quite the challenge, and I find new things every time I pick it back up.
On the other hand...

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Where does the 1400000 come from?
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I can't seem to get to the article. What does it say?
So, you believe that the moon landings weren't faked solely becuase of the credentials of the people who say that it was faked? You believe that the Holocaust happened solely because Holocaust deniers say crazy things about other topics? That seems really, really, off base.
Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation by Martin Millar.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Milk-Sulphate-Starvation-Martin-Mil...

This book was given to me by my first girlfriend. She died some time later, and I've found her death hard to deal with.

A few things bring back really strong memories of her - drinking tea and eating buttery pikelets and jam, listening to Ivor Cutler or Tallulah Gosh.

This book (and his others) do that.

The new Guide to Self Sufficiency by John Seymour. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1405345101/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?i...

We used to live in the country side, and I had to chop wood for our family, our neighbours, and my aunt who lived nearby. It's almost meditative. You start with a big pile of logs, and a sharp ax, and you end with more wood on the stack. It's surprising how quickly you can burn wood, especially if you're using it to cook food and heat your home.
The first thing I think of as a burn-in risk is the ever-present bottom touch indicator. It is a black strip that sort of resembles a mic or speaker grill at the bottom of the screen and it is always drawn. Does anyone know if that will burn in, or is Apple doing something different with it in software or hardware?

The status bar elements also seem like a large risk, as some pixels tend to not change.

I also can definitely notice a ghosting effect while reading and scrolling text at the same time.
Because the SIM is universal, its designed to be architecture independent, the SIM is also open, when the secure element that apple is using for apple pay is not.
> pytest fixtures don't have that issue, as they're only run when you include the fixture for DI

I don't see how that prevents any of the basic problems raised in the article.
Yes, but I didn't think to use Wolfram and couldn't figure out how to reduce the formula to avoid having to calculate 1e6!
Blindsight, by Peter Watts. It's a sci-fi novel that asks fascinating questions about sentience and intelligence, and made me stare at the ceiling for weeks after I finished it.
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