british_india | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which books have you read more than once?
“Time Enough For Love”, by Robert Heinlein.
It’s the life story of a man who lives 2,300 years.
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british_india | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: I’m already fluent in English. How can I improve further?
Read fiction.
british_india | 6 years ago | on: The Marvel of Mozart’s Letters
I own a copy of "The Letters of Mozart and his Family" and they are a wild bunch, especially the letters addressed to: "Cousin Buzz Fuzz".
british_india | 6 years ago | on: Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study
Laying the groundwork for the attack on Bloomberg
british_india | 6 years ago | on: Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way?
Sol (our sun) is located between the Sagittarius and Perseus arms of the Milky Way spiral galaxy. Specifically, our home is located on the Orion Arm.
british_india | 6 years ago | on: 51% of young voters believe humanity could be wiped out within 15 years
Methane clathrates in the Arctic sea floor.
Methane from decomposing formerly-permafrost in Siberia and Canada.
Methane.
british_india | 6 years ago | on: What Kind of Problem Is Climate Change?
Thank you!
british_india | 6 years ago | on: Prescription drugs and grapefruit a 'deadly mix' (2012)
Also Fresca is packed with grapefruit juice.
british_india | 6 years ago | on: Employer health plans are getting pricier and skimpier
My BCBS plan has a $4,000 deductible per insured person per year.
british_india | 6 years ago | on: Researchers are racing to find out why methane levels are increasing so fast
There is no mystery.
Arctic sea floor
Canadian permafrost
Siberian permafrost
The Arctic sea floor is releasing Methane Clathrates, i.e. the so-called Methane Clathrates Gun is firing. As for the two instances of "permafrost", both are melting en mass and that is leading to organic matter that has been frozen and accumulating for millenia to now be decomposed by bacteria, leading to massive methane releases.
Methane is 30-times for damaging than CO2.
british_india | 6 years ago | on: Expert Says Indians Will Soon Be Water Refugees Heading for Water-Rich Europe
The British left India with a pressurized, always-on water system.
Through lack of maintenance, most of that water system is no longer pressurized--the water comes on intermittently. That leads to the common practice by water consumers of having a pump on their end to fill their local cistern.
Since the originally-British water system was not maintained, it now leaks. So, unlike a pressurized water system--where leaks cause water to LEAVE the system, a non-pressurized system--as Indians now have--combined with the aforementioned pumps, makes it so leaky pipes cause outside filth to ENTER the system. Combine that with the practice of co-locating sewer lines in the same trenches as water lines, means that when the water comes on and individual pumps kick in, causes sewage water to enter the water system and be pulled into people's cisterns. That's why any Indian household like this must use reverse osmosis to make their water potable.
All because the pressurized water system was allowed to go derelict.
british_india | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is key to good technical documentation?
If the system you are facing is object oriented, then the traditional flow-chart is a bad match. Still, you need to create a map of how the entire system works. Learning to do that is the single greatest predictor of your success.
british_india | 6 years ago | on: Introduction to Event-Driven Architectures with RabbitMQ
Nothing is worse than trying to debug Camel.
british_india | 6 years ago | on: Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC-JCvFyjlo
The 787 Dreamliner is a nightmare. Bad code produced by offshore teams. International teams totally violating safety procedures.
british_india | 6 years ago | on: The High Price of Multitasking
Multitasking is harmful for left-brain dominant persons, because the left brain processes information in a linear-sequential manner. This does not permit the resumption of interrupted tasks.
Multitasking is not as harmful for right-brain dominant persons, because the right brain processes information in a visual-simultaneous manner. This ALLOWS the resumption of interrupted tasks.
british_india | 8 years ago | on: A new book on Renaissance mathematics makes a bold case
I will add that taking calculus in high school was the final stake in the heart of my belief in god.
Calculus shows you that complex outcomes can result from quite simple causes.
british_india | 8 years ago | on: Is software development really a dead-end job after age 35-40?
I didn't start being a developer until I was 35. Going strong 20 years later.
british_india | 8 years ago | on: How APIs Work – An Analogy for Dummies
Think of a restaurant: you use the menu to order things from the kitchen.
If an item appears on the menu but is not actually available from the kitchen, you would be pissed off.
The menu is the API, what comes out of the kitchen is the implementation.
british_india | 8 years ago | on: The Obscure Economist Silicon Valley Billionaires Should Dump Ayn Rand For
The author of the piece, Michael Kinsley, is a flat out genius. That is and has been apparent going back to his both incisive and funny comments on Crossfire.
I started reading the article and was blown away within the first paragraph by the quality of the writing and I scrolled up to see the author and.... Michael Kinsley.
british_india | 8 years ago | on: Java.math.BigDecimal toString is not thread safe
Was just looking at this problem!
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