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exist | 7 years ago | on: Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018

This is great. Thank you.

exist | 7 years ago | on: Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system

Such a great book! As someone who came from a non-traditional background, this book was very key in helping me understand operating systems.

exist | 8 years ago | on: Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit

Since there's a lot of quoting of studies on this topic, I hope that everyone reads this very informative (and long) blog post by a psychiatrist on SSRIs and their effectiveness:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-yo...

exist | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?

Definitely agree with this one. It's called Algorithm Specialization on Coursera. I'm now on course 3 and it's definitely helped me a lot in thinking about how reason about algorithms.

exist | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

Yes it looks like they do deduplication, based on the HTML source:

  for (var i in data[yr]) {
    var story = data[yr][i];
    if (seen_titles[story.title]) continue;
    seen_titles[story.title] = 1;
  // ...add story to list of stories
  };

exist | 8 years ago | on: Interactive Vim tutorial

Thank you for that link. I appreciate that he chose to intersperse the history of commands (such as grep!) within his explanation.