rejectedalot | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Awesome-code-reading - A curated list of high-quality codebases to read
Check out peter norvig’s python code
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rejectedalot | 7 years ago | on: Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever lived?
I think since a vector has a direction, he’s suggesting that the direction of the vector is pointed “the wrong way” with respect to time
rejectedalot | 7 years ago | on: New Evidence That Lead Exposure Increases Crime (2017)
In Elizabethan England, didn’t a lot of women wear lead based makeup? I’d be interested in seeing how that affected crime rates or other metrics, if that data were available.
rejectedalot | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?
23 yo
Last tech thing: learned how routers work
Last non-tech thing: some strategy in technique for amateur cycling racing
rejectedalot | 7 years ago | on: Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518
I learned recently that when elephants are very hot, they need to wildly flap their ears to cool their blood (as the blood flows from the body to the brain by way of the ears.) Maybe they hypothesized a similar effect?
rejectedalot | 7 years ago | on: What I’ve Been Doing Since Quitting My Job
It seems like you get a lot of your feeling of meaning and contentedness from social interaction. From what you’re saying about how travel, projects, etc don’t seem as fulfilling anymore, it really seems to me like you have some depressive tendencies.
I’m not a doctor, but just as a friend, I think you should really try to think of dealing with that existential sadness as a priority - not as an annoyance. Spending real time and energy towards improving your mental health could have real impact on every other aspect of your life.
rejectedalot | 7 years ago | on: Memory transfer between snails challenges view of how brain remembers
I missed that - thank you for clearing this up!
rejectedalot | 7 years ago | on: Memory transfer between snails challenges view of how brain remembers
It says that the snails retracted only briefly as a baseline, but learned to retract for longer periods of time to avoid the jarring electrical stimuli. I’m totally unfamiliar with this stuff, but it seems to me that injecting a snail with RNA would also be a jarring stimulus. Therefore, wouldn’t it be learning from the injection itself to remain in its shell for longer at a sign of human touch?
rejectedalot | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you deal with burnout as a programmer?
When dealing with burnout, you should identify what specific stressers exist for you in relation to programming, and then work to cut those stressers out from the process. I’m afraid that from person to person, programming burnout can come from different sources, so we’ll need more information first. For instance, is it specific aspects of the job / management? Is it the codebase itself, or a specific project you’re working on?
rejectedalot | 8 years ago | on: Announcing gRPC Support in Nginx
Going into the microservice aspect above, it provides a nice abstraction of remote function calls, so that you can write microservice code that looks like it's executing a local function, but is really just expecting a remote server to implement the method name. In general, that's just RPC calls though. Google's implementation has proven very intuitive to learn, and has a nice size community online for help debugging, etc.
rejectedalot | 8 years ago | on: Microsoft Offers Bug Bounty to Prevent Another Spectre-Meltdown Fiasco
See section 4.3 in the Spectre paper - https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf
It includes an implementation of the exploit in a few lines of javascript.
rejectedalot | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you learning right now?
I’m learning how to interview well and face rejection. I’m graduating this year and I’ve been rejected at the final stage from numerous “big 5” companies and some startups, and it’s hard to keep going, but I know that grit is important, so I’m learning :)
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