shunyaloop | 9 years ago | on: Ewww, You Use PHP? (2010)
Related slack php usage thread,
Taking PHP Seriously, is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12703751
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shunyaloop | 9 years ago | on: Unix as IDE
Thank you. The ebook is helpful
shunyaloop | 9 years ago | on: To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they're right
Quoting Charlie Munger on this subject -
You’re not entitled to take a view, unless and until you can argue better against that view than the smartest guy who holds that opposite view. If you can argue better than the smartest person who holds the opposite view, that is when you are entitled to hold a certain view.”
shunyaloop | 9 years ago | on: MoonMail: Serverless Framework for Sending Emails Using AWS SES and Lambda
Any one used this? How does this compare with sendy?
shunyaloop | 9 years ago | on: A look into the shortcomings of Uber's approach to geofencing
Valuable insights. Surprising to see Uber under-engineering such an important problem.
Can anyone confirm if this is the real case here?
shunyaloop | 9 years ago | on: Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
On-going series on mental models at http://www.safalniveshak.com/category/mental-models/
shunyaloop | 9 years ago | on: Amazon Is Quietly Eliminating List Prices
Could some one explain how this works?
...the strategy was to lose on every sale but make it up on volumeshunyaloop | 9 years ago | on: Programming in D: A Happy Accident
Agree! Teaching programming is a notoriously difficult task than doing it.
shunyaloop | 9 years ago | on: Pitfalls of Random Number Generation
So true!
even if your RNG is statistically perfect, people will still complain
shunyaloop | 9 years ago | on: Inspired by Genius: How a Mathematician Found His Way
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11853721
shunyaloop | 9 years ago | on: Inspired by Srinivasa Ramanujan : How a Mathematician Found His Way
>[Srinivasa Ramanujan] anticipated mathematical structures that would be important to all of these more contemporary works. He lived 80 years before his time.
Isn't it fascinating to hear such impactful math from an unknown South Indian clerk who died at 32 years? Wondering what would've been possible if he had lived a full life.
shunyaloop | 10 years ago | on: The history of ‘this website is well-crafted’ hints
Good article. Thank you for sharing.
shunyaloop | 10 years ago | on: state of the art research on 'boredom'
i took the quiz to realize that i'm an active learner.
is this quiz reliable?
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