workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: The town's so full of these confounded dials (195 BCE)
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workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: Work Is a Queue of Queues
> In theory there’s no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is.
love this :)
workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: Calm Technology
> Sleep Cycle is a mobile application that monitors your sleep and allows you to track times of deep sleep...
oh come on. the examples were good so far...
why would i need an app to monitor my sleep if i don't have any sleep disorder or similar? i am putting such app in the "need for attention" category.
workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: A Third of America’s Economy Is Concentrated in Thirty-one Counties
> And 2/3rds of the US population lives in 3.5% of the land area
oh wow! really?! very interesting
workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: If Logged into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used for Ads
the problem, as i see it, is not with data collection itself. because the larger public 1. does not care 2. does not seem concerned. 3. the collected data is deemed harmless to the user.
what worries me is the sampling itself. or how diverse the sample is. using VR users data to draw any conclusion is misrepresenting the larger population. now if we are all into VR or use it, this might be different...
workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: Face recognition in European police forces
interesting!
workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: British woman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest
> humans can boot from disk
wow, this is so intriguing. i like this analogy even if i don't know how accurate it is.
we indeed have things that we forget (running out of space?) and things that take time to remember (disk latency).
workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: Web-assembly powered WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor, supporting nearly all LaTeX package
> No. But redoing it all from scratch and getting mindshare is difficult.
i think it's more because it does not really matter for most people. not because it's too difficult.
there are companies today that can put the resources to the task. i am just going to assume that the priorities are elsewhere.
workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: Arcade Game Typography
this looks so good! thanks.
workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: Metaflow, Netflix's Python framework for data science, is now open source
so happy to learn about it. i have used airflow in the past and it seems they have addressed various pain points with this new library.
workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: Mozilla and Opera remove Avast extensions from their add-on stores
haven't had to install an anti-virus or deal with a virus in like forever. windows 10 kept nagging me about scanning, and often doesn't find much. i may not know what new tricks malwares and viruses are using right now.
workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months
curious, have you tried product hunt or similar? it is looking to me that playing the online popularity game has become a key factor for succeeding. if something is popular on product hunt, it is more likely to succeed.
workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: Symptoms of Groupthink (2012)
> Self-Censorship
this one is interesting.
workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest
lmao, that's number 4 in the ten crack commandments haha
workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: Instagram Killed the Tabloid Star
wait what? i seldom hear about instagram. to be honest i am surprised every time it gets mentioned (same thing for snapchat). i thinking you have to be doing particular things or be part of certain spheres to occasionally run into instagram stories.
now, not the same about twitter. twitter is in the news, articles and everywhere. if anything instagram isn't as pervasive as twitter or facebook imo.
workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: Writing An Interpreter In Go (2016)
funny, i was listening to the go time podcast during my commute this morning and they had the author on...
the author seems to suggest that one should start with an interpreter, then move to a compiler. (read the interpreter book, then read the compiler book...)
i think it really depends on what you are doing. in fact, python is a good example. it compiles to bytecode that is interpreted. it has the both compiling thing going on and then the whole VM thing. i believe java is similar. what i am trying to say is that the line is very blurry nowadays.
workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: The Uncertain Future of the World’s Largest Secondhand Book Market
nit: these updates often break working software if you ask me. the productivity loss here is not negligible.
workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: WeWork lays off 2,400 employees
i thought part of it were also consultancy fees for him to be a consultant for the company many years to come?
workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: When will Google shut down Stadia?
i mean, why downvote the GP? there is a good discussion to have here. and i am in fact learning new things. i am all for using one word (less typing) but i am not sure i am ready to see shutdowning...
workthrowaway | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter
great job! only a couple of seconds with the game and i felt calmed down somehow lol we need more slow paced, calming things like this
that's an interesting anecdote. it was the opposite experience for me. friends and i had yahoo and hotmail emails back then but no one cared about sending emails or replying to them.
yahoo messenger and msn messenger were the reason those were created. i can't recall anyone stressing about it because the person you'd be messaging was with you most of the time...