HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

elymar

70 karma · joined April 8, 2017

submissionscomments
elymar··on This Startup Does Not Exist
This "Does Not Exist" website does not exist.
elymar··on Some Day, You’ll Have a Telephone with a Screen and Be Able To Dial a Book
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

elymar··on Ways of seeing (1972) [video]
Apparently this is the #1 best seller in "Massage Techniques".
elymar··on DigitalOcean launches its container service
For my day job we use Azure, and it gets the job done. But all my personal projects are with Digital Ocean I love how clean and minimal everything is.
elymar··on Canadian team confirms presence of huge unexplored cave in British Columbia
I’m curious as to how there are massive caves like this that we still haven’t discovered. Wouldn’t satellite imagery along with some ML be able to find these?
elymar··on List of 600 free online courses launched by 190 universities
What strategy are you using to "level up" with Khan? I'm curious because I'd like to do this as well but am not sure where to focus.
elymar··on Books worth reading this summer
The TED talk by David Christian about big history is still my favorite TED talk of all time: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_christian_big_history?utm_ca...
elymar··on Francis Crick Institute's £700m building 'too noisy to concentrate'
I found that some earplugs from Walmart really make a night and day difference in concentration for me in noisy areas. Also makes people think twice before starting a conversation with me when I'm focused on something.
elymar··on Electric honeycomb: Pakistani teen in scientific first
Snoop's long lost son?
elymar··on I program for a living and I'm addicted to the internet. Help
I do several things. Pomodoro technique with the timer visible to see the clock run down (www.tomato-timer.com). Stay focused Chrome plugin to blacklist sites and only have a set duration e.g. 10 minutes to look at them during the day (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankej...). Finally put your phone at least 20 feet away to not compulsively look at it (with airplane or moonlight mode on). Also check out the book Deep Work by Cal Newport for more strategies.
elymar··on Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C
SQLite had a very rigorous testing methodology to comply with aeronautics standards. Cloning the tests would be a decade worth of work. But cool idea nonetheless. https://sqlite.org/testing.html
elymar··on Show HN: 100 Python books, categorized and ranked
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow by Aurelien Geron is also pretty great. Would like to see that in the list.
elymar··on Ask HN: Starting a project today, which web framework would you use?
Any specifics on why you choose this approach vs a framework?
elymar··on 'Civilization' Creator Sid Meier: “I Didn't Really Expect to Be a Game Designer”
"The first Civilization was released more than a quarter-century ago in 1991" ...Thanks for making me feel old.
← PreviousPage 2 of 2