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Indeed a great book. Dr. Parbery was my comp. graphics prof. And then when he started the first game programming course, I was in one of the first batches.

This indeed is a beautiful thinking about things. Truly worthy of HN front page.

Well said. Nino Rotta’s contribution to Fellini films is as invaluable as that of Morricone to Sergio Leone

I made https://hope.embit.ca to pay tribute to all our frontline workers. Half-baked as done in an afternoon and then not spent any time on it.

I do the same [1] but for tech news

[1] https://embit.ca

Just a suggestion from my own experience. When you get an idea that is quite grand as you put it, have you tried partnering with couple of others and dive into the implementation of idea in that way? There is an added bonus there of socializing. My two cents

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat By neurologist Oliver Sacks is a great book describing some of his very interesting cases. More importantly, his writing style is brilliant.

My definition of classical music is “always contemporary’

Don’t forget Craigslist

I think he was an active contributor to RoR in those days

You can find more information on their website.

http://www.peopleslinguisticsurvey.org/

RIP Sir Sean. And one of the rare few whose film dialogue inspired a website and meme [1] www.yourethemannowdog.com

If you want to read tech blogs feeds, I run [1] to aggregate and present tech RSS feeds from many many tech blogs. Check out the tag cloud there to quickly read through major news of the day.

[1] https://embit.ca

Apologies in advance, but how many of you used Larry Wall’s rn to read usenet news ?

Oh yes. Same here. Long after realizing Internet never forgets.

In agreement. Musical creations and musical creators won’t obey you, Spotify. You obey them.

I am sorry but either from the article or discussion here, I am not exactly clear what has happened. Can someone explain ? Meaning did the user accounts on Twitter got hacked or the actual company websites ? Or both ?

Just here to pay tribute to this incredible human being. So many accomplishments. Brilliant mathematician and juggler. RIP.

Once upon a time, open source federated reddit was called Usenet.

I have done something similar but is public access and only for tech related news. [0]. Tag cloud is generated for popular news items. That way just with one glance one can check out trending news and focus on that. Idea is to spend less then 10 minutes to consume the tech news spectrum. [0] https://embit.ca/

You have many requirements to blog. Blogging is substance over style. Not much required.

I use even a shorter version on my site, a cross between pastebin and ascii blog [0]

[0] https://embit.ca/scratch

I made site [0] to appreciate all of our front-line workers whether they be nurses, doctors, truck drivers, grocery shop workers — all of them. Just my small appreciation for them.

[0] https://hope.embit.ca/

Agreed. I was a big proponent of the csszengarden way of developing sites. Then during the development of my latest site [0], I decided to use bootstrap for styling. And now I am really liking it. Makes things much easier, at least for me. [0] https://embit.ca

Could not agree more. I kept playing with my side project of news aggregation [1] for almost three years and used only for my own consumption. Then few friends wanted to also use the site and then it just organically grew. And this project still is a side project although lot more people use it.

[1] https://embit.ca

I read and run embit [1] - the daily tech news fix. Originally built for my own consumption.

[1] https://embit.ca

Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River By Colin Angus

Originally meant for my own consumption, I made an aggregator that I would like to get my news from, in a form and shape I prefer. then my friends started using it and they really liked it. Now available to everyone.

[1] https://embit.ca

Agreed. I can do more than 40 hours of intense focused work not more than once a quarter.

Agreed. My personal recommendation is to not worry about which stack is good but getting really really good at any one of the stacks. Mastery counts a lot.