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Anyone know what's new in the blogpost? T5 has been out for a few months now.

lanekellyon Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible

He's mapping his working time onto the pie chart. For example, if he works 9am-5pm, during that time he follows the pie chart's structure for that block of time.

lanekellyon Practical Networked Applications in Rust, Part 1: Non-Networked Key-Value Store

MIT's 6.824 Distributed Systems course is taught in Go.

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpl804R-ZwjKCOwWpTZ21...

lanekellyon Show HN: Sleeping Beauty, a 7-day roguelike game

At first glance, seems similar to the combat system used by Legend of Bumbo[1] (upcoming game from the Super Meat Boy dev). Have other games used this "match-three" mechanic as a combat system as well?

Also, was pleasantly surprised to see the roguelike is played in the browser. Rot.js looks awesome.

[1] http://legendofbum-bo.com

lanekellyon Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

I used the older React+Webpack version of https://survivejs.com/ to learn React recently. You build a small Kanban/Trello webapp.

lanekellyon Download test VMs of IE for OSX, Linux or Windows

Considering this, what are the odds of MS ever shipping IE clients for OSX and Linux?

lanekellyon Inside Monsanto, America's Third-Most-Hated Company

Plague-level is actually the degree of risk we are dealing with in regards to GMOs (not necessarily in likelihood, but in impact). In regards to the famine argument, consider the following:

"Invoking the risk of "famine" as an alternative to GMOs is a deceitful strategy, no different from urging people to play Russian roulette in order to get out of poverty. While hunger is a serious threat to human welfare, as long as the threat remains localized, it falls under risk management and not the PP [precautionary principle]." [1]

[1] "The Precautionary Principle," a paper coauthored by Nassim Taleb of Black Swan fame. Link: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8nhAlfIk3QIbGFzOXF5UUN3N2c/... Also referenced elsewhere in these comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7985787

lanekellyon Inside Monsanto, America's Third-Most-Hated Company

I agree with the paper: the principle issue with GMO is the unavoidable, unpredictable systemic effects it will have.

P.S. I've already found several, almost verbatim, examples of the given fallacies right here in these comments.

lanekellyon Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

Got this one:

>No, I still don't want to download your bullshit app

Thinking it was too good to not already be a headline, I searched and found this:

>No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app

Pure gold.