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"What everyone needs to know about coding theory and how to become better at it"

-> Each chapter starts with a personal anecdote and everything is repeated 3 times in 3 different ways. Lots of reassuring words that it's ok if you don't get it right away but trust the author that it will all make sense by the end of the book.

"Essential of coding theory"

-> University lecture with real world analogies for the students.

"Coding theory (5th Edition)"

-> Doorstopper. Mostly formulas and proofs. The text gives no clue of who and when.

Don't expect any improvement ever.

It happens on many topics related to software engineering.

The web developer is replying to the embedded developer who is replying to the architect-that-doesnt-code who is replying to someone with 2 years of experience who is replying to someone working at google who is replying to someone working at a midsize b2b German company with 4 customers. And on and on.

Context is always omitted and we're all talking about different things ignoring the day to day reality of our interlocutors.

I'm providing a reason to tax the wealthiest.

It's not about Citizen's United, because it's very specific to the US, while it's a global problem that rich people have too much influence.

Forget about elections and politicians, they can fund media empires at a loss to push their ideologies. No one should have that much power. They can buy lawyers effectively putting them out of the reach of the law. So many problems would be solved or reduced in intensity by taxing them.

It reduces wealth inequality.

Such that one person doesn't have the power to buy, legally, a presidential election, multiple regional elections, or half the politicians via lobbying/corruption.

For instance TSMC is discussed a lot on HN and every time I'm thinking that even TSMC itself probably couldn't produce their latest chips if they had to start from scratch tomorrow.

I know nothing about bridges but this bridge is satisfying to look at.

It's elegant. It conveys simplicity and utility.

An object on which you would add nothing and would subtract nothing.

Predicting the future is always hard.

But the only thing I've seen in my life that most resembles what is happening with AI, the hype, its usefulness beyond the hype, vapid projects, solid projects, etc, is the rise of the internet.

Based on this I would say we're in the 1999-2000 era. If it's true what does it mean for the future?

Think about it from a brand perspective. If you were microsoft and some flavor of windows were running on people's phone and game station, would you claim this market share? I'm sure they would.

This just reminds me to never assumes someone's reality. I speak more than two languages. And I disagree.

Papers are read by all type of people, I don't know why you assume scientific papers which are almost all written in English are read solely by native English speakers.

People have been doing science in broken English, French, German, Arabic, Latin and more for as long there has been science to be made.

Especially because it's so much easier to understand text than to produce it. I can read difficult authors in a foreign language and understand perfectly but there's no way I could write like them.

It became clear in 2024 and 2025 that they're all dangerous.

All these tech billionaires or pseudo billionaires are basically believing that an enlightened dictatorship is the best form of governance. And of course they ought to be the dictator or part of the board.

This is a clear example where diversity of lived experiences make for a better product. I have no doubt that a young monolingual US developer can't imagine that many, if not most, people around the world are juggling between two or more languages multiple times a day. But it's obvious to anyone else.

Ironically China used to have public toilets without doors. Only separators to your sides. It was more than 10 years ago, I don't know about now.

Educating yourself on resistance. Reading books about it. Talk to neighbors. Buy weapons and ammo. Be ready.

Have difficult conversations with yourself about what you're ready to do. Have the same conversations with your partner. With your family, friends, neighbors who you know are also against this.

If if was not clear my point is that it evolved with the current form of government of the time but never departed from the original goal of for those in power to conserve their power.

It's hard for people to accept it because it raises new questions about the reaction to adopt.

If it's true then you know you should resist or you're complicit. A lot ot of 20/30/40 something Americans are going to have very difficult conversations with the new generations in 30+ years.

The definition of conservative is conserving the monarchy during the french revolution.

From the start it was and remain to this day an ideology for those currently in power to conserve their power.

Did she say that she renegotiated her compensation? Because early in the book she wrote that unlike basically everyone else she's working with, she poorly negotiated her comp and that she's working for a regular and unimpressive salary while her coworkers are flashing luxury brands that she can't afford.

I've stopped reading after the Myanmar episode so I don't know if she's ever renegotiated her package.

I never thought I'd see the birth of a copy pasta on HN.

Maybe we need an open source effort to track and simplify popular services' TOS.

TLDR TOS.

It clearly lacks a meta lesson about letting go of strong opinions, especially when he held them before doing any prior research.

On the other hand why does one of the richest company on earth, who can afford to hire the smartest people on earth, resort to unpaid volunteers on a site like HN to fix their product?

Don't they use their own tools? Is there an internal search engine that everyone uses at Google? Are they trying to gaslight us pretending there's no problem? Can't they hire a hundred people to use Google search and report what they found?

Sure, props to that person for engaging with the userbase but we're not talking about an obscure bug here. Every day there are dozens of complaints about Google search on HN alone. Surely we're talking about low hanging fruits in terms of bug reproduction.

What I love is how good it is at picking up my boilerplate. It learns very quickly my own patterns and saves me a lot of typing because of that.

Your first sentence contradicts your last.

I think every year that a teenager doesn't start drinking alcohol is a net benefit. They black out at college parties at 20 so what? By that time their brain is more developed. I think Europeans have a very unhealthy attitude towards alcohol and their kids pay the price of it. And they do not give up alcohol at all. On the contrary, they don't know how to party without alcohol for the rest of their life.

First people have fun. Then the business people monetize it.

Yes, I don't know what I'm talking about. As I said I went into a rabbit hole and provided a TLDR.

But do these guys know what they're talking about?

https://phage.directory/capsid/phage-patentability

You may have heard through the grapevine that “phages can’t be patented”, and yet, several phage patents exist, and biotech and pharma are starting to invest in phage-based therapeutics. What’s the deal? [...] However, the patentability of phage therapies has been called into question. Several patents in the same category as phages have actually failed to hold up in court. This suggests that even if companies can find ways to successfully file phage patents, these patents may end up being worthless.

So phages may need protection in other ways.

Startups and inflated ego go hand in hand.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but what I got was that there's nothing to patent because phages are found in sewers and mud pools as is. Also every individual with a bacterial infection needs a custom cocktail so there's no one-size-fits-all pill that can be mass produced.

Phages also have their own caveats but I don't remember what it is. The TLDR is that in the worst case scenario we still have phages and as far as I understand no bacteria can adapt to phages. But we need to figure out a way to make it commercially viable as you put it.

The answer is phages. But last time I went into the rabbit hole the TLDR was that it is not patentable so there's no money in it. And everyone needs a different phages cocktail. I sleep at night knowing that push come to shove someone will step in and mass produce machines to create personal phage cocktails.

"It's the hardest decision I've had to make"

"We will work harder"