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I tried pencils but I find text written pencils to be too faint. I find it uncomfortable to read. But pen writes text in bright blue color which is more pleasing to read.

Moscow Times article does not load on my phone. It appears to reload itself again and again. Then it error out. Anyone facing same issue?

My last straw with Protonmail: I created an email account in Protonmail. Used it to send and receive emails as usual. Then one day suddenly their "algorithms" suspended my account because the "algorithms" found that my account was being used for abuse. That was the end of Protonmail for me. Back to GMail. I know people lose their GMail accounts too. But in the last 17 years, I had 0 issues with GMail and 1 issue with ProtonMail and that 1 issue disrupted my life for a while.

I now find me asking: What is a good reliable email provider out there? I know I can host my own email in my own server under my own domain name but on HN we have seen articles about people losing their domain names too. Is there truly no good way to have permanent email address?

If I try to search something within the page with Ctrl + F that also causes the whole page to re-render and display "loading ..." and "rendering ..." progress bar.

I wish I could limit the use of Internet to 1 hour per day. Like the olden days in the early days of internet.

Internet was given in our university for only 1 hour per day. It was possible to live in this manner even when I used to do programming. All programming documentation was available as PDFs or downloadable copies. I remember the MSDN documentation for C++ could be kept on the local machine. For Python I used to keep a PDF copy of the tutorial and reference i think.

These days I don't know anymore if that style of working will still work. Software has become so complex and error messages have become so many and so complex that I think we need access to internet all the time while programming. To see resolution to strange errors in Stack Overflow or on GitHub issues.

I wish all software developers did not assume that I am connected to the Internet all the time. It will be good if we can have a world where local-first internet-optional style of programming is still there.

Someone please be kind and explain to me how this works? Don't different executable formats need different headers?

Don't ELF need "0x7F ELF" header? Don't Windows executable need "MZ" header? How is it fulfilling both requirements simultaneously?

I came here to say the same thing. A lot of the discussion with modern languages focus around syntax. Why not use a Lisp which has very minimal syntax and focus on solving problems instead?

Do you have an opinion about Common Lisp? I know that Scheme is more minimal and cleaner but since you recommend Scheme I want to know what your opinion about Common Lisp is.

Does this curve really represent everyone's experience?

I never experienced the "I hate Python" phase. I think I went straight from "So exciting" to "productive" phase with Python.

What is the full story behind this? How did it happen? Was it a domain hijack? Did someone forget to pay the bill? Do I need to worry about this for my domains?

How about file-like objects in python? Many file-like interfaces are necessarily stateful.

Still the state and the functions that operate on them can be separated out. Right? No reason why the state and the functions need to be tied together inside a class.

I have not faced this problem. I say that there will be a learning curve to understand the product before a new developer can start fixing bugs or adding enhancements. Managers have always understood it.

For contractors too the learning curve is part of the deal. The contractors get paid by the hour when they are climbing the learning curve. Managers seem fine with it.

Calling someone a "narcissist" is clearly name calling.

I did not find anything narcissistic in the OP's post. It is a controversial topic but nothing about it came off as narcissistic.

thanks for the comment

There is really no need to be respond nicely to someone hiding behind their anonymity and calling you names and throwing personal attacks at you. Your parent comment's account should simply be flagged and banned.

Please, post your clickbait bullshit somewhere else.

This is needlessly insulting and aggressive. Flagged.

Yes. ZSH has this too. I think the basic shell features can go a long way.

How do lambda school manage to get so many students? Do they provide relevant training or experience? Can the lambda school training count as internship for job application?

yes, dropout and other regularization techniques were used

We trained a deep learning model to look at like 20 system parameters and predict an output. the parameters were binary. So one curios engineer decided to brute-force the trained model with all possible inputs like 2^20 inputs to see what the model does. he found for the problem we were solving only 4 of the 20 parameters had effect on results. the remaining approx 16 parameters do not affect results.

So he replaced the model with a single line of code with one boolean expression made with those 4 parameters connected with logical operators.

TIL we can create polls on HN

Awesome! Exactly the type of advice I was looking for. :) Thanks!

Oh I agree it is an interesting and legit question for cryptocurrency.

[edit: this comment is outdated. the parent comment is updated now to change the word crypto to cryptocurrency. I misunderstood earlier crypto to be cryptography. with crypto meaning cryptocurrency my comment is not related now.]

I think it has. Worldwide ecommerce runs on cryptography. there are laws and regulations on how crypto should be made secure and managed in ecommerce.

if you mean blockchain cryptocurrency by the word crypto then you may be correct. but in general terms crypto has a lot of actual legal value for it.

Will you say it is ok for a complete new person to lisp to learn sugar? Example is someone who has never learnt lisp in life?

Or will you recommend learning sugar after learning some other lisp?

Also, `lualatex` does not have some of the limitations of `xelatex` (memory limitations, `contours` package, ...)

Are there some more details of the memory limitations you can share with us?

Totally agree. How I look at this.

I want to write simple text posts. I don't care how it looks. Let the browser present the way it wants. I want only HTML. I don't care about CSS or JS. I don't even want to know what they are.

I care about how my text post looks. I add CSS. I don't want to care about JS in my language I work with.

I want to add dynamic functionality to my page. Maybe it is not a post but an app. Now I want JS.

A question to those who know both Lisp and Python. What one you generally prefer for quick and dirty hacks? Which one do you prefer for writing applications that will be used and maintained over a long period of time?

I know both Python, Common Lisp and Scheme but I find myself reaching out for Python every time I have to write a quick and dirty hack. I believe this is due to more familiarity with Python which makes me more comfortable with Python. I am eager to know what others' experiences are. Maybe it will convince me to go all in and use Lisp all the time. :-)

OMSCS by Georgia Institute of Technology is by far the best course I have come across. You get a degree too in the end. Caveat: It takes a lot of effort. It is like doing a full time course and the degree they award in the end is indistinguishable from a full time degree.

What does your Octave code do in production, if you don't mind me asking?

When I left university and did not have access to MATLAB anymore, I spent many a nights hacking away at GNU Octave. I have fond memories of Octave.

I thought Octave will be a valuable skill when I enter the industry but I could not have been more wrong. Does anyone still use Octave? Is it worth learning?

What tools or languages would you recommend as alternatives to someone graduating from university today?

I know it was a joke but I am curious where the 80 columns limit originated? Fortran? Punched cards?