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I think TASM, isn't that difficult. I remember learning this in a university course and I actually quite enjoyed it. There are youtube videos out there.

But to be honest, just approach it like any other language.

- Learn the basic constructs (control structure patterns, loop patterns and instructions etc)

- Use it to solve easy problems (something like the easy problems in project euler)

- Just read source code to see how people use it in c/c++ programs.

In general TASM is pretty limited, but the knowledge you gain there can be used in other places which makes it worth it.

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So what is the solution in your opinion?

Do we take Facebook away? The same problem will appear again in the next big social media network.

I do not know why people try going after facebook with pitchforks, when it is very much a people problem. One way to solve this would be to take anonymity of the internet away completely, but then people would

Facebook is just a platform, it isn't like there are a bunch of evil people sitting on a computer finding the most vile pieces of content and showing it to you.

It is what people seek, facebook just facilitates it. I am sure if google was to do similar studies on what people search for and how it affects them, it will see similar results.

I meant the article said that the actual disease confers greater immunity than a vaccine.

While that might be true, that immunity would only be good for one particular strain of the virus as opposed to the vaccine which provides you protection against a wider variety of strains.

One can argue that the protection from the vaccine is better in the sense, that it protects you from a wider variety of Covid strains.

Also, just so you know, that while the (mRNA) vaccine replicates protein, it is still your body and immune system which reacts to this protein and creates the antibodies.

So even in case of the vaccine, strictly speaking the immunity is natural.

This sounds conflicting I read somewhere else earlier today, that the immunity you get from the actual disease is tailored towards the specific variant/strain.

Whereas the vaccines (at least the mRNA ones) confer immunity against multiple strains.

Why do you think that the M1 chip isn't interesting enough? Other than that, their apple watches also have some very novel technologies. Also, their newer iPads with the M1 chip are processing power houses.

Why do you think that the existence of Gnome requires blame? I think gnome is one of the better FOSS projects out there.

These number are pretty crazy. Interesting to see people in India being paid so much while people in Pakistan aren't paid that highly, I think the highest I have heard of are around 300,000 - 350,000 PKR per month ( which is like 20$ K p.a)

Oh wow, that seems to be really dark, bordering on blackmail.

And to be very honest, if they were to take down the repo, I would be very surprised if it does have an effect on the immigration status of the author.

This whole saga leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I'd be very careful in dealing with this company in the future, and might even consider dropping my subscription to them (or their parent company).

This is the norm in the south asian country I come from.

But ever since I moved to the EU, there have been no nets, then again there are noticeably fewer flies here too.

Of course, I made the comment in jest. But it certainly would be an honor for anyone nonetheless.

(if it did happen for real the most I would do is print out the commit hash with his name next to it :D, because he is one of the people I look up to in CS, others being Knuth and Tarjan among others, I would do the same for them, but then again I don't think they are active open source contributors)

Nonetheless, Carmack is still one of the most impactful programmer of the modern era.

Would absolutely blow my mind, I would even merge it without multiple approves. :D And add a new contributors section in the readme with John Carmack at the top.

spacetime is quantized.

Doesn't that just adds more evidence for us living in a simulation, and not the nice kind either.

Would be interesting to see when the hardware is upgraded, physcists would suddenly discover that spacetime isn't as quantized as they initially thought.

I agree with most of your points.

We also went down this path (CQRS + ES) a few years ago at my old company. Implementing it was fun, but it did add quite some complexity. Granted, it was very scalable.

Interestingly enough we used it for an enterprise messaging app, although I left for other things before it was released. I wonder how that codes looks today.

Mozilla MDN docs are my go-to resource for js related stuff, does this mean they won't be maintained and updated anymore?

To be honest, I would be more than willing to pay a reasonable monthly subscription fee to access their docs.

@dang can we please lock this thread, as it seems to be creating more FUD than there is already. I think I haven't been so stressed out about reading anything on the internet in the last few years as much as this ask hn. Edit: spelling

What an interesting analogy to make with Air Traffic controllers. Although I still believe an Air Traffic Controller's job is more anxiety inducing and difficult. But the anaology does hold true.

My Dad used to be an ATC and he always told me that he actually has fun doing it and loves his job. When I was little I was unable to comprehend how one can enjoy being in such a pressure situation. But now as I am older it makes more sense, as now whenever we are near a major release the pressure is still pretty high but I enjoy writing code and deliverying features too. Even if the code base is really annoying and the architecture of the platform makes me pull my hair out. It still is super satisfying to successfully do a release or when you fix that pesky bug. :)

Is it common for secretaries to be working until they are in their 90's?

Because 96 is really old. I am amazed that she didn't quit earlier. In an era where the retirement age is around 60-65 and most tech workers plan to retire by their 40's. It is truly astounding to see someone work well into their mid 90's.

Props to the lady for that!

I find this interesting because most indie video game companies to do this. I have friends who make lots of android and iOS games and they ask all of their family, friends and employees to rate those games. Just so they have a chance of being featured on the App Store/ Play Store. While it may be unethical, this is rampant in the industry, and would it even be fair for a developer to be prevented from rating their own game. Sure, they will be biased, because they have every reason to but would it be any different from movie fanboys rating their favorite movies 10/10.

Here is the link to the original email : https://i.redd.it/x9cnf7lbrvf01.jpg

I don't think that this is such a good idea, as mentioned above by others, during peak hours the trains are almost over capacity (At least in Munich where I currently live). Making them free would lead to a degraded experience for everyone.

One of the major reasons that I am not in favor is because in Pakistan ( where I am originally from) they launched a Metro Bus service a few years ago, the fare was a nominal flat rate ( ~ 15 euro-cents) for traveling as much as you can in one direction. Now although it is a great service for the people but the buses are always over crowded, and because they are incurring a loss and the government has to spend millions of dollars per year in subsidies just to keep it afloat; They have not upgraded capacity and it is really inconvenient to travel on those buses ( I remember getting sick 4-5 times a year when I regularly traveled on those buses).

A better solution would to be start banning the diesel engine, ramp up the taxes for fossil fuel based cars. And to force factories to reduce their carbon emissions.

Deep learning robotics, sounds interesting. What kind of a skill set are you guys looking for?

Doesn't taking an hour or more to confirm a transaction basically make bitcoin useless for any real-time transactions ( buying something at a shopping mall, buying fast food/coffee etc)

This makes bitcoin much less useful in my personal opinion.

This article just shows that the company had a really bad hiring process. I think this also shows why on-site technical interviews are so important. In my 2 years or so of taking interviews it took me 10-15 minutes to see whether someone was competent enough to write code. On the plus side, on-site interviews also help you in determining whether the candidate will be a good cultural fit or not

Just three days ago my ML Prof (at TU Munich) told us to boycott Elsevier. Didn't know that this was a nation wide thing.

I had read zero books by April 2015. Have read the following since then.

1. 1984 by Orwell

2. Animal Farm by Orwell

3. 40 Rules of Love by Elif Shafak

4. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

5. The Man in the high castle by Philip k Dic

6. Tuesdays with morrie by Mitch Albom

7. Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie

8. The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell

9. Veronica Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

10. The Little Prince by antoine saint exupery

11. A Monster calls by Patrick ness

Books that I am currently reading very very slowly ( 1-3 chapters per week )

1. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking

2. The Wind Up Bird Chronicles by Murakami (I am really enjoying the slow reading here)

3. Zen and art of motorcycle by Robert Pirsig

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Overall a pretty nice document, although the spelling mistakes do put you off.

Quick Question: Who is responsible if the battery blows up and you have burns on your foot ?

It would be very interesting to see when the millennials, people born particularly in the 90's get to their 40s.

One of the reasons for the lack of diversity is that people born before 1975 haven't really experienced the internet revolution like those of us born in the 80s and 90s have.

Sure there are exceptions, those exceptions are people who were directly working on technology. An alarming trend in our industry (at least in my part of the world) is that a lot of people stop directly working on technology by the time they are 30-35 and start going towards the managerial end of thing.

You know dang this should have been marked as a dupe. I think you should fine tune it to say if a story has > 100 upvotes or > 20 comments it should be marked as a dupe and redirected to the original story ( as it was done before).

Can someone tell me why countries get larger as they are moved closer to the poles ?