Arithmeticbird @Arithmeticbird

Programmer Berlin Joined November 2008

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Arithmeticbird @Arithmeticbird

a year ago

@elonmusk is this statement itself is profound or stupid ?

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Paul Graham @paulg

4 years ago

It's funny to think that several hundred years from now, expert historians will explain to less expert ones that "inbox" had two very distinct senses, and the default sense shifted from the physical to the virtual one in the 1980s.

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Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman

4 years ago

Schrödinger's Plates: They are both broken and not broken until you open the door.

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Arithmeticbird @Arithmeticbird

4 years ago

@elonmusk mysteries !

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Paul Graham @paulg

6 years ago

Hypothesis: Slack is one of the reasons workplaces have become more politicized, just as Twitter is for countries as a whole.

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John D. Cook @JohnDCook

6 years ago

A social media platform with like-minded people is an echo chamber. A social media platform with unlike-minded people is a war zone. Those are the two stable equilibria. It’s not clear that anything in between is sustainable.

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João S. O. Bueno @gwidion

6 years ago

@ramalhoorg @fluentpython Although it is this hard to express the signature of `max` - it fits in ones mind quite easier. My understanding is that the expressiveness of Annotation markings is very limited, compared to that of Python.

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Paul Graham @paulg

6 years ago

@packyM @jack I'd try to make Twitter less toxic. For example, I'd study how Twitter mobs form and add measures to slow them down. I'd spend a lot of time thinking about ways to make more money to compensate for the decreased engagement. (The root of the toxicity is chasing engagement.)

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John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack

6 years ago

The trick behind the scrolling in the first Commander Keen games was to only redraw tiles that actually changed after panning 16 pixels, since most maps had large swathes of constant background. Text consoles have similar statistics with spaces, so the same trick is a big win.

Andreas Kling @awesomekling

6 years ago

Good guy @ID_AA_Carmack out here scratching his own itches in OpenBSD 🤓

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David Fowler @davidfowl

6 years ago

Playing with top level statements in C# 9 #dotnet

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Paul Graham @paulg

6 years ago

Something I didn't realize as a kid: If you learn something that matters a lot to you, you'll surprisingly often have to teach yourself. I had to teach myself Lisp, how to write essays, and how to start a startup. I had examples to work from, but no teachers or classes.

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Paul Graham @paulg

7 years ago

When internet mobs go after nerds, they don't realize that they're attacking the people with the strongest acquired immunity to bullies in the world.

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Paul Graham @paulg

7 years ago

Ambitious people regard other ambitious people, even in different fields, as colleagues. So they are not the ones cheering when they see someone try something ambitious and fail.

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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza

7 years ago

Even more interesting: this RLBox/WebAssembly approach looks great for anyone that wants to isolate entry points that deal with untrusted data. Maybe even kernels and device drivers should embrace this.

Firefox for Web Developers @FirefoxWebDevs

7 years ago

🔑Protecting the security and privacy of individuals is at the heart of Mozilla’s mission.🔒 Today we’re adding a NEW approach with #RLBox - a sandboxing technology to convert existing @Firefox components to run inside a #WebAssembly sandbox. 👉🏽 hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/securi…

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DHH @dhh

7 years ago

Where is the "oh, that's so cool, I don't understand it yet, but I can't wait to learn!!" response? Magic is just sufficiently advanced technology and techniques you've yet to learn the inner workings of.

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Springer @springer1842

7 years ago

Discover the new open access #mathematics textbook for free. 'Measure, Integration & Real Analysis' by best-selling #math author @AxlerLinear, in our most famous @SpringerMath series, Graduate Texts in Math bit.ly/2LUH3Oa

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Arithmeticbird @Arithmeticbird

7 years ago

Mathematicians Prove Universal Law of Turbulence quantamagazine.org/mathematicians… via @QuantaMagazine

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POOPSCRUFFIN4U (alpha male) @POOPSCRUFFIN4U

7 years ago

son of a fucking bitch

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Arithmeticbird @Arithmeticbird

7 years ago

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Paul Graham @paulg

7 years ago

It's easy to ridicule overconfidence. And indeed, it has its disadvantages. But it's just what you need if you want to take on a problem most rational people would conclude was too hard. Fools dare where angels fear to tread, and sometimes they win.