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by varlock 11mo ago
I guess that's probably where all the questions are, thank you. I admit I've never even notice its existence!
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Ask HN: Where have the older questions on Ask HN gone?
2 points by varlock 11mo ago|3 comments
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by varlock 1y ago
Another one by the same author, which I heartily recommend, is "The Ideal Team Player". Read it many years ago, and I still use it as a basic framework when I interview candidates (in a nutshell, you want someone humble, hungry, a
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by varlock 2y ago
I usually take (half seriously) Machiavelli's view: luck does play a role, but it's not the biggest factor and the rest is up to you. So, focus on what you can control, and luck should impact the result less.
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Using Lego bricks to model DNA replication (2015)(scienceandmathwithmrslau.com)
19 points by varlock 2y ago|1 comments
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by varlock 4y ago
Thank you, great pointers!
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Ask HN: I'm building a small library for my team. Which books should it have?
1 points by varlock 4y ago|2 comments
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by varlock 4y ago
+1 on "Fluent Python" by Ramalho. I enjoyed and benefitted from the first edition so much that I'll get the second edition which is due to come out soon (Apr 29). I would say it targets intermediate developers more than begin
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by varlock 6y ago
For me it was "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity" by C. Cipolla. A very short book that illustrates, in a subtly-humorous way, how stupid people are far more powerful than one would think.
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by varlock 6y ago
Thanks for the confidence boost! It's always too easy to self-criticize.
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by varlock 6y ago
In the beginning I actually thought about Django or Flask (my background is mainly in Python), which I wrongly dismissed because I thought the main part would have been JS - so I chose ReactJS given the wide availability of tutorial and sup
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by varlock 6y ago
I started off a template, which took away the need to think about web design. For React, I did follow quite a few tutorials - from how to route through pages, to hooks to unit tests - but the process is quite slow (though I do enjoy it). An
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by varlock 6y ago
I wasn't aware of neither bubble.io nor webflow. Good to know they're there. Given what I've got in mind seems more to be an app rather than a website, I'd probably give a shot to the former.
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by varlock 6y ago
Maybe not, as I'm actually leveraging existing APIs, so effectively it'll be a wrapper around those.
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Ask HN: How can I ship a web project if I'm not a web dev?
15 points by varlock 6y ago|14 comments
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Ask HN: Lob-like service, but based in Europe?
1 points by varlock 6y ago|0 comments
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Covid-19 CovidSim Model(github.com)
3 points by varlock 6y ago|0 comments
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by varlock 6y ago
I think it's been released yesterday: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim
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by varlock 7y ago
> People can have the same idea but execute and follow through with very different results. Or not execute at all as is my case ;) But I see what you're saying. Most of these, I suspect will become clear after people start using the
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by varlock 7y ago
Regarding the example of Stackoverflow vs Mailchimp, it'll be definitely more on the Mailchimp side. As for the niche to pick, it's not yet clear to me what I can focus on - it looks like we're targeting the same people - but
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by varlock 7y ago
You're right, had I discovered this earlier or in a few months' time, it wouldn't probably have made much difference. I admit I've never thought about _not_ being different from the start. Thanks for the encouragement!
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Ask HN: Idea already implemented by others. How to differentiate?
14 points by varlock 7y ago|7 comments
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by varlock 7y ago
Interesting book. Having read a bit about some critics about it - namely, that it was heavily based on the work of a colleague of the authors - may I also suggest the work of this third person (Arthur Elliott Carlisle)? It's an article
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by varlock 7y ago
Generalizing the topic, does anyone know if there is a map of subjects/branches in mathematics and books/blogs/etc giving examples of real-world applications? Personally, I know the (existence of the) maths behind some applic
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by varlock 8y ago
Can't believe no one has yet mentioned the PASTA theorem - Poisson Arrivals See Time Averages ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_theorem#Theorem_for_ar... ). It is one of the theorems I remember the most from m
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by varlock 8y ago
Not a geneticist either, but this is something the book "The Gene" by Mukherjee can explain. Quoting from the book (chapter "Regulation, Replication, Recombination"): "A gene, in short, possessed not just informatio
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by varlock 8y ago
So many fond memories! Unlike many here, Slackware was not my first distro. I had tried Mandrake first, then RedHat, then grew more and more uncomfortable with their packaging system, and after a brief stint with Gentoo (admittedly, it was
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by varlock 8y ago
I usually ask "So, if you have got nothing to hide, would you shower naked on your balcony for everyone to see?" Normally you wouldn't, because there could be effects you find displeasing in the best case and harming in the
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by varlock 9y ago
Re: information is the unknown message. Think of it this way. You read the newspaper each day. Every day it's got the same news: "Today the sun shines." This is no useful information (no entropy) and you can predict it very w
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by varlock 9y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but IMO using isinstance, issubclass and explicit checks achieves the same effect, and is probably more readable. Or not?

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