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Imagine being a female on the exec board of a California company and knowing the reason why you're there.
Re:Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly? on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @05:16PM (#18080354)
You'd have to pay for them, episodes 2-52
Re:Ask HN: Which search engine do you use, and why? on Sunday April 22, 2018 @12:05PM (#16896760)
Duckduckgo, because I don't memorize rarely used git commands/language and/or library features, and so when I search for how to do something, it gives me the answer instantaneously without having to wade through stackOverflow pages. I use Google rarely for very specific things(like to check the date a TV show's latest episode is going to air)
Re:Hennessy and Patterson win Turing Award on Thursday March 22, 2018 @05:22AM (#16647078)
I'm currently using it for my Computer Architecture class(MIPS edition). It's rather unfortunate that I'm just grokking the book for the grades, it's a very good book and explains a lot of concepts quite well. I may not grasp it the first time I read a section, but after going over it, I almost always understand.
Re:Age of Empires 2 Scenario Editor Is Turing Complete on Thursday February 15, 2018 @09:04AM (#16384017)
well, since the halting problem is undecidable, then no. One thing I still do not understand is how languages like Coq and Idris can almost always ensure that programs written in them terminate.
Re:Physics Travel Guide: a tool that makes learning physics easier on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @03:23AM (#16374348)
Getting 552: connection timed out here
Re:Richard Stallman's lifestyle on Saturday January 20, 2018 @12:40PM (#16194314)
I read this article[1] a while ago and it seems he has a lot of time on his hands. It's very hard to come across a piece of tech that isn't proprietary, yet Stallman has a workaround in such cases(like how he accesses web pages from his machine). Is there anyone else who uses methods similar to those mentioned in the article?

[1] https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

Re:Is Your English Accent British or American? on Sunday January 14, 2018 @05:29AM (#16143628)
Let's just say that I'm used to pronouncing words the American way
Re:Is Your English Accent British or American? on Sunday January 14, 2018 @12:38AM (#16142966)
Even though I grew up in a Commonwealth country, it says I've got 85% British accent which is totally not correct
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @01:07PM (#15972101)
I rarely download torrents, however it shows just a list of a bunch of movies I haven't even heard of before
Re:Fourteen Years of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich on Friday December 15, 2017 @10:06AM (#15932298)
Meyer is the creator of the Eiffel programming language. Most of Eiffel's OOP features were borrowed by other successful OO languages, but I still don't understand why Eiffel never took off.

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