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Ask HN: What steps do you take before starting to write code?
"Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning." For all but the most trivial tasks, some steps must be taken before firing up the old text editor and typing in declarations, statements, and expressions. At the very least, a moment must be taken to fix in your mind the specific problem you want to solve and how you intend to solve it. At most, large projects may require months of up-front...
The Mathematical Atlas
Re:You have a moral obligation to use crypto
on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @07:48AM (#7223963)
Unfortunately this project seems to have stalled; according to https://github.com/moxie0/Convergence the code hasn't seen significant updates since 2011.
A similar more up-to-date alternative is Perspectives: http://perspectives-project.org/
Re:Alan Watts: Money, Guilt, and the Machine
on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @07:24AM (#7223890)
Alan Watts was a wonderful human being who spoke and wrote eloquently, kindly, and often humourously on all manner of topics concerning the relationship of man and woman to the larger universe. Some of his talks can be found at the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22alan%20watts%22
From the talk "On Being God": 'The scanning process of man's conscious attention is very much inadequate for dealing with the infinitely many variables of the multi-dimensional processes of the universe.'