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Re:Renaissance Technologies on Monday November 11, 2019 @10:37AM (#21505648)
This made me remember this interview with James Simons on Numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB_OdGGA450
Re:T-Mobile demand Lemonade to stop using the color magenta on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @12:12PM (#21454333)
Case closed :)
The novels of the James S. A. Corey authors are very inspiring given our recent space achievements. A highly recommended sci-fi series.
Re:Learning Rust via Advent of Code on Monday February 04, 2019 @11:46AM (#19077793)
What is HN-users view of learning a programming language through this kind of problem-solving?

Is it limiting?

Should this be used as a complement to a larger toy project?

Re:Sweden offers glimpse of a world without Amazon on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @05:01PM (#17963339)
The swedish postal service is not known to be reliable, and is often joked about here in Sweden.
Re:How the Go runtime implements maps efficiently without generics on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @03:08AM (#17915659)
Won't the read/written values to the data structure depend on different constant values (data size) in the different functions, making it unfoldable?
Re:How to learn hacking on Saturday December 10, 2016 @03:47AM (#13144756)
I just read How To Become A Hacker the other day and I highly recommend it. Not only is it a good read but the resources for continued reading mentioned in the text is very good content.