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Comment · 7 years ago
It was much easier then to become experienced in programming because it was way less to learn.
Comment · 7 years ago
I got the feeling from: >lonely life >he’s kinda lost at sea >next to a lanky guy >I began to wonder, “How could anyone spend their whole life doing this?”

and details, like him having a tiny cabin (you're on a boat).

And of course the fact that he published what seems to me a candid conversation in such a light.

Comment · 7 years ago
Operating Systems Design & Implementation

The book is about MINIX operating system, a operating system without hacks, to showcase the concepts.

Linux is a fork from MINIX.

Comment · 7 years ago
So basically the guy has ~1m followers on instagram, is helicoptered from yacht to yacht and gets paid to hang out with rich people and wear expensive watches, in the most beautiful places.

He also seems like a nice person.

In contrast author looks like a douchebag, portraying him in a bad light, as a lanky lonely person, whose financial security is at the mercy of instagram.

To me author looks like a petty jealous person who wants to gain by undermining others that are successful.

Comment · 7 years ago
>Using parallel loops running on many cores yields a factor of approximately 7.

That depends on the number of cores.

Comment · 7 years ago
Think this way: You html is a tree of tags. You have to layout this tree.

Each tag is a box that can contain other boxes. Learn about the box model to understand the properties of a box.

How do you display the boxes inside another box? Learn about the display property.

How do you position the box inside another one? Learn about the position property.

Comment · 7 years ago
Well I am not sure. It's a good story to tell if the person is someone important in the community that has for example written important books or invented something that is useful.

If it's just worker-bee man-hours I guess it would be better value-for-money to buy a seiko and tell the story of the factory and how it's made using such complicated processes and optimizations (not sure assumption about seiko factory using complicated processes is right).

Comment · 7 years ago
Why would I manually do the pieces of a clockwork? It's been done manually countless times. Maybe If I would be in metallurgic industry it would make sense to do it as an exercise.
Comment · 7 years ago
You can watch reviews of printers online, and they show quality of print.
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Let me voice my negative opinion: To me it looks worthy of a hobby, but to praise this as something exceptional it's kind of overstretch.

The time required is very long to make the pieces by hand, but I feel any sharp person could do it. Nothing groundbreaking.

So I don't understand people that find this fascinating, inspirational. Just buy a usual watch, and it will have the same pieces.

It's cool that he makes new designs, however make a good market out of that and the chinese will do it too, at better prices.

Comment · 7 years ago
You should provide the map on the homepage in real-time, otherwise I won't believe it
Comment · 7 years ago
So when it detects a lens, it shoots light to destroy the photo.

If the detection is not ideal, it could detect eyeglasses and shoot light into people's eyes

Comment · 7 years ago
This are called false positives and are a normal occurrence in the life of a software developer. That's why when testing the root-cause you should test for a false positive as well.

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