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M8on A new study urges trials of MDMA to treat anxiety in autistic adults

Isn't treating autism same as treating homosexuality?

M8on India’s Snapdeal Says the Country Doesn’t Have the Programmers It Needs

Best talent in India is to be found in USA.

M8on India’s Snapdeal Says the Country Doesn’t Have the Programmers It Needs

Also 10 years of practical use of any quantum programming languages. Also 10 years of experience of using all mainstream frameworks that will be released in 5 years.

M8on India’s Snapdeal Says the Country Doesn’t Have the Programmers It Needs

My favourite analogy is property. I cannot find any nice houses selling for £100K in London. Surely it means that nobody is selling any. Or maybe they just cost more and that's a reality.

M8on None of Us Knows What We're Doing

Well, it's like buying a lottery ticket: raises your chances from 0% to non-0%.

M8on C# Is the Future

Can't wait for C#7, so exciting!

M8on 5 programming problems every Software Engineer should solve in less than 1 hour

"I love these type of programming problems."

And I love shipping well-factored code more :(. Something must be wrong with me.

M8on Functional programmers act as if Go is stealing a future that belonged to them

I am pretty sure future will have generics. Even present has them in every (semi-)mainstream language. I would approach Go very carefully. Many things Google creates it then kills (e.g. Dart is under threat already: http://news.dartlang.org/2015/03/dart-for-entire-web.html).

M8on Startup Aims to Make Silicon Valley an Actual Meritocracy

Most likely he is a freshmen in one of the said establishments. Let's give it a few years. Wisdom takes time.

M8on Startup Aims to Make Silicon Valley an Actual Meritocracy

"I'm a white dude, it shouldn't hurt me" - not unless you become a victim of positive discrimination.

M8on Meet Improbable, the Startup Building the World's Most Powerful Simulations

They are selling good investor-oriented marketing. Reminds me of Palantir.

M8on Meet Improbable, the Startup Building the World's Most Powerful Simulations

"The game was also built for a fraction of the usual cost. ... would typically take years and millions of dollars for a studio of Bossa’s size to build, but they did it in roughly a year and with just a core team of front-end developers."

"In their ground floor office on a bland-looking block in Farringdon, a team of about 60 engineers from MIT, Goldman Sachs and Google sit at $40 desks writing code..."

Typical in gamedev :) (e.g. Unity Technologies):

"“Eventually we realized the tech we were working on was bigger than the game,” says Whitehead."

M8on Scientists reverse aging in human cell lines and give theory of aging a new life

In that case the ethical problem is already there: most 1-st world countries subsidise own poor people (including single mothers) to have extra children that they cannot afford. France is even legally prosecuting casual paternity tests - raising someone else's child is just another form of wellfare. I guess I can spend whatever is left of my post tax money on making myself live longer.

M8on A major milestone has been reached in our Brain Preservation Prize

If it's a godlike AI it can simulate humankind in reverse and resurrect everyone's consciousness before each person's death.

M8on A major milestone has been reached in our Brain Preservation Prize

Such AI will only be able to recover a gradient set of possible personalities depending on the percentage of missing data. Something like 1000000 of slightly different permutations of you.

M8on A major milestone has been reached in our Brain Preservation Prize

I personaly subscribe to that opinion. Even if the change is negligible. This is why I would like to be sober and conscious in case of any uploading.

M8on A distributed supercomputer using Parallella boards

At some stage Kickstarter was more about suggesting dreams rather than contracts.

M8on Deep Dive into .NET Universal Windows App Development

@LogoThete I work in enterprise and don't care about wider landscape.

M8on Deep Dive into .NET Universal Windows App Development

They suddenly stopped actively developing WPF 5 years ago, now it's just some small unimportant team cleaning up the backlog. I went to a conference where Guthrie told us that Silverlight 5 is the future. Less than a year later and he was focused only on ASP and JS. As if it's OK.

M8on Deep Dive into .NET Universal Windows App Development

After having to switch from WPF to crap-HTML5 due to the Great Silence and lying Guthrie's betrayal: not betting my carrier on a Microsoft-only tech again.

M8on How Swift is Swift?

Apple is not a software company, they should focus on hardware.

M8on Soaring housing costs forces talent to flee Silicon Valley

And unlike Silicon Valley, same salaries are still being offered. Hopefully exiting EU will ease the pressure and make the competition for talent more healthy.

M8on Ask HN: Anyone else planning to head back to Microsoft?

Who developed the language Angular 2 will be using?

M8on Ask HN: Anyone else planning to head back to Microsoft?

Dying? Tablet sales are declining.

M8on Haxe 3.2.0 released

What is the killer feature of Haxe?

M8on Hacked Adult FriendFinder database reveals extramarital affairs of millions

There is no reason for women to use it: sex can be easily found offline, and if they need a provider they will use a different sort of site.

M8on Famous Engine – JavaScript library for animations and interfaces

It's interesting how JS was created for animations, yet is typically failing even at that.

M8on Quasar and Akka – a Comparison

If best things were winning we would all be using Mercurial and JS would be long dead. Popularity and endorsment decide.

M8on I quit working full-time years ago–here’s why I recommend it highly

"Here’s Carlos Slim, the world’s second richest man: “We should be working only 3 days a week.”"

Why does everyone omit the number of hours Carlos is suggesting? Hint: it's not 8-9 hours.

Anyway, it's all cool, as long as he doesn't want to use any of the tax-payer funded public services.