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neopanzon Ask HN: Those making over $300k/year, how did you achieve it?

Do you have data/sources?

neopanzon Harvey – An effort to provide a modern, distributed, 64-bit operating system

Agreed, if I have to do a research on Google and Quora, then the landing page failed.

I need to be told immediately why Harvey is killer and there are things you can do with it that you can't with Linux, at least not easily.

The only standout feature according to the summary is "simplified sys call". Boy, that's worth dropping Linux immediately! Not.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to show Harvey some support, but I need a compelling reason to get over the massive switching cost.

neopanzon 2017 and still no clean way to create a Docker volume backed by AWS EBS volumes

Flocker is a giant beast, now I need one more big dependency and start generating client api certificates and so on.

I had one problem, now I have 2.

It should be as simple as specifying the driver in compose, maybe with one apt-get install (or equivalent) command to install the driver, though I content Docker should provide such basic driver directly.

neopanzon Chinese drone maker DJI acquires Swedish camera maker Hasselblad

A top quality camera deeply integrated with a reliable, easy to operate drone could be a boon for wedding photography and film making.

neopanzon Forth Inventor Chuck Moore's $20 144 core CPU now in full production

May be if you use 100+ of these (~14400 'computers') you can build a machine with emerging behavior, brain-like?

neopanzon Forth Inventor Chuck Moore's $20 144 core CPU now in full production

I think the only thing Chuck is missing is a few 20-somethings hackers, bent on solving an 'impossible' problem with his chips.

neopanzon Forth Inventor Chuck Moore's $20 144 core CPU now in full production

Love the guy and his passion for its chips, but this 144-computer chip looks like a solution in search of a problem: what is trying to solve? How's the inter-core communication handled? On the other hand, creating weird chips like these, just because you can, is awesome and stimulating a hacker's mind.

neopanzon Rich Hickey: "Simple Made Easy" from Strange Loop 2011 [video]

I empathize, but at the same time, 5 min. of slide browsing would not drive the point home. People are trying to skimp when they should invest the time. Relax, reserve yourself an hour and enjoy the talk. This is a good one, and getting signals through sound, visual and text will leave a better imprint in our brains.

neopanzon Rich Hickey: "Simple Made Easy" from Strange Loop 2011 [video]

I feel smarter having watched this talk: it gives you tools to think about thinking as you come up with new designs. Also love how Rich manages to find the right metaphors to illustrate abstractions, he's a great communicator.

neopanzon Hammock-driven Development: Andrew Wiles, on how he solved Fermat's Last Theorem

http://blip.tv/clojure/hammock-driven-development-4475586

this is the video I'm referring to.

I wish the Nova program on Wiles was available...

neopanzon Hammock-driven Development: Andrew Wiles, on how he solved Fermat's Last Theorem

(Scroll to end of interview). Different field, but I was struck by some of the similarities between Wiles' daily and nightly obsession with Fermat, and Rich Hickey's Hammock Driven development. Note that I'm not trying to imply that Rich Hickey is the new Wiles, although he's no doubt a truly brilliant individual.

Simply, I was pondering about how those two guys formalize their own way of thinking.

There is value in thinking about HOW to think and sometimes that means NOT actively thinking, but letting your brain find the connections on its own.

The daily obsession, the 'loading' of the brain, and eventually, after a long time, that, seemly serendipitous, epiphany.

Do some of you have that secret 'quiet time' to think about deep problems that you obsess over?

neopanzon Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

Agreed. And for those who pull the Java applet as the perfect counter-example, they need to ask themselves: does it take this long to start an Android app? Of course not! Because you can use the JVM in many different ways to eliminate the load time. In a way, one could imagine Android has a better example of how to mix OS/Web/Multi-Architecture(CPU)

neopanzon Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

Great idea. That guy deserves it. Though I suspect he would be too modest to accept the money since he GNUed all his creations.

neopanzon Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

No more excuses, I'm going to finish those damn projects I have on the backburner...

Seriously, who does Bellard work for?

He seems to leave virtually no trace (other than awesome software) on the Internet. I googled the shit out of him tonite...

neopanzon Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

Not sure how long ago he posted this. This guy never ceases to amaze me. He's the Grigori Perelman of Hackerdom.

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This is an amazing feature! (sarcasm) Thanks to it, I got accidentally cc'ed emails from people who obviously had no intention to cc me. One of them was a pretty private conversation. I think this new feature is a monumental UX screw-up. It's simply to easy to accidentally click on the suggested link.

neopanzon Intake of saturated fat not associated with an increased risk of heart disease

The National Dairy Council: sounds like an official, government-backed organization. It turns out to be a brand owned solely by the American Dairy Association. Always this tangential choice of words that don't quite hide, don't quite tell the truth. Wrap this in a seemingly serious research paper, and you've got yourself a new "fact" that the average Joe sure can't debunk.