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Many times, engineers are like mathematicians - they pursue and solve a problem irrespective of whether it has practical applications (in engineers' case it might not even be a problem per se). Until I see some insight into this aspect of smartphones from the design guys, I'll stick to this reasoning.

To start my own company and become a billionaire in ten years time so that I can fully concentrate on pursuing other life interests for the rest of my life. (I don't mind becoming politically influential as I intend to use those powers for the good (no seriously) but that is secondary.)

Gee!

I am amused when someone comes up with obscure problems. I am disappointed when that person doesn't brief about the scenario that led them to such a problem.

Thanks for a constructive reply.

And given that he and the PM are buddies, one has to wonder if this is India's own NSA masquerading as something empowering and progressive.

Two things I wonder about.

1. does the money legally go to the girl or her parents/guardians (I guess a 16 y/o is still a minor), and how much of this is taxable?

2. how exactly is the tonality established for the English names?

The only ones I am willing to wager on are corporate infrastructure related software and domain specific software (like CAD tools, movie animation tools etc). For similar legacy reasons, I am willing to add Linux derivatives and GNU C compiler, but won't wager on them.

Mainly news, yes. Rumormongering is big, though probably not as much as on other platforms where the origin of a message is hard to trace for ordinary folk, but again, if one has used this service for a while, and know the nature of the posts a handle typically makes, it becomes clear which is news and which isn't. Also, it is rare for all MSM people to RT the same non news without their colleagues raising suspicion, so it is not that bad. All that said, pruning is an indispensable activity for twitter.

Mainly news. For that I follow the news sites but am hesitant to follow editors, columnists, journalists etc as they tend to post useless comments that are supposed to be funny. I do follow them but unfollow once they become a wannabe comic with unfunny puns, oneliners etc. For similar reasons, I don't follow well known tech bloggers (though I read their blogs or medium posts).

Secondly, I follow handles for topics such as museum, history, science etc. I generally distrust curators who seem like enthusiasts, so try to follow authentic sources as far as possible.

Thirdly, I follow some highly opinionated people, many of whom are usually well known from all walks of life, while some I find by their responses to certain topics. It is fun to see how people can twist anything to fit their agenda.

Lastly, I follow official accounts of various national governments, and organizations like UNESCO, RAND, PEW etc.

There is a well known open ended interview question - "what happens when you type a url in a browser and hit enter?". I have many a times imagined (I have never been asked this exact question) overwhelming the interviewer with details, that comes in waves, by going deeper and deeper, by asking rhetorical questions like "but what happens there" loudly and not caring what he answers, almost channeling Sheldon Cooper. In this fun scenario , I restricted myself to network stack of the OS and routing mechanism. However, I recently found this article http://danluu.com/navigate-url/ that is much more hardcore. It is now one of my favorite, if not all time.

MINIX. Particularly for this reason

"Years later, I was teaching a course on operating systems and using John Lions' book on UNIX Version 6. When AT&T decided to forbid the teaching of the UNIX internals, I decided to write my own version of UNIX, free of all AT&T code and restrictions, so I could teach from it." Source: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/

Exactly what tonyarkles said. I do lift, however its a quick 30 min compound lifts twice a week and not an obsessive bodybuilding type.

Somehow, it seems to me that these topics are in constant flux, and something 'radical and latest' is discovered quite often which makes you scamper to upgrade. (I guess if one is a web front end developer, this feels like home.) I also dislike reading pop-health and taking life advice from so called experts in general, so I stopped reading these topics many years back. I follow a simple healthy balanced diet, which is more common sense than carefully scientifically crafted, remain stress free as much as possible, do moderate exercise regularly (not bodybuilding etc) and get enough sleep. Every now and then I look up some nutritional information but that's it. As they say, don't fix it if it ain't broke.

As for learning about health issues like diseases etc, I usually read reputable sources like mayo clinic or www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov or www.nhs.uk. One of these is bound to answer my queries.

UI. Reddit seems like a busy fish market while HN seems like a relaxing lounge.

Its quite well known that engineers need maths only to pass exams and for work all they need is an appropriate handbook. :-]

YMMV but I found Masterminds of Programming quite a worthy read. It is an interview based book and talks to the creators of a variety programming languages, including such 'obscure' ones as Forth, APL and Eiffel. I am interested in programming languages in a meta way, and even dabble around designing a couple, so it was inspirational to me, also quite an eye opener.

Coders At Work and Founders At Work. Immensely inspirational.

I use twitter and have a quick and snappy discussion in about a dozen exchanges, many times with known people like journalists, columnists etc. Of course, you must carefully choose who you interact with or follow. I find engaging in discussion of such topics as politics and religion to be futile, and economics is intertwined with politics. I only do it when I see something intolerably incorrect or foolish and I just have to engage with the fellow (as in this https://xkcd.com/386/).

On a cynical note (or realistic if you will), I don't think topics like politics and religion can be discussed in a civil manner. If they are, then those discussing are not getting to the meat of the matter because once you get there, you are bound to hit a nerve or two and the civility facade comes right off. Even IRL those who engage in civil debates are more careful about appearing civil than actually debating effectively. The interwebs, with its anonymity and all that, allows one to be much more freer in bringing out their ugly side right of the bat (though sometimes it could be a persona adopted for the kicks).

As someone who doesn't know or use python but just knows about it, I thought love was some kind of a python framework as frameworks tend to have weird names.

In this specific case, yes.

Could be a bug in our firmware.

This might be a tangent. I attribute my bombing a big4 interview in 2014 to restless and sleepless night the day before the interview (it was a very senior dev position and the role and responsibility described by the recruiter made me super excited. Actually, the whole week had been pretty much sleepless nights) which 'disabled' my hunger, and the lethal combination of sleep deprivation and overnight fasting manifested itself and I literally saw myself failing at things I shouldn't have but I could do nothing about it. It was a 9 am meeting and I was in a cold hall which added to the misery. I was groggy, about as articulate as a drunken child and utterly failed to benefit from the generous hints the interviewer was giving me. I felt sorry for him TBH. It was the company that had contacted me and I felt pretty bad for the recruiter as well for having fared so miserably. The biggest takeaway from this experience was to get sufficient sleep the night before important events. And to bloody eat breakfast.

So, are you sure your failure is not due to external elements like mine (which was one off fyi)?

The idea is good and the service seems well intentioned but there is a nit I have to pick. A god awful book (GAB) that a high karma poster (HKP) mentioned to talk about its god awfulness would also make to this list, and would be worsened if other HKP mentions in a discussion/debate. Of course, one could argue that a debate amongst HKPs on a GAB making that GAB appear on the list is a positive thing as it lets the reader decide the worth of the book, but I am talking about a degenerate case without such a debate or discussion.

Internet citizens are sort of programmed to attribute high value to items near the top of a list when no explicit negative context is mentioned. What I am trying to say is that it would be truly beneficial if there were a bit of context mentioned along with the book, but I guess it would have to use AI/ML for NLP which is by no means a trivial thing. But that would make this spectacular. If that is not feasible (for whatever reasons), I suggest there be a prominent message saying to the effect of "this is not a recommendation list but just lists top mentions made by HKP".

To me, the number one sign is the deterioration of HR policies. Beyond late salaries, when they begin doing away with flexible work environment, like variable hours, and try imposing things and micromanaging, effectively treating knowledge workers like shop floor laborers (there isn't anything wrong being a shop floor laborer, I am just providing a reference), it is a sign of what is imminent.

I used to work at a place, a 10 year old established medium sized company, that was hit so hard by recession of 2009 that it disintegrated. The HR thing I mentioned is the period I can trace back to to say when it was the beginning of the end.

If you are seeking tutorials, or UI libraries etc, sorry, I can't help you with that as I am unaware of those things. However, if you are asking from which aspect to start building one from scratch, I would say start with layouting. Try implementing a tiny subset of div related things like position and display and see if this is what you want to spend your time working on. Even if you can crack this thing easily, remember, this is just the tip of the iceberg. I am not discouraging you, but know that you would have to digest the entire DOM and HTML spec, not to mention have a JavaScript engine and implement all the security related intricacies, at the least, for your software to become a web browser.

I wouldn't dare...I was too cocky

Two 4x3 whiteboards in my home office/study/library. On my laptop I use Sublime. I don't know if others use Sublime the way I do, but what I use it for is, it allows you to create documents that are restored when you close and reopen the app without forcing you to save to a file. That is very useful to me and this is my digital scratchpad of sorts.

Long hours of debugging eating burgers. j/k

I was a fat kid who lost fat at puberty, and by 20s was about 75 at 5,9ish, reasonably muscular, but for various reasons went down to 59 (no health issues, just bad nutrition, sleep depravation, and over exuberance with programming) in mid 20s. I didn't even realize it was so drastic until someone asked my weight and I said 75 and they ROFL. I was pathetically skinny. I started lifting, specifically 5x5 (google it), and did bodyweight exercises. mainly pushups, chinups and squats, and this, along with some generous diet got me to about 80 in six months (probably 15% fat). I am not sure if in my case it was 'restoring' the 'native weight', but it certainly helped. Now mid 30s I make sure I remain between 75 and 80.

PS: Go easy on deadlifts. It gets pretty nasty if you have bad form and come close to lifting 50kgs. It will hurt everything when done wrong - shoulders, wrists, biceps, back, knees - just like it is supposed to build everything when done properly. Same applies to squats, rows and ohp. Practice under supervision of an instructor, or take it really really REALLY slowly to perfect the form. I did the latter. When executed properly, there is no exercise as exhilarating as deads, except probably ohp and chinups.

Sedgewick's Algorithms in C++.

I am a non CS guy who learnt C++ programming in order to do simulation for my final year project in mechanical engineering. I ended up creating a wonderful GUI (MFC) simulation complete with the diagram of the engine etc. For the next 5 years or so as a freelancer developer assisting professors and the like, I created pretty hot shot applications with nifty graphics, UI etc. I began to see myself as a master programmer and thought how easy it is for CS guys compared to Mech guys. Then I picked up this book. I had never known any of what it talked about. The very first example of union find was a revelation. My ego was completely thrashed. I was thoroughly humbled.

As for non technical, it would be The Count of Monte Cristo. I first read an abridged version of it as part of high school curriculum. As a young teen, I was instantly enamored by revenge and adventure. I still long to own a yacht and sail the oceans, if not get imprisoned, or find a treasure, or kill people. I am reading it again at bedtime and Dantes just got locked up at Chateau d'if.