Hacker News: donald_knuth

New comment by donald_knuth in "'Alien Alloys' in The New York Times' UFO Story"

donald_knuth — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 01:15:34 +0000

As a former scientist well practiced in x-ray diffraction it has been really fun watching these blatant flasehoods spread. We have mastered identifying the atomic structure of materials.

Sadly spreading these claims is how these programs self propegate. Luckily they don't do much real damage other than misleading the public and wasting government funding.

New comment by donald_knuth in "Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations"

donald_knuth — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:42:47 +0000

Nothing about detached heads?

New comment by donald_knuth in "Elon Musk’s Ideas About Transportation are Boring"

donald_knuth — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 19:53:26 +0000

Your counter argument to public transit is flying cars? Your entire statement is a strawman argument.

No one is saying get rid of cars, simply improve traffic by adding mass transit

New comment by donald_knuth in "Ask HN: What are the big differences working at a startup, bigco, old smallco?"

donald_knuth — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 21:01:42 +0000

From the personal growth perspective;

Bigco can mean being constantly surrounded by experts and having to compete with more experienced coworkers to get the fun projects or extra responsibility that make a job rewarding. It can also mean lots of easy learning from well experienced coworkers.

Smallco can mean less expert coworkers to learn from but lots of room to grow and lots of experience gained from extra responsibility.

New comment by donald_knuth in "Engineering Uber's Self-Driving Car Visualization Platform for the Web"

donald_knuth — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 06:26:18 +0000

Save and replay is how this data is usually used. Run headless in real time and fancy complex gui upon replay.