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New comment by merrua in "Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?"

merrua — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:17:31 +0000

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New comment by merrua in "Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?"

merrua — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:03:45 +0000

do an online cs50 course

New comment by merrua in "Native Instruments enters into insolvency proceedings"

merrua — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:39:38 +0000

"A private equity firm called Francisco Partners owns a majority stake in the company"

New comment by merrua in "Ask HN: My boss wants us to vibe code and I feel in danger"

merrua — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:38:31 +0000

Could you work on something automated that ticks the box but avoids your concern? Like an vibe coding scan tool ?

New comment by merrua in "Ask HN: Sold my company, parents passed away – feeling lost. What now?"

merrua — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:40:34 +0000

Sorry for your loss. You might find helpful to talk walks in nature. Grief support groups are very useful. Many people also find volunteering helpful, as it involves helping people and being around people (and sometimes animals). Schedule some sort of plan for yourself with times for being social, helping people, art and being outside. Please avoid isolating yourself. Good luck.

New comment by merrua in "EU says new cars must include built-in speed limiters"

merrua — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 09:01:48 +0000

This article is based on this press release from the commission http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-19-1793_en.htm

New comment by merrua in "Ask HN: What are your favorite non-fiction books of all time?"

merrua — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:39:35 +0000

I found that a fun read. No idea how much of it is real.

New comment by merrua in "Ask HN: What are your favorite non-fiction books of all time?"

merrua — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 10:04:12 +0000

I enjoyed all these. All of them are worth a read.

Business / Tech Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is. Managing Expectations: Working with People Who Want More: Working with People Who Want More, Better, Faster, Sooner, Now! Explore It!: Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing. Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-From Global Epidemic to Your Front Door. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. Badass: Making Users Awesome. Social Engineering in IT Security: Tools, Tactics, and Techniques. How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody. Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. The Global War for Internet Governance. Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking. Hate Crimes in Cyberspace. High Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet. The Soul of A New Machine. Hot Spots: Why Some Companies Buzz with Energy and Innovation - And Others Don't. A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the World's First Office Computer. Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron. The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing. What's Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live. Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network. The Undersea Network (Sign, Storage, Transmission). Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly. Zero Bugs and Program Faster. Official Criticism Manual: Perfecting the Art of Giving and Receiving Criticism. Hacking Wireless Access Points: Cracking, Tracking, and Signal Jacking. Usability Testing Essentials: Ready, Set...Test! Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. The Accidental Project Manager. Building Successful Communities of Practice. Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories. More Fearless Change: Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen. Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems that People Can Use. Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. The Well: The Epic History of the First Online Community. Programmers at Work.

Science The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Hidden Figures Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Knocking On Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate our Universe Sightlines An Ocean of Air: A Natural History of the Atmosphere Snowball Earth: The Story of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know it Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error: The Meaning of Error in an Age of Certainty Mycophilia Packing for Mars: The Curious Science Of Life In Space No Logo King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry The Ghosts Of Evolution Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, And Other Ecological Anachronisms Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA Growing Up Boeing: The Early Jet Age Through the Eyes of a Test Pilot's Daughter Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 bath Toys Lost at Sea Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science

World / Politics / Other Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power The New Jim Crow The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion The irregulars : Roald Dahl and the British spy ring in wartime Washington Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing The Gift of Fear

New comment by merrua in "Poor rural Victorians 'had best diet'"

merrua — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 11:04:09 +0000

This seems rather wrong when Victoria is the famine Queen.

New comment by merrua in "Marriage rates are going down in China"

merrua — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:26:39 +0000

Your treating marriage as an advantage rather than a risk to be offset.

Project Malmo

merrua — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:44:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-malmo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15795763

Points: 2

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Donald Knuth’s 80th birthday will be celebrated by two events in Piteå, Sweden

merrua — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:38:44 +0000

Article URL: http://knuth80.elfbrink.se/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15795731

Points: 132

# Comments: 15

Destiny 2 misrepresented XP gains to its players until the devs got caught

merrua — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:35:03 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/11/fan-analysis-forces-bungie-to-confirm-screwy-xp-math-in-destiny-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15795709

Points: 4

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Radioactive land around Chernobyl to sprout solar investments

merrua — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:34:10 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/radioactive-land-around-chernobyl-to-sprout-solar-investments/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15795706

Points: 1

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A reminder about “event” markup

merrua — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:32:09 +0000

Article URL: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2017/11/a-reminder-about-event-markup.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15795696

Points: 1

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New comment by merrua in "Ask HN: Good resources for Resilient Architectures?"

merrua — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:20:53 +0000

People like the book 'Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems'. You could take a look at Netflix's info and tools. They break their system themselves to ensure it recovers well. It would help if you indicated which meaning of resilient you use?

New comment by merrua in "Ask HN: Transition from web developer to Product Manager"

merrua — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 08:42:23 +0000

I'd recommend reading the PM canon, its useful even if you just want to work better with them. Don't know the canon, find out. What books/podcasts do all the PM's you know own and listen to? You could get the cert (PMBOK). Certs can mean the difference between someone taking a chance on you or not. Ask the PM's/BA's in your company for advice (you can word it as your friend/kid is interested). Another useful thing is to look at job ad's, what are they asking for, do you have those skills? Can you demonstrate them?

New comment by merrua in "Scotland plans to make petrol and diesel cars obsolete by 2032"

merrua — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 10:26:31 +0000

Is that the same as the India deadline?

Software Architecture Patterns Layered Architecture

merrua — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:17:33 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/towards-data-science/software-architecture-patterns-98043af8028

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15139518

Points: 3

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New comment by merrua in "This is how Netflix's top-secret recommendation system works"

merrua — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:28:54 +0000

They badly need to let their users override their system. I want to be able to mark something hidden and not see it again.