Although the math in the book is relatively basic I enjoyed it tremendously because it gives the historical development for everything and even describes the characters of different mathematicians, etc. The historical context helps so much with understanding.
I like your point about feedback. That's how I describe my difficulties with proofs, too.
There is no way of knowing a proof is right without knowing it's right. (Or maybe I am just missing the point)
A very well done interview. Discussing technical topics and trying to find common ground. Reading comments on Uncle Bob's Startup Trap article made me think HN users could maybe learn something from Prime.
Oh wow, that's a great book indeed. It covers exactly the topics I was referring to (high school math), but also touches on some more advanced stuff (e.g. permutations).
I changed from pour over to cold brew around a year ago thanks to a recommendation of my co-worker. Can't go back to hot coffee now, I enjoy it way too much. Somehow it's much more forgiving than pour over coffee and super easy, too. Hario (and many others) sells some glass pitchers with filter. You put them in the fridge overnight and have great coffee in the morning.
About 4 years ago I filed a bug report about tabs opened from a pinned tab not opening as the rightmost tab (it opens as the first tab). I also tried to write a patch for it, but the issue is still open.
Anyway, how is Mozilla to work for? I always thought it must be great, but recently reading about the firings and project cancellations it doesn't seem so rosy anymore.
This seems to be a theme. Toy quality going down. There was a tape recorder with mic from fisher price. You could use the mic to record on the tape and keep it around. I thought to buy it for my kids because I had good memories of it, but guess what. They replaced the tape with tiny memory that you have to overwrite all the time. If they at least would have supported some removable memory.
> They replaced the tape with tiny memory that you have to overwrite all the time.
Until that point I fully expected you to say that they replaced the tape with storage on a cloud account. I bet this will happen one day. So many toys are already trying to suck on kids' data and hook up the parents to cloud services (see e.g. toys that feature "extra experiences" that you access by pointing your smartphone camera at them, and looking through the toy maker's app).
I can totally see that happening. And then it's 'oops we leaked all your kids audio', 'our ml researchers are listing to your kids audio to improve ads that will soon play on your tape recorder', etc.
> And then it's 'oops we leaked all your kids audio'
Especially that this has already happened at least once - there was a company storing unencrypted audio from a plush teddy bears in a publicly-accessible MongoDB instance.
Although the math in the book is relatively basic I enjoyed it tremendously because it gives the historical development for everything and even describes the characters of different mathematicians, etc. The historical context helps so much with understanding.