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  1. Ask HN: Is Free Will an Illusion?

    Given deterministic causality, where every event has a prior cause, it would appear that free will is an illusion. While it may seem like we’re choosing our actions, determinism implies that this is an illusion: if all…

    5 points 15
  2. Clever, Brave, Persistent (camhashemi.com)
    32 points 18
  3. My Dad's American Dream (camhashemi.com)
    1 points 0
  4. Who’s your favorite public thinker?

    Someone who’s ideas resonate with you deeply and who you would recommend everyone to at least know about

    34 points 83
  5. Ask HN: What RDBMS optimizations can we do for append-only tables?

    Let's say we have a table which saves immutable events. This table does not support any UPDATE statements, just INSERT and SELECT. I can imagine that there are some optimizations we can make for such tables, since there…

    2 points 2
  6. Ask HN: When would you go with Kinesis over SNS/SQS and why?

    In a previous project we went with SNS/SQS for our event bus, because of simplicity. I wondered towards the end if Kinesis would have been better. The main reason in my mind being one less API/component, ordered…

    4 points 3
  7. Building Through Uncertainty (camhashemi.com)
    2 points 0
  8. Refactoring Is Like Surgery (camhashemi.com)
    1 points 0
  9. The biggest misconception about software tests (twitter.com)
    1 points 0
  10. A Software Engineer's Arc (twitter.com)
    2 points 0
  11. Accurate Estimations (camhashemi.com)
    13 points 1
  12. Ask HN: What was that blog post about writing “manual scripts”?

    the idea was that you can write scripts that are partially automated, and partially manual. this allows you to remember and track the steps of a process, and eventually perhaps automating some of the manual ones.

    3 points 0
  13. Software Entropy (camhashemi.com)
    53 points 17
  14. Ask HN: What are your best practices for editing other people's code?

    I work in a large company where you're required to get a code review from the creator / maintainer of the edited files, but I'm specifically looking for tips with respect to a small team. For example, how soon is too…

    1 points 1