Regularly impressed by the work that the Golden team puts out! 👏

TIL you can't FedEx computer software to Brazil as it is listed under import prohibitions.

Makes it especially tough to compete with the Internet

Neat idea 👏

would also be cool to get highlights of friends!

Mario Montalbetti, who completed his PhD in Linguistics at MIT in 1984 under the supervision of Noam Chomsky, should win some prize for one of the best starts to a PhD thesis

“I crushed that exam!” → exam went well
“I bombed that exam!” → exam went poorly

It took me a few years of living in the US until I could reliably remember the distinction between crushing vs bombing

TIL: In the 1950s there were several companies that sold kits of built-it-yourself Helicopters!

The Adams-Wilson Hobbycopter was one of those. A single seat, fully fledged helicopter powered by a motorcycle engine.

Cost: $900 for the kit, $35 for just the plans

Found in a software engineering book from the 80s.
The rules are naturally featured on a scroll to express its timelessness

Here's an experiment:

How much would you donate to a prize pool awarded to the first person to solve the Riemann hypothesis?

Like: $1
RT: $50
Comment: you pick the amount

Only like,RT or comment if you'd actually be willing to donate. Let's see how much we could collect.

Missing ranking in soccer:
number of people who use the club’s name as a password

13 out of 20 premier league clubs are in the 10k most common passwords
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…

Top 5:
1. chelsea
2. arsenal
3. liverpool
4. everton
5. manutd

Freeman Dyson is a shinning example of how you can lead a life full of accomplishments and adventure but still reach the age of 96 with child-like curiosity and humility.

As somebody with a name that a lot of people struggle to pronounce, watching this MRI of a person talking makes me much more empathetic about it

We're looking to hire a Senior Software Eng. in Lisbon🇵🇹 to help us build the best sales platform for B2B SaaS Amplemarket
- YC backed
- Small talented dev team (1/N+1 can have a big impact!)

Also discussions during lunch might lead to this :) 👉 twitter.com/luismbat/statu…

Recently visited a US WWII submarine. Things I learned:
-built in ~6 months
-only cooks got to shower regularly
-powered by batteries & electric motor while underwater
-torpedos would sometimes take circular runs and head back to the firing submarine!

👇👀torpedo under the bed!

I love Fermat's Library. Math is beautiful.

We should store an archive of StackOverflow in that same vault

planned/rigid vs. organic/flexible

Very sad news. He was universally loved by undergrads. A fantastic lecturer and a truly kind human being.