prabhupant's comments

On: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?

[prabhupant]

Joe Rogan Brett Weinstein

On: Ask HN: What Are You Reading?

[prabhupant]

Just finished reading "Fooled by Randomness" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and started "Guns, germs and steel"

[ivanmaeder → prabhupant]

Adding the Taleb book to my list.

I recently read "The Black Swan" which I thought was an important read in spite of how unlikeable I find the author, how long the book is, and how tangled up the ideas are. It felt like a bit of a crazy rant, but worthwhile.

Thanks!

[mindcrime → ivanmaeder]

Funny, that jibes with my perception of Taleb as well. He seems a bit smug, and I'm not sure if I'd like him or not if we met in person, but his books still seem valuable and worth reading. I would say that I'm better off for having read both The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness. Still waiting to get around to reading Anti-Fragile, but it's definitely on the list.

[thetrost → ivanmaeder]

That's exactly my impression of "The Black Swan" and all his newer books. But "Fooled By Randomness", I think, is really good!

[omosubi → ivanmaeder]

Wow this rings so true. I just read antifragile and while I like the ideas I can't imagine how insufferable the author is in person

On: GitHub's game jam returns next month

[prabhupant]

Do they offer swag or anything like that?

[modernerd → prabhupant]

They do a roundup of the most interesting games on the GitHub blog, but no swag to speak of.

Previous years:

- 2017: https://blog.github.com/2017-12-22-game-off-2017-winners/

- 2016: https://blog.github.com/2016-12-13-game-off-iv-highlights/

- 2015: https://blog.github.com/2015-04-21-game-off-iii-everyone-s-a...

- 2013: https://blog.github.com/2013-10-30-github-game-off-ii/