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Curious to hear what is your preference on this. Do you use a solid color background on your desktop, or a vibrant background/picture?

Do you think a certain solid color without distractions could improve focus, or vice versa? Is a picture better? Why?

Thanks!

Some of you have probably seen the recently released whisper model from openai. Having this go two ways would open up for some neat conversational ai ideas, as in having two AIs discussing with each other, say backed by GPT3 but the output form being perfect audio/speech

So is there something as "state of the art" as whisper but for text to speech/audio?

Curious if there is a known brand or some specific chairs for home/office use tailored for us hackers who desire a bit of extra comfort? I am talking about something like dentist chairs or something like this: http://videogames.techfresh.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Emperor_1510.jpg , does anyone here use similar at home or in the office?

As the title reads, what platform/language would you pick for the backend, and why? Taking into consideration development time, costs and maintainability. Given you/your team were/are equally experienced with all languages/platforms. Thanks!

Yes as the title says. I am looking for books about algorithms that explain the algorithms with code instead of math. The reason being, I understand code better than sometimes foreign to me math symbols and formulas.

So what type of algorithms am I looking for? Graphics and machine learning mostly, but also the usual suspects, sorting, data structures, etc.

Big plus if the book is explaining things on a very understandable level, so that any average developer can grasp the concepts without too much hassle.

So, what are the best books that fall in this category?

How many lines of code do you write per day on average? Whats your record? Please specify in what language, im curious

Hi HN,

Since there is a bunch of web developers here I thought i'd ask this here..

What do you or your company use for a type of security solution for your internal web apps? What I am talking about is something which lets you configure permission to access methods or execute procedures based on groups

If we have 5 different internal webapps, which works using ajax that accesses webservices or some kind of backend, we would like to use the same security system/configuration for all of these webapps for for each request to access a method or execute a procedure they pass through some sort of filter/system which based on a group configuration tells them if they have the right to access said method/procedure, if they do then proceed to execute if not, return... "error".

Something "general" that would work for several different webapps, is there anything out there? Not sure if I make sense or if people understand what I am asking..