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Ask HN: Who's Hiring?
43 points by Herald_MJ 16y ago|21 comments
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by Herald_MJ 16y ago
There's a reading group starting up on the University of Reddit ( http://reddit.com/r/universityofreddit ) - the idea is you each go away and read a chapter, then come together to discuss what each person thought, and any problems they had.
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London's Twitter Traffic Mapped As Contoured Landscape(londonist.com)
14 points by Herald_MJ 16y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Who's Hiring?
30 points by Herald_MJ 16y ago|25 comments
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by Herald_MJ 16y ago
You can also use a public Picasa web album - I'm sure in light of this announcement, they'll be all sorts of bing-photo-like albums appearing.
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by Herald_MJ 16y ago
Project Gutenberg ( http://www.gutenberg.org/ ) Is a good one - choice is narrow, but a lot of important stuff in there!
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by Herald_MJ 16y ago
iirc, SRWare Iron ( http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php ) is a Chromium-based browser with an eye for privacy. Might be worth a look if that's your main motivation in browser choice?
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by Herald_MJ 16y ago
From this it looks like there is only "the beginnings" of PostgreSQL support. Is this accurate?
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by Herald_MJ 16y ago
Why chromium over chrome? Even chrome dev channel?
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by Herald_MJ 16y ago
I did a computing A level in the UK , and I had no idea languages other than pascal and visual basic were options. Good to see python on the list. The computing a level is a massive mess, though. The extent of programming taught is practica
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by Herald_MJ 16y ago
It's not lambda. The line executes as `while (decrement x) (greater than) zero`. As in, a while loop that executes ten times. Creative use of misleading whitespace though :)
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by Herald_MJ 16y ago
"Naming" colours is really a lot harder than it sounds. As the differences between colours become less significant, it gets really difficult. As an interesting follow-up - this is a 'Munsell Hue Test', the aim is to order the colours by hue
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by Herald_MJ 17y ago
I quite like the idea of using a decorator on a view function to define a URL path. Could someone explain to me why this is a bad idea?