JimmyM

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by JimmyM 12y ago
Dogecoin is an example of excellent and deliberate marketing. From branding decisions ("Let's stop people talking about us as the joke coin, and start people talking about us as the community coin") to PR (Constantly reaching
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by JimmyM 12y ago
In true BBC-style: other brands of spaceplane are available. http://bristolspaceplanes.com/company/
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by JimmyM 12y ago
The concepts are shallow primarily because business nous is often a raw sort of intelligence, where you're responding in real time to an exact specific situation rather than planning and developing a concept which will cover all your n
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by JimmyM 12y ago
I actually found DrRacket very fast and Emacs very slow, on every computer I've tried them on. Why might this be?
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by JimmyM 12y ago
This is how I usually implemented quicksort in Racket: (define (quicksort xs) (if (null? xs) xs (let* ([hd (car xs)] [tail (cdr xs)] [smaller (filter (lambda (x) (< x hd)) tail)] [bi
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by JimmyM 12y ago
PHP best practices might be becoming like Java, but the language is far, far, far from anything close as far as I can see. Again, as far as I can see it's as simple to hack together a script in PHP as it ever was. What's changing
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by JimmyM 13y ago
Homoiconicity is a neat thing when you just get started, although there's some interesting discussion around that subject here - http://calculist.org/blog/2012/04/17/homoiconicity-isnt-the-...
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by JimmyM 13y ago
Ah, thanks for letting me know! That could have confused me.
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by JimmyM 13y ago
Same here, in terms of the practical elements of the course. I still found Dan Grossman's lectures entirely engrossing, and I'm not just saying that because I noticed he was a HN user.
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by JimmyM 13y ago
I'd assume that some people are unable to cash out of Auroracoin directly, so they dumped AUR for BTC before people on the crypto markets were aware of what was happening. This didn't drive the price of BTC up, but when they cashe
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by JimmyM 13y ago
You should read the FAQ, http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/faq.html , the design is deliberate.
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by JimmyM 13y ago
Curses! I've been seeking a free program with PaintDotNet levels of functionality which works on Mac for ages (We have MacBook Airs at work, while I use PaintDotNet for game dev at home). GIMP is really difficult to draw anything with,
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by JimmyM 13y ago
This is the subject of an episode of Black Mirror. It's hardly an exhaustive investigation but it's certainly a good slice of Twilight-Zone-y sci-fi.
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by JimmyM 13y ago
Bristol Space Planes fit this bill, have a talented team, and are actively seeking funding: http://bristolspaceplanes.com/ They're trying to make space travel much cheaper with re-usable launches.
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by JimmyM 13y ago
I first saw this when I happened to be struggling with the early Project Euler problems. The deeper insights and analysis it offered, combined with the sense of humour, really helped me understand and solve the simple problems where a strai
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by JimmyM 13y ago
> programming has always been something I do, not something I am I think this is important, it's the kind of thing that I read and think "Yes, how obvious, of course!" but in practice I wouldn't think of it myself. A
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by JimmyM 13y ago
I'm a hobbyist programmer, but I'm able to use my programming in my work - even though it's not strictly related. Programming skills can be a nice extra to a creative or administrative skillset, especially in smaller & bo
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by JimmyM 13y ago
The nice thing about FP is that you can basically copy-paste algorithms direct from academic texts, tweaking only very slightly for syntax. It's this way in Racket, I imagine it's even more easy in Haskell!
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by JimmyM 13y ago
Racket is definitely multi-paradigm, it has a pretty nice line in OOP on the side. Pretty sure at least some OOP is required for any GUI stuff in Racket.
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by JimmyM 13y ago
Aww, do I have to? I've been putting that off for so long, haha! I'll give it a go.
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by JimmyM 13y ago
I have about a half a year's worth of Racket (acquired over around a year and half) under my belt, and intend to learn Haskell in the coming two years. Is there anything startlingly different in Haskell compared to the LisPs? EDIT: Tha
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by JimmyM 13y ago
This is the reason many SEO companies have rebranded as content marketers recently. Content marketing is a relatively easy sell, and it's almost the entirety of ongoing SEO work (as opposed to the technical improvements, which obviousl
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by JimmyM 13y ago
Hi clive, Thanks for the feedback. Lacklustre is actually correct. Cheers, Jimmy
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Why SEO Is The Most Highly Skilled Sector In Marketing - And How You Can Join Us(digirank.co.uk)
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by JimmyM 13y ago
Cool! I definitely have trouble using CSS, I depend heavily on CSS frameworks & libraries to lay out anything remotely complex.
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by JimmyM 13y ago
I can't tell if you mean 'because I find it difficult too', or if you mean 'because it means I have less/easier competition'. Of course, this could have been your intention all along, but if it wasn't coul
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by JimmyM 13y ago
One thing I don't think many people have realised yet is that in addition to the cheap games and freemium model, Steam is selling other goods too, under the guise of giving away virtual goods for free. These goods are given away for fr
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by JimmyM 13y ago
That's an interesting decision, I wonder why? In such a fast-moving industry where they're constantly making their own old models redundant, wouldn't the models they get back after the lease period be basically useless to the
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by JimmyM 13y ago
I have difficulty distinguishing between what has been described to me as "meta-modernity" and what older textbooks describe as "eclectic post-modernism", and between that and what Orwell described as "double-think&
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by JimmyM 13y ago
The slow shake could be nice, I think. Looks excitable rather than just vibrating.

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