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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> But they also need to see meaningful (to them) people doing meaningful things with math and enjoying the experience. I was wondering if this was essential for the learning process of five or six year olds. Making maths enjoyable for
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I think I have an older edition of that book, and it doesn't cover recursion. I would not recommend it for a novice programmer, other than picking up basic syntax, since it doesn't give anything substantial to sink your teeth into
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Some nice angles in the article, but now I feel obliged to defend C++ (and actually C# and F# too, but I'll let that to others as I'm sure it will turn up in the HN comments) since the author seems to make no real points to
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> The computers in Jurassic Park is what got me into programming when I was young. I saw their 3D weather overlay when the storm was approaching and thought "THAT IS IT!". I was 8 years old at the time. I'm guessing you
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Shipcat - a potential name for antivirus software. Here is a video of a cat called "Goliath" (real name Hercules)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN7eXTz35dI
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> i am very excited for the next 20 years since i predict we will see the end of human policing and instead have robotic law enforcement. http://jeremiahlambert.deviantart.com/art/ED-209-June-12-Dai...
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> NEVER ask a police officer for his/her badge number. Look for it and try to memorize if you want, but don't let them know you're trying to learn it. A perfect use for google-glass.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
NOTHING CLEAN RIGHT
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I suspect most of these kids want to be successful doctors, lawyers, scientists, (non-software-) engineers, or "traditional" business management rather than hackers, and credentials are still the way to do those things, and
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I looked at his git profile, I recognised the name: Yusuke Endoh - multiple IOCCC winner. Here is one of my favourites: http://www.ioccc.org/2012/endoh1/hint.html
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Polymath
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> And I benefit from Sublimes super fast text rendering, it's nice fonts and colors, the way it integrates with my desktop environment, how fast it interacts with plugins that spawn popups and analyze my code. The sentence quoted
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Look at SublimeText, it's got 1% of the features of Vim, yet it's converting Vim users left and right, by its sheer usability. I just looked it up, $70 is way out of my pay range. I'll convert when I have a full-time j
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Cheers for the links.
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$ git clone the_quine $ cd the_quine $ ruby the_quine The program 'ruby' can be found in the following packages: * ruby1.8 * ruby1.9.1 # shit I don't have ruby $ sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1 # 200 byt
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Three hundred? More like two thousand. Yeah, bang on. > The peace we've seen post-WW2 is pretty unique. I had a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe#1st... It looks like it
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
"Damn, your code stinks man!" I have never happened across this bizarre piece of jargon, but I goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogled it, cheers.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> "If I buy a mug from the pound shop (for 1 pound), and the VAT rate is 20%, how much of what I paid was VAT?" I calculated it as 16p, but I think if you are presented with a bill that requires paying VAT, the actual amount
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I thought the Europeans had been at each other's throats for around three hundred years. In Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies , he argues that the technological innovations of Europe during
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
The government body: http://aat.org.uk/ The government subsidises the courses. I'm currently studying level 2 AAT, I missed out on level one. I believe it goes up to level four which is a hefty qualification. Because I
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Tunguska examined from eyewitness accounts(psi.edu)
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> What if I represent a C program by a sequence of smells... The translator device reads the text from start to end, converts it to a token sequence, and emits a different smell for each token. Does that mean C is a "smell-based pr
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
App Inventor for Android looks a lot like the interface used in that "code for an hour" idea.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Correcting reverse error entries: As an example, some idiot (it's easily done) posts a credit entry as debit. All error corrections are posted to the Journal A/C, usually situated in the General Ledger, with the corresponding doub
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Judging by the general Internet reaction to Titanfall, some of you readers are no doubt crying at the injustice of the second scenario described. Many see innovations like that smart pistol as just another example of the "dumbing
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
So no, I don’t think it is deliberate that PHP gets very little press. PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes? Rasmus Ler
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> It allows you to concentrate on the fun other bits of the business. So wait up, what you're saying is that correcting reverse entry errors is dull and boring.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
In the UK accountancy courses are subsidised, it might also be the case in the US. This could be an option regarding a long term strategy. At my accountancy course I learned that when Sage goes belly up, you resort to double entry.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Do people really know the difference between weather and climate? In the UK, people worry about the climate and moan about the weather.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Ask Threaders: What code does Zuckerberg write? I've seen the film and googled "mark zuckerberg". From what I gather, he did some programming in Atari BASIC, and he's just another perl hacker. Common sense would conclude

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