PilotPirx

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by PilotPirx 16y ago
Funny, after responding to your post I was watching that IBM video on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrhDaAmn5Uw&feature=chann... somebody had posted on HN in the meantime. And "to invent" was what I actually wanted to add her
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
Nope, you're right to point that out. But a certain amount of success is an important requirement. You can still fail sometimes and try again and have success or find out that something is just not possible. So trying to put it in a single
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
to succeed...
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
I'm not a gambling person. In such cases there is one thing I know for sure: You won't throw away your personal money, so for every $ I win you will need to earn one $ (at least). Another problem: How do I know, that your program is anythin
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
I don't see anything very hacker specific. Actually just some boring and overpriced t-shirts.
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
Network. Keep in contact and form alliances to ensure free speech and free information as long as this is possible. Communication was the key point in the events in Germany before the wall was falling. Don't split your energies in small fig
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
There is a site http://openstudy.com/ where you can get into contact with other people taking the courses at OCW. I wanted to work through the 18.06 calculus course anyway, so having that with enhanced material is great news to me.
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
Cool idea. Could be enhanced: If I mark a user as (for example) "fanatic" all his "troll" or "flame" tags are automatically converted to "funny" for me...
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
I think that vim/emacs against the rest of world question is becoming unbelievably boring. For on, we all have heard those arguments over and over again, so no reason to write another blog post about it.<br /> Vim is fast? Great. Ho
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
It compensates for that by giving me a lot of new insights.
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
In general I look daily on sites like HN and bookmark everything that looks interesting.<br> Then if I need some tool for something important, I always Google if there is something new in this area, just to make sure I don't miss it
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
This is difficult in every single case.<br /> If the article is popular, the community made a decision. Flagging it as off-topic should e handled with care. Maybe he should at least have a look at the ongoing discussion to see, what
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
Would depend, what people think is really important. I come to HN to read about computer related things. I can get everyday news from other sites. Same for the discussions. I wouldn't expect too much special insight from HN people on this s
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
I don't read that much lately, but want to throw in a few names: - Stanislaw Lem (Solaris, The Cyberiad, His Masters Voice, Fiasco) - William Gibson - evrything worth reading) - Bruce Sterling
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
this one: http://challenge.greplin.com/
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
Drink more water. Dehydration is your enemy.
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
I had this (and the second book) and learned some of my first programming by making them run on my TI 99/4A
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
Is this a joke or is he serious? I'm not native English speaking, so I may miss some ironic details. quote: "When you make an app that you've sweated over and spent days crafting—so it's as good as it can be—you owe it to yourself to charge
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
I use KDE. Konsole has multiple tabs. KDE has virtual desktops. I work on a laptop permanently and don't see the point in this. And as already mentioned by Ogre and rudle, there are screen and tmux.
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
Read some books about algorithms. Implement the exercises in Python. "Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach" by Russel & Norvig would give you some interesting insights and exercises.
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
Maybe you don't need money. Could be enough to set up a website with accounts and a system that gives you "karma" for each bug you remove or a feature you add. Amount of karma depending on the bug/feature and maybe an additional voting syst
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
Yes, if I select "Burgers" I get restaurants that have reviews for their Burgers. If I select the restaurant I see these reviews, instead of having to select "Burgers" again. Maybe the "Burgers" tab should be highlighted then, so I know whe
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
This tab based layout for the selection of dishes will break, when you add more of them. Simply not enough space. Needs a search function. Needs a google map to get directions/distances. "Show me best burger place from my current position"
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
Especially true for beginners who for a long time wont be able to write that kind of code anyway. Python + Panda3D on the other hand allows even a beginner to get a few simple models on the screen within short time. And that kind of motivat
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
You can get a lot of good clothing in bike shops that you can wear over your normal clothes (shoes, trousers). Very good gloves, since your hands will freeze first. A backpack to store the clothes when the weather changes. (best if your lap
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
Mostly no music at all. If I listen to music, then it's mostly classics like sonatas by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin or Mozart. And it's always music that I know very well, so that it doesn't draw away my attention. For the same reason it's most
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
I don't see the point in this article. quote: "The developer has to figure out what the return types are for any methods that are called" The developer has to figure out the return type in Python as well, since otherwise he wouldn't know, i
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
This ranks Google searchs. When I started to use RoR around 2006 it was quite difficult to find good documentation. So you had to use Google quite a lot to find something useful. Nowadays RoR is better documented and you can find everything
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
Oh, ok. Thank you for clarifying this point. I didn't know the book and thought it strange in combination with this unconfirmed information.
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by PilotPirx 16y ago
reading the pages URL "fooled by randomness" I would consider this a bad joke. Could somebody mark this post as [dead] ?

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