QuadrupleA

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by QuadrupleA 9y ago
Agreed, with regard to the quote about Montessori, Papert and Bruner, I don't have the necessary background knowledge to truly evaluate the statement. The terms "pedagogy", "psychology" and "mathematics" a
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by QuadrupleA 9y ago
What a bunch of of vague, hand-wavey nonsense (the article, not necessarily the HARC lab, I couldn't make heads or tails of what they actually do). Covers up its lack of clear thinking with an attempt to sound profound and obfuscatory
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by QuadrupleA 9y ago
Thanks, didn't know about that feature.
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by QuadrupleA 9y ago
Agreed, ideas create culture - I guess I've found personally that respectful discussion with those of opposing viewpoints is more productive than 'fighting' them or shutting them down entirely, which flagging kinda seems like
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by QuadrupleA 9y ago
So the mere idea of avoiding drinking, or that different people will react to an event in different ways is so dangerous and empowering to potential abusers that the entire HN readership needs to be protected from seeing it? Are we adults h
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by QuadrupleA 9y ago
The mass flagging / censoring of comments people disagree with below seems a little petty, I'm curious what the original posts are. I'd rather hear a dumb opinion and make my own choice.
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by QuadrupleA 9y ago
Good article - at first I was wary because of vagueness in the first few paragraphs, terms like "inappropriateness", "sexual harassment", "non-consensual sexual advances" etc. that are flung around so freely no
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Show HN: Random Shakesperean Dialogue Generator(phrasegenerator.com)
1 points by QuadrupleA 9y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: is Prolog special or enlightening?
3 points by QuadrupleA 9y ago|2 comments
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by QuadrupleA 10y ago
It would be interesting to do a study, for a busy site with a big enough sample size, counting ad clicks locally and then comparing with Google's reports. I imagine you could attach your own javascript events etc. to do your own compar
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Show HN: Atari 2600 puzzle game in a pixel shader(shadertoy.com)
3 points by QuadrupleA 10y ago|0 comments
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by QuadrupleA 10y ago
Apparently the PP module here overcomes the GIL limitations, so I'm assuming you'd see a typical multithreading perf increase with it. Haven't tested it myself though.
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by QuadrupleA 10y ago
Most fellow python people know this already, but native compiled C/C++ code generally runs about 100x faster than interpreted CPython code for any kind of number crunching or computation. So like sonium also mentioned, definitely consi
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by QuadrupleA 10y ago
I definitely hate ads like anyone, but it should be acknowledged that ads serve a purpose too, of creating an economy for free content and giving people an avenue to get some income in exchange for their efforts, and possibly be able to dev
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by QuadrupleA 10y ago
Cool project - and an upvote for having nothing to do with politics :)
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by QuadrupleA 10y ago
The site crashed :|
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by QuadrupleA 10y ago
So should we all browse through a Tor relay when we're looking at cat pictures? Maybe a new protocol can be invented that allows websites to force us to use one? I tend to dislike these dogmatic rules - you have to be aware of the part
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by QuadrupleA 10y ago
Am I the only one not all-in about moving everything to HTTPS? It's great for sites that track personal information and sensitive data that you wouldn't want snooped. But for a lot of sites (like phrasegenerator.com, one of mine)
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by QuadrupleA 10y ago
That's good perspective. My lens on it has mostly been stuff like SICP, Paul Graham's old essays, periodic Lisp HN posts etc. Good to hear there's a community out there that's fine with the messy practical stuff.
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by QuadrupleA 10y ago
It's interesting, I'm reading Black Swan at the moment by Nassim Taleb, and one of his big rants is about how we get blinded by idealized, platonic forms and ideas when the real world is messy and inherently unpredictable. E.g. tr
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by QuadrupleA 10y ago
Just a quick note that I've been using Visual Studio and the VsVim plugin happily for years. They work great together. All the Vim-fu plus real keyword completion, jumping to definitions, instant renaming of any function/variable
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by QuadrupleA 10y ago
Wanted to second the ambivalence around the CLRS Intro to Algorithms book - having learned a few algorithms by poring through its chapters, I can definitely say it's a long, out-of-the-way route to take for a practicing programmer. I m
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by QuadrupleA 10y ago
I've personally stopped using const in my C and C++ code, except for actually defining constants (in the #define sense). The headaches and complexity it introduces don't seem worth the benefit - you inevitably have to remove the c
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by QuadrupleA 11y ago
One thing I don't quite understand - how can the "chirp" from LIGO be unambiguously categorized as extraterrestrial in origin? The waveform shown onscreen in the NYtimes video looks like an extremely noisy signal - not sure i
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by QuadrupleA 11y ago
It was the best I could come up with.
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Convert hexadecimal to binary in your head(lukerissacher.com)
63 points by QuadrupleA 11y ago|24 comments
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by QuadrupleA 11y ago
Appreciate all the feedback and discussion, been sneaking peeks at the comments throughout the day - I'm still within the time window to return the boxed set thankfully, and haven't spilled coffee on them yet, so I'll probabl
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Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort?
205 points by QuadrupleA 11y ago|132 comments