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by S4M 10y ago
If I understand well, you wrote/are writing a macro that parses your algol-ish language, so you can do, if your language is java, something like: (let ((my-java-class (java public class MyClass { p
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by S4M 10y ago
> I've managed to use it at work, and have been using it to build something I can't picture doing (easily?) in any other language. Could you expand on that? I'd love to know what you built and why you think it would be so
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by S4M 10y ago
I thought TI calculators used Pascal, and Casios used BASIC.
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by S4M 10y ago
The videos are from emacsrocks.com, not from the GNU website itself.
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Or fics: http://freechess.org/
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> 4. Use a more sophisticated voting system. I think a "which of these two looks better" combined with a form of Elo rating could work quite well. I think that's a bad idea given how different the startups are. It doesn&#x
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by S4M 10y ago
There are pictures and a demo here [0], although the demo didn't work for me. [0] http://www.knightos.org/
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From what I know, you can get a job as an English teacher pretty much everywhere in Japan if English is your mother tongue (I haven't done myself that but my wife is Japanese so I spent some time reading how foreigners can work in Japa
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by S4M 10y ago
What made you decide to learn React and not any other framework you mentioned?
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Basically they are the Polgár's of programming competition (for those who don't know, Susan, Sofia and Judit Polgár are chess players who were during their teens chess prodigy and some of the strongest women in the world. Judit Po
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by S4M 11y ago
Same, I got rejected. Good luck to everybody who applied, and to those like me who didn't get accepted, please carry on working on your idea!
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by S4M 11y ago
One of the nice features of the "Apply HN" process is that you can get feedback from other HNers (I applied to both).
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by S4M 11y ago
I had a look at your link, and this page in particular: http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/lambdaway/?view=lambdatalk%20one If I understand well, it seems that you wrote some kind of lisp dialect with the following particulari
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by S4M 11y ago
Same here. Maybe it's just enabled for US IPs or something.
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> I believe education is a commodity market. Sales happen in bulk and large sales via public bids, government allocations, and lobbying. I suspect that in the first world, textbook companies are likely to be harder competitors than Wolf
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by S4M 11y ago
Two reasons: - I originally wanted to build a symbolic algebra software to compete with Wolfram's Mathematica but realized it would require too much work for a solo founder. - Math had always been my favorite subject and I saw studies
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by S4M 11y ago
> Is there academic research underpinning the pedagogical approach? I can't quote direct articles but I have seen some trends in trying to make education in general more interactive. > Does the underlying technology use a domain
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by S4M 11y ago
Hey, thanks for the comment! I wasn't aware of math-42, thanks for pointing it out. From looking at their websites, they seem to be mainly focused on solving exercises for students while I correct students work (they have a beta traini
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Apply HN: Magako, AI for Math Tutoring
5 points by S4M 11y ago|10 comments
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by S4M 11y ago
I see two problems with this: - not sure it is legal everywhere (in Europe for example bikes can't drive on sidewalk). - robbers could just take the robot and keep what it was carrying.
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by S4M 11y ago
> If YC takes 7% for 120k. It seems 1k is worth about 0.05%. What YC brings to a startup for their 7% is 120k + advice + connections + the YC brand itself, so just 1k will be worth only a fraction of 1/120*7% of the company (I'
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by S4M 11y ago
I'd love to see the distributions of the valuations/revenues/number of employees/etc. for YC all companies and per batch.
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> My friend is COO of a large, successful international enterprise software company (I won't mention the company). All his programmers use English keyboards, but his company will be shut down if they don't use French keyboards.
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by S4M 11y ago
I'm French as well (expat, though). What you say is true, but it strikes me as a lesser evil than the ones that are plaguing USA: little social protection and high cost of education among others.
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by S4M 11y ago
How about France and Germany?
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by S4M 11y ago
Yes, Unicode variables are a thing, but I am afraid it makes the language less approachable if it requires a special keyboard or at least some tweaks in the IDE to input those characters - and I say that as someone who added some macros in
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by S4M 11y ago
I thought it was strange to be able to use greek characters and the like in the code, and then I arrived at the slide about Custom Terms and Operators[0] and... now I think it's an April fool. [0] http://tpm2016.zoffix.com&#
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Older programmer's plight working in a startup(reddit.com)
13 points by S4M 11y ago|1 comments
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By "crap", I think he means something like "poorly understood copy cats of successful ideas", not "really bad ideas". See the whole quote: > I think what we’ve had is a handful of investors who have extreme
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Sergey Karjakin New Challenger to Chess World Champion Magnus Carlsen(en.chessbase.com)
1 points by S4M 11y ago|0 comments

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