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by S4M 11y ago
It's really nicely done, but I would love it even more if they could add some more examples, like in Golang's "Try Go" [0]. [0] http://golang.org/
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by S4M 11y ago
I think sects use mechanisms similar to what is described in your link. Scary read.
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Such a salary in academia is really incredible. No way this is not just a typo?
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by S4M 11y ago
He's talking about a "grown up" startup of at least 50 employees.
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by S4M 11y ago
I used to work in the financial industry where lots of things are built in excel, and I have my fair share of VBA programming. What I can tell you is: 1. VBA is aweful. Sure it can communicate well with the spreadsheet, but the language i
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by S4M 11y ago
> When companies without traction get acquired, it's typically a talent acquisition. The tech gets discarded. Why would a big company want the "talent" that couldn't produce any useful tech even given the freedom work
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by S4M 11y ago
Also to call various programming (there is no Clojure listed amongst the supported languages, but Java is so it should be easy to build a bridge): http://xlloop.sourceforge.net/
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by S4M 11y ago
Why would you want to save the comments you downvoted?
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by S4M 11y ago
Also with such a high salary, people would quit very quickly just because they would be able to retire.
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by S4M 11y ago
It's not gonna be the most constructive comment, but I would like to thank the author for writing this article and the poster for submitting it. I worked a bit during my undergraduate studies on the Elliptic Curve method to factor prod
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by S4M 11y ago
Naive question: how does his example differ from a server responding to HTTP requests, that would take a JSON event as an argument and return a json version of: "the value was: "+ event['key1'] I suppose the
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by S4M 11y ago
OK, so North Korea is showing off a part of Kaeson Street, which I guess is the main avenue in Pyongyang. It looks OK, but I am pretty sure it's just the facade of the country NK wants to show to the outside; I am not sure the rest loo
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by S4M 11y ago
Indeed, and here is the original ad for renting a room: http://supost.com/post/index/129734920
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by S4M 11y ago
I don't see how this can't be a satire.
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by S4M 11y ago
One more thing: I showed that game to my 4 years old son (on the tablet), and he quite likes it!
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Clickable: http://scription.tk I am trying to understand what you do exactly. From your FAQ, here is how you describe yourself: Q: What is the scription service? A: scription allows anyone to create the software they n
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by S4M 11y ago
It's quite fun and addictive. Slight bug: my laptop screen is a bit too small, so I can't see the time bar. Good job!
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by S4M 11y ago
What's 'J' ?
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Cheating experiment in chess(en.chessbase.com)
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Yep, that post has lots of humblebrag in it.
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> I feel that most CS curriculums could be improved by teaching more of testing and debugging. Do you know why it is not done? I always thought this kind of skills was learned best through experience, by writing buggy code first, then fi
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by S4M 11y ago
If you have time outside of work, can you build a web app that does something for you and see how it goes, and how you like it?
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by S4M 11y ago
> Apple philosophically isn't interested in making money. That must be the most fanboy statement I have ever read.
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by S4M 11y ago
I don't see what is the problem. They are selling training on Julia and Julia development. They are doing a great work on Julia, please let them monetize it. Also, I wouldn't call it a startup, it's more a consulting company.
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by S4M 11y ago
Prep schools in France can be damn selective as well. And prep schools tend to have contracts with universities so drop out from prep schools can be admitted to universities (they might or might not have to pass an exam for that). Prep scho
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by S4M 11y ago
Don't know about the drop out rate in first semester, but the percentage of students passing the first year can be pretty low. In medicine, I think it's aroung 10%, in maths maybe 30%.
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I haven't interviewed for quite a while, but I might do so pretty soon. What surprises me in this blog post is not the question itself - I find it quite reasonable - but the pickiness of the interviewer. If I was asked this, I suppose
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by S4M 11y ago
Also worth checking: https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments I would be interested in its renewal frequency.
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> Another discrepancy: when Richard achieves a record-breaking "Weissman score", the entirety of TechCrunch disrupt is in awe. In the real Valley, 95% of them wouldn't know what a Weissman Score is. The technical literacy
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by S4M 11y ago
Thank you Colin, that's a good feedback. For me, it's not clear which is the simplest, between x(x+54) And x^2+54x Now, it's true that I don't take into account the orders of polynoms and don't dis

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