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Probabilistic profiling by stack sampling(stackoverflow.com)
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by SandB0x 15y ago
Mellow greetings. Demolition Man is a fantastic work of satire. It also predicted Schwarzenegger the politician.
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by SandB0x 15y ago
This sounds awful. One of the main considerations when picking any kind of framework is: What kind of community is there? If I run into a problem, how likely is it that someone else has solved it first? Will it still be popular in a few y
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by SandB0x 15y ago
Confirmation bias overload: this is Quora.
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by SandB0x 15y ago
Thanks for the reply. I'm kind of torn. It would be nice to switch and forget about it, but Python is the language that works with absolutely everything. That's the biggest attraction. Libraries for everything, bindings for everything, APIs
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Ask HN: Anyone using Python 3 in production? (2011 Edition)
30 points by SandB0x 15y ago|9 comments
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Google I/O 2011: Python@Google(youtube.com)
3 points by SandB0x 15y ago|0 comments
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by SandB0x 15y ago
Oh come on, this isn't even typeset in LaTeX. There's Comic Sans on page 11. The author doesn't even correctly state FLT on page 2.
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Fixed time step vs Variable time step (Game Development)(gamedev.stackexchange.com)
1 points by SandB0x 15y ago|0 comments
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by SandB0x 15y ago
My favourite book on special relativity is Spacetime Physics by Taylor and Wheeler. It's intuitive, clearly written and well laid out, with an Edward Tufte style column of text running along the main body that stops you getting lost in th
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by SandB0x 15y ago
It depends. A common scenario in finance here is that you end up maintaining a specific piece of legacy software, often using ancient or unfashionable technology, and it can be very hard to sell yourself to another employer as your useful
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What are some architectural reasons to use node.js aside from scalability? (stackoverflow.com)
2 points by SandB0x 15y ago|0 comments
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The Agile Disease [2008](lukehalliwell.wordpress.com)
2 points by SandB0x 15y ago|1 comments
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by SandB0x 15y ago
Where did you see this? There are plenty of bullshit "opportunities" forwarded around CS student mailing lists. You'll learn to bin these soon enough. My favourite was an ad for a PHP Ninja, where you needed to be a PhD student in order to
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by SandB0x 15y ago
You're having a laugh. £23k for a "rockstar developer" with 2+ years of Rails experience? In London? Here is some market data http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/ruby%20on%20rails.do Bear in mind that the real "rockstars" are likely to b
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Hands-on GIMP 2.7.2 review(libregraphicsworld.org)
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Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)(releases.ubuntu.com)
441 points by SandB0x 16y ago|212 comments
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Contrast with _why: "when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create."
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by SandB0x 16y ago
If you like this you should check out Ron Fedkiw's research at Stanford and with ILM: http://physbam.stanford.edu/~fedkiw/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Fedkiw The images on his page link to videos, publications list is about
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Casting Out Nines - Arithmetic trick to check a multiplication(mathworld.wolfram.com)
33 points by SandB0x 16y ago|13 comments
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by SandB0x 16y ago
In Ruby the reduce method is also called reduce: [1,2,3].inject{|s,i| s += i} => 6 [1,2,3].reduce{|s,i| s += i} => 6
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by SandB0x 16y ago
The opposite scenario (sort of), from Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker: One day earlier in his career Dall was in the market to buy (borrow) 50 million dollars. He checked around and found the money market was 4 per cent-4.25 per cent, which mea
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Agree. You can delegate work but not responsibility.
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Why is there no base class in C++?(stackoverflow.com)
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The complete FizzBuzz solution(reddit.com)
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What's the canonical retort to “it's open source, submit a patch”?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
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Selloutyoursoul.com - a career guide to help lost humanities grad students(selloutyoursoul.com)
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Code Review - Stack Exchange site(codereview.stackexchange.com)
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Have a look at the UK's STEP mathematics papers. They're the toughest school-level exams we have, used as entrance tests for a handful of degree courses. There are three papers each year, in increasing level of difficulty and assumed knowle
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Jesus, you're reading a lot into this one comment! For all you know kabdib could be Ken Thompson and his manager could be Larry Page.

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