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by adeelk 14y ago
> But its really wrong to say IDE's like Eclipse don't do one specific task well. Eclipse really makes Java programming very easy. “Making Java programming easy” is not one specific task!
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by adeelk 14y ago
Completely missed that, sorry.
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by adeelk 14y ago
> AirPreview is genius and bringing subset editing functionality to the iPad in a meaningful way is great. There’s no editing functionality, just a preview of the page.
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by adeelk 14y ago
> The only way to escalate the ranks in chess is to become a living database. This happens in any field with significant theory. A chess grandmaster isn’t any more of a “living database” than a mathematician, for example, who spends ab
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by adeelk 14y ago
No, it doesn’t. http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Indexes#Indexes-Basics
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by adeelk 14y ago
Why do you say that?
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by adeelk 14y ago
> Php is the DSL for the web. What does it mean to be a DSL for “the web”?
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by adeelk 14y ago
I don’t think that was intended to be an attack on PHP.
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by adeelk 14y ago
Simple deployment is the only advantage people usually cite of PHP, and this seems to eliminate that. So, why?
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by adeelk 14y ago
I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with learning to program. Learning the basics of any skill can help you, but it’s up to an individual whether he wants to spend his time picking up plumbing, car repair, programming, etc., or just focus
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by adeelk 14y ago
There are a lot of things we depend on others for. Do you call the plumber when your home plumbing leaks?
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by adeelk 14y ago
You’re mixing up programming with computer literacy.
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by adeelk 14y ago
> There is no way to automate a process using a computer without using programming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automator_(software)
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Computers are for humans(adeel.ru)
32 points by adeelk 14y ago|49 comments
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by adeelk 14y ago
Why don’t you use adblock?
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by adeelk 14y ago
I really don’t understand how they used it for 2-3 years without knowing this.
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by adeelk 14y ago
[...] you'd have to go far over the school level of maths to get such benefits. Not at all. Even deriving the formula for the sum of the first n positive integers is something that requires problem solving skills while not requiring mor
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by adeelk 14y ago
[...] you should also be insisting we remove all of Math from our school curriculum, because who uses anything beyond basic algebra? Hell, who uses anything beyond basic arithmetic now that we have calculators that can do algebra and calcu
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by adeelk 14y ago
If tomorrow you want to learn to cook, how would you feel if a master chef told you "No, don't. You'll never be as good as me. If you're hungry, come to my restaurant instead". I think people who want to learn to program are learning al
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by adeelk 14y ago
Bottomline, programming teaches us a lot of important skills and mental constructs useful for problem-solving and understanding how the world works. And those skills are hard to get elsewhere. I definitely support the notion that everyone
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by adeelk 14y ago
I am not sure whether Ronacher realizes it, but this is exactly the motivation behind Pump [1], an HTTP abstraction that takes a different approach than WSGI. It was criticized a lot by HN [2] and by Ronacher himself [3] but I’m glad that
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by adeelk 14y ago
The conjecture has been verified already for large enough n that it can be applied without a real proof; a proof won’t give any new “real world” applications. Like with Fermat’s last theorem, the real interest in a proof is in the ideas th
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by adeelk 14y ago
Don't get it. How can you celebrate someone as the "youngest ever International Math Olympiad gold medalist" while simultaneously denying the importance of genius in math? It sounds like you are under the impression that success in mathem
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by adeelk 14y ago
Number theory is a good source of unsolved problems that don’t require much background to understand. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_ma...
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by adeelk 14y ago
Working with encodings is indeed annoying in Python, but it’s not a “universal” problem.
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by adeelk 14y ago
It’s pretty common to have several papers on the same topic.
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by adeelk 15y ago
I got 404 for my German code.
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by adeelk 15y ago
I don’t understand why people don’t just use email for this. A few months I set up a mailing list for our family at fiesta.cc (easy private mailing lists) and we’ve all been using it a lot.
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by adeelk 15y ago
Andrew Wiles' proof of Fermat's last theorem ultimately also came down to counting doughnut holes in things which you wouldn't normally regard as doughnuts No...
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by adeelk 15y ago
I also switched from Python to Clojure. After picking up the syntax (there is almost none) I spent a few weeks reading the source of Ring by Mark McGranaghan [1] and constantly referring to ClojureDocs [2]. (My goal was to port Ring to Py

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