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by adeelk 15y ago
In my system each note corresponds to an idea, which usually starts as just a sentence or two (e.g. “You don’t understand something until it’s obvious.”). In this note I collect links, quotes, and my own thoughts relating to that idea. At
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by adeelk 15y ago
FYI, Birman lives in Russia.
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by adeelk 15y ago
When I have an idea, no matter how developed, I throw it into the ideas pane. This creates a physical scrapboard for organizing my thoughts. I work on ideas over time, and, when one of them becomes developed or good enough, I'll publish it
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SIM Cards Must Die(ilyabirman.net)
148 points by adeelk 15y ago|138 comments
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by adeelk 15y ago
Wow, it’s great to see someone with an appreciation of soccer tactics on HN!
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by adeelk 15y ago
You can use `identity` instead of (fn [x] x).
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by adeelk 15y ago
Okay, it should be working now. Thanks again.
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by adeelk 15y ago
Thanks for letting us know, we’ll get back to you in a couple minutes.
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Show HN: Beagle, our app for students(getbeagle.com)
31 points by adeelk 15y ago|28 comments
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by adeelk 15y ago
I think in the whole client-side rendering debate, a lot of people miss the fact that there is a one-to-one correspondence between JSON and a certain subset of HTML, that can be illustrated by the following example: {"user": {"first_n
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by adeelk 15y ago
It’s not just client-side apps where you can consume your own API. It’s completely possibly to do the consumption on the server side.
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by adeelk 15y ago
Why only free books? Seems like an arbitrary constraint.
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by adeelk 15y ago
Could it just be that your taste has become more refined? Watch this interview with Ira Glass: http://kottke.org/11/04/your-taste-is-why-your-own-work-disa...
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by adeelk 15y ago
It looks like a buildpack describes how to detect and compile apps for a given language / framework. So you can use a custom buildpack if you want to use a framework that Heroku doesn’t support by default.
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by adeelk 15y ago
For what it’s worth, Clojure is a Lisp with namespaces: (string/lower-case yelling).
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by adeelk 15y ago
“Real-world requirements” don’t make code ugly. They just make the problem harder. Hard problems still have elegant solutions.
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by adeelk 15y ago
I don’t think the analogy from web design carries over, then, does it? You’re not using the word "responsive" with the same connotation.
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by adeelk 15y ago
I didn't understand the responsive design analogy. I assume it's not the operating system that the developer responds to, so what is it?
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by adeelk 15y ago
Pure mathematicians are always motivated by a problem, even if it isn't a "real world" problem.
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by adeelk 15y ago
See also [1], where Terence Tao suggests that 2 pi i may be even more fundamental than both 2 pi and pi , and [2] for some explanation on why. [1] http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2007/08/is-pi-define... [2] http://qchu.wor
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by adeelk 15y ago
Make sure you show her Gauss’s trick for summing arithmetic series.
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The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier.(thecostofknowledge.com)
125 points by adeelk 15y ago|28 comments
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by adeelk 15y ago
Ahem, “case-sensitive”?
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by adeelk 15y ago
Copy the files to your computer, make the changes, and copy them back?
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by adeelk 15y ago
I’m a Clojure user that switched from Python. We’re now using it at the startup I founded. So far it seems to have been a great decision.
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by adeelk 15y ago
I completely agree. I think this problem is rather pervasive in Django (it goes far beyond just the authentication system).
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by adeelk 15y ago
I think there’s a usability concern only when the dialog presented is in some way dependent on the main page, e.g. if it provides some information that requires the original context. If you’re just showing zoomed-in photographs from a gall
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by adeelk 15y ago
We’re still quite far from my example. The next and previous buttons are images instead of text, and I don’t want the close button or the caption above the image. If you still don’t get my point, you can try actually reproducing my exampl
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by adeelk 15y ago
I’m referring to leakage in the other direction. Think of a lightbox library as a layer over JavaScript’s API. When working with a library you can either use the configuration options provided or just go back down a layer. The space span
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by adeelk 15y ago
Great, now how many more lines to move the arrows from the top of the image (as in http://jacklmoore.com/colorbox/example2/ ) to the sides of the window as in my example?

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