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by aiscott 15y ago
I like the idea and the hardware, but the article was really offensive to me. I design hardware for a living. To rephrase, I design hardware for money, aka PROFIT. So when I read something like "at the end of the day you are just passing a
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by aiscott 15y ago
A-fricken-men. I have an allergic reaction every time I come across one of these posts about "how do I teach my kid to code." The whole sentiment strikes me as extremely myopic. I'm all for providing exposure to a variety of things in sch
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by aiscott 15y ago
I second that sentiment. I think text adventure games engage your brain more than, say, battlefield 1942. Similar to perhaps books vs movies/tv.
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by aiscott 15y ago
I've been intrigued by literate programming since I first heard about it last year. Since then I've searched out many examples and I've come to the conclusion that almost nobody understands what literate programming is! Taking this submissi
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by aiscott 15y ago
I don't believe there is, but you are missing out on some good content in iTunes U.
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by aiscott 15y ago
Maybe you should ask the Stripe people these questions.
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by aiscott 15y ago
Good grief. Government ownership of means of production is where few masters rule. Startups and entrepreneurs are what you get with private ownership.
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by aiscott 15y ago
I'd hardly call the nefarious actions you describe capitalism. Capitalism is private property and free markets. That said, I agree that governments can and do interfere with free markets and property ownership to push their agenda.
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by aiscott 15y ago
I thought the ligature examples looked pretty bad as well. It may have just been the font they used.
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by aiscott 15y ago
I'm sorry for my attitude. There were some other posts that were doing the hypothetical thing and I guess I was having an allergic reaction. I forget that this site is about startups and not specifically programmers or people with a heavy
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by aiscott 15y ago
Well, you proved me wrong, but a few minutes ago I did believe someone googling about git would know something about version control. For the same reason that I believe someone googling about haskell or erlang probably knows something about
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by aiscott 15y ago
Really? You don't know what a repository is? Or are you just being hypothetically ignorant? I believe that somebody googling git usage is going to be a little bit conversant in the topic of version control.
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by aiscott 15y ago
I love unix and composing operations. But I have a hard time thinking "excellence" when it comes to command line parameters of some of these tools. "inconsistent mish-mash" is what I think more often. It's a relatively minor gripe, but I be
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by aiscott 15y ago
It didn't appear that Let over Lambda was free either, just some select chapters at the bottom of the page. If you click on "Table of Contents" ( http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/toc ) the author gives access to the first 6 chapters with o
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by aiscott 15y ago
I don't like talking about my job because it's so esoteric from most people's perspectives. I think a lot of people at least have some small idea about what programming is about. I'm a digital ASIC designer. Next to nobody you randomly m
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by aiscott 15y ago
I wonder if counterfeits explain this: http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/01/02/1444828...
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by aiscott 15y ago
I suspect it has to do with farmville. I can't say for sure, but I hazard to guess that CS researchers don't play farmville and probably prefer not to mingle with those who do.
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by aiscott 15y ago
I've found a multi book approach to be helpful. Safari online has both Practical Clojure and The Joy of Clojure available. Manning has Clojure in Action -- with the ebook version including drm free mobi, ePub, and PDF versions. This is the
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by aiscott 15y ago
Personally, I think this one sentence from the article has a lot to do with why US schools are less than good: [In Finland] "If a teacher is bad, it is the principal's responsibility to notice and deal with it." In the US, if a teacher is
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by aiscott 15y ago
Complementary to this article is a book on Abstract Algebra that is released under the GNU Free Document license. http://abstract.ups.edu/download/aata-original.pdf
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Donald Knuth: Lecturing on Science and Religion(webofstories.com)
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by aiscott 15y ago
Start your own damn company! You don't have to be best friends to hire an employee.
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by aiscott 15y ago
ditto that. Most of the time I don't notice the effects of red-green color deficiency, but whenever someone wants to differentiate between A and B with colors, inevitably it's red/green. Not much to do about it with xmas colors though. Ba
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by aiscott 15y ago
I went with name.com as well. With the "NODADDY" coupon you get 10% off on transfers. My .coms were 6.65 I think.
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by aiscott 15y ago
Servers could serve compiled byte code. Someody else already mentioned that compiling python or ruby to JavaScript could be an option. We already have clojurescript which does this.
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by aiscott 15y ago
That would be a lot more interesting to see than an apple or bottle of water.
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by aiscott 15y ago
Even The Harvest was the same for you? That one I could see a large difference. The rest were more or less the same for me though.
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by aiscott 15y ago
As am I, although I saw significant difference on the Harvest. The rest I couldn't really tell, but they were much busier color wise.
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by aiscott 15y ago
I use option like the others have said. I am like you, diving into Emacs; in my case purely for the swank/slime lisping environment. It's been pretty difficult as I am a dyed in the wool VIM user. Someone on HN recommended the Evil plugin
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by aiscott 15y ago
It is bizarre. The whole page is a sliced image, text included.

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