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by ananthrk 17y ago
Some suggestions (from HN over various threads) Practical Foundations of Mathematics http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~pt/Practical_Foundations/index.html Linear Algebra - Gilbert Strang (Book & Videos) Linear Algebra and Applications http://
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Beautiful essay. Thanks for posting. An obligatory favorite passage: "You'll never learn experimental physics by sitting at a desk," he abruptly said. "Get over to Building 46, where the real physics is being done!" I was embarrassed. "But
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Looks beautiful. Sorry to nitpick. But, in the preview letter page, it reads "Ma k e a mistake?". It should instead read "Ma d e a mistake?"
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mind sharing a link to the said online post?
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I don't know much about the Go game, but this is such a beautifully written article about the general anxiety one encounters while learning new things. I have this exact feeling in my effort to learn programming (despite working as a progra
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The url for BaseShield App Store (in baseshield.com) links to the download. Is this intentional? (I was expecting to see a list of applications in a webpage)
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Congratulations on the launch. If I may ask, why such a prolonged Beta period (6 months?) and what did you learn during this phase (in terms of features, etc.)?
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FWIW, also see automatic playlist generation techniques from: http://hop.at/mirage/ http://www.schnitzer.at/dominik/moc/
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Exactly. Please refer this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=208892
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Using the content of music for search(glinden.blogspot.com)
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Guide to getting started in Machine Learning(abeautifulwww.com)
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JHotDraw ( http://www.jhotdraw.org/ )
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"The predominant sentiment here seems to be Obama is a bad guy" You got this wrong. Most of them are only questioning the thought-process of the nobel committee (in awarding the prize to Obama) and not of Obama, the person.
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I was surprised (and pissed off) and wanted to check who the contenders were and this is what the website had to say: Proposals received for the award of a prize, and investigations and opinions concerning the award of a prize, may not be
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by ananthrk 17y ago
[from http://www.tonymarston.net/aboutme/thoughts.html ] There are two basic approaches to software development: Rules oriented - where you follow a set of rules or a methodology religiously, to the letter and without question and just ass
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instead of two eject commands (eject and eject -t, as prescribed in the link), you can also use eject -T (this will toggle between open and close) :)
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“…There was no business plan…They had a vision. It was a customer-focused point of view.” And more tellingly he adds, “I just fell in love with Larry and Sergey.” echoes PG explanations for some of his choices (in YC applications) - inves
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by ananthrk 17y ago
Beautifully put. Having dependents (family/work/etc.) gives one a moral reason to stick around. Eventually, as time goes, (hopefully) one starts looking at brighter aspects of life.
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I believe this is btilly's response to this request http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818527 Thanks for obliging.
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But didn't Novell enter into an agreement regarding Mono such that they are not sued for such (hypothetical) patents? Will that not (automatically) cover anyone using Mono?
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A honest question. How is Mono going against the principles of Open Source software? Just by the association of Microsoft or am I missing something? Edit: Just noticed that Icaza also accepted to be part of MS's open source labs.
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One of Sridhar's articles about the placebo effect of college education http://blogs.adventnet.com/svembu/2005/11/03/college-educati...
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Book Review: Search User Interfaces(glinden.blogspot.com)
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Works from me (in Chennai,TN)
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Slava (author) echoing similar sentiments earlier in HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=781727
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Whenever someone mentions mentoring, I am immediately reminded of this good recollection by Prof.Kirk Martini about his mentor Prof. Randy Pausch http://people.virginia.edu/~km6e/Papers/pausch-mentor-essay.... [Warning: PDF]
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Chanced upon this comment from PG made long ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=179201
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Very inspiring to read about his drive and work-ethic!
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Thanks for the response. So, what would be a good book before SICP?
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by ananthrk 17y ago
it assumes a lot of background knowledge What kind of background knowledge is required?

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