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by aroberge 14y ago
31 ... I'm over 50. And I don't feel particularly dextrous.
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by aroberge 14y ago
This is an awful story. One thing that seems glaringly obvious: the police does NOT need additional snooping powers on the Internet - they simply have to learn to use what's already available. Yet, politicians will likely soon claim that t
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by aroberge 14y ago
This is aimed at elementary and high school students, not at CS students. Java may be an acceptable choice for introduction to programming in CS programs, but that is not the purpose of that software which aims to introduce programming ,
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by aroberge 14y ago
It`s not a Java hate comment: I'm writing this as an educator with 20 years teaching experience who has learned that some languages are better teaching ones than others. Java has its place ... but another language would be better suited th
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by aroberge 14y ago
A really nice idea ... but why, oh why did they have to choose a language that has a lot of extra scaffolding like Java instead of something simpler like Python, or Ruby?
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by aroberge 14y ago
Tried the test to define unique. Wrote def unique(s): return list(set(s)) and it gave assertion errors. Nice presentation ... but incorrect Python implementation.
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by aroberge 14y ago
Hoax.
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Planck satellite: Maps detail Universe's ancient light(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by aroberge 14y ago|0 comments
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by aroberge 14y ago
Who said that PyCon organizers kicked him out? Aren't you getting your stories mixed up?
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by aroberge 14y ago
This is just a marketing ploy - otherwise, the ingredients and instructions as to how to make it would have been provided for free on the blog. And no, I don't buy the excuses that have been made as to why the list of actual ingredients can
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by aroberge 14y ago
Lots of men die of old age with prostate cancer, not because of it. Breast cancer is a far deadlier disease, one that strikes more young people, women and men (rate of incidence about 1% that of women).
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by aroberge 14y ago
Many (most?) interpretations of quantum mechanics do not involve a "collapse" of the wavefunction. The Copenhagen interpretation, which is the oldest and better known, does, but the many-worlds interpretation (which I dislike), which is fav
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by aroberge 14y ago
Brilliantly done! Nice lighting effect.
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by aroberge 14y ago
You're over thirty? I'm over fifty. And I have seen huge change in my every day life due to advances in communication. I still remember the first time I used email (summer of 82) and the first time I had a "chat" with a friend of mine wh
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by aroberge 14y ago
No, not at all. I'm saying that the elistist attitude described by edw is what got the field in the situation that it is in. Dismissing these new initiatives is, in effect, saying that the status quo is acceptable.
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by aroberge 14y ago
And that's how you keep women away from computing. Yes, let's continue the practice that have lead our industry to lack diversity.
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by aroberge 14y ago
How about using rur-ple? (a Python implementation of Karel the robot which provides a smooth transition to Python)
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by aroberge 14y ago
Just glanced through it and did not see the question of the speed of other massless particles (e.g. possibly neutrinos) adressed. They talk about an infinite bare velocity and that the finite speed of photons is due to multiple interaction
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by aroberge 14y ago
Look up PyPy.
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by aroberge 14y ago
Didn't it occur to you that these slides were for a presentation and that sharing them enable more people than just those that were at the presentation be informed of their content? I, for one, am very grateful to speakers that make the ext
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by aroberge 14y ago
Excellent point and, furthermore, not only figuring out your boss's motivation is essential, but finding an effective way to communicate is just as crucial. What you did by sitting down with him and showing the difference in a text editor
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by aroberge 14y ago
I looked at the video; did not register for it. I've been working for a while at a very similar idea (basically porting rur-ple, another Karel clone which I wrote 8 years ago, to the web) ... but I intend for it to be free. Kudos for you
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by aroberge 14y ago
WAT?. Python can parse the above very nicely, thank you. >>> value = "example # no that's not a comment" # but here's one >>> value "example # no that's not a comment"
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by aroberge 14y ago
First of all, correlation is often not causation: you can't draw a causal link between the decline in violence and gun ownership. If you compare with other developed countries, it will be very clear that the U.S. has a lot more violence in
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by aroberge 14y ago
The article refer to the fact that these ebooks are limited to the Kindle and that is part of the lawsuit. I don't believe it is too late to happen; the DoJ seem to always wait for someone to complain before they act, so it might be what w
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by aroberge 14y ago
Can this be done easily from a different country - as this is the case here?
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by aroberge 14y ago
Interesting to see how this item has quickly disappeared from the front page of HN, having more points attributed to it than others (on different topics) that are higher up and were submitted much earlier.
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by aroberge 14y ago
Physicist here. I never have to read such long variable names, which would make it much more difficult to spot bugs. I do undertand that long variable names have their place but, when it comes to programming numerical code which is a t
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by aroberge 14y ago
Any detailed explanation available about how this is implemented (other than by having to dig in the code...)?
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by aroberge 14y ago
The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. - Albert Einstein. See http://www.guardian.

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