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by asimeqi 5y ago
Felleisen is incredibly passionate about programming. He has strong opinions and will tell you about them. I graduated from NEU many years ago. He was not my professor and I doubt he ever knew my name. I happened to listen to a general talk
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Admissions Officials Urge Colleges to Put Std-Testing Policies to the Test(chronicle.com)
1 points by asimeqi 6y ago|0 comments
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by asimeqi 6y ago
Press accounts of the day speak about only one protester dead and 4 policemen wounded. See for example BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/170367.stm . It's almost sure that all of them were hit by rico
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by asimeqi 6y ago
Since the pizza shop was open, the situation at that place probably was not that dangerous. Most of the unrest was near the center of the city.
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by asimeqi 6y ago
I wonder if Benny was a local Albanian. The fact that he spoke Albanian suggests that indeed he was. In that case his actual name would have been Beni (but pronounced Benny).
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by asimeqi 6y ago
As an Albanian who had left the country 4 days before those events, I think I should add a few comments. While there had been unrest in 1997, there had been no civil unrest at the capital, Tirane, for about a year before this happened. Many
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by asimeqi 8y ago
On the subject of forgotten authors, during the eighties I read most of A.J.Cronin's books. He was one of my preferred authors. He was very famous when he was alive but now it seems he is almost entirely forgotten. Are there other peop
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by asimeqi 9y ago
I think this is the thread where I should recommend the best book to teach reading: Let's Read, a Linguistic Approach http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Read-A-Linguistic-Approach/dp/081... I got the recommendation h
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Demonstration of quantum advantage in machine learning(nature.com)
2 points by asimeqi 9y ago|0 comments
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by asimeqi 10y ago
It was L. P. Benezet, superintendent of schools in Manchester, New Hampshire, who experimented with teaching no math in the first five grades in the early 1930s. See for example https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/free
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by asimeqi 10y ago
If you take 100 from Infinity it still remains Infinity. So I take the Erdős comment as meaning if you give me $100 your financial situation will not change. Which probably was true.
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by asimeqi 13y ago
Would love to, but I think I would look like I am namedropping. Also I probably would need his permission to mention his name.
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by asimeqi 13y ago
Few weeks ago I got an email by a person who wrote a famous piece of software in 1971. He was given some software I had written and was asking me questions because he intended to make a few additions. My software was written in C#. I don&#x
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by asimeqi 13y ago
This is good, but what would be great is if I can click on that icon and silence the page. This would be useful to silence those ads that play a video automatically and don't provide a stop button
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by asimeqi 13y ago
I am not sure what you mean by "relative efficiency". But in term of economic development I think the best example is Yugoslavia's. In the early fifties Tito with help from Edvard Kardelj implemented a system of self govern
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by asimeqi 13y ago
Central planning is THE problem. You have one institution deciding what everybody should produce and at what price to sell it. If you start with a very poor and underdeveloped country you can achieve some quick improvements since you can co
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by asimeqi 13y ago
Hi, pre-Schengen really means prior to 1995 because that's when the border controls between Schengen members were relaxed. The train trip I mentioned above happened in May 1995 but even though country A and country B were Schengen memb
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by asimeqi 13y ago
You most probably hold a British passport which is a very valuable document. Let me tell you as a holder of a not as valuable passport, who needed a visa to get anywhere, how I have seen the world. I now live in the US. Before coming to US
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by asimeqi 13y ago
Fun fact. Bjarne Stroustrup indicates the appendix of "1984" as a source for an interpretation of the name C++. http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#name
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by asimeqi 13y ago
This is a good article. One can read about Bezier curves in a lot of places. I took a Computer Graphics course a long time ago and every so often I get introduced to a new graphics programming framework that provides some ways to draw Bezie
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by asimeqi 13y ago
The part that makes this story different from the other stories about starving children is that the girl in this story was the daughter of a doctor. Where else do you find a doctor's children starving but in North Korea? We Americans don't
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by asimeqi 14y ago
2 examples from a former communist country. - A theater director was putting on a new show about some workers in a factory. In the background he put a wagon wheel. Before the premiere the communist representative came to evaluate the show.
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by asimeqi 14y ago
I worked for a gift card company and wrote and maintained some client side card validation code. My suggestion for client side card validation is "don't do it". As your client gets used more and more you will see a wild variety of cards. Th
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by asimeqi 14y ago
I must add my experience with this wonderful book. My daughter is 5.3 years old. She started with this book when she was 4.6 years old. Before that she only knew the names of the letters. She is now at lesson 95 (out of more than 250) and s
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by asimeqi 14y ago
Albanian, my mother tongue, is such a language. In first grade it took me all of 4 months to learn how to read and write everything. But that didn't mean I was reading everything. In fact I read my first book when I was in second grade and
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by asimeqi 14y ago
That is a great library. I like it that the shadow is darker if more points are overlapping. Thanks for sharing.
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by asimeqi 14y ago
I like this very much. How did you implement the effect where if there is more than a user at a given point, when you click on that point a bunch of pins open radially from that point? Is that called clustering?
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by asimeqi 15y ago
My modern kids visit the local library every 2 weeks and in each visit borrow about 10 books. I don't think I could afford to buy all those books and I would have no space to store the books after the kids read them.
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by asimeqi 15y ago
I spent some time using systems that seem to do what you are trying to do. One of those is Specware ( http://www.specware.org/ ). When I used Specware their tutorial had a sorting example just like yours but it seems in their latest tutoria
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by asimeqi 15y ago
Albania is the nearest one can come to find a similar regime to North Korea's. The country was so totalitarian you weren't free to choose almost anything. The school where you went, including the branch of study in University was decided by

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