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Programming in your native language(protiumblue.com)
2 points by aufreak3 16y ago|0 comments
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Actually I intended my comment to be taken in two ways - a. really in appreciation of Hungary for all of its contributions to mathematics and the mathematical sciences. b. I wished to hint that if the author wanted, the same article could
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Hmm .. maybe I should consider settling in Hungary.
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Pandoc - swiss army knife of markups (markdown -> PDF, HTML, EPUB, LaTeX ...)(johnmacfarlane.net)
1 points by aufreak3 16y ago|0 comments
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Just out of curiosity, I created two gists with the P4P examples coded using the tab syntax I mentioned - tab-syntax version: https://gist.github.com/716416 scheme-syntax version: https://gist.github.com/716417
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Thanks for that pointer. I never expected Shriram to propose one :) The parens are quite acceptable if you use syntax coloring options in DrRacket to make them light grey, which is what I do. Imo, P4P is just not worth the learning delta ..
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Unlikely, since they're based on GNUStep.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Protocols and delegation are only consequences of the true difference between Objective-C and the Java/C# mindset - which is that messages between objects are independent of the objects that send and receive them. In other words, messages a
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Site says "SNAP development is currently on hold" ( http://snap.sonydeveloper.com/ ). Dead on arrival?
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Apart from jokes about the "X is dead" (where X is a variable) reports, I think the principles on which X stands are very much alive in the webM.N space - web apps treating the browser as their display. When looked at that way, "X has won".
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by aufreak3 16y ago
This talk raises some questions for me. Email doesn't seem to have the kinds of grouping problems discussed in the presentation. So what is it really that isn't in email that can then be solved by something Facebook-like that doesn't do "so
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by aufreak3 16y ago
More seriously, if you consider that the series 10^0, 10^1, 10^2, 10^3, etc. in modulo 7 runs as 1, 3, 2, -1, -3, -2, (loop with period 6), the remainder upon dividing a decimal number FEDCBA by 7 = the remainder on dividing (A-D) + 3(B-E)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
(warning: funny one) Express the number in base 7. If the last digit is 0, then the number is divisible by 7. I win!
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I've been using git on windows exclusively for about a year now (I think), in an environment where the central repo is subversion. The initial import took a ridiculous amount of time (so I did it on a mac eventually), but from that point on
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Isn't there some factor such as posture being left out here? What about monks who meditate in sitting position for very long stretches?
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Whoops. I got trojans on my company win7 dev machine! So I decided against doing it despite the slow down. Besides, our users run our software on such machines with antivirus software and I just accepted to live like them :)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
so far, promising :)
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Ask HN: Do you use an antivirus on your mac dev machine?
3 points by aufreak3 16y ago|8 comments
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Although a part of me thinks all this FUD, I can't help be concerned about this situation. Here is one more possibility - what if the dev tools now require you to pay an annual fee to even download them? gcc is GPL, so they can at best make
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by aufreak3 16y ago
On that notice page, Google suggests using "Google Sites" for pages and attach files to pages on the site. If it is straightforward for someone to do it, I find it strange that they don't do it automatically and tell the people "we'll be mi
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Thanks. I hadn't watched the keynote.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Is the mac app store going to be the only way to install apps on the mac? That'll really disappoint me.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
My personal IDE wish list below (some simple, some not so, and necessarily incomplete) - 1. Copy-paste abstraction - When you copy a snippet from one part to another, automatically lift it out as a function first. If it can't be abstracted
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by aufreak3 16y ago
DSpace is not about backups indeed. Its about problems like this one - An acquaintance of mine has a true blue 5.25 inch "floppy" disk with text data of his research that he can't recover - 'cos the disk's format is inaccessible, the text i
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Interesting higher level questions arise from this - Is it because we've built so many tools around text that text seems so powerful, or is it because text is powerful that we've built all these tools? Knowledge is of the mind+brain+body+en
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by aufreak3 16y ago
No mention of Arc here? Its the language behind HN after all :)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
It is worth being able to tell between two types of fears - one that is genuinely yours and one that you've picked up from other people. Speaking for myself, I find quite a lot of them are of the second variety, which melt away when I ask t
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Mandelbrot changed much of my world view and how mathematics relates to it. I see kids in schools being lauded for correctly identifying triangles, squares and circles and for saying "the moon is a circle". I've wondered whether teachers ev
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by aufreak3 16y ago
What a great writeup! I LOL-ed at the code name - "GAND-OS" ... can't stop laughing! :D When I read the original Inquirer post, I immediately checked the date just to make sure this isn't some old April 1st joke.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I miss Hugs ( http://www.haskell.org/hugs/ ) for this reason. ghci is up to date, yes, but Hugs was much nicer as an environment. I even used to use it as my default calculator :) sigh!

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