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Show HN: Clojure-ish Lisp interpreter implemented in Swift(github.com)
2 points by austinz 12y ago|0 comments
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by austinz 12y ago
First of all, I want to say that if you like Java, and know it well, and believe it to be the right tool for your particular application, that you should absolutely use it. > That Java is the right language for all jobs. (Emphasis his
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by austinz 12y ago
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
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by austinz 12y ago
Are there any sources (besides this rather fantastical article) that BGI-Shenzhen is conducting large-scale research into the genetics behind human intelligence, and that if so that research is going towards some sort of comprehensive natio
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by austinz 12y ago
This is an excellent example of what is wrong with China journalism today, drawing sweeping conclusions based on a handful of cherry-picked anecdotes. For an article with actual analysis, try http://www.economist.com/blogs&#
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North Dakota: Where Oil and Politics Mix(nytimes.com)
1 points by austinz 12y ago|0 comments
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Starfish are dissolving up and down the West Coast(theverge.com)
75 points by austinz 12y ago|58 comments
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by austinz 12y ago
This is a great, well-written article. I'm going to try it out later tonight. Hopefully going through a real-life example will make LYAH a little less cryptic.
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Good Game: The Rise of the Professional Cyber Athlete(newyorker.com)
99 points by austinz 12y ago|31 comments
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by austinz 12y ago
Sometimes I wonder: if Apple's new language had been Go, and Google's new language had been Swift, how would reaction by developers and adoption have differed? (You can also run this thought exercise with Go and Rust, if you prefe
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by austinz 12y ago
When they explain to me how ISRU (in-situ resource utilization) can fabricate a replacement for a blown microchip or a refrigerator's compressor - based only on the equipment you can bring to Mars in a couple of space capsules - I&#x27
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by austinz 12y ago
The magic shuttle craft sort of moved the movie into space opera territory for me as well. I couldn't stop thinking about how advanced the shuttles must be as that one waterlogged landing craft took off from a 1.3G world orbiting a mas
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by austinz 12y ago
I thought the explanation of how the Blight was going to render Earth's atmosphere unbreathable was sort of unbelievable. The Blight's metabolism excretes or produces nitrogen gas at such a high rate that the percentages of the at
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by austinz 12y ago
Apparently the clouds are not all that plausible, but they were left in because they were so visually impressive. http://news.sciencemag.org/people-events/2014/11/physicist-w...
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by austinz 12y ago
This is a well-worn trope used in many science fiction works dealing with time travel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_paradox
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Map/filter higher-order functions on [Go] collections?(groups.google.com)
3 points by austinz 12y ago|0 comments
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Space Tourism Isn’t Frivolous, or Impossible(nytimes.com)
73 points by austinz 12y ago|59 comments
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Unexpected Complexity in a Spider’s Tiny Brain(nytimes.com)
13 points by austinz 12y ago|0 comments
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by austinz 12y ago
This article (which was posted to HN yesterday but failed to gain traction) discusses the history of the SpaceShipTwo engine in significant detail. It's a worthy follow-up read. http://www.parabolicarc.com/2014/10&
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by austinz 12y ago
Not sure CS-interview related advice is warranted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8181380 To OP: I'm really sorry that you didn't get the job you wanted. My path is not the same as yours, but I ran into
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Show HN: Hakawai, an iOS text view supporting 'mentions'(github.com)
3 points by austinz 12y ago|0 comments
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by austinz 12y ago
With these particular engines, you also have the variable factor of them being stored for decades in a warehouse, and all the issues with metal corrosion, fatigue, degradation, etc. that come with that. I'm not a materials engineer, bu
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The Very Hungry (Carnivorous) Caterpillars(iflscience.com)
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by austinz 12y ago
Getting raises every year and a half for 9 years, making $250k at the end of those nine years, and then leaving to pursue your dreams (with the concomitant personal network, financial resources, and work experience) seems like a pretty swee
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by austinz 12y ago
This isn't a backport of the Xcode 6 Playground feature to Objective-C. It's an iPad view controller and glue code intended for the simulator; you add your own code and the view controller provides controls that correspond to Play
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by austinz 12y ago
This is definitely a phenomenon that has been around for a long time. From a certain epistolary novel published around seventy years ago I quote the following passage: "If a man simply lets others pay for him, he is 'mean'; i
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by austinz 12y ago
I think we might be in violent agreement, and if I misread your intent I apologize. Nevertheless, whatever Apple's current stance on the matter is, I think we can both agree that they really, really should open-source Swift.
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by austinz 12y ago
> I don't see how you can possibly take this "We haven't even talked about it and I can't say when we will" as a declaration that Swift will be open-sourced. I never, ever said Swift was going to be open-sourced.
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by austinz 12y ago
The sentence preceding that one reads: > We literally have not even discussed this [open-sourcing] yet, because we have a ton of work to do to respond to the huge volume of feedback we're getting, and have to get a huge number of th
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by austinz 12y ago
I hate "puzzle" questions where there's a single insight with which the problem becomes trivial, without which the problem is unsolvable, and it's a tossup whether or not you'll come across it in the 30-60 minutes y

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