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   by avparker 7y ago

   We haven't even seen the numbers from last weekend. It takes on average 5 days for infected people to show symptoms, and they only test once you have fever for 3-4 days (I can verify this first-hand), then 1-2 days for the test results
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   by avparker 9y ago

   Would the FTC count as "other parts of the government"? I seem to recall one of the arguments of Pai is that the FCC shouldn't be responsible for regulation of the internet, it should fall under the FTC. So as head of the FCC
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   by avparker 10y ago

   Not sure if this changed, but at 35m 47s they just show a static shot of the rocket on the drone ship. The 'live' footage of the landing was earlier in the video (27m 20s). https://youtu.be/7pUAydjne5M?t=27m20s Aw
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   by avparker 13y ago

   It doesn't really require a knowledge of ruby, so you might want to have a look. From the FAQ on the front page: Do I have to know Ruby? Really, I love alliteration: the only thing the 'for Rubyists' really means is that I
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   by avparker 13y ago

   There is the free "Cryptography 1" course on Coursera ( https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto ). I'm taking it right now. There's a lot of maths and theory, and it's quite a difficult course, but it's been a great way to learn the founda
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   by avparker 14y ago

   I took the course last year, and really enjoyed it a lot. It's a very good introduction to functional programming. For anyone unsure about taking the course, I wrote about my experience on my blog [1], maybe that will be of use. I posted mo
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   by avparker 14y ago

   I used the same strategy to get 6: C00A AAAA AAAB 0AAA AAAA ABAA AAAA AAB5 AAAA AAAA B000 AAAA AAAD 52AA AAAA AC02 AAAA AAAC 0AAA AAAA C2AA AAAA ACAA AAAA AEAA AAAA ADAA AAAA AD6A AAAA C00A AAAA C02A AAAA C0AA AAAC 2AAA AACA AAAA EAAA AAD4
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   by avparker 14y ago

   Normally the Manning books are PDF while the book is pre-release (MEAP), and then after publication the epub/mobi/pdf is released.
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   by avparker 14y ago

   Yeah, it's today's "deal of the day", and you can also save on "Clojure in Action, Second Edition" and "Functional Programming in Scala". There's also a week-long coupon to celebrate the launch, and that includes a much larger list of books
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    by avparker 14y ago

    Thanks aroemers. I didn't realise this had previously been announced. I've updated the title to indicate that the news is actually that the Early Access edition is now available for purchase.
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    The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition – Early Access(manning.com)

    99 points by avparker 14y ago|45 comments
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    by avparker 14y ago

    I thought the same at first, but pressing the right arrow on my keyboard moves to the next "slide".
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    by avparker 14y ago

    This was one of the first things I noticed as well. It seems like such basic functionality (the maps app in iOS had this since at least iOS3), I was amazed to find you can't edit them in the app (thankfully you can see @andrewaylett's comme
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    by avparker 15y ago

    Thanks for sharing. I'm completely new to backbone and jQuery and I've only recently started learning javascript (I have a C++/Java background, and only tinkered with Rails a few years back). I agree with bilalhusain, the talk does wander a