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by bluekeybox 16y ago
I guess the analogy with mobile Apple products is obvious (which I presume is why this post is on HN at all), but in hindsight I just realized that I have been following a similar strategy in my personal life all along (never let myself pla
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by bluekeybox 16y ago
Just throwing my two cents here: I think it is more useful for the startup founder role, because some knowledge of design lets you better decide which designer to hire, and also, in the beginning, you will probably be doing a lot of the des
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by bluekeybox 16y ago
Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby is sooo not like a typical introductory biology textbook that it's not even a comparison. W(p)GtR is hip, to-the-point, artistic, witty, with a distinctive voice, intelligently executed, and actually fun. A typi
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by bluekeybox 16y ago
> in the US a huge amount of her preparation time is spent on making lessons interesting to students, otherwise they disconnect. In China she is more focused on the lesson's subject matter, rather than tweaking the lesson for entertainm
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by bluekeybox 16y ago
> NaN !== NaN Why is this listed at all? Mathematically, it makes perfect sense. NaN is what you get when you divide zero by itself: 0/0 gives NaN in the JavaScript console. Therefore saying that NaN === NaN would amount to saying that
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by bluekeybox 16y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The classic 5% (or even 0.1%) statistical threshold is sometimes not enough. See here for an easy-to-understand example of why that is the case: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/1
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by bluekeybox 16y ago
> I gave the book to Mary. => Mary has the book. The poster says the above is exact inference. I beg to disagree. The inference is plausible but not exact. How do we know that Mary has not given the book to someone else, or even how
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by bluekeybox 16y ago
I've had a similar experience. My work right now can be roughly described as engineering. However I've had a brief experience of trying to market myself as an artist/photographer about three years ago (I did photography as a hobby). People
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by bluekeybox 16y ago
> Time in web applications is not used looking up array lengths - it's used in IO, layout, and DOM manipulation. Unless you're implementing a cross-browser stable sorting algorithm for manipulating tables 50,000 rows long or longer (tha
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by bluekeybox 16y ago
Then do not write code like this.