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by candeira 11y ago
I wanted to hear what HN has to say about this, because to me it reads like a parody, but maybe I'm the ignorant one, and can learn something.
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by candeira 12y ago
I'm reading Españopoly, a book by investigative researcher and "data journalist" Eva Belmonte on the social networks that link the people who hold the power in Spain, my native country. I assume some HNers will read Spanish,
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by candeira 12y ago
"Bastard Barbie" or "Evil Barbie".
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by candeira 12y ago
Corporations are already AIs, just as accounting departments before 1940 were already computers, only made of people processing marks on paper instead of being made of transistors processing electrons.
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by candeira 12y ago
It's not only hilarious, but also a great example of trolling and audience engagement as performance art. Reading all those earnest comments correcting her Javascript "errors" always makes me cringe at the corrections, feel s
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by candeira 12y ago
At my current gig we use a set of git hooks, and the pre-commit hook enforces the git comment style, which performs integration with bugtracking/timetracking. We wrote our own and it's just a couple of regexes tied to a couple of
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by candeira 12y ago
First, I hope the hostages make it out all right. But I'm already thinking about the consequences for the rest of us. I fear the splash damage. In the US, 9/11 triggered a Homeland Security response that worked effectively like an
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by candeira 12y ago
Thanks so much. This is one of the best talks I've seen in a long time.
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by candeira 12y ago
Mass-distance, sure. Time starts becoming a metric of the quality and vintage of the elevators involved, and not of the capacity.
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by candeira 12y ago
At least one segment of the cycling path known as the Yarra Trail here in Melbourne is also floating. I can think of a stretch in Burnley: https://goo.gl/maps/mbKr4 I'm not very sure the map is correct, because ev
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by candeira 12y ago
As a Spaniard now living in the inner suburbs of Melbourne, I have a good view into both ways of living. My wife likes to say that we live closer to shops than she's ever lived, and farther from shops than I've ever lived.
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by candeira 12y ago
The solution would be to count meters of elevator per person.
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by candeira 12y ago
Helmets still protect against skull fractures, and I'll take that while I can.
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by candeira 12y ago
There is also python-future, which lets you write in a large subset of Python 3 and run it on either Python 2 or 3. http://python-future.org/
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Hoefler and Frere-Jones settle out of court(theverge.com)
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by candeira 12y ago
There is a good introductory course at Coursera, taught by Professor Jennifer Widom. I liked it, not only because of the contents and the format (which are good, and work for me), but because of how intensely enthusiastic the Dr Widom was.
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by candeira 12y ago
I'd like to see the office where he keeps the rest of his stuff, like books and other tools he needs for work, paperwork, etc...
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by candeira 12y ago
A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity: http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/915.htm... By Cosma Shalizi
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by candeira 12y ago
What textbook would be recommended for someone wanting not only to accept the challenge, but also to get some theory under their belt at the same time?
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by candeira 12y ago
Related: Recently Google has been sending me cheery messages about something called Albums that it compiles for me out of the photos I take with my Android phone's camera. The feature is as creepy as it's all over the place. I thi
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by candeira 12y ago
> When you're teaching systems programming, all the things that have to be done by hand in C are precisely the things the students are supposed to be learning. But for almost everything else, they're pointless details that obsc
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by candeira 12y ago
> they may eventually be expected to write code for a hashmap in C or some other low-level language as part of a data structures or algorithms class (...) > This may simply be a preview. No, this is it as far as the core units go. Thi
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by candeira 12y ago
Yes, many of us here at HN were programming before going to university, or instead of going to university, but at Monash we are dealing with our first year intake, not with the typical HN commenter. I hedge that many of our students have ne
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by candeira 12y ago
I think it's a combination of three factors: 1. Historically, before it was taught in Java, this unit was taught in C, and it would have been a natural transition from building data structures via explicit pointer manipulation to expla
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by candeira 12y ago
Our unit is a first year unit, and runs for twelve weeks. This means that we have ten weeks to take people who may have never programmed by typing text into an editor and teach them enough CS and programming that they can implement their ow
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by candeira 12y ago
I don't know, though recently we've been merged with Engineering, so I'm sure there will be more collaboration.
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by candeira 12y ago
No, it wasn't me, though I did let anybody in my FIT2004 tutorials (the second data structures and algorithms course, for those who didn't go to Monash) do their work in Python. I only had one taker.
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by candeira 12y ago
Yes, a co-worker just chastised me in very nice terms for making up stuff. Static typing.
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by candeira 12y ago
I don't think so. Monash is now starting its own MOOC, so the unit could end up online, but that's beyond my knowledge or decision.
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by candeira 12y ago
I may have made this term up myself; I am on the go and can't check it. As I use the expression "lexical typing", it means that the type of a variable can be ascertained from examining the text of the program, without needing

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