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   by candeira 12y ago

   I work at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Last year we moved our foundational course in data structures and algorithms from Java to Python, with great success. This is a course that used to be taught in C, then moved to Java. I t
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   by candeira 12y ago

   > Since when people call him "Doug"? One datapoint: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/2.04/cyc-o.html So for more than 20 years.
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   Python list comprehensions and the with keyword(medium.com)

   1 points by candeira 12y ago|1 comments
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   by candeira 13y ago

   If I was given this job, not knowing anything about typewriters or spying, my first plan would be to modify all typewriters regularly by switching parts around according to a random draw, and also by rejigging any calibration settings (indi
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   by candeira 13y ago

   I've been in this position as a co-founder, having to deal with a contractor who was also the spouse of a co-founder, and who managed to drive everybody crazy, including other contractors and employees, other co-founders, and their own
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   by candeira 13y ago

   The Evian and Skype logos are definitely not typeset in Helvetica.
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   Ask HN: Best Open Source Phonegap and Titanium Apps?

   85 points by candeira 13y ago|47 comments
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   by candeira 13y ago

   After trying it with my daughter: - Some words are way too difficult for several reasons, from knowledge of the world (what's a typewriter?) to word length (in the "pictures to written words" game, "debajo de" was d
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   by candeira 13y ago

   Looks like a good vocabulary trainer for pre-literate students! I plan to use it with my 4 year old daughter (I'm a native Spanish speaker but my wife is Australian and we live in Australia, so her English is way ahead of her Spanish).
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    by candeira 13y ago

    Background at https://plus.google.com/+JacoboTarrio/posts/jjeQ7wTUG9U
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    Software Defined Radio in JavaScript, as a Chrome App(github.com)

    4 points by candeira 13y ago|1 comments
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    by candeira 13y ago

    Some time ago I read that Andover.net/Geeknet made most of its money via ThinkGeek. It still didn't made the company any profit [1]. [1] - http://beta.fool.com/ddelony/2012/09/20/will-selling-sl
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    by candeira 13y ago

    It's the size of a (female) connector.
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    by candeira 13y ago

    Look at blueprint: https://github.com/devstructure/blueprint/ Right now it has frontends for bcfg2, cfengine, chef, puppet and shell scripts. It's not perfect, but it does a pretty good job of giving you a ba
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    by candeira 13y ago

    Some years ago I wrote a comment on Slashdot[1] where I researched what GNU software isn't copyleft. Copying it here because it took me almost 20 minutes to find it again, and I want the info to gain some Google juice so I can find it
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    by candeira 13y ago

    I'm fairly sure that was a joke.
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    by candeira 13y ago

    I use my Ansible runs (which are much shorter, but still take a huge chunk of the day in agregate) to update my todos and timesheets, doodle ideas... and also to check email and HN. So it goes. Of course, my Ansible runs are shorter because
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    by candeira 13y ago

    fair enough...
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    by candeira 13y ago

    s/proves/shows/
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    by candeira 13y ago

    About the "ignorance" on the part of the FBI guy, I wouldn't believe anything an interrogating officer tells me. Playing dumb is one of the oldest tricks in the book: "So, tell me about the religion you claim to profess
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    by candeira 13y ago

    Because nobody needs retraining or relearning when moving from one version of MS Office to the next.
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    by candeira 13y ago

    T-shaped is the way to go. Go wide in a broad swath of disciplines and skills, especially with the ability to combine them and collaborate in them (i.e understanding design and sales as well as technology, and being able to work well with d
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    by candeira 13y ago

    And the converse: sufficiently clever sabotage is indistinguishable from a bug, as evidenced by the "Xerox copier randomly prints penises" prank: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157422
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    by candeira 13y ago

    Sufficiently advanced bugs are indistinguishable from sabotage.
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    by candeira 13y ago

    I installed it yesterday. It fails at the point of Jasmin: jasmin QR.j QR.j:2: Warning - Syntax error. ^ QR.j:2: Error - Couldn't repair and continue parse. ^ QR.j: Found 2 errors And then completely craps out at the badly generated Ja
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    by candeira 13y ago

    Thanks too!
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    by candeira 13y ago

    Thanks!
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    by candeira 13y ago

    Would you consider to support the Rackspace drivers for Apache libcloud? It's a great library for projects using mixed infrastructure from different IaaS providers. It may not be in the primary interest of Rackspace, but definitely in the p
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    by candeira 14y ago

    I help run barrapunto.com, a Slasdhot clone in Spanish backed by a Spanish company. We have a Python topic that refers to the Python language. We lost some of our early content, but currently our first story on that topic is from October 20
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    by candeira 14y ago

    I miss one of these everytime I'm cooking or doing other things that require me to get my hands dirty or unavailable. I'd love to have something like this so I can answer the phone (skype!), check out at recipes/howtos, or change playlists