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by cenazoic 12y ago
Read patio11's words on this: "We have strong cultural training to not ask about salary, ever. This is not universal. In many cultures, professional contexts are a perfectly appropriate time to discuss money... If I were a Marx
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by cenazoic 12y ago
See also this previous HN thread about Pollen (written on top of Racket) by Matthew Butterick of Butterick's Practical Typography fame. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7822057
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by cenazoic 12y ago
Heh - my 'short version' was inadvertently included in my top comment. I also use the brew install version.
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by cenazoic 12y ago
This is the best discussion of the different versions of emacs available for MacOS I've seen (including emacsformacos): http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/271/what-is-the-dif... Short version: Lunaryor
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by cenazoic 12y ago
Of the major distros, only Slackware and Gentoo.
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Why Do Recipe Writers Lie and Lie About How Long It Takes to Caramelize Onions?(slate.com)
8 points by cenazoic 12y ago|4 comments
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by cenazoic 12y ago
I'm attempting some self-taught coding (my degree is in history), and after much dithering, have started with How to Design Programs (htdp.org). SICP is beyond me at this point, and I wanted to get a good grounding in general concept
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by cenazoic 12y ago
Sacha Chua recently did one of her "Emacs Chats" with Xah Lee: http://sachachua.com/blog/category/podcast/emacs-chat-podcas...
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by cenazoic 13y ago
It's a non-event to you because you want design docs, not 'incredibly boring' financial data or 'HR crap'. The reality is that this type of archive isn't really meant for you, it's meant for historians a
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by cenazoic 13y ago
Minneapolis is doing something similar: http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/24844049/lyft-minneapol...
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Variety in Public Radio Music: A Look at the Data(swansone.com)
2 points by cenazoic 13y ago|1 comments
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by cenazoic 13y ago
In the Air Force I was a 'cryptologic Russian linguist' (it had nothing to do with code-breaking, although it was an intelligence field). I wonder if he was referencing linguists.
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by cenazoic 13y ago
* The Quincunx , Charles Palliser (historical fiction: "Those for whom this...will be a special treat are those who enjoy solving word or logic puzzles. To be enjoyed to its fullest, this is a book that benefits from active participation o
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by cenazoic 14y ago
An interesting implementation of the 'learn X in Y years/hours' concept is here: http://thedanplan.com . "It’s a project in transformation. An experiment in potential and possibilities. Through 10,000 hours of “deliberate practice,” Dan, w
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by cenazoic 14y ago
I know the usual answers - stability, KISS, etc, but as a newbie(ish) to Linux in general and Slackware in particular, I almost think this question (which comes up repeatedly) is almost missing the entire point of Slackware. I've decided th
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Slackware 14 released(slackware.com)
1 points by cenazoic 14y ago|0 comments
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How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards(io9.com)
249 points by cenazoic 14y ago|62 comments
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by cenazoic 16y ago
I'm another one of the mostly passive readers of the site, mostly because I'm teaching myself to program, rather than actually being a programmer. HN has raised my awareness, made me more thoughtful about how and what I actually think about
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by cenazoic 17y ago
No, because people of different genders/ethnicities bring different perspectives to the table. Because if a field is dominated by say, white males, the few women or non-white males are going to feel (frequently with good reason) like they'
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by cenazoic 17y ago
Miles, I love your fink software! Any chance you'll release it?
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by cenazoic 17y ago
As a data point, I attended DLI in 1991-1992 for Russian. At the time the basic Russian class lasted for 47 weeks..5 days a week, 8 hours a day. If I remember correctly, Arabic was 63 weeks. DLI 'ranked' languages according to difficulty.
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by cenazoic 18y ago
Appreciate the feedback, guys. In particular, the progression of HtDP->SICP->CTM by Kaizyn is helpful; I'd been wondering how these 'big 3' stacked up in terms of difficulty. Edited for future reference: HtDP: How to Design Program
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Ask HN: Why is SICP generally preferred over HtDP?
8 points by cenazoic 18y ago|4 comments