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by chewxy 13y ago
I don't think I am ever qualified to write text book material. Bits of the book I suspect will be "How I got to this point in the code". There will be a lot of show-by-example. I've written half a chapter so far and it d
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Ask HN: Examples of good writing in computer science?
6 points by chewxy 13y ago|6 comments
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by chewxy 13y ago
My favourite ship is not there. You may have seen it. Blue box, has the words "PULL TO OPEN" on it. Some times a St.John's Ambulance logo. Both my hearts love that ship dearly.
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Your Language Sucks - A wiki of complaints of programming languages(wiki.theory.org)
4 points by chewxy 13y ago|0 comments
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by chewxy 13y ago
There is also this one which I posted a few months ago: http://scotch.io/demos/star-wars-attack-of-the-dom
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by chewxy 13y ago
Still haven't broken my 30 day streak record since the last time I wrote about it [0]. Bums me out. 0 - http://blog.chewxy.com/2013/06/25/dry-spell/
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by chewxy 13y ago
I concur. See my other comment. It's surprisingly very difficult to explain open source (what do you mean you share code with people for free?), forking (wait, you let people change what you wrote???) to non developers. I personally en
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by chewxy 13y ago
Watching this reminds me how difficult it was trying to explain Fork the Cookbook to normal non-programmers. In fact, trying to explain to programmers who do not know what git is was difficult as well. Is there a way open source and git and
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Writing a New Dictionary? [video](video.foxbusiness.com)
28 points by chewxy 13y ago|25 comments
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by chewxy 13y ago
I found my experience with Fork the Cookbook[0] the same as well. Also, add to the fact that this is a novel method, I get a lot of emails asking why they get new passwords everytime. If I were to rewrite FtC today, I'd go with Persona
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by chewxy 13y ago
This is exactly the problem. Also, the vox populi interviews in newspaper from older people saying "25 mbps is fast enough" makes me rage so hard. Oh, 25 Mbps is fast enough? So if I were to offer you $25 or $1000 which would you
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by chewxy 13y ago
Wow, the amount of death posts.
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by chewxy 13y ago
Not really. What most opt-out cookies do is that they have a "DO NOT TRACK" or "IGNORE" in the cookie fields. Let's say you run a DMP, you think you can be smart by tracking people with cookies that have a "DO
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Open Source vs Closed Source: A comparison of downloads and revenue(lunduke.com)
2 points by chewxy 13y ago|0 comments
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by chewxy 13y ago
Not really. I found that shows like Person of Interest, Continuum or even bits of Fringe are best watched in a row. I would say American TV production schedules of 24 episodes a season is the bits that are killing TV watching. I would defin
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by chewxy 13y ago
See also Landslide by Adam Zaplatel: https://github.com/adamzap/landslide
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by chewxy 13y ago
Do you have permission to pull data from Gatherer? If so, you should also have the image url in your response. That'd be awesome
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Seeing the Elephant: Defragmenting User Research(alistapart.com)
3 points by chewxy 13y ago|0 comments
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by chewxy 13y ago
Actually relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/303/
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by chewxy 13y ago
What do you need/want now? If you don't have anything you need/want, I think that is a bigger problem than learning a new language. otherwise: code what you want now.
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by chewxy 13y ago
I used to use both Python and R for data analysis. Good Python (numpy) code is usually a bit faster than good R code. However, R lends itself to ad-hoc analysis much better. Less cruft and weird transformation to set up for ad hoc analysis.
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by chewxy 13y ago
The comments here are better: http://climateecology.wordpress.com/2013/08/19/r-vs-python-s...
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by chewxy 13y ago
Same here. It was a tweet about my typo from "python" to "pythong"[0]. Every few weeks I would get a random favourite from a plausible sounding name. They're all bots [0] https://twitter.com/chewxy&#
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by chewxy 13y ago
There is an old OReilly book (2006) which deals with this. I think it was called Programming Collective Intelligence
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by chewxy 13y ago
I hope Fork the Cookbook is on someone's list :P
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by chewxy 13y ago
slices are not arrays in Go. Slices are built on top of arrays. You can still access Go arrays.
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by chewxy 13y ago
DNS root domains have no names. That makes http://ai/ a fully qualified domain name. But apparently ICANN has now banned such things. Gods know why. My eyes glazed over after the 10th "whereas". That document rea
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by chewxy 13y ago
So, lisp machines of the 80s?
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PEP 8 for Python, Go fmt all the things
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by chewxy 13y ago
Interesting. So other people too do get it mixed up. Makes me feel less silly when I find bits of my own code that looks like `x := >- receiverChannel` I've always thought it's because of carelessness

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