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by clintonc 10y ago
There's a distinction between the software itself being excellent and the team being fast-moving.
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by clintonc 11y ago
I disagree; I clicked this to read it and was dismayed to learn that I had read this YEARS ago. Most posts are brand new content, so all old content should be marked, I think.
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by clintonc 11y ago
Three things which worked for me when I was a kid: - Games - Pretty pictures - Music Someone suggested python processing. This might be cool. Also, pygame can be fun. For games, you could introduce the kid to the game of Nim, learn a str
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by clintonc 11y ago
My rationale for single quotes is also that JSON chose for you -- if you have JSON-formatted strings in your javascript and you use single quotes for your strings, you don't have to escape the double quotes.
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by clintonc 11y ago
Well, it could last ten years, like Google Code did. :P
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by clintonc 11y ago
I really like the approach of cloning the repository and writing to the tests!
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by clintonc 11y ago
For example, 'if x == None' versus 'if x is None'. The latter is to be preferred (since identity is faster and more clear than comparison), but you see the former sometimes.
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by clintonc 11y ago
PEP generally stands for Python Enhancement Proposal -- PEP 8 isn't the only one.
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by clintonc 11y ago
It appears that he wrote a parametrized game of life simulator. Not particularly mathematical. Not particularly general, either; the three numbers are extracted as parameters (so still a square grid in two dimensions, where persistence is
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by clintonc 11y ago
eye roll What is the purpose of a non-"web 1.0" login page? This is not to win customers; it's supposed to work. And for thousands and thousands of employees every day, this works just fine.
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by clintonc 11y ago
Maybe by "simple" he only means "without IntelliSense" :)
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by clintonc 11y ago
It's not about making an uncomfortable environment; it's a recognition that a program is 90% written before you should ever fire up your editor. What is meant by "full potential" here? You are not expected to write a hu
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by clintonc 12y ago
The information on the pretty website is spare. However, there are a few issues which give me pause. The integral example already given is one. One must wonder what is going on "under the hood" to give such a result. My hypothe
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by clintonc 12y ago
This is really thoughtfully done. I like it. :)
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by clintonc 12y ago
How beautiful. It's easy to forget how little everyday goals really can make your life better.
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by clintonc 12y ago
Math pedant to the rescue! Actually, rates combine in a multiplicative way -- losing 3% and then 4% does not lose 7%, (though it's close). What if the economy lost 1% each day for a year? It would not lose 365%. If we assume the annu
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by clintonc 12y ago
40 hours of work per week!? Eight hours a day, five days a week, for every class?
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by clintonc 12y ago
This article is about adjunct instructors, who are not paid per hour -- they are paid a fixed amount per course. Average pay is $3000 per course [1]. Teaching four courses in a semester is a full-time job; this gives $24,000 per year, usu
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by clintonc 12y ago
Yeah, I noticed the same. I believe that I fixed it by changing my iCloud password so that my old phone was not authorized to receive iMessages anymore.
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by clintonc 12y ago
Not sure what you mean by this, since your comment has no context -- there are no limits or sums in the link. However, even the humble Riemann integral would be able to find the area under the graph of a bounded function on a compact inter
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by clintonc 12y ago
Well, Quick Sort is O(n log n) on average, but you know that. Also, anything that's O(n log n) is also O(n^2), which means that the author is the worst kind of correct -- but you knew that too :)
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Entropy of images(clintoncurry.net)
1 points by clintonc 12y ago|0 comments
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by clintonc 13y ago
Googling "perceptual hash" yields http://www.phash.org/
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by clintonc 13y ago
Before you press the space bar, "nowisthetimeforallgoodmentocometotheaidoftheircountry" sounds like the music they used to play early in the mornings on VH1...
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by clintonc 13y ago
Also, if you hover over the geometric objects in the proof (like an AB or ABC), the corresponding object is highlighted in the figure.
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by clintonc 13y ago
I did not know about the "last" command. Very cool resource.
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by clintonc 13y ago
10^275 whats? Also, who keeps track of these records? Who verified the accuracy of the zoom? Sorry, "self-proclaimed" records get me a little grumpy...
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by clintonc 13y ago
Man, I loved buttons. This post made with vim.
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Ask HN: Advice for an academic looking for a career change?
7 points by clintonc 13y ago|6 comments
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by clintonc 13y ago
Do you sell your themes from your own site?

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