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by daffodil2 12y ago
I'm actually very interested, which is why I bothered to comment in the first place. I had to download the HTML of the article and search and replace all exclamation points with periods to be able to read it.
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by daffodil2 12y ago
I wish this didn't have so many exclamation points in it! There are literally 41 (!!!) exclamation points in this short blog post! It is exhausting to read! Please consider not using so many! There should be ways to convey enthusiasm a
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Html5ever – High-performance Browser-grade HTML5 Parser in Rust(github.com)
1 points by daffodil2 12y ago|0 comments
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by daffodil2 12y ago
For a function f and a value x, foldr f x [a,b,c] gets turned into f(a, f(b, f(c, x))) '(:)' is list concatenation, so the result is 1 : (2 : (3 : [])) (Here we are writing list concatenation in infix no
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by daffodil2 12y ago
A "well actually" occurs when a person is splitting hairs. This can be desirable, for example when you're trying to obtain a complete understanding of something. But in normal conversation, such pedanticism is often annoying.
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by daffodil2 12y ago
I didn't mean to imply it was trivial to understand, but it's no more difficult than the formal definition of, say, a derivative (which involves a limit, and hence an epsilon-delta construction, which in my experience are not so e
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by daffodil2 12y ago
The article argues against overly formal approaches, but I actually think it errs too much in that direction. When I'm studying a math thing, at some point I need you to shut up with the English words and simply describe the object in
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by daffodil2 12y ago
Just as it would be unreasonable to require that anyone who drives a car roughly understands how an engine works, it would be similarly unreasonable to require that anyone who uses the internet roughly understands how addressing works. It i
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An OSI layer model for the 21st century(davidad.github.io)
3 points by daffodil2 12y ago|0 comments
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by daffodil2 12y ago
Wait, it's not clear to me from the blog post. Did they make a system that obsoletes reCAPTCHA? If so, it's just a matter of time before the spam systems catch up, correct? If so, what's the successor to CAPTCHA? Or is the we
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by daffodil2 12y ago
I'm not sure what "fit to be a developer" means. People (with very few exceptions) are not born with labels that say "able to write software professionally" or "not able to write software professionally".
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by daffodil2 12y ago
I've tried reading Rudin a couple times, but it's a bit of a slog. There are easier analysis texts. Abbott's Understanding Analysis is good, though a bit basic. I'm currently reading Terence Tao's Analysis I , wh
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What happened to the Markdown standardization effort?
18 points by daffodil2 13y ago|5 comments
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by daffodil2 13y ago
Find a book about C++. Read as much of it as you can. Write some code. (solving a few Project Euler problems might be worth it as long as you focus on writing dumb brute force solutions). Prioritize the parts of the book that cover things y
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by daffodil2 13y ago
60 pages before defining vector spaces seems like a not so good approach to linear algebra. Since Linear Algebra Done Right has already been recommended, I will suggest Linear Algebra Done Wrong : http://www.math.brown.edu&#x2