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by dbpokorny 11y ago
> This is going to make a great case study in the future on how to manage the relationship with user generated content sites By providing members of the general public with quality news aggregation and community management tools, Reddit
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> Now…people are doing math on tablets This just isn't true. Every once in a while you see a student trying one out, but the technology isn't there. People do math with notebooks and pencils.
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
The author of this article fails to incorporate two relevant prior explorations of this topic: (1) from the Buddhist perspective and (2) from Wilfrid Sellars' work, in particular "Empiricism And The Philosophy Of Mind". The r
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
Please create a reddit throwaway and post your thoughts on /r/Buddhism. Edit: why am I being down-voted?
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
What are your thoughts on scheme vs. python for teaching programming grades 4-8? UC Berkeley switched from SICP to (SICP - Scheme + Python) and I love both scheme and python but haven't the foggiest idea which is actually better for
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
> look at source code A smart high-school student who enjoys a challenge comes up to you and asks which projects to look at, and (if you say more than one) which one to start with. What do you say?
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
Programming talent is developed through practice, and in order to practice, you need a foundation. This book gives you a good foundation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of... SICP is an extra
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
noble strategy - thanissaro bhikkhu http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/nobles... Very readable introduction to the dhamma.
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
> And yet any media player beats it at its core functionality: video playback. But can you build a democratic 24/7 music/video feed with a native video playback app? Maybe, but it is much easier with the web. And it has already
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
> until their inability to drive a car keeps them from the polls... According to http://www.mtvoters.org/node/356 If you're unable to drive to the polls yourself, you have several options: You can vote by mail.
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
The NSA has lost the trust of the American public and now needs to work hard to regain that trust. This is tone deaf in the extreme...the NSA must be in full-blown denial mode. Job #1 is admitting you have a problem. We have a problem. The
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
Why not use scheme streams and the SICP chapter 4 query language? This was done in the 1980s. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-24.html... 3.5.2 Infinite Streams
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
And doge said, Let there be parody programming languages And there were parody programming languages If even one person picks up "A Shorter Model Theory" because of this, much wow
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by dbpokorny 12y ago
How does it work when the subject matter is compilers, for example in the context of CompCert?
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by dbpokorny 12y ago
You are correct; Good art has an amplification effect on what already exists. It translates an experience that affects one person (the artist, or a character in the artist's imagination) to an experience that resonates for a larger aud
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by dbpokorny 12y ago
I just finished http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide Great book, I got the Peter Constantine translation. It was published 30 years before the French revolution. To answer your question, the fact that the powers that b
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by dbpokorny 12y ago
This is great news, it feels like the future is finally starting to arrive. Check this out: http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/
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by dbpokorny 12y ago
The essay "What happened to the future?" is, I think, notable for what it does not contain, which is any mention of mathematics. The Digital Math Library project has been going on for years in the background (mostly in Europe). Th
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by dbpokorny 12y ago
Still no epsilon-delta support? This is the sort of thing I have in mind: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/110573/continuous-fu...
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"Regulating the internet under Title II would invoke a firestorm of criticism from conservatives as well as centrist-liberals who see it as inconsistent with how regulatory agencies should operate in the modern era." You end with
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It is dangerous to go alone! take this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen
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by dbpokorny 12y ago
"When a program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes" Clearly never used HyperCard.
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by dbpokorny 12y ago
Why don't we just shut down the FCC? (Serious question) http://transition.fcc.gov/Plan-for-Orderly-Shutdown-Septembe...
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"forcing the deliberate use of different programming languages" ...wait, what? I don't see how this solves anything. It's like asking American schoolchildren to learn English, Russian, and Chinese before doing math. Make
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This is what happens when you don't have real competition in the operating system market. Shameful.
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Wikipedia is getting very awkward - it is clear that some articles are 100% propaganda, while others appear to have honest insight into world events. I guess it's good to break the habit of thinking that history (like AP US History) ca
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by dbpokorny 12y ago
If this is legal, is legality meaningless?
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by dbpokorny 12y ago
Control-F "asm.js", found nothing, Control-F "emscripten", found nothing, closed window. Dude, JavaScript is the new assembler. Forget about JavaScript. It's irrelevant. Cat's out of the bag, IE+Safari are goin
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by dbpokorny 12y ago
Well, why don't you infringe the copyrights and then tell us how it goes?
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by dbpokorny 12y ago
I suspect that asm.js will obliterate the existing space of web browsers soon. They are bloated dinosaurs from the last millennium. In fact, a "browser-in-browser" project along the lines of jslinux and vim.js, where the entire br

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