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by dnc 12y ago
Very important skill is to learn to laugh. Honestly, without hypocrisy. It shouldn't be difficult, assuming you approach to someone that you are genuinely interested in. Just don't be scared for a start. If you learn that, people
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by dnc 12y ago
Meticulously detailed account of Kepler's bride computing process can be found in his letter to unknown nobleman (dated from Linz, 23 October 1613). I've read just fragments of it from "The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man&#x2
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by dnc 13y ago
Sorry, if I'm asking stupid question or if I'm suggesting something already implemented, but why not do opposite: endorse all comments at start and give 'delete comment' right to HN users with karma > 1000? This way t
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by dnc 13y ago
Beej's guide is great! Thanks!
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by dnc 13y ago
This is striking testimony about Aldous Huxley taking LSD on his deathbed written by his wife: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/03/most-beautiful-death.ht... . It seems that this very emotional account is in accor
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by dnc 13y ago
You will find example here: http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~steele/Courses/434/434Con... There is relatively simple, yet illustrative problem described on the first page. The solution is on the second page
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by dnc 13y ago
They are roughly at the same level of google trend popularity if you use just language names (w/o 'programming'): http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=python,ruby&cmpt=q EDIT: This one is maybe mor
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by dnc 13y ago
Not first time that somebody tries to make quant news: http://quant.ly/ . Wish yours site has more luck that this one.
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by dnc 13y ago
> Incidentally I don't know if that scoping example is intentionally ignoring the fact that Ruby does support lexical scoping (EDIT: for blocks), or if it's lack of understanding of what what "def" is I also don'
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Yandex Co-Founder on Life Support(online.wsj.com)
1 points by dnc 13y ago|1 comments
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by dnc 13y ago
I couldn't agree more. I would never want to work for someone who is able to fire anyone after only a week for whatever reason (assuming he does good screening of candidates, otherwise the problem is his broken hiring process and I don
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by dnc 13y ago
Thanks for pointing out this.
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by dnc 13y ago
It seems to me that the absolute intuitionist and absolute logician can not exist as real persons. I see them rather as two extremes that are always mixed in some proportion (and always in fight with each other for more space, so the propor
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by dnc 13y ago
I'm not c++ programmer, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that the reference example is not correct. Shouldn't it be as bellow? // reference example int value = 0; int& value1 = value;
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by dnc 13y ago
> First - don't care at all about your job. Maybe it is counter intuitive but I think healthy dose of this keeps me more productive and more focused on the job. While at work I always try to keep somewhere in the back of my mind Bertran
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by dnc 13y ago
I have the same impression that the Excel error is just abused so he can reiterate his attack against austerity proponents. The paper in question just fails to provide evidence that 90% is a tipping point of debt to GDP ratio. It does not
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by dnc 14y ago
When I think about R I find it difficult to stop making analogies between it and JavaScript. Both are dynamic, "script" languages with C-based syntax and with LISP-like nature that lurks underneath it. Both have functions as first class cit
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by dnc 14y ago
I think Aleph is nice name. There is already Wolfram Alpha, and Aleph, while it is related to it, is IMO more appropriate for general purpose language. It sounds to me mystical and abstract/mathematical at the same time as it reminds me of
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by dnc 14y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I find it difficult not to make analogies between R and JavaScript. Both are dynamic, "script" languages with C-based syntax and with LISP-like nature that lurks underneath it. Both have functions as first class citi
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by dnc 14y ago
While I don't have 2nd problem, I'm also considering alternatives to d3.js because of the 1st one. I've seen that some people tried combination of d3.js and Raphael in order to overcome this issue (for instance: http://stackoverflow.com/qu
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by dnc 14y ago
I couldn't agree more. I'm in good company too: "road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work" (Bertrand Russell - In Prise of Idleness, http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html ). The trouble is that the organized d
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Understand memory leaks in JavaScript apps(ibm.com)
2 points by dnc 14y ago|0 comments
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by dnc 14y ago
> The genius of the GPL, of course, is that it aligns ones own ... I agree. That's basically what Linus also said in the continuation of the quoted interview. I also think that being "selfish" (to some healthy degree) is not a bad thing
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by dnc 14y ago
Here is what Linus Torvalds said on the topic in the other interview: "In many ways, I actually think the real idea of open source is for it to allow everybody to be "selfish", not about trying to get everybody to contribute to some common
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by dnc 14y ago
Thanks for pointing it out. I didn't see it. Your comment motivated me to look at the whole post about JavaScript prototypes again and read it. It is very good, I refreshed my knowledge about Object.prototype, Function.prototype design.
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by dnc 14y ago
Nope, he doesn't. :)
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by dnc 14y ago
One portion of Douglas Crockford's book "JavaScript: The Good Parts" describes invocation patterns thoroughly. It might be that the author of the post was inspired by this book. Since he hasn't mentioned it, I did it in case someone wants t
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There is Little Interest in Lisp History.(kazimirmajorinc.blogspot.com)
2 points by dnc 14y ago|0 comments
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by dnc 14y ago
> So combining the two will not give you something that will make up for each of the ones weaknesses and always give a definite answer True, although the probability of a false answer given that we combine them can be smaller from the
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by dnc 14y ago
I've just made $2,180,000.0 :) (169 trades). Simple, nice idea. Congrats!

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