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by dsrguru 15y ago
He doesn't like universities because he thinks they're too costly and not good at preparing students for the real world. He now intends to teach a class that prepares students for the real world and will not increase the marginal cost of t
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by dsrguru 15y ago
Whoops, was in the original before I discovered a single newline doesn't provide any whitespace on HN. Thanks!
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Languages a well-rounded programmer ought to know
6 points by dsrguru 15y ago|8 comments
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by dsrguru 15y ago
I'm new to Clojure as well, so I don't know if there's a native way to perform normal I/O. The cleverly named article at http://copperthoughts.com/p/clojure-io-p1 is over a year old, so I don't know if things have changed, but it suggest
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by dsrguru 15y ago
A mix of luck and people having access to incomplete information. Seibel says this: 'Though not about computers per se, The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societ
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by dsrguru 15y ago
But the JVM is just Clojure's underlying implementation. Or technically one of two. That can change in the future. I believe Arc's underlying implementation is pre-Racket PLT Scheme, which is already out of date, but that doesn't mean Ar
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Ask HN: What's Paul Graham's opinion of Clojure?
12 points by dsrguru 15y ago|5 comments
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As I understand it, the main way LISP gives you a quantitative productivity gain (evident from LOC or bytes or tokens) over other high level langauges is that it lets you use syntactic abstraction (macros) to create highly expressive DSLs t
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by dsrguru 15y ago
I'm honestly surprised not every hacker does this. The vast majority of popular browsers supports keyword searching either out of the box or via a plugin.
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Yeah but until we invest as much time, money, and effort into defense against weapons and customized microorganisms as we do into their creation, we're running the risk of this young species (and maybe a lot of the other ones) disappearing
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I think the point here is that you want to weed out such monoglots that lack a deeper understanding of CS and instead find a hacker who loves coding and has exposure to many languages, paradigms, data structures, etc. If that's your goal,
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by dsrguru 15y ago
ADHD diagnoses in general are really scary. I know some people swear by d-amphetamine or methylphenidate prescriptions for children, but the author of http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/opinion/sunday/childrens-a... really seems to know w
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Inspiring story. As others have said, entrepreneurs who use rejection as fuel have an infinitely better chance of succeeding than those who give up. I do want to point out that while the website is very pretty, the viewer needs to scroll d
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by dsrguru 15y ago
Sounds like a more fun version of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, where they threw the greatest minds in science into one location with no responsibilities, and it was, according to Richard Hamming, a disaster.
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by dsrguru 15y ago
Your description of the subjective effects of modafinil sound almost identical to those of Adderall (d-amphetamine). Adderall has a very well established short-term safety profile in therapeutic doses, but long-term use, especially at mode
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by dsrguru 15y ago
Is it bad that I thought this was going to be a joke about quitting emacs?
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Haha 田 is actually a character whose stroke order differs between China and Japan. I'm so used to the Chinese order of the horizontal middle stroke and then the vertical one that I'd probably deliberately use the "wrong order" for Japanese
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by dsrguru 15y ago
This cheat sheet is not "objectively" horrible. If it were, that would mean there can't be any debate about it being horrible. However, there is a debate, which anyone can prove by providing a single counterexample, such as this one: I pe
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by dsrguru 15y ago
I don't have an Android device, so I haven't played around with your free version, but I'm a big fan of using spaced repetition software (SRS) for language learning. Here are some questions: Is your SRS algorithm based on one of the publis
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by dsrguru 15y ago
Being too young to remember a world without the Internet, I'm surprised to see that the terms "venture capital" and "startup" were in vogue in 1984.
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An individual human of times past might have been able to capture his meat, [get the females in his village to] forage for his vegetables, make his own shelter and clothes, etc., but he also probably died around the age of 30. Specializatio
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by dsrguru 15y ago
Obviously the author of this article has a bone to pick with the technology industry as a result of SOPA being shut down for now, but if we divorce ourselves from our knowledge of tech lingo, this doesn't read as a "thinly veiled attempt to