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by dsrguru 14y ago
Derivatives are formulaic. Integrals, like proofs, require thinking backwards, i.e. creativity and/or luck. For the vast majority of people, cultivating that intuition is a lot harder than plugging numbers into formulas...
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I've found it's the exact opposite. If you're fine with a low-level coding job and are a competent coder, you'll have no problem getting a job in any major city in the US. The demand way exceeds the supply. However, despite there being far
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by dsrguru 14y ago
That wasn't true for me. Working through vimtutor for vim and the `C-h t' tutorial for emacs, followed by some spaced repetition over the next few weeks, got the basic motion commands of both editors fully ingrained in my muscle memory. It
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There's a lot more that the language of Vim can do than what's in this article. You should check out this screencast on vi/vim's command/text equivalence (analogous to LISP's code/data equivalence): http://blog.extracheese.org/2010/11/scre
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This wasn't about card counting (which is an integral part of blackjack strategy and certainly should be legal in any jurisdiction that allows casinos to operate). Counting takes place in your mind. Breaking into the casino's surveillance f
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You might want to add Shin Dong-hyuk's first-hand account of life in a North Korean prison camp. Slavery, starvation, torture, rape, and murder are the norm, and given that it's illegal to be related to someone in prison, a ridiculous perce
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by dsrguru 14y ago
It's also interesting to note that the worm's author went on to cofound YC.
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As someone who hasn't spent much time in SF but plans to move there very soon and doesn't want to live off of ramen, I genuinely want to know: where does one get those free meals? Edit: namank and iamwill beat me to it.
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by dsrguru 14y ago
> 5. Lisp will be in the top 10 most popular programming languages by 2010. This failed hard. Not according to http://visual.ly/most-popular-programming-languages-2013 . Clojure alone is in 10th place for code submitted to codeeval.com
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That a New York Times journalist would fabricate data in an automobile review in order to wage war on the electric car industry seems beyond belief as well. We really don't have enough info to resolve these discrepancies, but Occam's Razor
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How to install (at least on Linux): 1. Install the Vundle plugin manager for Vim. 2. Add the line "Bundle 'Valloric/YouCompleteMe'" (without the double quotes) to your ~/.vimrc file. 3. Open Vim and run ":BundleInstall" without the quotes.
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Pascal would agree with you, but the problem is that the clay has no way of knowing who its potter is, if any.
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> ... favors your more extroverted engineers. My experience has been the engineers I really want to keep, the ones who solve the really hard problems, are much less likely to be in that group. I, too, read "group" as "extroverted engine
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Informative article, but slightly inaccurate. General American is not "considered generally confined to a small section of the Midwest." This is a myth that I've heard a lot of Midwesterners propagate. Prior to the Northern Cities Vowel Shi
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Well, there's also the size nuance here -- that you need to spend far less than you'll end up earning. For the non-Chinese speakers out there, it literally means "Spend [a] small [amount of] money, make big money," with the same implication
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I'm glad Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming and Moonwalking with Einstein made that list. Lucid dreaming and "photographic" memories are two of the most amazing near-superpower skills that anyone can and probably should learn.
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> No, compilers that accept "void main" do not necessarily produce executables that produce an exit status of 0. I just tried it with gcc on Ubuntu, and the exit status was 1. Interesting. I wonder why gcc does it that way. > And th
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How so? The argument as I understand it is that all C89 standard-compliant compilers work with "int main" (and work correctly), regardless of whether or not the target OS has exit statuses. Not all compilers work with "void main", and those
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Thanks! CTRL -> zoom out here on Linux (and presumably Windows)
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The thing is, most apologies contain the word "sorry." By contrast, this one acknowledges that "[l]egal documents are easy to misinterpret" and that they don't blame us for interpreting "you agree that a business or other entity may pay us
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Applying this to humans would mean if we were currently inbreeding slaves with Down syndrome to produce children with the same condition for entertainment purposes, that we should stop doing that. I'd agree. Edit: Shenglong, just saw your r
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Yeah if you want to get an accurate portrayal and clear up media inventions, you might want to start with the right name of what you're portraying.
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> It's just not true that syntactic borrowing is that uncommon (google it). That means that the historically documented prolonged contact between Scandinavians and the English had some effect on the grammar. No surprise there. Since syn
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The more mathematically-inclined HNers might be interested in Brian Conrad and Terrence Tao's comments at the bottom of this previous HN article: http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/mochizuki-on-a... Edit: Minhyong Kim's initial
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Watch the washlet industry sweep across the Bay Area now.
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I'd imagine a corollary to #2 is by replying to comments at or near the top.
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> All of the west coast is pro legalization. Then how did Measure 80 fail in Oregon? :) I do agree that the general trend toward more states approving medical marijuana suggests that fewer and fewer people are still viewing the drug as
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We'll always have the Matrix problem where it's hard to "prove" self-awareness in others (Descartes does a pretty shitty job), but inasmuch as we have reason to assume other humans have self-awareness, most scientists feel comfortable makin
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by dsrguru 14y ago
Eero Simoncelli's guide to linear algebra is very good too and likely more concise, although it doesn't cover eigenvectors and eigenvalues. http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~eero/NOTES/geomLinAlg.pdf
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Does this mean Arc could be sued by Yahoo?(google.com)
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