eddie_the_head

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by eddie_the_head 13y ago
I want to reach Satori, but the Iversonian enlightenment may be too powerful to bear for a mere ALGOL-like accustomed mortal. ⍝
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by eddie_the_head 13y ago
I have a fear that the problem with these APL family languages is that they ruin coding in any other language for you.
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by eddie_the_head 13y ago
How is this not double jeopardy?
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by eddie_the_head 13y ago
Two .gr / Greek links on HN in a day, nice.
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by eddie_the_head 13y ago
Thanks, I was confused when tmux didn't act as gnu screen did when I first tried to use it for pair programming.
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
Why Saudi Arabia?
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
Where did you learn to type like that?
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
I missed that one, do you mind sharing a link?
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
There have been KA video apps for iPhone for quite a long while now, I was expecting that the official one would have the exercise dashboard and practice problems. Hopefully this will ship in future versions. Thanks KA team.
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
Side trades at the family food cart I ran during summers, like selling drugs.
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
http://strtotime.net/
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
libGDX[1][2] (it's not an engine) is a great cross-platform Java library that allows you target the desktop (Win/Mac/Linux/etc), Android, HTML5 (through GWT), and now iOS all with the same codebase, built on standards like OpenGL ES/WebGL.
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Sytes is the PHP of Common Lisp(lisperator.net)
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
10gen is conducting free MongoDB classes on edX (MOOC platform by Harvard+MIT+Berkeley) currently. https://education.10gen.com/courses M101: MongoDB for Developers M102: MongoDB for DBAs
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
I am actually from Ethiopia, and from what my parents who were raised there tell me, the education was in Amharic so they learned to read/speak it early on, alongside their morhertongue Somali. Of course ethnic groups tend to use their lang
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
Actually most Oromo people can speak, and many can read/write in Amharic as it's the dominant national language.
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
Are these COCOM limitations based in the hardware or software of the GPS devices by the manufacturers? If it's in the software, are there not free and opensource firmwares out there that can go around such limitations?
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
By realizing the payout matrix for me isn't positive and not wasting my time?
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
Where'd you go to school?
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
Are the wiring rates low, relative to other countries around Germany or otherwise? How are wire rates for wiring money from say the UK? Who are the primary wire transfer companies in use in Germany? Thank you for your time.
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
I am curious what the alternative but far more popular payment variants in Germany to credit cards are.
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
buro9 answered this question very well, and I just link to his comment whenever it comes up again: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2249789
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
Well, there's people like dons and ibdknox who are famous from their open source contributions who make good comments and are worth following, or those who show up and make worthwhile contributions in their domain space like cynicalkane in
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
Besides people associated with YC like pg, rtm, jl, paul etc, a good litmus test is often simply age of account and the person's background from their profile. People I know who have good backgrounds and make consistently good comments from
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
Hi, do you have an email I could reach you with? Your profile is empty.
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
I'd be interested in seeing which keys I press most when I'm programming in APL.
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
Actually, what you say about the price for kdb+ is true, but Q (the new language to query kdb+, essentially the latest version of K which is now deprecated) is very much like SQL, syntaxwise. The way I see it, this is very much targeted at
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
We in #Udacity on irc.freenode.net definitely are :) ! You can join via webchat if you don't have an IRC client yet: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=udacity
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
I noticed awhile back that user rougefeta used Arc or something strongly resembling it for their webapp they were applying to YC with, have any others also used Arc-based webapps to apply to YC? rougefeta seems to have taken the site down t

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