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by ek 14y ago
It seems like he's using the term "third-hand" to refer to languages that merely undergo syntactic expansion in the process of translation to their target language. In the programming languages community, we often refer to this as a "desgua
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by ek 14y ago
I am currently receiving an education in computer science with the intent to pursue a Ph.D. following graduation. I grow somewhat tired of all this anti-college talk - at the bike shop a while back, the worker asked what I was majoring in,
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by ek 14y ago
Sure, AmazonBasics has a capacitive stylus that several iPad owners I know use, and my point was that this is a much less elegant solution than, say, this device or the ThinkPad tablet, which are designed for use with actual pens. I also kn
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by ek 14y ago
Good on Samsung for continuing the trend Lenovo seems to have started of bringing the digitizer pen back. The fact that people are buying aftermarket styli for devices that don't have pens is an indicator that there should be more devices w
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by ek 14y ago
In academic research, it's often even more difficult to draw the line between simple "activity" as Vivek puts it and actual progress. The unfortunate fact about research is that there really is no certainty, so it's hard to measure concrete
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by ek 14y ago
This is somewhat of a nitpick, but for one thing, writing code that is as obviously correct as possible is important in every language, not just in Haskell. Compositionality is one of the most valuable things we can exploit when programming
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by ek 14y ago
Sensationalism alert. This is a soundbyte; here's more context and less shitty journalism: http://www.muktware.com/4042/richard-m-stallman-steam-good-g...
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by ek 14y ago
Wikipedia has what it claims is a partial list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenote#.22One_more_thing.......
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by ek 14y ago
There are a lot of excellent MVNOs worth considering, that don't try to screw over customers and still allow you the benefits of access to a large cell network. Red Pocket, for example, is an AT&T MVNO oriented towards Asian-American cu
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by ek 14y ago
This is some FUD. See WikiProject Wikipedians against censorship for why most of what this guy says is nonsense, and for information on how Wikipedia already allows institutions like public schools that may require filtering of explicit con
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by ek 14y ago
I was discussing this with a colleague recently and I figured I'd mention it on HN the next time DuckDuckGo came up. I feel somewhat silly saying this, but DuckDuckGo is not that great of a name. I love the engine, and have gotten some grea
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by ek 15y ago
This is great news. Last August there was an article on Phoronix about KDE hoping to migrate to Wayland for SC 4.9: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=wayla... Hopefully in 2-3 months, when SC 4.9 is slated for release
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by ek 15y ago
<Pick your favorite mainstream easy-to-interpret language here> , then. I don't think expecting developers to know enough JS or Python to write FizzBuzz is unreasonable.
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by ek 15y ago
The problem I have with this is that Burning Man and the festivals are general-audience events. I'm okay with not getting tickets for Coachella because there are only so many of them and everyone wants to go. Such is life. I'm not okay with
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Fixing I/O(blog.ethankuefner.com)
1 points by ek 15y ago|0 comments
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by ek 15y ago
Yes, I managed to claim an academic ticket and then the payment page was timing out and I wasn't sure why. Turns out it was Ghostery, but once I disabled it, it worked. I wonder what happens for all the people who have claimed a ticket but
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by ek 15y ago
It's possible that you're confusing programmers with computer scientists. Not all programmers are computer scientists, and vice-versa. I understand that the title of the post is about books programmers recommend, but computer science exte
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by ek 15y ago
I really like most things about Go, and was even going to use it for a bytecode interpreter project I was working on. A problem that I ran into, however, was that in interpreting a dynamic language with a stack machine, we needed a way to b
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by ek 15y ago
I attended I/O twice in high school and received the academic pricing without incident. I do know that not having been 18 either time, I had to get my parents to sign some sort of a waiver form, but it wasn't a big deal.
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IKEA launches $86,000 flat-pack house(dailymail.co.uk)
8 points by ek 15y ago|0 comments
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by ek 15y ago
One of the issues with Google Music, and this is something that I have seen increasingly over the past year or so, is that it seems that I can often roll my own, better solution to problems that these services claim to solve. In this specif
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by ek 15y ago
Could you please explain the sentiment about the desktop paradigm becoming outmoded? People seem to say this so frequently and I can't understand it at all. What about people who write code, for example? Do you expect them to be able to ach
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Donald Knuth shares his life's story(webofstories.com)
131 points by ek 15y ago|18 comments
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by ek 15y ago
Yes. I then emailed them regarding my transfer and they responded with platitudes. No real surprise there.
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by ek 15y ago
Because they would mirror the site and then add bad stuff, so it looks legit, and then change the DNS record to point to the mirror.
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by ek 15y ago
I really like this. As a primary user of Linux, however, mpd has been my default audio player of choice for some time now. Ario has been my client, and could stand to be improved. Any chance you might open-source this in the future so that
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by ek 15y ago
Do they have to create a "product"? Reddit is open source, and you can download it if you like, from http://code.reddit.com/ . You could literally build what you are describing on the Reddit platform right now.
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by ek 15y ago
Yes, and for good reason. I have seen suggestions elsewhere on the internet that SICP be taught in Python and other languages, and have even seen "ports" of parts of the book to these other languages. But SICP is by now part of a family of
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Comcast cuts off customer for going over 250GB of legitimate use(12160.info)
274 points by ek 15y ago|279 comments
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Google Developer Day registration requires questionnaire/optional quiz this year(googlecode.blogspot.com)
4 points by ek 15y ago|1 comments

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