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by ek 15y ago
Yes, but MathOverflow is a website for research mathematicians. Studying mathematics after college is what most of the people on that website get paid to do.
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by ek 15y ago
Yes and no. This list makes me sad because it neglects every single computer scientist that's interested in doing work on theory. I am one such computer scientist, and much of the work that I do involves merely pen and paper. There are a lo
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by ek 15y ago
Let me start by stating that I think I understand the point of this article. As a student, for example, I often opt to study in the library in lieu of getting work done in my own domicile because I know that the relative discomfort combined
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The Flu Game(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ek 16y ago
Do you typeset any serious mathematical work in Word 2010? When people talk about TeX's mathematical typesetting abilities, they are often (from personal experience, as a math major currently in school) referring to having to typeset docume
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by ek 16y ago
You cannot compare use of the metric system to use of Dvorak or tau=2pi. While Dvorak and tau may be objectively better, the real world gains to be had by switching to either are slim in reality. I already type upwards of 90 words a minute
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by ek 16y ago
Hold on. Gruber says that videos from the iTunes Store require less CPU to decode. It strikes me that that must be patently untrue. If anything, the DRM should require the decoder to work harder. Can someone explain by what metric this migh
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by ek 16y ago
Google Chrome now asks for your permission to let plugins run.
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by ek 16y ago
Linear probing will always let you fill a hash table to a load factor (\alpha) of 1. Double hashing may prohibit this, even if it is more efficient for smaller values of \alpha.
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by ek 16y ago
Really? In Spaces, I can grab a window with my trackpad and then hit my hotkey to go to the next space. In Gnome on Ubuntu, I have to right-click and hit "move to workspace", and in apps with nonstandard widgets (read: Chrome), even that do
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by ek 16y ago
It's true that HTDP is a little slow, but Felleisen is a master of CS pedagogy, and it shows in the book. The "design recipe" system that the book presents is actually extremely helpful in designing software once internalized. HTDP and SICP
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Resolved: Eat Better, Not Less, for a Healthier Diet(lifehacker.com)
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EFF Wins Landmark Ruling Freeing Promo CDs for Resale(eff.org)
58 points by ek 16y ago|10 comments
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by ek 16y ago
Monkey Island, perhaps? Or am I wrong?
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by ek 16y ago
I've been on winter break from school for the past two weeks, and I've been spending a lot of my time beginning to fix bugs in Chromium, and I've also been honing my graphic/web design skills, studying type, element placement, CSS, JQuery e
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by ek 16y ago
Honestly, it seems like people on HN so often assess things based on their raw usefulness. It makes sense, given that HN is read by many people who think like engineers, but in another recent thread on /r/math, people are talking about how
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by ek 16y ago
Interesting! I'm curious as to what the "VLC" referred to in the plan is.
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An Introduction to Category Theory(vimeo.com)
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by ek 16y ago
It depends in a lot of ways on where you live. In California for example, it's very easy to get a card for about $100 and then you can just go to dispensaries.
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by ek 16y ago
It rhymes.
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by ek 16y ago
This post should be at the top of the thread. When you go to golang.org, one of the first things they highlight, on the homepage, is the fact that Go has native unicode support. The article makes a good point, but what Hanning-Kamp describe
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by ek 16y ago
Nick Parlante has done good with this project. At UCSB, I'm on a team that's doing research into running this kind of website with unit tests, etc. for even more languages and for harder problems, as a curriculum aid.
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by ek 16y ago
When you first got your iPhone, you probably had no idea that you could hold the home button to get to your favorites. By the same token, there are similar shortcuts on Android which you probably have yet to discover. Holding the search but
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by ek 16y ago
Yes. I laughed very hard when it caught on fire.
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by ek 16y ago
I was going to try to find a YouTube clip of it, but I couldn't, so let me just recommend The IT Crowd episode 2.5, in which Moss invents the best bra ever known, except for a few fatal flaws which cause their pitch at the end of the episod
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Buck's cafe serves up venture capital with the granola(mercurynews.com)
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by ek 16y ago
This reminds me of a scene several years ago during the PS3 release. At the Metreon in San Francisco, outside the PlayStation Store that has since closed, Sony was handing out not only bottled water but hamburger meals, real hamburger meals
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by ek 16y ago
Seriously. I skipped to page 6 simply because I didn't want to keep clicking next, next, next.
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by ek 16y ago
Actually, I believe it's fn-left.