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901.
by eliben 15y ago
Not sure it will work, since I've seen at least 3 other mentions of Israel, /before/ I posted mine.
902.
by eliben 15y ago
Israel, which makes it (Rest of) Asia/Pacific
903.
by eliben 15y ago
Since you'd like to get reliable results from all over the world, there's hardly any single suitable timing for such a poll. The only hope is for it to stay visible for close to 24 hours.
904.
by eliben 15y ago
Racket is good, but I think the discussion here is more about educational implementations - small, simple to grasp. There are of course also a number of industrial-strength implementations of the Scheme language in C and C++, but those are
905.
by eliben 15y ago
There are a lot of Scheme implementations floating around the web, in any language you can imagine. I have one of my own (shameless plug: http://code.google.com/p/bobscheme/ ) in Python & C++, and there are many others, at least some o
906.
by eliben 15y ago
Will the materials for these courses (videos + ref material + assignments + solutions) be available for browsing after the course has ended?
907.
by eliben 15y ago
Even if you disliked the original comment, this one is trying to clarify a joke. Now a serious question - is humor discouraged on HN? Because it's not the first time I run into something like this.
908.
by eliben 15y ago
This is a really great and inspiring story, IMO. Shows how modern technology can truly change people's lives. Sure, this kicks some speciality device companies out of the market (like I'm sure was done many times now by smartphone & tab
909.
by eliben 15y ago
It's x86, a normal Intel CPU. It can even run Linux. Drastically different from what a GPU is
910.
by eliben 15y ago
I want a Macbook Air like laptop, but I don't want it so expensive and designed for Mac OS. I want a cheaper machine running Ubuntu? What's so bad about making this available? On a different note, the attempt to show how the internal design
911.
by eliben 15y ago
Even though I sympathize with the problems having "bank" in a name, "Simple" is just too general to be useful.
912.
by eliben 15y ago
And you stop coding the moment it gets dark?
913.
by eliben 15y ago
Sure, but when just seeing the "name and rating" of bidders, this detail isn't directly visible. Many times buyers decide very quickly whom to give the work to, based on a very superficial glance on the ratings, without entering each dev pa
914.
by eliben 15y ago
I did some work for Rent-a-coder (nowadays "vWorker"), my experience summarized here: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2007/04/21/doing-some-work-at-r... and also here: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2007/07/14/more-about-my-rentac... One thi
915.
by eliben 15y ago
I maintain some tools (mostly open-source) and would like them to work on OS X as well. I run a mixture of Windows and Linux boxes and VMs, and there's no legit way (that I'm aware of) to run OS X inside a VM. Wouldn't this service be good
916.
by eliben 15y ago
How can you divide a list of 4 things into 3s?
917.
by eliben 15y ago
Cool idea :-) Here's mine: http://code.google.com/p/bobscheme/ Bob is a suite of implementations of the Scheme language in Python. It currently includes: - A Scheme interpreter - An implementation of a stack-based virtual machine called t
918.
by eliben 15y ago
> I blame the IDE's Please, please learn to write correctly. "IDEs", not "IDE's"
919.
by eliben 15y ago
Agree totally. For instance, I could never figure out if these American polls take pension deductions into account. Where I live, the employer pays additional ~20% on top of base salary into various pension/saving funds, but since everyone
920.
by eliben 15y ago
Valid point, but this concern should be somewhat alleviated by the massiveness of the study. I imagine that in 360,000 people, "pure correlation" should be relatively uniformly-spaced, meaning that there's enough people for all "correlative
921.
by eliben 15y ago
"A Game for Boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books" -- Hmm... old-school chauvinism, or am I just imagining?
922.
by eliben 15y ago
For some reason the link points to Part 2 of the article. Part 1 is: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ChrisHildenbrand/20111015/866...
923.
by eliben 15y ago
I'm not sure why the avoiding of the Python standard library. Why import an external json library, when there's one built in?
924.
by eliben 15y ago
I find these articles interesting - insightful in the "lifehack" kind of way. I want to be able to retire some time early, but almost certainly won't actually retire - I love this occupation too much and would do it for free (well, I actual
925.
by eliben 15y ago
This is a nice article, but two observations: - He made a great home investment, apparently bought cheap and later was able to rent it for a lot of money. This is good for him, but somewhat lucky (or, alternative, a spark of insight into re
926.
by eliben 15y ago
Yep, unfortunately, which is why the follow-up post ( http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/10/10/installing-python-2-... ) came. Had Ubuntu 10.04 given me Python 2.7 with the usual `apt-get install`, there would be no need to install it from s
927.
by eliben 15y ago
No - an oral exam in this context is more like a programming interview. You get a board and chalk, and you solve the problem on the board in front of the teacher, explaining what you're doing along the way. This is opposed to a "normal" exa
928.
by eliben 15y ago
Don't take it too far. For purposes it was designed to serve, LLVM is great, best in its class. If your project is something that could benefit from LLVM, then by all means use it. If it isn't, then don't. As simple as that. Many corporatio
929.
by eliben 15y ago
The top-rated answer there warmly recommends using Git on top of DB.
930.
by eliben 15y ago
Out of curiosity, why don't you keep several repos in a single repo as sub-directories? AFAICT, this should work quite well if the work done on those directories is unrelated to other work. Yes, there will be more revisions but merges shoul

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