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Ask HN: What's your method for self-studying coding books efficiently?
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by faizshah 8y ago
Thanks for linking this, I'm currently working on designing an introductory python course. What background are students expected to have for CS61A? Is it expected to be students first introduction to python?
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by faizshah 8y ago
My top 3 criticisms as an intermediate (~5 months of study) python programmer: 1. Importing behavior is ridiculous: https://chrisyeh96.github.io/2017/08/08/definitive-guide-pyt... 2. Python libraries' do
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by faizshah 8y ago
Nitrous.io they had the best online IDE I have used. They were going to put a standalone version up as open source but never did.
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by faizshah 8y ago
I wonder if this could be used to help detect plagiarism when auto grading CS homework.
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by faizshah 8y ago
Maybe in the realm of pedantry but: Getting rid of corporations is more generally a socialist idea. Anarchists advocate getting rid of unjust hierarchy in general. Although this is somewhat meaningless in this context since large scale work
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by faizshah 8y ago
Any opinions on Startup by Doree Shafrir? I am about to pick it up from the library for this weekend.
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by faizshah 8y ago
I don't know about the Buffer example, but I would say that it also needs to be accompanied by a difference in perspective. Instead of chasing a unicorn valuation or big profit/revenue/marketshare numbers you're trying t
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I feel like tech needs to experiment with worker owned cooperatives and flat management more. I know, I know, the politics in flat structures can be worse. But I think tech should be innovative in management structure and eventually a stand
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by faizshah 8y ago
There's a pretty nice implementation of this sort of idea in atom (I only played with it tho): https://imdone.io/
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by faizshah 8y ago
I just looked for a headphone splitter for an iPhone. Every result on the page had pretty high reviews, but when you click on the results and look at the reviews you see weird five star reviews like "great planner with a great cover&qu
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by faizshah 8y ago
Where exactly does Flink/AthenaX fall into Uber's stack?
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by faizshah 8y ago
Good point! My grandmother lives in London and she's had a peace lily growing indoors for over a decade. Give it a try or ask around :)
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Peace lily is extremely easy to grow, we've had some in the house as long as I can remember. Nice to know they're great for air quality too.
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by faizshah 8y ago
It would be interesting to see this combined with the github commits dataset on bigquery and compared to the redmonk ranking. The redmonk ranking is slightly different from the state of the octoverse ranking.
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Painting/drawing I am horrible at drawing, even doodling, but I spent a few weeks taking a drawing class that covered the basics (perspective, lighting, seeing shapes etc) and it's amazing how rapidly you can improve with just a l
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by faizshah 8y ago
There's a better chart here for sites using RoR: https://trends.builtwith.com/framework/Ruby-on-Rails For comparison here's the one for express: https://trends.builtwith.com/framework/Exp
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by faizshah 8y ago
I second this, Hartl's RoR tutorial is one of the best introductory books to a framework that I have ever read. I wish every framework would take notes from that tutorial.
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by faizshah 8y ago
So what are some strategies in terms of recommendation systems to avoid overly personalizing your user's recommendations? Any literature on mitigating this issue?
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Succinct for Apache Spark: Enabling Fast Queries on Compressed RDDs(succinct.cs.berkeley.edu)
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New data on college majors confirms old trend: technocracy is crushing humanism(nytimes.com)
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Nessie – Capital One's Hackathon API(api.reimaginebanking.com)
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by faizshah 8y ago
There's a really awesome project called RealWorld that's trying to build full stack example apps (a medium clone) in all the various frameworks: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld
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It's about being in a position of power over the other person. It's unethical to make advances on someone you hold power over because there's an implication that rejecting the advances could harm their career and their workin
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by faizshah 8y ago
That isn't true, the most famous example of HN negativity is Show HN: Dropbox which has been reposted quite a few times on HN since dropbox became dropbox. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625306
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by faizshah 8y ago
I find myself thinking about whether the comments will have anything interesting in them. If I think there will be then I click on the comments page and read through the top few comments. If there's a lot of discussion about the OP lin
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by faizshah 8y ago
There's a pretty interesting apache project called NiFi that's kind of similar, it's for data flow across different softwares. Apparently was developed and is still used at the NSA. https://nifi.apache.org/doc
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by faizshah 8y ago
Hi Peter, This might be a pretty basic question, are there currently any legal options for retaining an employee who you learn is undocumented?
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Ask HN: Short stories that take advantage of the web as a medium?
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"[The authors] present a fantastic overview of the various hypotheses about the evolution of life on our planet and the contribution of extraterrestrial elements. The review includes many references, several different opinions and rang

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