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by gbog 14y ago
You an other comments seem to only balance cost and time lost, but doing your own curtains, for many people, is also fun, rewarding, interesting, and a very good way to change focus from professional or personal issues.
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by gbog 14y ago
Fair enough, but then what we want is readability, which is related but not equivalent to conciseness. I often have discussions with colleagues about different coding idioms in Python, and I hear often "this one is better because it is less
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by gbog 14y ago
The more I think about it the more I believe concision is overrated and borderline dangerous. Shaving a few keystroke today very often means great troubles later. I used to like those hello world concision contests, but in fact wh
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by gbog 14y ago
I think it is not too unzen in its aim and method but if you ask there many little tricks that I'd say are unzen. First, give all the code a pass of autopep8 comb. Second, avoid things like "lambda (op,num): (num, -num)[...], just u
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by gbog 14y ago
I shared these worries but we parents really need to get over it. It is actually dangerous for kids to have worrying parents. Kids need to build self-confidence, mostly copying yours. So here are some tips that helped me and my wife to
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by gbog 14y ago
"Brilliant marketing play" Maybe, but where the idealism gone? Both on HN, in tech circles, and, yes, at Google, there was some healthy dose of idealism. You know, this thing that make people do thing for something else than money, for the
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by gbog 14y ago
I hope they carefully ponder the coding convention they use in the examples, because so many people will reproduce them. For instance I don't love the ( parens spacing ), is there a good reason for these added spaces?
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by gbog 14y ago
Exactly. Moreover, every nation is also denying it. Some reports make fun of China because they deny something that seem obvious, but this is no China specialty. Just another aspect of anti China sentiment, that's all.
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by gbog 14y ago
Yes
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by gbog 14y ago
I used a similar technique for a less frivolous task. I had script dumping data in text format, and wanted to refactor it. I committed the result and could refactor brutally step by step, running the script at each step and reve
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by gbog 14y ago
6. Should be ROLLBACK, a life saver. Works in postgres.
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by gbog 14y ago
When blocked browser behave differently. btw I'm in Beijing too, maybe we met in open parties?
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by gbog 14y ago
To me using income as social scale is insane. It would give a very high position to cartel bosses, and these guys should be on the bottom. If you'd need a social scale for some l practical reason, I suppose the only workable one is
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by gbog 14y ago
Why, no, certainly not. A scholar or a writer or an artist might be able to kiss a queen on the cheeks while having very low income.
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by gbog 14y ago
This is not what I remember. I even have a printout of the full prototype doc hidden somewhere, it had clean and straightforward explanations for all the API. Scriptaculous, built upon prototype.js, was nice too.
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by gbog 14y ago
I see also what you mean, but this might apply more to programming or physics than to math. Being completely "useless" is a feature, not a bug, for math (and poetry, music, metaphysics, astronomy). Pure speculation or useless braingames is
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by gbog 14y ago
> language barrier [for online courses] Well, not really, there is a huge part of online courses translated/subtitled to Chinese. That's my wife's job actually.
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by gbog 14y ago
https://github.com/dexteryy/OzJS a microkernel for modular javascript. Disc.: writen by a friend and colleague.
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by gbog 14y ago
I did prefer prototype.js in the time of ol'. Never understood why jQuery took over it, sadly.
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by gbog 14y ago
I can confirm this from my experience in China (~9 years), but would be a little more positive on the outcome for the graduates. It is still relatively easy to find a job and turn-over is high. In the companies where I have worked, in the u
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by gbog 14y ago
> What can it be applied to in our daily lives? I can only speak for myself but for me, the fact that math did not have any daily life application was one of the greatest reason to love it. I despised physics even if I was fairly good a
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by gbog 14y ago
When we say bug, I guess we just mean "avoidable issue" of a relatively modest importance, but that can have big impact, right? Then, if you learn singing or violin, and you are "tone-deaf" or near tone-deaf, then it is not a bug, it is an
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by gbog 14y ago
Interesting view, but I wonder if it applies on so large a field the author seem to believe. Piano may be a good example: some wrong notes can be bugs but if the kid do not enjoy playing music and take it as a chore, no amount of bu
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by gbog 14y ago
It is not a matter of "heuristic", it is a matter of basic respect you have for other people living in other places.
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by gbog 14y ago
"Americans", you mean Cubans? Equadorians? Really, you do not seem to be aware of the fact that or people leave in either Nothern or Southern amercian continent, and many of them do not speak English. Each time any US citizen calls US citiz
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by gbog 14y ago
> 3.5 years on HN and my first down-voted post Honest? Then, if I were you, I'd try to be a bit less consensual from time to time. I got plenty of downvotes. I would hope even pg get his share, that would show sane critical thinking.
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by gbog 14y ago
Hi Jacques, completely support. I see a handle of people trying to destabilize you and you defend your position so well that I didn't find anything to add, except that I fully support your point, and I am sure many more do. This s
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by gbog 14y ago
Bad faith won't help here. Let's call a cat a cat and advertisement advertisement.
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by gbog 14y ago
Wow, impressive. But, to be honest, some part of my mind can't stop thinking: what a gigantic loss of money!
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by gbog 14y ago
seem like a good idea, do the markup allow nesting, eg commenting on a previous addition?

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