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by gtani 13y ago
can you go to a stationary store or art supplies that deals in Waterman, Cross, Mont Blanc etc and try a bunch. Mostly they have gold nibs which make the ink flow really nicely, but they all balance and fit your hand differently, and after
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I think the proper presentation of this material is as how Learn you a haskell[1] does it: functors, applicatives, monoids ... then monads but I don't think i've seen this done for other languages. Each of those structures should
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don't overlook the link in Robinson's upper right page http://henryr.github.io/distributed-systems-readings/ also: http://christophermeiklejohn.com/distributed/systems/2013/07..
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Me: 7 years piano lessons, 5 years flute and 2 years mallet percussion in band. Today I play piano, clarinet, guitar, and would like to start cello. I think it's similar to forcing kids to learn foreign languages, math or computer pro
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It's an excellent book, good balance of rigor and code/graphs/visuals to develop intuition, but pls see errata before buying http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/MLbook/errata.html (and the freely availabl
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for folks looking to delve into the subject, Barber and McKay's freely available content books are terrific http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=... http://www.inference
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by gtani 13y ago
+1 also Land of Lisp and Realm of Racket (the sequel will be Solar System of Macros and Special forms http://realmofracket.com/ http://landoflisp.com/
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by gtani 13y ago
If you want writeups on scala/java interop, the Manning "in Action" and "in Depth" books have excellent summaries. From scala you need to worry about java annotations, static members and "throws" exceptio
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by gtani 13y ago
I have no horses in this race, but I really respect that you're willing to take Q&A and say "Yes, there are issues" (Also Herb Sutter and the 2 other MS people in /r/cpp) http://www.reddit.com/r&
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There's quite a few good free ones of varying perspectives http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/186/good-freely-availab... Esp: http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/pmwiki&#x
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They are working on that specific sbt /play combo, tho this doesn't look like huge numbers https://gist.github.com/jroper/6374383 If you dig thru the internals list, there are a number of fronts they'r
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I've been reading Chisnall's Phrasebook and Summerfield's Programming in Go books. Both are well done as far as descriptions of language features and standard lib go (covering 1.0), but are a little short on extended code ex
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I think it saves tabs in source files and displays as 4 space indents http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html?ModPagespeed=noscrip...
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Heh, this is pretty entertaining, I'll have to try the scores on IMSLP: http://imslp.org/wiki/Musikalisches_Opfer,_BWV_1079_%28Bach,... (also it's doable on a 37 key MIDI controller so very accessible
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As far as Q&A forums, looks like the SE isn't going to make it http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/117/quantitative-f... I don't read much, but you could check out http://www.wilmott
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ok, what are you going to do differently from the Garage band lessons, which i thought were well done. Like how many camera angles will convey all the nuances of fingering, pedals, "letting the weight of the arms fall on the fingers&qu
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6252182 (i would give credibility to the docker maintainer)
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Keyboard preference is something that takes a while to build and a while to undo, if you use just one. I have a few Matias tactile kb's (deep key travel) and a couple Mac aluminum wired kb's (laptop like key travel), use both sim
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What's the target audience, are you going to filter by, say, DBAs, QA engineers and those conversant in django/java/PHP who're crossing over vs. people getting started in dev?
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dunno how up to date this is (last edited 3 months ago https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Note-development-roadma... and release notes https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc
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by gtani 13y ago
And in the roadmap: async/await, macro paradise, scalaz 7 scalding, spark, delite and associated big data cutters Play, lift3, slick (look at talk topics to see a lot of what's happening, but not everything http://scala
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this is a really good writeup (summing up Private_Dirty, Shared_Dirty for some pid's: http://tech.brightbox.com/posts/2012-11-28-measuring-shared-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4842782
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These tables have a few dozen languages and side by side snippets rather than a language feature ticklist http://hyperpolyglot.org/
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Baez has published some great booklists and a FAQ for self study http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/index.html http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html http://math.ucr
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2nd or 3rd order related : How much could a growing supply of airborne wildfire soot be contributing to the decline of Greenland's ice reflectivity? How important is soot to amplifying Greenland's melt? http:&#
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Excellent, thx. (just remember "brew doctor" first). Also for non-maccies: http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.13.0/docs/Getting-Started/Setup.h... (it would be nice to discuss the red hat and debian distro
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this is a pretty good blog, but it's best to ask on mailing list or IRC if googling cant find something http://notes.implicit.ly/
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My high school French teacher had us read Camus and Sartre, and my German teacher had us do post-War literature, some of which was dark e.g. Draußen vor der Tür . I'm not sure i got any of it at the time, especially since they'r
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And the numpy/scipy/ipython notebook/scikit-learn axis is driving a lot of python adoption these days. Look in any blog about beginning data mining/machine learning, odds are it'll say learn python or R. Differen
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Here's some data, the report on defaults referenced here: http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/07/08/student-loan-defa... The institutions with the highest rates of default are for-profit colleges,

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