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by haldean 14y ago
Your link is broken, FYI
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by haldean 14y ago
Are you on a Retina display? That screenshot is beautiful (and huge).
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by haldean 14y ago
The difference between O(2^n) and O(3^n) isn't trivia; if you can answer the question, then you have an understanding of what big-O means. Asking someone to recite the definition they learned of O(n) is easy; asking someone to think critica
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Show HN: bugh, a simple Github backup utility(github.com)
2 points by haldean 14y ago|0 comments
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by haldean 14y ago
It's not a hardware project so the new rules don't apply.
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by haldean 14y ago
My biggest issue with Xcode is stability. I shouldn't have to kill -9 my IDE a few times a day.
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by haldean 14y ago
They never claim to teach computer science, only software engineering. I agree with you, though; the Codecademy guys are barely 2 years out of school (and one of them dropped out). Perhaps they aren't the best mentors one could find.
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by haldean 14y ago
Not only the slide-in nonsense, but also the wiggling "Try Me!" arrow on the right. "You may also like" panels are becoming the Clippy of blogs and news sites.
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by haldean 14y ago
When the request is sent Chrome doesn't know the content type of the response, so it can't know that what it's requesting is an already-encrypted file.
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by haldean 14y ago
The headline is incorrect; this is Motorola suing Apple, not Google, which has happened before (as the article states).
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by haldean 14y ago
They told me all of these things too, most of which I was already doing. Hover your wrists over your keyboard, elbows tucked in at your side, forearms should be parallel with the floor, eye level at the center of your screen, feet flat on t
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by haldean 14y ago
I tried, but to no avail. Even if you move Control, you're still chording and that can twist your hands into funny shapes. Not to mention that I never found a good solution for where to remap Meta to; it got to the point where just hitting
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by haldean 14y ago
This is exactly my point, though; being efficient at Vim is unlike using any other editor, and you've invested so much into gaining that muscle memory it's very, very hard to convince yourself that other tools are better. In some way, I am
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My biggest problem with Vim(haldean.org)
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by haldean 14y ago
This is the biggest problem with learning vim. I was an Emacs user for ages, and I could use other text editors fine. The "Emacs mode" in them usually just meant readline hotkeys: C-p and C-n for previous/next line, C-a and C-e for beginnin
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by haldean 14y ago
This would drive me up the wall. I don't want to have to sit in my mail client, waiting for it to pull down the message that may-or-may-not have arrived at my mail host yet, when it's incredibly easy to use a password manager for everything
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by haldean 14y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the series of symbols in the title?
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by haldean 14y ago
> My advice is this. Stop going to parties. Then use all that free time to start spending time with the serious people, doing serious things. They aren’t at those ridiculous parties. So, why are you? I'm not invited to these parties, bu
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by haldean 14y ago
Which may be why almost everyone calls it the "rule of thirds". [1] [1]: http://www.google.com/trends/?q=%22rule+of+thirds%22,+%22law...
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by haldean 14y ago
Great article, but one minor nitpick; I have a hard time believing that Apple's policy of only allowing personal email addresses isn't just to maximize profits. I imagine they require a personal email address so that everyone in an organiza
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by haldean 14y ago
This attitude annoys me. Everything you do is about tradeoffs, and being online is no exception. You're trading privacy for convenience, and if you don't want to, then don't. People aren't wrong for being okay with that trade; they just hav
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by haldean 14y ago
That's correct -- phooky is Adam Mayer's handle.
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Obama campaign's response to attack ads(upworthy.com)
1 points by haldean 14y ago|0 comments
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by haldean 14y ago
This seems to be an unpopular idea but I completely agree. I don't mind the Bootstrap default theme, but the icon is bad enough that I lose trust in it.
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by haldean 15y ago
This is a fantastic first project to get started with Python! If, in the future, you make another scraper (or anything else that requires retrieving data from the web) I'd recommend using the Requests [0] library. It's much cleaner and easi
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by haldean 15y ago
I was taught compilers by one of the authors of the Dragon Book. It was one of the best courses I ever took.
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by haldean 15y ago
I like the previous/next idea -- for me, it's often much easier to understand what a chunk of code does when you can see its behavior on multiple inputs.
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by haldean 15y ago
I can't believe that this is a real thing. The fact that a (purportedly) serious language runtime designed for web applications would have this in it seems like a staggering breach of professionalism.
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by haldean 15y ago
For some reason, I can't reply to colanderman's comment above/below, but Python's namedtuple is implemented using eval (technically it uses exec, but it's the same idea in Python).
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by haldean 15y ago
My reaction to this was complete awe, which was compounded when I saw the CSS source. Awesome demo!

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