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by hawkharris 12y ago
This was a great post. I enjoyed the book, and it's always interesting to hear about a writer's process. Everyone tackles the big challenge in a different way. The only detail I disagree with is the one about telling your friends
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Why is the teen birth rate falling?(pewresearch.org)
1 points by hawkharris 12y ago|0 comments
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What are some compelling use cases of infinite data structures?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by hawkharris 12y ago|0 comments
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by hawkharris 12y ago
I can't invest in a low-risk mutual fund without reading five or six notices. They explain, "Past performance is not a guarantee of future results...There is risk associated with this investment...etc..." Why shouldn't c
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by hawkharris 12y ago
Idk if the Indian educational system is considered the best (I'm actually pretty sure that it's not). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institutes_of_Technology As for the South Korean educational system
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by hawkharris 12y ago
I've always been fascinated by the philosophical divide among the nations with the best educational systems. Some (i.e. Finland) deemphasize tests, while others such as India and South Korea place strong emphasis on them. The issue is
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by hawkharris 12y ago
I'd love to! As a starting point, I'd recommend John Resig, Jeff Atwood and Simon Peyton Jones. These are some of my favorite programmers who write about being developers. I think they do a wonderful job of describing the process
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by hawkharris 12y ago
I appreciated some of the author's points, but his presentation was egotistical. The pedantically phrased, autobiographical tweets didn't add much to each section. It would have been more humble and interesting to include quotes
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by hawkharris 12y ago
During a recent trip to a contemporary art museum, I noticed a painting that appeared to be a carbon copy of a different well-known painting. As it turned out, that was the point. The plaque read, "This piece explores the notion of ori
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by hawkharris 12y ago
On a related note, we could take another simple step toward improving the way people communicate about statistics: ban point estimates in news reports. Using a point estimate, I can accurately claim that there's a 50% chance heaven and
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by hawkharris 12y ago
I'm surprised this article attributes the "exodus" to high housing costs in the suburbs. This may be true in select areas, but as a whole, I think housing is much more expensive near city centers. As a wise man once said, &qu
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by hawkharris 12y ago
Speaking about sleep in terms of debt is somewhat misleading. A sleep deficit can't be "paid off" as you might pay off a financial obligation. If you overdraw from a checking account, you can settle up by making one larger-th
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How to explain Heartbleed without technical terms?(security.stackexchange.com)
2 points by hawkharris 13y ago|0 comments
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by hawkharris 13y ago
I wonder what situation at Google prompted Teller to make the strategic decision to be featured in this article. Maybe it has to do with the fact that Google X has been somewhat notorious for upsetting shareholders.
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Swedish students cook up a way to pay with your hands(engadget.com)
1 points by hawkharris 13y ago|0 comments
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To Write For Startups, Stumble On Dead Bodies(codyromano.com)
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Haskell Cheat Sheet [pdf](blog.codeslower.com)
48 points by hawkharris 13y ago|7 comments
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by hawkharris 13y ago
I can appreciate that perspective, and there must be value in your approach if the quality & amount of code you produce is any indication. (As an aside, I really enjoyed Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja; that book changed the way I think
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by hawkharris 13y ago
Telling a programmer to write code every day is a bit like asking an aspiring carpenter to swing a hammer: it's a necessary component of improving your skills and building things, but it is also a narrow, technical task that has limite
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by hawkharris 13y ago
The Chevron example came out of left-field. While the other sections focused on actions or positions that Rice had taken, the Chevron anecdote would have us believe that Rice is an unethical person simply because she had a relationship with
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by hawkharris 13y ago
There seems to be a big trend toward authors publishing programming books for free online and offering hard copies that you buy, too. In general, if someone offers me a free product and a paid one, I'll stick with free. No surprise the
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by hawkharris 13y ago
Soylent is betting on the fact that consumers want to separate the nourishment of food from the ritual of eating. That's a bit like saying, "We can offer you the ability to reproduce without the inconvenience of having sex."
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by hawkharris 13y ago
I love these two lines from Shneier's earlier article, the one he links to at the end: "The 'best cryptographers around' break a lot of ciphers. The academic literature is littered with the carcasses of ciphers broken by
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NameTag: the First Real-time Facial Recognition App for Glass(nametag.ws)
2 points by hawkharris 13y ago|0 comments
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Hacking Spoken Language(codyromano.com)
1 points by hawkharris 13y ago|0 comments
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How marijuana legalization will affect Mexico’s cartels, in charts(washingtonpost.com)
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by hawkharris 13y ago
"The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism and unjustifiable pessimism." - Benjamin Graham
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by hawkharris 13y ago
I'm a fan of both iOS and Android — so I'm not in any way saying this out of disdain for Apple — but it seems that the mobile app space is clearly moving toward Android. Comparing the exponential growth rate of Android to that of
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Functionally Solving Problems With Haskell(learnyouahaskell.com)
107 points by hawkharris 13y ago|60 comments
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by hawkharris 13y ago
A few weeks ago I purchased a Leap Motion Controller: one of those devices that tracks your finger movements and translates them into actions on your laptop screen. I was pretty impressed with the device's accuracy, but I ended up retu

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