hotcrossbunny

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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
+1 just for the Victor Borge reference. Maybe his first ever appearance on HN? Who knows?
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
Also the self direction is neither taught nor encouraged in the existing model of education
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
This is as much about their lack of historic engagement with new platforms than a fundamental difficulty in adapting the teaching process or content. Universities have been very invested in a high cost model. It's time to change. This
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
Eric is a super nice guy too. The whole clojure community seems uncommonly decent in my opinion
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
Also check out @reborg and his much underrated YouTube channel. I really hope he can get his book finished
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
If not already mentioned, John Stevenson's Practicalli site and YouTube channel are very good and active. If you are going down the Emacs route for the first time, his contributions in and around and explaining Spacemacs are pure gold
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
I think I could use a little help expanding no 19. "Be firm and constant in the exercise of rational religion. Considering he was a clergyman, whatever did he mean?
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by hotcrossbunny 6y ago
Need a bad sector on your disc? No problem, just make a little sticky tape handle on the last edge of the disk in the drive. Open the drive door, leaving the disc in and spinning. Then wait till the computer says go, and pull really hard on
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by hotcrossbunny 7y ago
THIS is a great little number!
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by hotcrossbunny 7y ago
https://operatr.io also expanding into this space
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by hotcrossbunny 7y ago
Can you elaborate a little please? It's unclear to me if you are taking about merging data, code changes, or something else
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by hotcrossbunny 7y ago
Summarised conversation I had with my interviewer during a FAANG interview: Me: So why do you work for FAANG company X? Interviewer: Mainly so that other companies will take me seriously when I'm looking for my next gig I appreciated t
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by hotcrossbunny 7y ago
You are so right regarding the communication challenge. But rising to that challenge can be immensely rewarding, both on a personal level and for growing a vision for the emerging software. Big ups indeed to Kent for writing about stuff lik
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by hotcrossbunny 7y ago
If you do go for it look out for one with an original battery that may well fall into the battery recall that Lenovo has been running for years. A "dead" battery to the seller may represent a free replacement from Lenovo without a
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by hotcrossbunny 7y ago
Couldnt agree more.....I type on my X220 with 9 cell battery.
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by hotcrossbunny 7y ago
... caution.... absolute caution
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by hotcrossbunny 7y ago
> Today, anyone can broadcast. But that doesn't mean that everyone should broadcast. I don't agree here. Perhaps "not everything should be broadcast" might be better?
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by hotcrossbunny 7y ago
I would up vote this. There's a distinction between self promotion and genuine honest expression of who we are, what we presently think is true. I feel like there is something fundamentally human when people try to do that with each ot
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by hotcrossbunny 7y ago
I'm going to opine that you probably are a lot more interesting than might think. Granted that most people's lives don't serialise down well into a regular stream of weekly episodes. If one can put aside the requirement to &q
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by hotcrossbunny 8y ago
NZ cracked the robot sheepdog back in the 70s https://youtu.be/T1cmPNYb5Ko
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by hotcrossbunny 8y ago
Broadly speaking, that used to be how design patterns were often treated in interviews. Could you recognise, describe, code, discuss pros, cons and applicability for pattern X in given circumstance. Pretty easy stuff to cram unfortunately,
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by hotcrossbunny 8y ago
I'm about 20 years too late, but me and my boys still think it's flipping cool to drive our car onto a train that goes under the sea to France. Love it.
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by hotcrossbunny 8y ago
Loved the point about needing to think about/teach curiosity for the core ideas of computer science aside from the keyboard and screen
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Hello Ruby and the magic of programming(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by hotcrossbunny 8y ago|1 comments
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Why insure your parked car?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by hotcrossbunny 8y ago|0 comments
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by hotcrossbunny 8y ago
Well said!
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by hotcrossbunny 8y ago
Took me quite a while to work out you weren't talking about pancakes
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The case for counting in base 12(bbc.com)
3 points by hotcrossbunny 8y ago|0 comments
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by hotcrossbunny 8y ago
To add unbounded credence to this idea, it's basically what Macgyver did using nitroglycerin to put out a wellhead fire in the 1985 episode "Hellfire"
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by hotcrossbunny 8y ago
Yay for Atari basic!

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