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by ht_th 12y ago
I wonder if you can have a favorite e-book the same way you can have a favorite physical book? My favorite books I read multiple times, they have become worse for wear, I know every wrinkle I made while reading it, and, while reading it, it
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by ht_th 12y ago
I feel you. But it is a double edged sword, I think. My parents didn't try very hard to understand computers in the early 1990s and soon I, while barely a teenager, became the expert in the house regarding this wonderful device. If the
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by ht_th 12y ago
At http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/map.html you'll be able to find a representative to contact. For more detailed information you can have a look at http://www.europarl.europa.eu/aboutpa
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by ht_th 12y ago
Maybe HN should add a "thank you for your contribution" link alongside the "reply" link and add a filter to show/hide these thank-you posts.
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by ht_th 12y ago
> "but the kindle is.." Currently cheaper than some of my hard cover textbooks, and I graduated in 2005, so I imagine its worse now. Yes and no. Text books are needlessly expensive and, to be honest, often superficial content-w
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by ht_th 12y ago
That's not what he's asking for. He wants multiple books open at the same time with easy access and in view, I suppose. Of course, you could have more kindles, like a bunch of the star trek [PADDs]( http://en.memory-al
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by ht_th 12y ago
I've been eating bread with butter and chocolate sprinkles and a glass of milk for over thirty years. When I was in school in the 1980s/1990s almost everyone would regularly eat bread with sprinkles. I looked up the ingredients of
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by ht_th 12y ago
The regexp looks for exactly one '@'-character preceded and followed by at least one character that's not an '@'-character. Or, in other words, it does not allow for an email address with more than one '@'
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by ht_th 12y ago
In Dutch, we switch those words, and call it "suikerspin", which could be translated as "Sugar Spider" or "Spun Sugar", I suppose.
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by ht_th 12y ago
These points are not true for the Netherlands, at least: a PhD student is a real employee with the same rights as any other employee. So, after you lose a job you'll get support, if you get sick, you get support, if you get a child, yo
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by ht_th 12y ago
You might be interested in reading The preparation of programs for an electronic digital computer (1951) By Maurice V. WIlkes, David J. Wheeler and Stanley Gill. That's the textbook they used for the first programming course (in Euro
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by ht_th 12y ago
Yes, I never understand these news articles referring to reports, digital objects and whatnot, but not actually linking to the material. Still, this EDSAC recovery project ( http://www.tnmoc.org/special-projects/edsac )
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Rediscovered EDSAC diagrams reveal secrets of first computers(tnmoc.org)
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by ht_th 12y ago
For those who are interested in the history of computing/computers/informatics, there is a mailing list ( http://www.sigcis.org/node/19 ) for/by historians and enthusiasts on this topic. It is a quit list,
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by ht_th 12y ago
Yes. General search will give you general results. For day-to-day issues, like finding a nice restaurant in my neighborhood or some information of a device I own, it'll give everyone good results and that's fine. But once search b
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by ht_th 12y ago
The bigger problem is that you, as a user, don't have any control over internet search. Not only are you dependent on Google (or another provider) for what search commands you can execute, you also don't have no control about how
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by ht_th 12y ago
I always listened best by having my hand do something. So I often wrote (unreadable) notes, doodled around, and made drawings. Never used these notes for anything, but when I was studying afterwards, I could use them as an aid to remember t
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by ht_th 12y ago
It is about visiting the inner farm, so to speak. You can visit farms all you like, but once you come in close contact with animals, i.e., go into the animal barn, you're supposed to clean. The inner farms never had much visitors, espe
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by ht_th 12y ago
I remember doubling 10th grade. As I entered the new community of new grade 10 students, I noticed that one girl was being bullied. I did not understand why. I asked the other students about it, but they were never able to explain it to me.
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by ht_th 12y ago
I always wondered: does your contract really state "whatever you build", or does it state something like "whatever you build in the same (specific) domain you're working on for the company"? Let us say, you work for
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by ht_th 13y ago
Looking at the languages that run on the JVM ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages ), I'd say it shouldn't be too much of a problem to create that common byte code.
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by ht_th 13y ago
Let's make it a less abstract example first element.setValue value unless no_change I'd read this example as: In most cases, we set the value of the element. However, sometimes there haven't been any chances, so ther
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by ht_th 13y ago
Yes. You might be interested in Cornu, B. (1991). Limits. In D. Tall (Ed.), Advanced Mathematical Thinking (Vol. 11, pp. 153–166). Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47203-1_10 and similar works. Volumes ha
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by ht_th 13y ago
I see that your examples of teaching fast (one minute, ten minutes) all use discrete models for continuous processes. For people who understand continuousness mathematically, going between discrete models to continuous models and vice versa
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by ht_th 13y ago
> I think the real takeaway is that the act of programming can teach. That looks like the learning theory of "constructionism" (with the n not the v) and the ideas of S. Papert and A.A. diSessa who did research about using log
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by ht_th 13y ago
> If we're going to get to a point where coding is a basic type of literacy like math or reading (and I'm not necessarily saying I agree with that goal), then you have to start small when kids are young. This type of literacy w
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by ht_th 13y ago
Yes and no. Getting shot is terrifying to you, but the other army isn't shooting to terrify you, but to incapacitate you and your colleagues to reach some (strategical) goal. The terror is just a happy side effect. On the other hand, a
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by ht_th 13y ago
Yes, terror is certainly in the eye of the beholder, although academic definitions are a bit more nuanced than those being used by the public. The subtle difference is between using terror to reach a goal and using some action to reach a go
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by ht_th 13y ago
Yes, in most definitions or terrorism, the key part is (trying) to create terror to further your goals. It doesn't really matter whom you'd attack, be they civilians, structures, organisations, armed forces, or whatever. The dif
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by ht_th 13y ago
Ah, yes, I remember those days (different university though). Our first class was programming in Pascal, and all subsequent programming classes were "deriving algorithms and proving them correct"-classes (a la Dijkstra). In other

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