jacktoole1

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Is your product a vitamin or painkiller? [2006](dondodge.typepad.com)
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
Another vote for go to college. I'm a senior in Computer Science at the University of Illinois, graduating this May, and a TA for our Data Structures course (as a disclaimer of potential bias). I've been programming in some sense since I wa
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
Moonscript (voted for Coffeescript and Lua). It's like Coffeescript for Lua instead of JavaScript, which is great of you need a fast and concise language to embed in another application (compiling the standard lua interpreter for a platform
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
Original discussion (same post, from Geoff Lewis's blog): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742070
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Coursera offers more online courses: It’s what the faculty want(computinged.wordpress.com)
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It might still be worth a try. Specs and capabilities are easy to judge something by when you're looking to buy it (since they're all that you can really see without owning the device), but they sometimes matter less than the holistic exper
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
For others curious, this story is also told of King Solomon. This isn't where I first heard the story, but here's a reference: http://www.freeplays.org/scripts/KingSolomonAndBaker.html The [short] story as a whole is also worth a read, in
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
As I'm developing my first iPad app right now, I've been reading up on all the tips I can find. As thanks for the blog post, and to support someone else trying to break into the market, I bought your app too; good luck!
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Results of the Swift*Stitch 'pay when you want' sale(sophiehoulden.com)
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
Based on the comments on the iBooks DRM thread, mass media has a very small tail: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3633839 I think a lot of people want to keep up with the latest media, and there are lots of social reasons to do so. Th
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
There are a lot of bests where constraining a search to the last year doesn't make sense. While you may only want video cards from the last year considered for "best video card," throwing out all movies released before 2011 on a search for
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
To be fair, Jeff Atwood recently left Stack Exchange (amicably, of course): http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/02/farewell-stack-exch...
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
Jeff Atwood has a great layman's introduction to rainbow tables and why this stuff deserves thought here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/09/rainbow-hash-cracki... The follow up by Thomas Ptacek, a security expert, goes into a lot m
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Why the time is always 9:42 AM in iPhone Advertisements(quora.com)
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Documenting Architecture Decisions(thinkrelevance.com)
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
I love OCaml, but I would hardly call it a declarative language. You still describe the steps to perform an algorithm, rather than the result of the algorithm. The article poster references Haskell and explicitly says "The functional approa
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
Email clients have to do this because they use Bayesian filtering to get rid of Spam. It turns out, if the sender of spam messages can find out which messages got through and which didn't, then they could build up the same bayesian filter o
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
I've been happy with Dreamhost's service, but becoming aware of this in the last few months has forced me to look into other registrars. If this is fixed, I would be much more inclided to stay. If you could forward these articles to whoever
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
For articles like this, I find it more interesting to go to the comments. Sometimes I'll read the article first, sometimes I'll start with the comments and read the article if they are interesting enough. But I'm more interested in what the
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
Working now :). I've seen my iPad act strangely before, so it could have been something on my end or just server traffic.
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I find it incredibly ironic that this won't load on my iPad (iOS 5.0).
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
Hi, and welcome! First, you might want to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_definition_controversy#H... and http://paulgraham.com/gba.html (the latter by the founder of this site), which describes how the word "hacker" is used on
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by jacktoole1 15y ago
I just recently found out that dream host stores it's passwords in plaintext! I'll probably be looking to transfer away from this simply for that reason. If you haven't set your panel security to use email confirmation to let new IP address
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I think it would be fair to say it's two mouse actions though. Clicking takes no time; moving the mouse to the link in the first place takes some. Moving first to the Google logo, then to the app, would take longer. Sort of like eliminating