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by jasim 14y ago
Check out http://rubymonk.com as well for learning Ruby interactively. We've a free Ruby Primer series that covers the basics of Ruby and a paid subscription with advanced books. The library is constantly updated with new content.
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by jasim 14y ago
Relevant: A fascinatingly disturbing thought by Dr. Neil deGrasse - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDRXn96HrtY
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by jasim 14y ago
Not every language needs to be one of those that changes the way we think about programming. It is perfectly fine to experiment on mundane languages by adding mundane features. Incremental improvement is a good thing and it is too early to
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by jasim 14y ago
I'd love to know a few of those decisions that you've to take on a day-to-day basis (even once every month) as a software developer, which needs calculus and probability.
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The NoFilmSchool Manifesto(nofilmschool.com)
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The Cobra Language(cobra-language.com)
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A portable Javascript Class library influenced by Ruby(jsclass.jcoglan.com)
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by jasim 14y ago
Business apps. However, Mobile Apps have become the new desktop apps - at least until HTML5 becomes good enough. But my point was that the typical readers on HN are interested in the kinds of posts here (it is a self-serving argument) - whi
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by jasim 14y ago
This is common on HN for a reason. The typical Y Combinator startup and the average HN reader does web programming for a living. This is HN's target group and there is nothing wrong with that. Jeff Atwood has a point that desktop apps are d
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by jasim 14y ago
I do the same as well - except that the contents are encrypted through TrueCrypt before syncing with Dropbox.
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by jasim 14y ago
I've been using the awesome Notational Velocity to keep track of TODOs, my 'Spark File', expenses, confidential information, personal diary etc. etc. The contents are encrypted through a TrueCrypt virtual volume and the volume is saved into
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Software Delivery and Billing: The Butcher Model(accelerateddeliveryplatform.com)
1 points by jasim 14y ago|2 comments
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by jasim 14y ago
My bad, sorry. The 'for..in' construct does not require you to expose the length of the structure. However, the other argument still holds true: In case of a user-defined collection object, 'for..in' will not work since the underlying colle
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by jasim 14y ago
There is an important reason why one would use #each instead of a for loop: encapsulation. Looping over a collection object requires some knowledge of its internal state (length in the case of a simple linear structure like Array). In most
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Patternicity: Finding Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise(scientificamerican.com)
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Acme micro_httpd: 200 LOC. Used in DSL Routers(acme.com)
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by jasim 14y ago
> You know what I do during my lunch time? Trying to re-prove Fermat's Last Theorem. How many other students did you know who did the same? There are some people (you, in this instance) who like Math in the current form it is taught. Bu
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by jasim 14y ago
The only way to see what the app does is to either watch the video (which I haven't done) or to sign up using Twitter/Google. I think it would be useful for people like me to provide some way to know (even a small writeup would help) what t
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Eight Simple Rules for Maintainable Javascript(blog.gja.in)
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by jasim 14y ago
MVC is not dead. It has its warts, but there still is a strong developer community who build applications using MVC - through MVC based frameworks, and also by handrolling implementations that are an approximation of MVC. As long as there a
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Why do we still live with Twitter maxlength anxiety?(jasimabasheer.com)
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Should Rails be threadsafe? Insightful discussion around the GitHub pull request(github.com)
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To the non-entrepreneur: Everyone is running a business, including you(blog.sidu.in)
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by jasim 14y ago
Thanks for the correction. This mistake and the correction would be a good memory tool for me in the future!
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by jasim 14y ago
I've Silvanus sitting in my shelf, but am yet to look into it yet. A couple of recommendations (not specific to just Calculus): - What is Mathematics? (Courant http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Elementary-Approach-Ideas-... ) - Calculus (A
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by jasim 14y ago
Exactly! You were fortunate enough to realize this during your course itself. But a vast majority of students never stumble upon this revealation and treat Maths as another chore that needs to be done with. The insight you described is what
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by jasim 14y ago
This captures the problem with mathematical education well enough: > When Boaler would visit a class being taught in a Railside-like fashion and ask students what they were working on, they would describe the problem and how they were t
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by jasim 14y ago
> You can tell yourself you're a programmer when you can code through a project by yourself, write classes, do OOP, implement basic concepts, differ public from static, know your data types, and more and more. Knowing all that helps, bu
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From being a programmer to becoming an entrepreneur - Lesson 0(blog.sidu.in)
118 points by jasim 14y ago|26 comments
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The test that I'd like to inherit(blog.aakashd.com)
2 points by jasim 14y ago|0 comments

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