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by jcurbo 12y ago
Agreed. I'd say the wargames are out there in places, just not as widespread as they should be, and I would love to see more of them. When I was a new Air Force officer in 2004, there was a school called Air and Space Basic Course th
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by jcurbo 12y ago
Perhaps they mean commerical C-130s because military C-130s (or any other kind of cargo aircraft) are not available to members of the general public. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-A_travel Also, I took a trip once
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An interactive video of the Chelyabinsk asteroid event(asteroidday.org)
36 points by jcurbo 12y ago|7 comments
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A blog engine written and proven in Coq(coq-blog.clarus.me)
185 points by jcurbo 12y ago|58 comments
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by jcurbo 12y ago
You'd be surprised - a good friend of mine from high school was from a farming family, and they had a PC in the early 90's when hardly anyone had a PC in rural areas except schools and libraries. (I grew up in northeast Arkansas)
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by jcurbo 12y ago
Do you know if it has changed enough to deviate from the course or not? I just found out about this and it sounds really interesting, and I'd like to get the newer book if I can.
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by jcurbo 12y ago
How about a Haskell DSL? http://www.haskellforall.com/2015/01/use-haskell-for-shell-s...
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by jcurbo 12y ago
The salary schedule for civil servants is available on the Internet: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-... Most engineering types I've met in the gov't have been in the 10-14 ra
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by jcurbo 12y ago
Metroid Prime Trilogy had a limited run and this is the first time it's been offered digitally. It's also one of the first three Wii games released on the Wii U that don't require you to go into Wii Mode first to play. (bas
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by jcurbo 12y ago
Jason Snell wrote an interesting article about his experience with an advertiser and sponsorships. He's running his own blog now (Six Colors) with a similar model to Gruber. http://sixcolors.com/post/2014/12&
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The problem of learning functional programming(bitemyapp.com)
9 points by jcurbo 12y ago|0 comments
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by jcurbo 12y ago
When I went to college (late 90's) my CS curriculum was: intro to programming 1 & 2, data structures, algorithm analysis. That order is what I bet the book is referring to.
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Lucid: templating DSL for HTML(chrisdone.com)
1 points by jcurbo 12y ago|0 comments
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by jcurbo 12y ago
Oh sure, definitely. I should have said the "US" equivalent is DOTMLPF. I edited my post to reflect that. The idea is definitely the same though.
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by jcurbo 12y ago
The problem is that the equivalent (US) military acronym is "DOTMLPF" - Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership, Personnel, Facilities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOTMLPF I'm a systems
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by jcurbo 12y ago
Written by the same guy (Chris Allen, aka bitemyapp) who wrote the "How I Start - Haskell" article from the other day. ( http://howistart.org/posts/haskell/1 HN discussion: https://news.ycombin
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Strong types and testing – in Haskell(bitemyapp.com)
2 points by jcurbo 12y ago|2 comments
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by jcurbo 12y ago
And sid is always unstable because in Toy Story, Sid was the kid who mangled and tortured all his toys.
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by jcurbo 12y ago
There used to be a nice FB app called Selective Tweets that let you append #fb to tweets you wanted to show up on Facebook, but it doesn't seem to work anymore and seems un-maintained.
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by jcurbo 12y ago
Indeed! I used micq for several years back in the late 90's.
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by jcurbo 12y ago
Looks like 10.6 hasn't been updated in a while. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/snow-leopard-updates-ar... With Apple stuff it seems like it's best to stay within 2 revisions of the latest OS,
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Making Hybrid Images(jeremykun.com)
57 points by jcurbo 12y ago|3 comments
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by jcurbo 12y ago
https://developer.apple.com/swift/resources/ has lots of helpful info, including ebooks and videos.
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by jcurbo 12y ago
Yeah, I upgraded to an 89 in college and then had a math professor who did all sorts of programming with them. I still have the 89 and my wife has her 83. I can't bear to get rid of them :) I think another reason they're still a
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by jcurbo 12y ago
I spent a lot of my middle-school math classes programming on my TI-86. This was in the mid-90's. My algebra books had a lot of BASIC programs that I translated into TI-BASIC. I had no background in programming at the time, and di
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Banks: Credit Card Breach at Home Depot(krebsonsecurity.com)
3 points by jcurbo 12y ago|0 comments
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by jcurbo 12y ago
I had the same thought when I saw that and the line "Much of this is thanks to a sweeping effort to rebuild the site using a software programming technology called Scala". I had to double check that I was reading something on wir
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by jcurbo 12y ago
In the article he says he started the original site when he was 14, in 1997.
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Type-directed search with dependent types(haskelldc.github.io)
2 points by jcurbo 12y ago|0 comments
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by jcurbo 12y ago
Glad to see a Spike Japan post make it to the Guardian. It's a really good blog and I wish it'd get published as a book or something.

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