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by jfaucett 11y ago
For me a portion of this problem is caused by religion as well, particularly those with sexist ideologies (for example islam see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Islam ). Though, this is a subject that I rarely i
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Yes, I think it is a case by case thing. The stanford courses are always available Im pretty sure, I know others fall out though. Also the fact you cant just click and download the whole course as a compressed file (like MIT) is a shame, es
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Im Noticing a lot of these courses are coursera, and one of the most frustrating things about the plattform is the fact that most courses close and access to course materials/videos etc. is revoked after the course is over, this destro
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The thing keeping me from agreeing with this is a qualifier. If it were "write like you talk when writing a X", where X could be substituted by tutorial, essay, lesson, etc. I think I'd be more inclined not to disagree here.
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"It shows what Blackwell’s called “the exacting nature” of Tolkien’s creative vision: he corrects place names, provides extra ones, and gives Baynes a host of suggestions about the map’s various flora and fauna." You've got t
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Online Mathematics Textbooks(people.math.gatech.edu)
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I think the sad part with latin is that although it has had such a massive influence on every western european language it has essentially completely died out (little usage in catholic church, no speakers, decline in educational system, etc
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Well, Lovelace disputedly created the first program for the Babbage machine under Babbage's guidance. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#Controversy_over_... ). Although, more difficult perhaps than morse
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True, DOS was purchased as Q-DOS from Seattle Computer Products, and was adapted to become MS-DOS which was also a copy of CP/M, ( http://www.bernd-leitenberger.de/qdos.shtml ). As far as BASIC goes it was designed in 64
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gotcha. nice job btw :)
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Im kind of unsure as to how to interpret this, but there appears to be no particular ordering just an influential cs person posted for each day of the month. Theres definitely pleanty of influencers missing from the current set, McCarthy, H
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I know you're asking for an app, but I just would like to suggest a good ol fashioned diary. I use this method and really like it, you can sketch up abstract models of your ideas and implementations, not to mention jott down thoughts a
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"Chaining or nesting a series of function calls, depending on the language, can be more readable still than the variables approach and at the same time more concise". Couldnt agree more, variables are just clutter you have to keep
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This idea works quite nicely for "stdlib" sort of things. At least I've done this with JS - albiet using a very function / immutable style (so I don't know if this could work for OOP like languages). Anyway, you end
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You can talk about HTTPS and forcing encryption all over the web however much you want but as long as you're stuck with SMTP and the few large coorps as the only viable mail solutions you can forget individual citizen data privacy... a
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Who can look at this list and actually want to start getting into frontend development? 30 learn X entries not to mention 30x lists of tools for each area. Front end development seems to have gotten beyond ridiculuously complicated - especi
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7 examples of sustainability in sweden(sweden.se)
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Hövding – Airbag for Cyclists(hovding.com)
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This article reminded me in spirit of the jobs quote: "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love w
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"It's entirely possible to understand that the programming languages you know aren't as important as what you've built along with your knowledge of software engineering and computer science fundamentals, and yet still wa
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This type of question gets asked a lot on the net and as someone with experience I can say it rarely matters what language you know its what you have built, can build and your architectural skills that matter. The language is just a tool fo
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Looking good. Nice loft design :)
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"Us+ creator Lauren McCarthy, an artist and programmer at New York University, told me that the tension her technology creates was part of her intent" what?? So the intent was to create an app that frustrates people and shows them
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by jfaucett 11y ago
Hi sounds like you'd like some constructive criticism so here's MHO. Images can be great aids in understanding text and making abstract concepts concrete. Also, in many cases the usual metaphor/simile rules apply. For instanc
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There is so much media coordinated bull floating around in the EU and Germany right now it makes me sick. As a tax paying immigrant to Germany myself, I decided to look up the stats a little while ago and here's what the down and dirty
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I completely see the benefits of using guix, transactional package management seems at the very least an interesting alternative to docker in some scenarios, and could be very interesting from a tool automation perspective. I don't wan
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Steam Hard and Software Survey – July 2015(store.steampowered.com)
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the last document linked to at the end is a really good read too - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.37.... , Also I agree with him on the fdisk/mke2fs, I've often asked myself the exact
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yea especially when in that same line they mentioned onion routing and explained traffic monitoring by comprising tor exit nodes.
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I've seen so many ridiculous "hacking" sequences in films that I really wasn't expecting this series to go into as much realistic detail as they do. Also most hacking stuff in films is at its worst when it comes to the d

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