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by jfaucett 11y ago
This is great. One of the main reasons I think political progress is so slow is because its near impossible to experiment with any new ideas. Few countries can just scratch something and say ok that didn't work lets try something else
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Gallery of Chinese propoganda posters(chineseposters.net)
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Blender Cloud(cloud.blender.org)
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by jfaucett 11y ago
yea, the problem is I highly doubt it actually works well for the football use case. Think about a basketball or football game. What happens when the QB fires a pass? How does the cam know which player to follow? What about a bball fastbrea
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by jfaucett 11y ago
While we're on the list of programming books topic, I'd like to mention two that can be found here: https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr... The first one is "Softwa
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by jfaucett 11y ago
An encrypted email server thats as easy to setup as apt-get install. Managing your own email is still a huge headache, and it really shouldn't be this bad in 2015. I'm talking some service with a reasonable config file format (jso
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by jfaucett 11y ago
Yes and no. Do startups accept self-taught programmers - definitely yes. Do companies in general accept self-taught programmers - yes. Do large fortune 500 companies accept self-taught programmers - generally no. There are exceptions to thi
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by jfaucett 11y ago
I'd go with practical and diverse if possible: Clojure, JavaScript, and C. With clojure/JVM, you get a Lisp as well as good knowledge of java interop / apis, so you'll be able to work in Java if you have to, plus you get
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by jfaucett 11y ago
for those of you who like history and can understand spanish, I really like "ser historia con nacho ares" its always got interesting subject matter and is really well put together. http://www.nachoares.com/seccion&
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by jfaucett 11y ago
Haven't looked at elixir yet, but being an erlang fan and quickly hopping through the source it looks like elixir is doing for erlang essentially what coffeescript does to javascript. Something many non-erlangers have long lamented is
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by jfaucett 11y ago
my question exactly. your home ip is going to have to use dyndns or something i guess, really wish they would talk about this on the site.
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Eye Tracking Study on CamelCase and under_score Identifier Styles [pdf](cs.kent.edu)
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I agree with this post in the general sense, still I think you can go way overboard with this. If you take as your goal this: "understanding what this piece of code does 1 year from now", as opposed to "I should name these va
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by jfaucett 11y ago
This was an decent comparison / contrast. It did make me wonder how they're coming along with the BEAM jit these days, I found this from a while back: http://www.erlang-factory.com/euc2014/frej-drejhammar It
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by jfaucett 11y ago
As a js developer, I'd say node of course. But it is true that its backend usage isn't exactly exploding. Personally, I think this has more to do with the types of guarantees (or lack thereof) that node gives you on the backend. I
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by jfaucett 11y ago
I think its important, especially in posts like this that are targeted to beginners, that certain information be left out and not clarified (essentially making the masked parts "magic"). Otherwise, the reader is overwhelmed with i
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by jfaucett 11y ago
as an example my current list contains: 1. Webapps (frontends only): circleci, the-guardian 2. Webapps: ghost, gitlab, discourse, reddit, taiga 3. Desktop: blender, atom 4. Mobile: -nothing- 5. Games: O A.D, Hedgewars And here's the li
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Ask HN: High Quality FOSS Apps?
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by jfaucett 11y ago
This is a nicely consumable lightweight summary of how the node event loop works. In my experience this is one of the hardest things for new JS developers to actually understand, especially those coming to the language with a limited asynch
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Awesome FOSS Apps(github.com)
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by jfaucett 11y ago
I'm sad to see this happen, not because LGBTs can marry, in my personal opinion I think they should be able to. I just dislike systems in general that force any global mandate and prefer those in which entities can freely compete again
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Fast Functional Lists, Hash-Lists, Deques and Variable Length Arrays (2002) [pdf](infoscience.epfl.ch)
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by jfaucett 11y ago
For those interested in seeing the exact sizes here's the area of each continent in km and miles: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Continent#Area_and_populatio... One thing I noticed from looking over the above wikipedi
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by jfaucett 11y ago
Here's some general books I think will make anyone a better programmer if you spend the time to internalize the subject matter. Don't really know any about management etc. 1. SCIP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
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by jfaucett 11y ago
"It is truly amazing to read the rationales on here avoiding this idea." No its not. If you read the original article or this link dissecting it, it raises so many questions it makes any free thinking person skeptical. Please read
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by jfaucett 11y ago
My thoughts exactly, I can't find the link now but last night someone published this story that linked to a photo image of the printed page and I thought it was a joke. Made me wonder if some groups in gov't were either A) getting
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by jfaucett 11y ago
The closure compiler itself is amazing, I feel like if that and the whole compile/build process had been the only focus of the google closure tools project it would have been a much larger success than it was/is. I read through pa
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Open Source Revenue Models(github.com)
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The whole argument is non-sensical. "Its not some broken piece of shit" or "it doesn't suck" are meaningless unless you give us what "piece of shit" or "sucking" really is. "Linux" isn&

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