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by jwdunne 10y ago
Foxit PDF Reader does this beautifully. It's far better on iOS but still works better than the alternatives on Android. Trust me, it is a DREAM to read PDFs on mobile with Foxit. I avoided PDFs for years because iBooks and Kindle suck
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by jwdunne 10y ago
They're delightful to read on mobile too with a reader that maintains zoom and allows continuous scrolling. I don't mind flipping the page but it's far more friction than flipping the page of an actual book since you do it ab
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by jwdunne 10y ago
This comment is excellent. Your description of category theory connected a few dots of my own. Thank you :)
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This is it. Its easy enough to say that only calorific intake is a factor. It is but there are many indirect factors that influence the success of a regimen. I'm not gonna eat my daily allowance in spoonfuls of sugar am I?
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by jwdunne 10y ago
In fact, in the north at least, when we say "town" as though its a proper noun, we mean the city centre. To me, that's Manchester despite living in Salford. For example, "I'm off to town this weekend" means I&#
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Looks a lot like this quiz scores based on openness to experience thinking in terms of OCEAN. Those who have a greater openness to experience tend to be more liberal. You could compare popularity of policies amongst types of voters and look
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by jwdunne 10y ago
As a side note, I was pretty surprised that the name isn't as in "I have a great mind" but rather "I have a table oriented programming mind". At first, I had a knee jerk "wow arrogant" reaction and then fe
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by jwdunne 10y ago
High level of benzodiazepines is enough to kill off your inhibitions and short term memory. Mixed with alcohol, if you feel that way, there is nothing stopping you from taking your life. At 16, during an episode of depression and psychosis,
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Ask HN: What's your programming process?
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On that same strand, the following games have proven to be quite educational to me: Caesar III - first city builder I played. Fell in love with the Romans - was well prepared when the basics of Ancient Rome was taught in school. Pharoah - s
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by jwdunne 10y ago
In Salford, we had a regeneration project that replaced all the rundown terraced housing, from Salford's industrial era, with high rises. Due to the collapse of industry round here, deprivation and crime shot through the roof (to the p
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by jwdunne 10y ago
I'm currently reading this book. It's been quite helpful so far and its free. http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/
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Yes. In fact, the point with symbols and code as data is that you can implement different paradigms in the language itself. A program implementing prolog, for instance, is an example program in books.
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In a way, it's pretty intuitive. Beginners are looking down the rabbit hole and think "well I've got this far so it can't go that much deeper can it"? They've got a CRUD app up and running and doing stuff - I r
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by jwdunne 10y ago
This is an important point. Its easier to resist a cookie that's out of sight in a cupboard than it is to resist a cookie that's sitting right in front of you. Impulsivity comes from an emotional response within the deeper parts o
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Right, because you know my life well enough to make that kind of judgement. It's a nice, clever cop out but ultimately a cop out. Bicyclist gets hit by a car. Loses his legs. Did he make poor life choices? I wouldn't say so. Say t
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Personally, I think you do deserve a second referendum. The remain/leave map shows a clear border. Northumberland votes out. North of that, its all remain. The biggest thing to me is that many in the leave camp used very similar argume
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by jwdunne 10y ago
There are people out there that wouldn't be able to cope with that. If you're on low income and have a family to support and, equally as important, nurture, then you are gonna struggle to find time, money and energy for community
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by jwdunne 10y ago
Similar to the baseline advice to learn programming: write a lot. Read good writing, read bad writing and learn to tell the difference. Leaving a piece of writing for 24 hours and coming back to it with a fresh pair of eyes to edit helps. S
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I was intrigued because there is some indication of a rough but important ordering to the topics in formal maybe antics education. I was interested in seeing what that order was. I've seen others say that linear algebra is a prerequisi
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It'd be interesting to know what the optimal order of progression would be. It'd be simple to grab a curriculum and start from point A (as in, the method is simple - not the content), taking that as the order. More thoughts and di
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by jwdunne 10y ago
How is separate types for arrays and dictionaries worse? They are two different data structures with different uses so should be separate.
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They don't even do that here. You are only forced to pay the fee by law if you have a device that you use to watch TV as its aired (along with some other rules). The way this is enforced is by someone who goes round to each house and v
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by jwdunne 10y ago
As a funny side note, having just one outfit to wear everyday eliminates the cost of that decision, giving more resources to other decisions. I believe Einstein did something similar simply because he wanted to focus his energies on the int
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'Universal cancer vaccine' breakthrough claimed by scientists(independent.co.uk)
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Key is "unwilling". Hackers must also remember some companies willingly pay for this info. Based on the numbers I've seen doing contract work for a big blue chip in the UK, you could see it as an opportunity to sell penetrati
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It's funny actually. I recently heard a GCHQ radio ad for a software development role. The entire pitch was the nature of work preventing it from being taken home and as a result enjoying family time.
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Thank you for the knowledge expanding comment. It's rare a thing on this subject. If you have any recommendations for resources to further expand my knowledge, I'd love to see it :)
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Of course. It's the extreme of what is ultimately a scale. Unrestricted capitalism is similar: a completely free market will lead to a loss in freedoms. Slavery is humans as a commodity. If that isn't allowed, a market is not free
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This is the funny thing. Reading the definition of communism as per Marx and comparing to NK... this isn't what communism was meant to be. For a start, a heriditary totalitarian dictatorship is the antithesis of communism. I think the

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