jwdunne

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by jwdunne 12y ago
That's the thing that stuck out for me in the article. It mentions practice, but there is no distinction from deliberate practice. It may well be that the highest performers did more deliberate practice, which totalled less practice ov
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by jwdunne 12y ago
Heh, this would be torturous. I translated Peter Norvig's python lisp interpreter to PHP as a little get-me-started, the end result was not pleasant.
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Ask HN: Shared transport to Startup School?
3 points by jwdunne 12y ago|0 comments
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by jwdunne 12y ago
WOW this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
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Ask HN: what makes a great community?
7 points by jwdunne 12y ago|6 comments
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by jwdunne 12y ago
I went to a catholic school and we were still taught evolution, the Big Bang theory, etc. Even had compulsory religious education lessons (sane number per week as maths, english, science) and accompanying GCSE in Catholic Christianity and w
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Elderly man beaten by police whilst suffering from a hypo(diabetes.co.uk)
2 points by jwdunne 12y ago|0 comments
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by jwdunne 12y ago
That's actually a really cool idea. Since I'm no artist, I thought this would be a great resource for game dev but then realised how out of whack everything would look if I put the parts I need to use. I could probably edit some t
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Open-source game development assets(opengameart.org)
156 points by jwdunne 12y ago|25 comments
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by jwdunne 12y ago
In which case, you would simply get in touch with support and prove your identity and purchase some other way as my thinking is that this would a rare occurence, since receiving a faulty purchase pair using a card that has expired and you n
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by jwdunne 12y ago
But if its a return, surely they can pair it with the original purchase, inc. the address and card used?
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by jwdunne 12y ago
If I recall, to deliver to a new address, Amazon requires you to verify by entering the card details you are using for the purchase, to prevent fraud. They should be doing the same here.
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by jwdunne 12y ago
I know it's not typically restricted, I've enjoyed "unlimited wifi" for over a decade! The thing that bothers me is some providers in the UK say they give away unlimited wifi as part of the package.
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by jwdunne 12y ago
Yes, whenever I miss the payment on my TalkTalk bill, the whole local network goes down, not just Internet access. I've been meaning to get a cheapo router to remedy. People just don't know that you can have wifi for free, especia
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by jwdunne 12y ago
I think when cars themselves came about, speeds of 10mph were considered breakneck and dangerous. I remember reading an old crash report where the author claimed that the driver must have been going at least 10mph and thought it was lucky n
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by jwdunne 12y ago
I don't think so. A program is an infinite stream of jobs and is never quite 'done'. The less time you spend on keeping things nice and clean, the more frequent the jobs will be. After all, it still needs to be maintained. Un
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by jwdunne 12y ago
This is really strange because I read that chapter before checking HN and to my surprise its here. The chapter is a great read and gives some ideas on how to architect a game, especially one that you want the players themselves to contribut
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by jwdunne 13y ago
Oh Christ, I was just thinking today how stupid packaging winds me up. From what I recall, I don't have this experience with amazon purchases! For example, the packaging that requires scissors and a spare pair for backup really does my
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by jwdunne 13y ago
Thank you :)
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by jwdunne 13y ago
The voices with schizophrenia are outside of the head, a voice heard often clearly as though they were physically spoken. They are consistent auditory hallucinations. These can be quite nutural; one sign of paranoid schizophrenia is the voi
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by jwdunne 13y ago
Oh I have a 3 year old boy too but I expected the new arrival to really kill any time I can spend on myself.
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by jwdunne 13y ago
Don't worry about it. You'll expect 0 time to code but then really appreciate and make the most of it whilst you can. I've made great strides in skills and knowledge since my daughter has been born :)
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by jwdunne 13y ago
Kids don't change that. My little girl is 5 weeks old and I find much solace behind my editor during quiet times :) It's reinvigorated with the hope of whatever I learn I can pass down in the future.
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by jwdunne 13y ago
I agree. I've been stopping and starting learning assembly for several years with x86. It didn't really gel but with the book above, the quizzes and exercises its really started to gel, even basic concepts such as nibbles, words,
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Introduction to MIPS assembly language (2007)(chortle.ccsu.edu)
78 points by jwdunne 13y ago|48 comments
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by jwdunne 13y ago
This is interesting because I'm building the exact same thing, which also has the be plugged into a Cake app. For choosing the tables to query, my idea is to present a grid. Each cell has the table name and tables available through rel
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by jwdunne 13y ago
Which is a shame because I don't see ailerons as a non-significant variation? Wing warping is as it says, which is pretty scary and went out fashion pretty quickly because of high rates of structural failure. Ailerons took its place be
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by jwdunne 13y ago
By preventing people from simply copying their solution with a patent on their method, which puts up a nice big barrier to entry to everyone except innovators such as Curtiss.
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by jwdunne 13y ago
Yeah but the Wrights invented a method to solve the lateral instability problem. They shouldn't be able to patent all solutions to a problem, just the solution they invented, surely?
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by jwdunne 13y ago
As part of managed hosting for non-technical clients, we often host their email. Out of the options, Roundcube is by far the best.

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