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by kaens 18y ago
Well, I don't think he's talking about Common Lisp macros.
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by kaens 18y ago
Organized religion, certainly. However, there is a lot of conflation of Religion and religion (or faith). I don't disagree with your point, it just deals with very semantically messy stuff.
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by kaens 18y ago
I doubt that there will be a mass defect from the people still using IE6, but I'm always happy to hear that IE's use is on the decline. That browser has been a thorn in my side for too many years now.
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by kaens 18y ago
Interesting. I had been pointing people at HTDP if they had trouble with SICP, I'll have to check this out.
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by kaens 18y ago
Another point about homeless shelters is that it is only a small percentage of the homeless that stayed in them. I know that when I was homeless, I stayed away from homeless shelters for the vast majority of my time in any city, except for
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by kaens 18y ago
It depends on how often you need to write scripts of this sort. If you only write them once in a while, you're probably fine with using two commands, but if you write scripts all the time, it's worth it to know how to do them succinctly.
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by kaens 18y ago
You could create an alias for it, like alias eta='pv'
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by kaens 18y ago
What's the canonical book? Norvig has, IIRC, written two widely-appreciated books on AI.
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by kaens 18y ago
I'm not familiar with this whole TechCrunch debacle, other than reading about that guy being spit on. By "grown-up", I mean "thinking before posting, and posting in a way that indicates that one has a generally 'mature' mental-model". This
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by kaens 18y ago
Assuming you've been coding for a while, I'd recommend taking a look at Concrete Mathematics ( http://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Mathematics-Foundation-Comput... ). It's a challenging book, but it's extremely well-written, and you should b
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by kaens 18y ago
I have pointed many of my friends at your site; it's a wonderful resource. Thanks for taking the time to make betterexplained - the world is a better place with it existing.
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by kaens 18y ago
I'd personally like to say "Please keep HN civil, free from trolling, and intellectual." This site has been a great resource - and that's at least partially because the tone of the vast majority of the community here is pretty serious. I ha
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by kaens 18y ago
MIT has a whole directory of openly available stuff at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm
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by kaens 18y ago
I semi-agree. I have been an autodidact all of my life, and poor (and occasionally homeless) most of my adult life. I'm still young. I've been learning partially via online video lectures (specifically MIT's OCW) and course materials since
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by kaens 18y ago
Makes sense. There's definitely a focus on feedback from coders in most open-source apps - and that makes sense as well, although I'm sure it can be frustrating. As a coder, I've found that it can be very hard to communicate with non-coders
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by kaens 18y ago
Yeah, re-reading my comment, I'm not sure why I put quotes there in the first place.
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by kaens 18y ago
I prefer jQuery. Mainly because for what I do with javascript, it feels a lot more "declarative" (best word I can think of at the moment) than Prototype.
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by kaens 18y ago
I had been considering getting a kindle when I got some spare cash, but hadn't taken the time to really research them yet (waiting until I could afford one - plus there will probably be better options by that time). I'm afraid that the lack
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by kaens 18y ago
Or I guess you could just downmod me. I was curious, that's all. I'm not a image-manipulation person (the largest amount of image-manipulation I've done involved porting an algorithm to do some stuff from C++ to python), only have cursory e
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by kaens 18y ago
Nah, that's pretty much the tale of a lot of software that I've written.
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by kaens 18y ago
Could I inquire as to how much time you put into "evaluating" the GIMP?
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by kaens 18y ago
I bookmarked this, as I haven't attended college as of yet, but will probably be in a college as of fall of this year or spring of 2009. Sounds like an interesting tool at the least.
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by kaens 18y ago
Php is, in my opinion, a "templating" language (yes, I know it's not just a templating language). Closer to "scripting" than the other categories.
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by kaens 18y ago
Pick PHP if you're very concerned with being able to find a quick, cheap online host for your web-app and you don't want to bother with learning another language (or with learning how to deploy web-apps in other languages, which really isn'
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by kaens 18y ago
SICP and Concrete Mathematics would be the two books in my backpack if I suddenly went entirely broke and had to hit the streets.
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by kaens 18y ago
Watch the video lectures as well, they're well worth it - and since they're for an earlier version of the book, you don't get presented with exactly the same information as you would be if they were in sync with the current version of the b
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by kaens 18y ago
More or less the same experience here, except that I don't think the school I went to was very good at all. I tried really hard to get my school to let me test out of classes and be in classes where I would actually be learning something, t
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by kaens 18y ago
This was a really fascinating, insightful read. It's a shame it didn't get more exposure here, I'd love to hear what some of the people here thought of the article. I mean, it's got a lot of interesting software techniques in it, insight in
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by kaens 18y ago
I actively play guitar, bass, and drums. Have been playing guitar all my life. I can play piano and violin. I like playing around with sequencers, I have some very quickly made tracks up at http://last.fm/music/kaens , probably some stuff
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by kaens 18y ago
Well, I know what I'm doing in my free learning time now. Thanks for sharing, this looks awesome!

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