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by kaens 18y ago
Are decorators more than syntactic sugar for functions that take functions?
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by kaens 18y ago
It's not always useful, and I don't have full control over it - although I can somewhat tell the level of concentration I have to be in to enter that state, I don't have any control over whether or not I enter it past not focusing extremely
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by kaens 18y ago
That is exactly how things are. I think the author was basically saying that sometimes it weighs more heavily on his mind than others. (It certainly does for me)
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by kaens 18y ago
Out of boredom and curiosity I just started overlaying everything I know about birds and flight. Everything from it's bone structure to the aerodynamics of flight feathers etc. I blacked out and by the time I was aware again we 10 - 15 min
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by kaens 18y ago
http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/ http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/socratic/
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by kaens 18y ago
I've read Brave New World. And yeah, most work in society is mindless. Ideally, I don't think people should have to work at all anymore, but there are a whole lot of problems stopping that from happening. Really expanding on this stuff ta
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by kaens 18y ago
I very well may, although that's only one example of what I view as a much larger issue. I currently make less than 10K a year though, so I'm sort of focusing on that first. EDIT: Clarification.
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by kaens 18y ago
Question. Why did we (human beings) spend so many resources and so much effort developing the LHC when it seems obvious that a comparable amount of effort and resources could have dramatically improved our way of life? That's a complicate
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by kaens 18y ago
The reason we have people working fast-food jobs is that they need the money and it's still cheaper than full automation Right, that would be part of what I view as a larger problem with society (at least in the US) at the moment. People
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by kaens 18y ago
That's debatable. It is, however, the most widely known language (besides maybe java?) that you can write the types of applications that C++ is used for in.
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by kaens 18y ago
Probably. I'm sure we'd (you, me, and other people living at the space) probably want to meet you first though.
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by kaens 18y ago
Give me $100K/yr and I will make one hell of an effort to change society in a positive way. To be blunt - fuck having a better car or larger house for myself, fuck spending $100K/yr on me .
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by kaens 18y ago
Automated driving doesn't seem like it would be very hard if you had the ability to do whatever you wanted to the roads / cars on the road. Of course we're not in a situation anywhere near that ideal. I share the opinion that a lot of thing
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by kaens 18y ago
1. Buy a warehouse, convert it into living / productivity space, a large room for any one "type" of productive activity (read: making stuff). 2. Contact everyone I know who is passionate about whatever it is they do, and inform them that th
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by kaens 18y ago
This is pretty well done, although it's not really too much more than a "proof of concept". I'd really like to see a lot more movement in this direction from online game developers, and it seems like we're just starting to hit the point whe
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Tunnel - a game in javascript and css using jquery.(christianmontoya.com)
4 points by kaens 18y ago|1 comments
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by kaens 18y ago
I'm actually working on something like this in my free time for Ubuntu flavors. I've been trying to figure out how to get some funding for it so I can focus on it, but I'm not sure if it's a service I should try to charge users for (automat
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by kaens 18y ago
Not really, considering that the majority of the textbook industry (that I've seen) is a blatant sham.
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by kaens 18y ago
Your professor is a good person. Got a link so we can check out his book and perhaps send him a thank-you note (or donation)?
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by kaens 18y ago
That is true, although for asking questions you can just tag it as the language. Php probably wasn't listed in the popular tags due partially to the windows/.NET tendency of the site, and the tendency of the people participating in the beta
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by kaens 18y ago
I was amused by the contrast between (on the one hand) Joel's long list of instructions and "how-to" hints in his blog post, and (on the other hand) the seeming absence of instructions/guidance on the site itself. The way I see it, the si
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by kaens 18y ago
In this specific case, the tagging works out a lot like "sections" anyhow - I do believe that most of the questions are language-specific, and that if you go browse the tags, most of the ones with a lot of questions are language tags. The t
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by kaens 18y ago
people just prefer to fork and use the well baked IPC mechanisms Ahh, that makes sense. I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of perl code runs on *nix systems (I know that with the exception of one app, all the perl I've ever written
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by kaens 18y ago
Threading support is better in python than in perl? I'm not familiar with perls threading model (or libraries), but this seems wrong - considering things like the GIL in python. Could you elaborate a bit on this?
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by kaens 18y ago
Because I am an autodidact that happens to be rather poor at the moment, and has been meaning to master the use of lisp macros.
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by kaens 18y ago
I don't have a camera, but I can tell you what it looks like. I don't have a "room". I have a futon in a shared office room in the house I live in, some homemade bookshelves (read wood, eyelet screws and twine), and a laptop. In this same r
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by kaens 18y ago
All the warmups and homework excersizes, most of the exam problems. Research problems not so much. I'm still working my way through it. I'm not trying to say it isn't challenging - just that it's approachable. It's extremely challenging.
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by kaens 18y ago
I found "Concrete Mathematics" to be a great read for maths relating to CS. I don't have a strong math background (took "calculus" in high school...) and haven't had a problem while reading it yet.
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by kaens 18y ago
I did not find SICP boring for self-study at all. Quite the opposite, really.
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by kaens 18y ago
C and x86 assembly. I've been floating in high-level land for too long, feel like I need to get close(r) to the metal.

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