lclarkmichalek

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by lclarkmichalek 15y ago
The simplest way would be to shove computing under the maths curriculum. Teach if with guard statements, and skip for, teach recursion. by the time the kids get to sixth form, have a mathmatical computation course where you teach them to ap
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by lclarkmichalek 15y ago
Every time I try Ruby, this features seems odd, yet I never see much discussion of it. It feels unnatural to me, coming from a python background, and the only real advantage I can see is the fact that you do not have to type `.format(foo")`
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by lclarkmichalek 15y ago
ncmpcpp is an awesome player, though sometimes I do wish that I could have a full featured GUI brower like amarok plug into the mpd backend. Are there any good Qt based interfaces?
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by lclarkmichalek 15y ago
How similar is Parse to Urban Airship? I notice Parse lists push notifications on their homepage, and that seems to be one of the big things about Urban Airship.
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by lclarkmichalek 15y ago
There was a link posted on reddit about this framework, however it linked to a nodejitsu blog post, and iirc, nodejitsu links cannot be submitted to hackernews.
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by lclarkmichalek 15y ago
The Serious Fraud Office might be interested. http://www.sfo.gov.uk/
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by lclarkmichalek 15y ago
I thought most EULAs were ruled invalid in Germany, as you pay for the product before you accept the EULA.
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by lclarkmichalek 15y ago
Nothing much? People with lossless collections in FLAC are likely to continue building them in FLAC. And if they switch over to AAC, then there is no loss. With free lossless audio codecs, everyone wins.
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by lclarkmichalek 15y ago
I've been working on a MACLISP interpreter based on 80's manual I found on my fathers bookshelf. It's quite fun working backward, and seeing how the dialect influenced modern lisp.
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by lclarkmichalek 15y ago
At least on reddit, if Marak Squires posts anything at all, drama follows (justified or not). Maybe it's for the best that it can't be posted here.
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by lclarkmichalek 15y ago
Not likely for spreedly, as you have to provide your own payment gateway i.e. paypal.
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by lclarkmichalek 15y ago
I'm in exactly the same position, and will now proceed to move all private repos over to bitbucket.
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Pirates endorsed as agents of a sovereign nation were known as privateers, not pirates.
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by lclarkmichalek 15y ago
The fact that Mozilla are working on it alongside Google should quieten the screams, and they do also have a javascript library for IE, Safari, Chrome and FF3.
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Emacs users should check out the flymake minor-mode.
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Narrative. Salon had a good piece criticizing wired in light of the full logs: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/07/14...
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by lclarkmichalek 15y ago
Yes, when I noticed that the guardian had a chart of the largest advertisers in the NOTW I did feel it was being a little silly. Though personally, that's why I like the guardian; when it's being biased, it's very obvious.
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by lclarkmichalek 15y ago
They targeted the EVE login server however, and I doubt that is designed for 35-40k simultaneous connections, as to acomplish those conditions, all users on the server would need to log in at the same time. The same is probabaly true for Wo
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by lclarkmichalek 15y ago
As someone who will be applying for Oxford this September, I wholeheartedly agree with you. Even just the work needed to get the grades is immense. This year the entrance requirements for Mathematics are A Astar Astar, Mathematics and Compu