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by limist 13y ago
Not sure without knowing more of your background - provisional answer is "maybe." Some parts of Ch.1 are certainly math-heavy. The video lectures are quite accessible. Did you study, say, ~1 year of calculus?
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by limist 13y ago
Can't say Berlin is an isolated setting, nor does it feel/look like Cape Cod, but it is nice - if you like cities, it's got something of everything. :) And the summer here is fantastic. SICP is always "on" at Hacker
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by limist 13y ago
Author here - happy to answer questions and address feedback. I suspect I didn't explain Lisp-in-Lisp as well as I need to, but maybe it's enough to get non-Lispers intrigued. :)
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Why and How to Start Your SICP Trek(hackerretreat.com)
144 points by limist 13y ago|60 comments
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State-of-the-Stack, JavaScript - with Ben Lupton(hackerretreat.com)
4 points by limist 13y ago|0 comments
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by limist 13y ago
Specific advice: read, study, and practice SICP: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... It's a book that will permanently upgrade your p
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by limist 13y ago
For me, the winters are relatively better ; unlike where I grew up (the 51st state), there's less snow on the ground, and walking everywhere keeps me warm. :) As for taxes: if you're just coming for 3 months, no tax worries. Be
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by limist 13y ago
Yes, there is a 2nd batch planned for starting in early 2014, so stay in touch! Also, as a foreigner, I've found the German bureaucracy reasonable to deal with: just read the rules twice and follow them to the letter. They generally d
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by limist 13y ago
Fixed, thanks!
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by limist 13y ago
"harsh winters" is relative. :) There tends to be less snow accumulation in Berlin than much of the Northeast US, and chances are you won't need a car, nor need to shovel it (plus walkway and driveway) out. And besides, meh
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by limist 13y ago
In sum: this is a Berlin-based version of Hacker School NYC, with a few twists: it's EU-based; part-time involvement is possible; and we'll incorporate some quantified-self hacks to measure progress (exactly what and how, TBD). If
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by limist 13y ago
8 steps, 15-20 minutes, and you'll get an initial understanding of a much better way to do devops/deployment, including scalability. Thanks Docker!
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What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?(smithsonianmag.com)
1 points by limist 14y ago|0 comments
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James Boyle: The Prosecution of Aaron Swartz: A Reply to Orin Kerr(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by limist 14y ago|0 comments
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by limist 14y ago
No Google doodle. No politicians' speeches. No matter; let us remember regardless. Especially if you'll think of today as Aaron Swartz Day.
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Internet Freedom Day(internetfreedomday.net)
2 points by limist 14y ago|1 comments
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by limist 14y ago
And a hat tip to you for sharing this poetry, which so perfectly expresses the feelings some of us have reading about Aaron's life, and seeing his smile in photos.
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The Cause Of Riots And The Price of Food(technologyreview.com)
2 points by limist 14y ago|0 comments
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by limist 14y ago
A bit of observation, of self or others, will quickly show we all exhibit the Semmelweis Reflex at some time or another: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmelweis_reflex
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Is the Future Functional? - Rob Harrop(skillsmatter.com)
1 points by limist 14y ago|0 comments
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by limist 14y ago
See http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ as a starting point for language speed comparisons.
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by limist 14y ago
Well, someone's gotta' mention SICP, the book that has probably turned more people on to Lisp than any other: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html
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Perfectionism is a Loser’s Strategy(calnewport.com)
3 points by limist 14y ago|0 comments
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by limist 14y ago
Your note is not a waste of time at all, but a concise summary of why materialist determinism (really, 17th century physics wannabes) needs challenging. As someone wise once said, If free will is an illusion, to whom is it so?
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by limist 14y ago
There's a compelling quote within the first page: But the thing that traumatized me occurred a couple years later, when I found an old copy of Life magazine that had the Margaret Bourke-White photos from Buchenwald. This was in the 1940s —
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by limist 15y ago
This is the follow-up article on LinkedIn's choice of dust.js, per: https://engineering.linkedin.com/frontend/leaving-jsps-dust-... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3349845
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The client-side templating throwdown: mustache, handlebars, dust.js, and more(engineering.linkedin.com)
1 points by limist 15y ago|1 comments
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by limist 15y ago
This is a broad, well-written, well-organized, and nicely formatted set of lecture notes and problem sets on algorithms. The informal writing style helps those of us who are more applied than theoretical, but still appreciative of the latt
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Algorithms Course Materials, by Jeff Erickson(cs.uiuc.edu)
3 points by limist 15y ago|2 comments
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Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world(newscientist.com)
23 points by limist 15y ago|0 comments

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