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Ask HN: Who's the best programmer you ever worked with?
7 points by limist 16y ago|15 comments
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by limist 16y ago
Except for the UI Patterns site which does organize techniques by vague user goals, the other sites are too focused on tactics (Oooo, shiny widgets!), and not on UI/usability strategy. A UI strategy needs to start from higher-level questio
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Physicists Build a Memory that Stores Entanglement(technologyreview.com)
1 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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The Humble Programmer(userweb.cs.utexas.edu)
2 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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by limist 16y ago
If the courses were rigorous enough, then I'm sure the correlation between grades and programming ability would be meaningful and fairly reliable. It's hard to imagine someone doing well at courses like algorithms, statistics, and compiler
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Dijkstra, Computing Science: Achievements and Challenges(userweb.cs.utexas.edu)
2 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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by limist 16y ago
@jhck, drothlis: Thank you very much to both of you, those suggestions are exactly what was asked for. I'd upvote you more if I could. :) Both the Gries book and Stepanov's book have really impressive reviews on Amazon, am looking forward
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Launch of the cofounder network - matching cofounders around the world(cofoundernetwork.posterous.com)
16 points by limist 16y ago|1 comments
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by limist 16y ago
"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley." :) Firstly, errors can stem from the "client side." Few software specifications are so precise that solutions can be proven complete and correct. So I don't think an honest programmer has to li
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by limist 16y ago
Where and how can one effectively learn the kind of formal reasoning he describes, and that he mentions having taught to college freshmen? Could a knowledgeable HN'er please give follow-up resources? Thanks!
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by limist 16y ago
Worth reading just to receive the wisdom of this change of perspective - I'm going to stop calling my errors "bugs": We could, for instance, begin with cleaning up our language by no longer calling a bug a bug but by calling it an error. I
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The Secret of Self-control(newyorker.com)
94 points by limist 16y ago|19 comments
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The A* algorithm in Clojure(clj-me.cgrand.net)
26 points by limist 16y ago|4 comments
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by limist 16y ago
Very interesting points, thank you for the references. Maybe I'm not so much convinced by Wallerstein as appreciative of the expanded perspective (and willingness to question) he provides. In taking a longer view (centuries), he's at leas
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by limist 16y ago
Interesting that this was published in January 2008, and likely written before that. Rightly or wrongly, economic globalization's image didn't end that year untarnished. The world's a really complex system, even limited to just the human-s
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by limist 16y ago
This is old, from the Web 1.0 world and inspired by Philip Greenspun's book "Database-Backed Web Sites" but it's dead-simple and it works: http://uptime.openacs.org/uptime/ Oh, and it's free too.
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ClojureDocs - community powered documentation for/of Clojure(clojuredocs.org)
3 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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by limist 16y ago
If you're not immediately grokking the significance of Mongrel2 (as I did not), be sure to check out the documentation's Introduction: http://mongrel2.org/doc/tip/docs/manual/book.wiki#x1-40001 The features sound cool and significantly ev
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Lisp Style Rules(mumble.net)
1 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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Your Car Would Have to Get 70 MPG to Be as Clean as an Electric Car(cleantechnica.com)
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by limist 16y ago
No mention of SICP - the CS classic that's not only decently rigorous, but actually inspires the fun and joy of programming, as it promises in its Preface: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html
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Charlie Munger (Berkshire Hathaway) on Deserved Trust, Wisdom(valueinvestingworld.blogspot.com)
1 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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by limist 16y ago
No shortage of HN "hypotheses" too. :) Hypothesis: Lisp/Python/Haskell/Ruby is the best programming language ever made. Evidence: PG recommends/PG criticizes; Libraries for X available/unavailable; Supports/Omits 1st class functions, etc.
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by limist 16y ago
Sounds like what you want is a long-term, subject-oriented (not single tasks), mastery-directed (aiming to build real skill), social learning context and tool. Would that be a fair summary of the high-level requirements?
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by limist 16y ago
Once can combine numbers 2 (hard work first), 3 (intense practice), and 6 (regular/ritualized practice) by doing some "deliberate" and challenging study first thing every morning. For example, find a true classic in the field of interest,
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by limist 16y ago
Yes, as the Asian proverb goes: "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear."
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by limist 16y ago
"What's inside the AVC Edge? It has a 486 SLE processor and 32 MB of RAM—similar specs to a 20-year-old PC. The election software is stored on an internal CompactFlash memory card. Modifying it is as simple as removing the card and inserti
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by limist 16y ago
But as a human being, it's inevitable you'll need to eat. It follows we should weigh the consequences more heavily for inevitable choices. Having children - at least in richer countries - is a choice, and not inevitable. On a larger scale,
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by limist 16y ago
A more complete and detailed answer to this article's question is provided by the free Chapter 1 of Amit Rathore's book-in-progress, Clojure in Action: http://www.manning.com/rathore/ As Rathore puts it, Clojure's power is drawn from thre
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by limist 16y ago
As usual, unmentioned is an individual's biggest single energy impact: dietary choices. Just a single semester's worth of thermodynamics study (the 2nd Law in particular) would make that clear. Some background includes: http://www.guardi

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