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by ludicast 9y ago
I lived about 3 blocks away from him and was friends with his daughter when we were about preschool/kindergarten age. Back then I said I would marry her someday (I grew up and eventually married someone else in the end). Chip was an i
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by ludicast 9y ago
No the timing is perfect. It will be on their resumes exactly when companies start looking for kotlin talent.
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by ludicast 9y ago
Great advice and people need to do this more often (or at least recognize if they don't do it). I agree 100% on everything with Dave Rubin, for example, so I avoid listening to him too much.
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by ludicast 9y ago
Just finished it yesterday myself. It gets relinked to in every thread like this but can't be linked to enough.
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by ludicast 9y ago
Rescuetime has been great for me so far. Really helping me stay on track and motivated. Coursera and edx can be great too, but potential time-sucks if you don't manage your interests carefully.
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by ludicast 10y ago
I'll have to reexamine then. Last I saw the typings story wasn't well documented but would be beyond overjoyed to be wrong.
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by ludicast 10y ago
Not his problem.
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by ludicast 10y ago
I'd advise you to checkout codescho ol. They have tracks that cover a topic in about a weekend, often in an entertaining way. I don't belong to them now but I really enjoyed them in the past
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by ludicast 10y ago
Agree 100%. We definitely "need him on the wall", no matter how much I might disagree with him sonetimes.
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by ludicast 10y ago
I think scala.js is having better integration these days (due to typings etc.) But still not 100%. But I would switch to all-scala if it ever had a dev-friendly 100% integration strategy.
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by ludicast 10y ago
My compile time is very fast (near instant), but I split up my projects into a zillion private modules. Adds some complexity but great for tdd. TS has been worth it to me, even if once in a while the compiler is too fussy like you say.
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by ludicast 10y ago
I think it's the reverse. He did all or most of their multivariable calc series, and maybe some other things for them. And then started to do his own thing a little more.
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by ludicast 10y ago
Extremely impressive, enjoyed poking through it.
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by ludicast 10y ago
You will learn more about this, and that will make it easier to join the tech community. -------------------------------------------- Also, to add some signal to my noise, Tom Cormen is apparently one of the designers of the course. He wrot
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by ludicast 10y ago
It gets better in terms of ease, especially if you practice and drill a bit. And it's really cool when you realise one day that you can type in both keyboards at about the same speed (because you will encounter qwerty more often than y
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by ludicast 10y ago
I remember hearing on the Presidential podcast (from the WP), that after losing a congressional election, GWB promised to never be out-churched or out-countried again.
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by ludicast 10y ago
Thanks, the first book (along with the exercises) seems like a great approach. Just peeked at the contents online, and it's pretty close to what I'm looking for. Much appreciated!
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by ludicast 10y ago
Tangential, but could anybody recommend a proof-heavy first-principles book for probability/statistics? I know stats etc. from an applications perspective (excel/sas/r), but 100% sure of the theoretical underpinnings behind m
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by ludicast 10y ago
Sorry if my footnote's sarcasm was unclear. I really liked coffeescript, I still do. It never had the support it needed to succeed but was a decent enough improvement to be worthwhile. Plus being included in the rails Gemfile was th
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by ludicast 10y ago
Agreed, plus obviously your "if" statement doesn't do the assignment to usefulMetric. One more way the ternary wins (along with functional languages that use "if"s as expressions).
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by ludicast 10y ago
Scala is the latest whipping boy(1). It's a great language with tons of warts, but it actually acknowledges the warts. Case in point, when (2)Paul Phillips went after Scala (mentioned in the article), Odersky took some of that critici
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by ludicast 10y ago
> Is humility necessary for one to be a great leader? Steve Jobs and General George Patton spring to mind. As does (starting tomorrow) the new leader of the free world.
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by ludicast 10y ago
Going through the class myself. Really good approach - probably more valuable than any other class I've done. Can't praise enough.
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by ludicast 10y ago
A/B testing doesn't mean 30% get this bug, 30% this one, yada yada. J/K your kit seems awesome and I think I'll subscribe myself. Want to up my electronics game so something like that might keep me on pace.
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by ludicast 10y ago
This story, and others, are enjoyably recounted in the WaPo Presidential Podcast, which hits the history of every president: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/presidentia... I can't recommend i
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by ludicast 10y ago
I've liked the books I've gotten from them (usually from Reginald) and will definitely get this one. Fun fact - I remember meeting their founder (Peter Armstrong I think) at RailsConf many years back. He had just written "fl
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by ludicast 10y ago
The process was accidental: 1) I started by focusing on counting (obviously). Then counting to larger numbers and backwards. 2) During timeouts (when he had a tantrum etc.) I often made him count backwards or forwards instead of setting a
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by ludicast 10y ago
lol, we do that stuff too, but I see how it could sound. definitely not locked up in a dark room, often I'll just ask him a few questions while we are in the car. the vital thing is making it an everyday thing. he's actually obse
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by ludicast 10y ago
I like that! I think keeping things in the head is very important and a good way to build on stuff without increasing the scope of needed knowledge. How did you guys handle parenthesis/precedence? Or more like a calculator I guess...
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by ludicast 10y ago
For the past year, I have done a little bit of arithmetic with my son every day. Mostly from the Kumon series of books. It's been a great activity to both spend time together and give him a handle on something most kids fear. I don&#x

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