lunchladydoris

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   by lunchladydoris 7y ago

   Since we're talking about Racket, don't forget that it's RacketCon this weekend: https://con.racket-lang.org/
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   by lunchladydoris 7y ago

   My son, now five, has hated them for years. He dries his hands on my shirt instead...
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   by lunchladydoris 7y ago

   There are some excellent books on this list already. For something different, try Shoe Dog, by Phil Knight. It's a memoir from the founder of Nike. I just finished it and it was great.
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   by lunchladydoris 7y ago

   For a second I thought this was actually about scooters being abandoned on the sidewalks. I was in Paris in February and there were scooters littered all over the place.
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   by lunchladydoris 7y ago

   I love how personal this feels. This is written by a person for people, not an organization for consumers. Also, if any of the RacketCon organizers are reading, can you please try to get better video this year? There's no way I can att
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   by lunchladydoris 7y ago

   If you have IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, try the Database plugin. It essentially turns IntelliJ into DataGrip (their dedicated database IDE).
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   by lunchladydoris 8y ago

   Are they a disease, or are they symptoms?
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   Codecademy vs. the BBC Micro(twobithistory.org)

   1 points by lunchladydoris 8y ago|0 comments
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   by lunchladydoris 8y ago

   I've been eating ketchup for 40 years. I've never kept it in the fridge. I hate putting a thick cold sauce on hot food. I've always assumed that the vinegar and preservatives were enough to make it last for the short time a b
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    I just happened to what a How It's Made about Worcestershire sauce last night and it sounds like they have a common origin.
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    This is what I have. I've been using mine every single day over the past 5 years and it's still in excellent condition. I love it. I used to go through a bag every 2-3 years so it speaks to the build quality of the the GR-1 that i
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    What a coincidence (!/?) I'm reading Brian Clegg's book Quantum Age and just heard about this for the first time yesterday.
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    And I always think of Insane Clown Posse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GyVx28R9-s
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    The first time I heard of Canada Goose was when I saw the Top Gear trio make their way to the North Pole in that red Toyota. Not long after I started noticing them more and more, and then recently they exploded. I wonder how much the Top Ge
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    In the UK, we have these little conical spinners on the bottom of the signal that start to turn when the light turns green. My son and I often make games out of them while we're walking around.
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    I use IntelliJ for just about everything I can. It started with Java but with the Ultimate edition I've been able to do Scala, Clojure, Python, Bash, Markdown, SQL, Cypher, PlantUML and more. It is one of the best pieces of software I&
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    I haven't looked at it yet but I wanted to say thanks anyway. Your blog has been really useful for picking up some more core software development practices in Python. Looking forward to going through this!
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    Dang, Germany! What happened there? That is a huge outlier.
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    Does that have anything to do with his ability to inspire people to do something with their lives? We're headed down this dangerous path where it seems we need to be able to vouch for every aspect of a person's life before we&#x27
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    Adam Curtis is amazing. If you don't know his work, I would highly recommend checking it out [0]. [0] https://thoughtmaybe.com/by/adam-curtis/
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    I came here to say exactly this. I've always loved his version of Dune and I was genuinely surprised when I got online years later and starting seeing that most people seemed to think it was bad.
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    Don't be a sucker (1947)(youtube.com)

    1 points by lunchladydoris 8y ago|0 comments
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    Ron Garret did a talk at Google closely related to this post in 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZK0tW8EhQ
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    For anyone who wants to feel what this might have felt like (and you've yet to watch them), MIT posted videos of Abelson and Sussman presenting the course on YouTube [0]. I felt a similar sense of magic the first time I saw the derivat
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    That was really good! Thanks for the link.
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    I've long heard the term but never really looked into where it comes from. If you're like me, check this out: https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/09/why-a-baker...
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    Girls with top science GCSEs 'deterred from study at higher level'(theguardian.com)

    2 points by lunchladydoris 8y ago|0 comments
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    I'd like to see the runtime for the same query but (1) without 'distinct', (2) without the date formatting and (3) with an inner join.
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    In the excellent book Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal, about the life of J.C.R. Licklider, there is the story of how SAGE, the system used for command-and-control strategic planning, was modif
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    by lunchladydoris 8y ago

    Meanwhile, solar appears to be leaping forward in China. From the end of the article: "All the while, nuclear is falling further behind renewable solar and wind power. As Schneider notes, the 3.3 GW of new nuclear capacity connected to