malingo

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   by malingo 14y ago

   At what point in a neophyte programmer's life should he/she switch from the "immediate & non-stop coding" Khan Academy approach recently discussed here on HN to this Ken Thompson "take a moment and think first" approach? Isn't there th
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   by malingo 14y ago

   See also the space shuttle / horse's ass story: http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp
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   Kinect for Windows, v1.5(microsoft.com)

   1 points by malingo 14y ago|0 comments
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   by malingo 14y ago

   I've always liked GW Flake's writing on the topic. http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/FLAOH/cbnhtml/excerpts1.html
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   by malingo 15y ago

   This is a good opportunity for me to re-read http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.ht...
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   by malingo 15y ago

   I like how the favicon matches the selected color. Open the site on multiple tabs and you can spot at a glance which tab has which palette.
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   by malingo 15y ago

   Yes that has bugged me quite a bit; I first noticed it when reading his essay on C [1]. But since then I've installed Vimium [2] and I never even touch the mouse anymore. [1] http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/c/ [2] http://vimi
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   by malingo 15y ago

   Finally, a "learning to code" article that actually mentions version control and its importance. Of course it's an extra thing to learn when all a beginner wants to do is get something cool (often a website or game) working quickly. But wh
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   by malingo 15y ago

   I like the comparison of the design themes of relational modeling and NoSQL modeling as, respectively, "what answers do I have?" and "what questions do I have?"
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    by malingo 15y ago

    I'm a big fan of Ctrl-e and Ctrl-y which, despite being in the "one line at a time" category, are really useful for changing the context of the cursor a little bit without changing the cursor's line. I've even gone as far as to remap those
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    by malingo 15y ago

    I fully agree, in part because several years ago I was asked to code (not sketch, not explain) Life on a whiteboard while interviewing at a large software company that many people would like to work for. It was absurd.
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    by malingo 15y ago

    I think the CS Unplugged approach has a tremendous amount of potential, particularly with its intended audience (primary school). In my 3rd grade class in 1986, one day the teacher told us that she had a loaf of sliced bread in a bag, a ja
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    by malingo 15y ago

    Wow, the image came up when I first loaded that page was absolutely NSFW. Yikes. Be careful.
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    High-Speed Navigation through Clutter(sertac.scripts.mit.edu)

    2 points by malingo 15y ago|0 comments
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    Stradivarius not always better than new, cheap violins(economist.com)

    1 points by malingo 15y ago|0 comments
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    by malingo 15y ago

    Could Pi somehow actually be Bleem, hiding in plain sight all this time?
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    by malingo 15y ago

    with your knowledge as a pathologist, would you agree that the success of this approach depends on the quality of the biopsy (i.e. obtaining a sample that faithfully represents the entire volume of tissue being investigated)? From my exper
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    Bubonic plague genome: The Black Death decoded(nature.com)

    27 points by malingo 15y ago|1 comments
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    by malingo 15y ago

    Don't forget about http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1971200
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    by malingo 15y ago

    > Is your story missing something? Yes, I should have noted that I was donating as a paid research subject and not specifically to a marrow bank or to an individual who needed a transplant. I commented to explain that the marrow-withdra
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    by malingo 15y ago

    I have donated bone marrow three times. All were during my undergrad years, and the motivation was supporting medical research but also that it paid well (from the perspective of an undergrad). The donation process was exactly as described
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    by malingo 15y ago

    I had a similar experience writing a retroactive trip journal after a few weeks through central Europe. In the month after returning home, I'd spend at least 30 minutes (sometimes an hour or more) late at night just brain-dumping everythin
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    by malingo 15y ago

    I've often resorted to doing the same thing, but one problem with that is having to go back to the HN site to find the story to vote on it or comment. If a large number of people are pushing stories out to new tabs and ultimately ignoring
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    by malingo 15y ago

    I'd say in addition to shell, editor, compiler, one should also have a version-control system handy. After manually working through a handful of simple examples, a more complex undertaking will be very nonlinear; what better way to reinfor
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    by malingo 15y ago

    For another street view of NYC circa 1982, check out Style Wars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_Wars
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    Visualization of Euler's Formula(stephenhandley.tumblr.com)

    2 points by malingo 15y ago|0 comments
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    by malingo 15y ago

    I voted you up for that proposal. The discussion here is fascinating--incredibly orthogonal. Although in the end, seems like it's just one of those orthogonal things: neither the discussion nor the poll would change anyone's mind.
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    The Psyche on Automatic(harvardmagazine.com)

    2 points by malingo 15y ago|0 comments
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    by malingo 15y ago

    Automated Chopsticks: http://pastebin.com/tCpg7jjw
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    by malingo 15y ago

    Basically zero for me. One question though is at what point do taxes become an issue, in terms of (in the US) the IRS becoming interested and ultimately how much they affect income?