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by marai2 4y ago
Thank you!! Just yesterday I was googling trying to find a good introduction to learning assembly and today here it is!!!
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by marai2 4y ago
As the footer on the online version of the book says "Handcrafted by Robert Nystorm" - it really is lovingly hand crafted . It shows that the author went over the content many, many times polishing it with every go. The content b
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by marai2 4y ago
I think the difference is that this book in about 200 pages or so, starts from two boys using flashlights to attempt to "communicate" with each and goes through simple circuits to logic gates to CPU, ALU, volatile memory, rudiment
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by marai2 4y ago
Weighs 52000 lbs (26 tons)! But because of the surface area of the track puts down only 5 lbs of pressure (per square inch, I think).
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by marai2 4y ago
This is one of the best science documentaries I have seen. I'm surprised I missed it - it was made in 2011, and it had a surprising amount of visual history that I was not aware of. From the rivalry between Volta and Galvani, to all th
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Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by marai2 4y ago|2 comments
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by marai2 4y ago
Since we regularly get comments on HN about people wanting to study math in some capacity and about the challenges in doing so - I thought this was a really quote from this video: Jinyoung (after having been a secondary school Math teacher
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by marai2 4y ago
Wow, thanks for posting this. I would never have come across this. It's good to get some background info to the editer-in-cheif's thinking on when and why we might get a print version of the magazine.
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by marai2 4y ago
@kaveh808 - since you mentioned spending a lot of time on the Common Lisp tutorial for your friend - it would be awesome if you'd repurpose it as a general tutorial for people new to or interested in Common Lisp, maybe as YouTube video
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by marai2 5y ago
You can also do an HN search for it. Here is one excerpt from an HN comment: "... So for example, a book like "Lisp in Small Pieces", which taught me the concept of Continuations, was considerably hard on the conceptual side.
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by marai2 5y ago
This is a question for the folks who have been reading the Economist regularly for a while. What do you guys feel like you get out of reading the Economist over time? This is meant as a genuine question. So for example, I consume my news on
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by marai2 5y ago
I totally agree. If you're into computers and computer-sciency interests and interpreters/compilers, try going through the Dragon book and try going through Bob's book. You'll realize that even though the Dragon book sel
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by marai2 5y ago
The book has two interpreters. The first one is in Java. The second one uses C. If you're familiar with Java then it makes for a great learning experience to contrast the Java version with the C version. (I think it's worth it to
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by marai2 5y ago
Trigonometry The Easy Way, was brilliant! I wouldn't categorize it as forced in the manner of the OP. The book creates a fantasy backdrop to connect trigonometrical concepts in a fun way. I really enjoyed the book and it made trigonome
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Zero-knowledge proofs explained in 5 levels of difficulty(youtube.com)
3 points by marai2 5y ago|0 comments
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by marai2 5y ago
This guy is a (inter-)national treasure!
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by marai2 5y ago
Would you mind shedding some light on how you do development and the pros and cons you experienced comparing to REPL-driven development?
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by marai2 5y ago
Walter, it would be great if you could share your list of good books!
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by marai2 5y ago
And j = json.loads For quick debugging: print( j( some_data_structure )) For some data structure that you'll eventually be sending out as json.
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1k companies per Y Combinator batch? RIP Y Combinator(techcrunch.com)
4 points by marai2 5y ago|1 comments
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by marai2 5y ago
I'm sorry but this is the funniest comment I've read on HN!
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by marai2 5y ago
The State Monad a Tutorial for the Confused: http://brandon.si/code/the-state-monad-a-tutorial-for-the-co... And I did!
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by marai2 5y ago
A few days ago I was trying to understand the State Monad in Haskell because the book I was reading didn't explain it well. So I Googled it and the the first couple of links also didn't satisfy, including the Haskell wiki book tha
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by marai2 5y ago
Nice! It's 23 hours and 54 minutes long! 15 minutes a day listen and I'll be done in 100 days!
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by marai2 5y ago
That was a great MOOC by Dan Grossman - discussed a number of times here on HN. The famous quote from Alan J Perlis: "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." http:/&#x2
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by marai2 5y ago
I think that's just the nature of the ... problem domain. There are too many little details that are too similar and our brains have gotten used to Googling. Early on I started creating text files for all these little details for all t
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Ask HN: Non-tech professionals on HN?
215 points by marai2 5y ago|207 comments
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by marai2 5y ago
This was a great read! To quote a commenter @Endaldo on Twitter: "This thread is the Great American Novel, only on Twitter, and mostly set in London. Extraordinary."
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by marai2 5y ago
The first 30 seconds are slow but after that crossing the intersection gives me a new appreciation for the human brain :-)
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by marai2 5y ago
Why Bob why! I kid you not, just 2 days ago I typed your name in the Amazon search box to see if this book would show up even if for pre-orders, but it didn't show. I had some $work money to spend on educational resources and I wanted

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