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by marai2 8y ago
Thank you for your comment. I hadn't paid any attention to why sitting was bad for your health, I thought that my daily routine of exercise was sufficient to take care of this issue. Now that your comment has explained this really clea
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by marai2 8y ago
Could you describe what the deficiencies or rough edges were with Clojure and Common Lisp in your experience with them?
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by marai2 8y ago
The closest I will every get to something like an Erdõs number is that I can now claim the one and only female Abel prize winner was my Differential Equations teacher at college! I missed taking a class with Steven Weinberg when I got to UT
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by marai2 8y ago
This is fantastic!
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by marai2 8y ago
Maybe the mods can add a new FAQ on what the uniques and traffic growth is like now. And maybe update it on even just a yearly basis?
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by marai2 8y ago
Yes! Now make it into a book and take my money! Or as is frequently mentioned on HN, sell the product before there is a product - to see how many people would become customers.
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by marai2 8y ago
As the parent mentions, the origins may have been improving your chances of getting help in the harsh environment, these qualities then formed into the highest virtues in the culture. Hatim Tai ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by marai2 8y ago
This could be a cool challenge. Someone volunteer to do equivalent MVPs in ROR and React. Two separate twitch streams side by side to see how the MVP is created in both these technologies. I think it could be a fun and informational/ed
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Ask HN: Which books have helped you the most professionally?
110 points by marai2 9y ago|37 comments
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The Quantum Thermodynamics Revolution(quantamagazine.org)
2 points by marai2 9y ago|0 comments
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by marai2 10y ago
Looks cool. I tried to do something along the same lines. I had gotten tired of the low signal to noise ratio of Amazon book reviews (after reading one too many "Arrived in good condition" type of reviews). Mine is a more minimal
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by marai2 10y ago
This is oddly therapeutic and calming. My Macbook CPU was just fine as well. Very cool!
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by marai2 10y ago
This book was my greatest buy ever! I once went to Fry's electronics to their book section - my expectation was to find only popular books there, when lo and behold, I see this book on compilers. I turn it over to look at the price tag
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by marai2 10y ago
oh wait - you're right. For the purposes of being able to get a more general understanding of new languages it is better to have somewhat of a (good) grasp on the main paradigms that exist out there. So my earlier comment and advice (w
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by marai2 10y ago
I did read the blog post and what Im saying is that I think the end goal of being able to understand the different paradigms that different languages bring to your understand/repertoire - would be much better served by - not just sampl
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by marai2 10y ago
I'd like to disagree with the title of this blog post. I did something like this in 2016, learnt Clojure, OCaml, Haskell, Go and Racket. Took Dan Grossman's excellent Coursera course on learning language fundamentals and paradigms
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by marai2 10y ago
And I'd like to recommend Prof. Strogatz's book "The Joy of X" as a wonderful sampling of a number of basic math topics. It's very easily digestible. https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Guided-Tour-Math-Infin
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by marai2 10y ago
I'll second that recommendation and op makes an important point that is rarely expressed when threads on learning algorithms show up on HN: Don't be discouraged if you find the material hard at first, "Even if you can't
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Ask HN: What kata do you use when learning a new language?
2 points by marai2 10y ago|2 comments
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by marai2 10y ago
"Internally, Emacs still belives it’s a text program, and we pretend Xt is a text terminal, and we pretend GTK is an Xt toolkit. It’s a fractal of delusion."
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by marai2 10y ago
Would you mind commenting why Tesseract is out of date? I see developers are still active on it: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commits/master
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by marai2 10y ago
There is a "Building a Web Browser" course on udacity[1]. Maybe someone who has taken the course comment on it. [1] https://www.udacity.com/course/programming-languages--cs262
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by marai2 10y ago
I'd like to shamelessly plug my own site here. The itch I was trying to scratch was to have an HN like site for books that could lead to discovering and promoting higher quality books and better reviews than the average review at Amazo
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by marai2 10y ago
If anyone wants a quick index of the courses in those 45G webarchive files here is the index of course slugs. Unfortunately it looks like the webarchive slugs don't match the Coursera slugs anymore so I couldn't pair the names wit
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by marai2 10y ago
This is incredible, I was just on the Coursera website trying to go to my old courses to continue from where I've left off, but I couldn't get to them. The link to my previously enrolled courses was taking me to the newer version
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by marai2 10y ago
"... A month before the invasion the US senator Gary Hart said that war would increase the risk of terrorism. “We’re going to kick open a hornet’s nest, and we are not prepared in this country,” he warned..."
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by marai2 10y ago
> "... In third grade I started to put a lot more effort into really remembering what I read ..." Do you have any tips, tricks, hacks that you would like to share that you may have developed in helping you to remember content.
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by marai2 10y ago
can we have all man pages converted into "zine" pages, as Julia Evans does for strace here :-) http://jvns.ca/strace-zine-unfolded.pdf
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by marai2 10y ago
Though I've had the GTD book sitting in my bookshelf (unread) for a few years, I finally read about GTD on a blog just yesterday :-) And that was the one of the things I tried out yesterday. If a task takes around 2 minutes, just do it
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by marai2 10y ago
Scott Aaronson's blog post on large numbers is also a very interesting read: http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html

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