mark_h

7 ms·

31.
by mark_h 9y ago
I have a couple of friends, both white-water guides and accomplished outdoorsmen, and they both put whitewater in a different category of risk: you can do everything right, and still die just due to the unpredictability of it. One of them
32.
by mark_h 9y ago
require simply loads a feature, assuming it exists. use-package can do a whole lot more, including installing the package, configuring auto-loads, setting up key-bindings, pre- and post-load configuration, etc. It's a third-party pack
33.
by mark_h 9y ago
That is a spectacularly well-presented paper (and I haven't even attempted to read it yet!). I love the visual overview of the algorithm in figure 3.
34.
by mark_h 10y ago
Yeah, fascinating book; weren't the graphics issues due in part to the lack of maturity of C++ tools at the time though? (I don't remember exactly because it has been a while since I read it)
35.
by mark_h 10y ago
Similarly, I absolutely loved this gif (5 pitches overlayed, near-identical release point and very different trajectories): http://deadspin.com/coolest-gif-ever-shows-five-yu-darvish-p...
36.
by mark_h 11y ago
Seriously one of the most impressive blogs out there. Here's him answering your question: http://blog.acolyer.org/2015/03/30/end-of-term-and-how-i-rea...
37.
by mark_h 11y ago
I don't know if it supports jupyter (I haven't used either in a while), but ein for emacs is pretty cool: https://tkf.github.io/emacs-ipython-notebook/
38.
by mark_h 11y ago
I quite like the chart representation used in cookingforengineers.com, showing the parallelism in a recipe, eg http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/87/Carrot-Pulp-Cak...
39.
by mark_h 12y ago
Smartparens will work with xml tags and more. (I still use paredit for lisp languages though, and I can't remember if there was a reason for that or it's just inertia/conservatism).
40.
by mark_h 12y ago
Kasparov played a game against that program too, for the Turing centenary celebrations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrxdWkjmhKg
41.
How I broke the Ethiopian Airlines #ET702 hijacking on Twitter(medium.com)
3 points by mark_h 13y ago|0 comments
42.
by mark_h 13y ago
There was a talk at Clojure/conj by Tim Ewald on just that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShEez0JkOFw "Programming with hand tools" Lots of conference reviews nominated it in their favourite talks too.
43.
by mark_h 13y ago
patio11 has a great story about how he learned of it, via Patrick Collison: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/08/06/stripe-and-ab-testing-ma...
44.
by mark_h 13y ago
Magnar had a great hack to only turn it on when you goto-line: http://whattheemacsd.com/key-bindings.el-01.html
45.
by mark_h 13y ago
Rich Hickey is another one worth reading (/listening to) for more examples of breaking things down to core principles, and potentially coming up with a new approach based off them. For example datomic, which breaks a database into the
46.
by mark_h 13y ago
Emacs has EIN ( http://tkf.github.io/emacs-ipython-notebook/); perhaps a vim implementation is possible?
47.
by mark_h 13y ago
...and at the risk of turning this into a lengthy "how (I think you should) to learn Emacs" thread, learn the help commands. _How_ to look up the hot key, how to look up the documentation for a key sequence, etc. Once you have yo
48.
by mark_h 13y ago
Zoe Keating is always worth-while reading about this, including being open about where her royalties come from. For eg (this was the post that got represented as "pay me in data"): http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/35737991443/what-i-want
49.
by mark_h 14y ago
Since this is turning into a recommendation thread, I'll add Jim Wendler's 5/3/1: httup://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_training_performance/how_to_build_pure_strength You can buy the ebook and I'd recommend it, but you c
50.
by mark_h 14y ago
Robin Milner is another notable CS research without a PhD, but with a Turing award.
51.
by mark_h 14y ago
It's a false dichotomy as you say, and a big reason people claim "ideas don't matter" is because their definition of execution includes "getting a better idea" (or, pivoting). If the idea truly didn't matter then you should be able to succ
52.
by mark_h 14y ago
I had no idea that stealing supplies was so common! I really only heard on it -- and was shocked -- while listening to this talk (about K2): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zkC9IMQmYA
53.
by mark_h 14y ago
Edmund Hillary wrote "High Adventure" about a year after his climb, and a it's a great description of just how things were done in those days! It's a very easy read too, in a boys-own-adventure style. Speaking of aerial photos though, Over
54.
by mark_h 14y ago
Mark Otto owns getbootstrap.com by the looks of it, which at the moment just redirects to the github site.
55.
by mark_h 14y ago
Geo-redirected blogspot URLs are getting a bit out of hand on HN! I submitted this as well (.au): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4799685 And of course it was also submitted as .com: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4800296 Have
56.
Debug mode is the only mode(gbracha.blogspot.com.au)
4 points by mark_h 14y ago|0 comments
57.
Tricky locals()(nedbatchelder.com)
4 points by mark_h 14y ago|0 comments
58.
by mark_h 14y ago
Jon does post roughly annual updates as dredmorbius pointed out; this is the last one I could find on a quick search: https://lwn.net/Articles/504952/ That's probably slightly more positive than others, which typically seem to be along th
59.
by mark_h 14y ago
It is shocking how many pages break because of this (usually, you check the console and it has thrown an exception because FB is not defined)
60.
by mark_h 14y ago
There's http://apiaxle.com/ to look at as well, an open-source solution (no personal experience with it)

More ›