maroonblazer

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Ask HN: I want to take a vacation and code; where should I go?
22 points by maroonblazer 13y ago|25 comments
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by maroonblazer 13y ago
Really well done. I'm working on an app that needs plotting and have been putting off implementing that feature for fear of the sinkhole it might suck me down. Looks like this will do just the trick. Thanks!
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by maroonblazer 13y ago
And yet they believe in an invisible "creator" who takes a personal interest in their daily lives. How should we weigh their valuation of science and logic relative to someone who doesn't believe such things?
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by maroonblazer 13y ago
Like the adulterer who professes to love his wife, you have some things to work out.
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by maroonblazer 13y ago
And I don't use Python because I hate snakes.
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by maroonblazer 13y ago
While I agree that in terms of skill-set marketing is probably easier to pick up than programming (I make a living as a marketer and programming is a hobby), there are organizational factors in a marketing department (large ones anyway) tha
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by maroonblazer 13y ago
Pinker, in "The Blank Slate", cites research that shows that in the nature-vs-nurture debate it appears to be 50/50. Interestingly, of the nurture half, peer group has a much larger influence than parents. Given that, I'
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by maroonblazer 13y ago
And now even DNA is being called into question. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/science/dna-double-take...
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by maroonblazer 14y ago
The digital copy offers something the physical copy doesn't, e.g. portability. Some people might be willing to pay an incremental sum for this added benefit.
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by maroonblazer 14y ago
The challenge isn't Xcode or Objective-C but rather the Cocoa Touch API. At the end of the day you still need to contend with the API, no matter which framework you use.