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by mattrepl 16y ago
It's indirect. If publishers have difficulty reaching their audience, so do journalists.
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Why the iPad is Destroying the Future of Journalism(measuringmeasures.com)
27 points by mattrepl 16y ago|17 comments
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by mattrepl 16y ago
First, let's agree on the definition of mundane as used here. To me, your use of mundane suggests the task of writing a program after high-level questions, what and why, have received high-level answers. Everything but initial brainstormi
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by mattrepl 16y ago
I agree with your dislike for relabeling the mundane, but "pair programming" is used to indicate a specific form of collaboration which includes the the three points mentioned in the post. The sort of collaboration you're referring to is wh
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by mattrepl 16y ago
They have taken a use case of Twitter and Facebook and turned it into it's own product. People seem to enjoy using it but breathtaking is a bit much. Also, what breathtaking technology innovation have they produced?
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by mattrepl 16y ago
I believe you want the Department of Veteran Affairs. The 2010 budget was $114 billion. http://www.va.gov/budget/products.asp
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by mattrepl 16y ago
Erlang annoyed me in the same way. The syntax was fine, except for the comma or semicolon and period issue. Made moving code a pain.
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Thou Shalt Not Lie: git rebase, ammend, squash, and other lies (paul.stadig.name)
40 points by mattrepl 16y ago|25 comments
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Flexible Persistence and Iterative Vision(measuringmeasures.com)
2 points by mattrepl 16y ago|0 comments
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by mattrepl 16y ago
There's been an active Smalltalk community in Vancouver, BC. If you want to stay in the U.S., then Seattle or Portland may work.
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Deploying Clojure Services with Crane(measuringmeasures.com)
56 points by mattrepl 16y ago|0 comments
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Transactions: The Next Big Data Category(measuringmeasures.com)
3 points by mattrepl 16y ago|0 comments
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Startup Technical Debt(measuringmeasures.com)
45 points by mattrepl 16y ago|7 comments
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by mattrepl 16y ago
And replaced with the other legendary game programmer, Tim Sweeney (Epic Games founder).
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by mattrepl 16y ago
This article appears to be a response to the new Journal of Computational Science whose editor-in-chief promotes computational science as separate from theory and experimentation. The inciting text can be found in the description section
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by mattrepl 16y ago
I'm not sure which schools you're referencing when you write about that status of academic teaching. If a university has a statistics program they must offer something beyond a course in basic statistics. Grants for statistics research do
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Thinking Under Uncertainty(nathanmarz.com)
17 points by mattrepl 16y ago|1 comments
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by mattrepl 16y ago
Mongrel2 is still in early development, but may be relevant to you. There's a chat demo in the source repository. http://mongrel2.org/home
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by mattrepl 16y ago
Pretty good rip on a few annoyances of C++ in Zed's fantastic ranting style.
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Zed Shaw on C++(librelist.com)
202 points by mattrepl 16y ago|200 comments
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by mattrepl 16y ago
Financial compensation is only part of it. Most startups include longer hours and additional responsibilities that limit what else you can do with your life, such as have a relationship, spend time with friends, or work on a side project.
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by mattrepl 16y ago
Employee compensation from startups depends on many factors including how much they value employees, but it's really important for prospective startup employees to understand that you'll probably work longer hours, have more responsibility,
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by mattrepl 16y ago
Here's one using a list comprehension to make it more closely resemble the Python example. (require ['clojure.set :as 's]) (-> (for [c (s/intersection (set "letters in this sentence") (set "and
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by mattrepl 16y ago
That's what I liked about the old Facebook, there was a deterrent to mass friending.
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Benford's Law and the Distribution of First-Digits(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by mattrepl 16y ago|0 comments
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by mattrepl 16y ago
For those interested in reading more: The presenter is Daniel Cook (Danc) who worked for Epic Megagames long ago doing game art and design. Some of his essays have made it to HN before, those and some of his art can be found at his site: h
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by mattrepl 16y ago
An old article, but seemed appropriate to repost.
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Effective Emacs (2006)(sites.google.com)
7 points by mattrepl 16y ago|2 comments
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by mattrepl 16y ago
There was an article a few years ago on how the time investment of learning new programming tools is often worthwhile. I believe awk was included as an example. Anyone recall it?
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by mattrepl 16y ago
Good, and bleak, point about dying once you retire. I wonder how retirement costs compare to lifelong cost of being obese. According to stats cited by the CDC ( http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/causes/economics.html ) about 9.1% of medical costs

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