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by mhartl 7y ago
Thanks! Glad you liked it. For total beginners, Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous may be an even better place to start. https://www.learnenough.com/command-line-tutorial That tutorial is part of a series that take
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by mhartl 7y ago
As the author of The Tau Manifesto , I’m well aware of this (pseudo-)argument, which is dealt with explicitly here: https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto#eq-euler_tau_zero
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by mhartl 7y ago
Someday the cover will read e^iτ = 1 and all will be right with the world.
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by mhartl 7y ago
There’s a link to send him an email, and the address is s.wolfram@wolfram.com. What a strange choice to own lastname.com and then use the email address f.lastname@lastame.com instead of firstname@lastname.com. Perhaps it’s an issue of stand
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by mhartl 7y ago
Amen, brother! (I am the author of The Tau Manifesto .)
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by mhartl 8y ago
This beautifully written New Yorker profile is what first got me hooked on Ricky Jay. It was clipped for me by a kind coworker at Harvard’s Cabot Science Library, who thought I’d like it. She was right. I bought and devoured Ricky’s book
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by mhartl 8y ago
Happy to hear it!
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by mhartl 8y ago
These are the videos for Learn Enough Ruby to Be Dangerous , an introduction to Ruby that's designed as a complement to the Ruby on Rails Tutorial (good either before or after). I generally recommend getting the videos bundled with
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Videos for "Learn Enough Ruby to Be Dangerous"(news.learnenough.com)
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by mhartl 8y ago
Softcover was used for all the Learn Enough books as well. In fact, Learn Enough Ruby just came out today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919998
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by mhartl 8y ago
Link is to the announcement post. Online version is here: https://www.learnenough.com/ruby-tutorial Please let me know if you have any questions!
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Learn Enough Ruby to Be Dangerous ebook(news.learnenough.com)
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by mhartl 8y ago
The Discord iOS app has millions of daily active users and 4.8 stars with over 240k ratings. This has all been accomplished with a team of two engineers! This is impressive.
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Videos for Learn Enough JavaScript to Be Dangerous by Michael Hartl(news.learnenough.com)
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by mhartl 8y ago
My first thought when the MSFT/GitHub news broke was, "This is great news for GitLab."
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by mhartl 8y ago
As [Microsoft CEO Satya] Nadella increasingly moves the company away from complete dependence on the Windows operating system to more in-house development on Linux, the company needs new ways to connect with the broader developer community
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by mhartl 8y ago
Giancoli's book doesn't use calculus. Halliday & Resnick (or one of its later updates from Crane) is a better bet in this regard.
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Ancient Rome’s Collapse Is Written into Arctic Ice(theatlantic.com)
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by mhartl 8y ago
This is a 296-page JavaScript tutorial I recently finished. The full text is available for free online; for more about the book, and for a 20% launch discount on the ebook formats, see the launch post here: https://news.learneno
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Learn Enough JavaScript to Be Dangerous by Michael Hartl(learnenough.com)
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by mhartl 9y ago
ISWYDT.
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by mhartl 9y ago
The supply of Ether isn't algorithmically capped, while the supply of Bitcoin is. This makes Bitcoin more resistant to the greatest long-term threat to a store of value, namely, currency dilution via the creation of new money.
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by mhartl 9y ago
OT, but (in case you didn't know) you can use asterisks to italicize text, so instead of _this_ you'll have this .
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by mhartl 9y ago
I'm so sorry to hear this. I was in the same YC batch as Joe and the other RescueTime founders back in 2008. Joe will be sorely missed by all who knew him.
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by mhartl 9y ago
Learn Enough CSS & Layout to Be Dangerous is a new 500+ page tutorial on front-end development by me (Michael Hartl) and Learn Enough cofounder Lee Donahoe. Link is to the free online version; launch announcement is here: http:&#x2F
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Learn Enough CSS & Layout to Be Dangerous(learnenough.com)
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by mhartl 10y ago
One of my favorite Smullyan works is the lesser-known 5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies . Here's one of the more amusing anecdotes from that book: In item #249 of my book of logic puzzles titled What Is the Name of This Boo
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by mhartl 10y ago
Thanks for the great post, Kalid! Both useful and inspiring.
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by mhartl 10y ago
For better or for worse, the term bullshit has no exact synonym in the English language; we use the term because it precisely describes the phenomena we are studying. Interestingly enough, the claim about bullshit lacking an exact syn
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Ruby on Rails Tutorial Print Edition(news.learnenough.com)
1 points by mhartl 10y ago|0 comments

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