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Thanks. Looks like it's due to a bug in the Hacker News link parser. I'll be more mindful of that in the future.
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In general, mapping LaTeX to HTML is an unsolvable problem (and I speak as the author of one attempt to solve it ( http://github.com/softcover/softcover) ).
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"Physics for Poets" is physics presented in a way tailored to poets [1], not physics as done by poets—i.e., for poets, not by poets. Similarly, "Statistics for Hackers" is for hackers, not by hackers. Thus the fo
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The Learn Enough tutorials use the Softcover system ( http://softcover.io/ ), which stores the HTML on S3 and uses JavaScript to pull it in dynamically. The flexibility and convenience of Softcover come at the price of a litt
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Heh, I've been using 1G for so long I didn't realize g works, too. I'll think about mentioning it. Of course, one advantage of 1G is that it generalizes to values of n other than 1 .
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Thanks!
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Maybe you could create a cheat sheet of the combination of summaries? Cool, that's a great idea. It should be easy to extract all the relevant tables and put them into a single document. Thanks!
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Glad to hear it! Learn Enough™ Command Line to Be Dangerous is the first of eight planned prerequisites to the Rails Tutorial, the first three of which cover the command line, text editors, and Git. The text editor tutorial is currently i
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Great, thanks for the suggestions.
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What has the world come to where the command line is something foreign to a software developer? What in the world are you talking about? The whole point of this tutorial is to teach command-line basics as a first step toward becoming a
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So would it be reasonable to recommend kill $pid as a first step and kill -9 $pid if that doesn't work? Bear in mind that this is a tutorial for beginners, so things like kill -15 $pid || kill -2 $pid || kill -1 $pid || kill -9 $p
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Could you expand on this? In my experience, kill frequently fails without -9 , so I basically always include it (and it's never bitten me). I'm open to suggestions, though, so if you have a recommendation for a better way I&#x2
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Who is this book for if not for programmers? As noted in the introduction, it's aimed at complete beginners: [T]his tutorial is aimed at complete beginners, so it assumes no prerequisites other than general computer knowledge (how t
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You appear to be confusing two different documents. The OP refers to http://learnenough.com/command-line , not http://conqueringthecommandline.com/book .
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This is the ToC for a different book.
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Indeed, I hope that the three-tutorial sequence covering the command line, text editors, and Git will be a useful package for the works-with-developers crowd.
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Thanks for the feedback. The reason for the verbiage is that this is the first of eight planned prerequisite tutorials [1], so Learn Enough™ Command Line to Be Dangerous is setting the stage for all the others as well. The introduction to
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You should just be able to scroll down. If that doesn't work, send an email to the address in my profile with details on exactly what's confusing you. For future iterations of the UI, I'm looking at adding access to the table
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Like all those working in the field, he is at pains to avoid the term "missing link". "But we're journalists, so we have no such compunctions."
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This raises an interesting question: Given that Bostonians (and New Englanders in general) were clearly Yankees as of 1865 (the end of the Civil War), and given that the New York baseball team was renamed the "Yankees" in 1913,
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As someone with deep New England roots, it's truly surreal watching a baseball rivalry trump hundreds of years of history. To anyone outside the North, Bostonians have long been the prototypical Yankees. But go to Southie and say that
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How I Convince Myself to Lead: Accountability and Authority(medium.com)
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Softcover [1] covers many of the same bases as well. Actually supporting all of LaTeX's features in HTML is basically impossible, though, so no matter which tool you use it's best to go in with tempered expectations. [1]: http:&#
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Your Brain on Tech: Good or Bad for Creative Thinking?(skyword.com)
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One thing I like to do is "ratchet down" by saying, "OK, what's the most amount of time I can handle on the task I'm putting off." Sometimes it's as little as 5 minutes. So I set a timer for 5 minutes, d
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Slightly off-topic, but a couple of years ago I had an epiphany regarding Yelp's name. My conversation with a tech-savvy friend went something like this: me: I realized that "Yelp" is like the "Yellow Pages". friend
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Such stories of ecologically friendly pest control are hard to resist, but unfortunately the history of introducing species A to control species B is littered with cautionary tales.
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You want ants? Because this is how you get ants.
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But what if Notch is his fucking khakis?
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Interesting to hear that eight YC companies are worth over $1b. I count Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, and Twitch for sure, and probably Weebly makes five. Any thoughts on what the others are?

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