mikevm

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   by mikevm 13y ago

   Any chance you could link me to the non-US curricula materials you use to teach your kid? I found a lot of the things you talked about in this school's approach to education: http://www.russianschool.com/about-us/our-approach
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   by mikevm 14y ago

   Do you need to have relevant background before you can touch that code? How does that work?
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   by mikevm 14y ago

   How can someone who has absolutely no idea about the financial industry and HFT learn about it? Can anyone recommend any resources (books, tutorials, etc..)?
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   by mikevm 14y ago

   By the way, you can download Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book from here (it's out of print now): http://orangetide.com/graphics_programming_black_book/
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   by mikevm 14y ago

   I used to use Opera for many years, and IMHO it was almost always the best browser around feature and speed-wise. The only thing holding it back was the rendering engine. I ended up making the switch to Chrome when Opera 12 came out and was
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   by mikevm 14y ago

   Nice to see you here! I do hope that you will open up most (if not all) of your courses for self-study mode. There are a few courses I really wanted to take, but due to the lack of time I really couldn't commit myself at the time they opene
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   by mikevm 14y ago

   Wasn't it PostgreSQL the RDBMS that was competing with Oracle anyway? And PostgreSQL has been doing fine lately.
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   by mikevm 14y ago

   You don't see all the data...
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   by mikevm 14y ago

   FeedDemon is dead: http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2013/03/the-end-of-feeddemon.ht...
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    I'm using Kubuntu, do I need to install the "freetype-freeworld" package?
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    Dear lord, the fonts (and font rendering) on Linux (both KDE and Gnome) are just horrendous. How do people put up with this crap?
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    >I've tried to login to linkedin a couple of times in too much of a hurry, thinking I was logging into linkedin from some request and not reading the actual page. Luckily my passwords are different. Believe it or not, this had happened
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    >Where will we be when Amazon et al start leaning more heavily on Canonical for more invasive features? You'll be on a different Linux distro.
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    No one's forcing you to use Ubuntu. Don't like it? Move along.
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    That's why I bought a Nexus 4.
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    I'm taking an Introductory Group Theory course right now. Here are a few nice books I'm currently using: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theory-Groups-Joseph-Rotm... http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Classroom-Resource-Materials-Pr... ht
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    As a student, I actually prefer PDF ebooks. I own a few textbooks from which I have stripped the DRM and I use a PDF reader that is comfortable to me (GoodReader on the iPad). I agree with some of the commenters here that DRM appears to one
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    This is interesting: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Aparad... > We are pleased to announce that we have ported Paradox Engine and Yebis Post-Processing Middleware on PS4 last year. In order to successfully achie
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    I'm glad to see Piotr updating some of the older articles @ supermemo.com. For those not familiar with Piotr or SuperMemo: it was the first spaced repetition software, based on his research many years ago. An early version of his spaced-rep
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    I guess this will come in handy: https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    In our CS program they had us start from Analysis 1 and Linear Algebra 1 (proof based course). I sure as hell wasn't prepared.
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    I'm not sure whether the analogy to Google applies here, as leaks are private information, not to be shared with third parties and Google search queries merely search what is already published. I was alluding to Bill Maher's example of the
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    I feel that Assange dodged a few very serious questions posed by Maher. What if Wikileaks does leak out documents that could escalate a conflict?
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    Is that the new meaning of LOL?
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    Isn't this why Valve is only officially supporting Ubuntu? I thought that it was a very sensible choice on their part.
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    Sorry, but "Origin of Species" is not a good beginner's book on evolution theory. There are much better modern books on the subject, for example Neil Shubin's or Jerry Coyne's books.
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    As someone who only used IDE debuggers all his (short) programming career, I was wondering, how do you debug without a visual debugger? I've seen how GDB works, and debugging this way seems much less productive. You don't see your whole sou
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    This reminds me of a TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspi... And his book: http://www.amazon.com/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp/...
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    Oh yeah, I meant stepping through code. I'm used to debugging in IDEs (Eclipse, Visual Studio), so command-line debugging using GDB is a major pain in the ass.
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    by mikevm 14y ago

    I stopped reading after "; or why C++ is dying".