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by morphir 17y ago
Here is my hard learned lesson: DO NOT STUDY JUST TO GET AN DEGREE! It such a waste of good time AND money (lost income) to study some random topic that you could not care less about. MANY students fall into the trap of choosing a study/car
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by morphir 17y ago
aren't articles published under the domain of academia supposed to be free of charge?
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by morphir 17y ago
GIT, because it has the best performance and are backed by large projects like the Linux kernel, Wine, etc. May I add that Mercurial has Python dependencies, while git are written in C. If I were to bet who outlasts who, I would put my mone
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Ask HN: Are ACM worth a membership?
9 points by morphir 17y ago|11 comments
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by morphir 17y ago
I don't think that is science from academia, but rather popular science that is trying to be speculative so Discovery will be tempted to make a tv-show about it..
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by morphir 17y ago
personally I use Posterazor [1] which does not have mono/.net dependencies. Its a small app which support both OSX, Windows and Linux. I used it for an rc air-plane design, making a 1:1 scaled print. Worked great! [1] http://posterazor.sour
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by morphir 17y ago
Linus Torvalds called the bsd-people for a bunch 'masturbating monkeys' and the digg-crowd for a bunch of 'wanking walruses'. I wonder if there was a more appropriate term for chatroulettes users.. But lets be honest guys - we all thought "
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by morphir 17y ago
Are there anyone else who are concerned with the lack of tail call optimization in Clojure?
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by morphir 17y ago
There is an obvious question here: why would someone learn B? The entire reason for C being conceived was the lack of creating abstractions in B. No project should be carried out using B, so I suppose its published for sheer historical reas
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by morphir 17y ago
I suppose this is sort of a internet reset button for many people ;)
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by morphir 17y ago
<RobertFischer> A graph is a data structure of data structures. Could anyone provide an example?
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Apple does social engineering, not marketing
2 points by morphir 17y ago|0 comments
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by morphir 17y ago
I got js disabled. And the effect worked fine.
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Ask HN: Why does learning lisp make you a better C-programmer?
25 points by morphir 17y ago|17 comments
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by morphir 17y ago
Many good points here. Rich Hickey has made a lot of good choices in designing the language and its core libraries; it "feels" like a good fusion of Scheme and Common Lisp, richer than the former and not at all crufty or impossibly massive
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[Ask HN]: Clojure - why the optimism?
5 points by morphir 17y ago|14 comments
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by morphir 17y ago
Then please tell me how software gets built. Provide me with a methodology, instead of being a arrogant fool like you are now. Yes, a code monkey is a term I'm familiar with. But you need good communication skills too.
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by morphir 17y ago
"A knowledge of algorithms doesn't teach you to pick the right problems to solve." That is true. To create a application, one needs a Use Case. A Use Case will provide the most abstract solution to what the app will be doing. Then you can
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by morphir 17y ago
Who said that algorithms are everything? No, of course they are not. In C-languages you have about 50% memory management, then you have code architecture. But algorithms are the very heart of programming, and the most important topic. Loo
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[Ask HN] Is clojure really a modern lisp?
2 points by morphir 17y ago|5 comments
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by morphir 17y ago
or you can take a algorithm class and become one within 2 years, as somebody once stated ;)
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by morphir 17y ago
I feel the need to point out that when I submitted a link to khan academy, no one up-voted it. Why is this? ref. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=911882
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by morphir 17y ago
Don't be evil, right? ;) Instead of being the bully, pick on the bully, as that will bring google even more of the 'good guy' points that Ballmer so desperately needs. If you think the Chinese gov. will give after for this kind of pressure,
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Ask HN: Why are video games violent?
2 points by morphir 17y ago|2 comments
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by morphir 17y ago
Forgive me, I see that I have miss-interpreted the article. (I skimmed it). Reading it again, I see that I do agree.
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by morphir 17y ago
<EDIT: I toned down the harshness.> Abstractions are key to every good design. Let me try to explain more in detail: Abstractions can be built in two ways, I top-down II bottoms-up A top-down approach is per SICP described as 'wi
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by morphir 17y ago
this is exactly the kinds of articles that I could expect to see on reddit - but has historically been ignored on HN.
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by morphir 17y ago
I use a plugin called no-script in firefox - is there any news on when it will be available for Chrome? I will hang on to firefox until I can decide what js to burn my cpu cycles on, thank you.
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by morphir 17y ago
No its not 'harder' to learn. You just have to understand the concept of applicative evaluation and prefix notation. Then recursion and higher-order functions. That is four things. (Macros can be considered advanced). In the end, all functi
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by morphir 17y ago
exactly my point. Unfortunate for us schemers that we don't have such a mainstream implementation. Also, it would be cool if linux distributions could ship with a minimal scheme. Modules could be downloaded & installed as we need them.

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