nickknw

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GDC 2012, Day 2(sirlin.net)
2 points by nickknw 15y ago|0 comments
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Bruce Shneier Interview: "I'm not worried about criminals, even organised crime"(schneier.com)
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Real men don't draw buildings, they write them(procworld.blogspot.com)
1 points by nickknw 15y ago|1 comments
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by nickknw 15y ago
> C++ exists because someone saw a tank and a plane and said, "I'm going to put wings on a fucking tank and see what happens." What a great metaphor. Hilarious, great imagery, and it's even mostly true! Thanks for that, I'll remember it
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Transposing a matrix in O(1) with Io(nickknowlson.com)
2 points by nickknw 15y ago|0 comments
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by nickknw 15y ago
I didn't manage to find much to write about for Day 1 and Day 2 of Ruby, but I think Day 3 has enough to give it a chance of being interesting to a larger audience. I hope you enjoy the read!
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Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Week 1 (Ruby) - Day 3 (nickknowlson.com)
1 points by nickknw 15y ago|1 comments
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by nickknw 15y ago
Either set foldmethod=marker Or put this modeline at the top of your .vimrc: " vim: foldmethod=marker foldlevel=0
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by nickknw 15y ago
I didn't know this was possible: " Resize splits when the window is resized au VimResized * exe "normal! \<c-w>=" That's really handy. Also, this part made me smile: " Heresy inoremap <c-a> <esc&#6
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by nickknw 15y ago
tptacek was responding to this question by VladRussian: "how the interviewer would know about the kids to start with? "
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by nickknw 15y ago
Exactly. And even for those people who _do_ know, it can be useful to be reminded of just how powerful it can be.
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by nickknw 15y ago
> "One of the things that I see among hardworking smart people is they somehow tend to use 'difficult work' as a yardstick to measure 'good work'. Difficult work need not necessarily be good work. Unfortunately if you fall for this, you
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by nickknw 15y ago
I think it is a really neat idea, and certainly couldn't do any harm. It is targeted to solve a specific problem that DOES occur on HN. Not necessarily every single day, but often enough that it would be nice to have a countermeasure. I do
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by nickknw 15y ago
> There's a reverse of that use case: a school or org may want to provide social networking to its users, specifically for that context, e.g. exchange of information within the institution. Wow, that's actually really interesting. I had
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by nickknw 15y ago
From the article: For those of you who’ve already started using Google+ with a personal Google Account and would prefer to use your Google Apps account, we’re building a migration tool to help you move over. With this tool, you won’t have t
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by nickknw 15y ago
Thanks! :) I'll apply that change forthwith! I do actually have Google Analytics already hooked up. I posted one article and it was pretty neat to see the big spike... followed by a return to (effectively) zero traffic. :) It makes sense th
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by nickknw 15y ago
There was recently a survey on the State of Haskell in 2011 [1]. As many people here seem to be echoing, OCaml was the main possible "replacement language". Also included in the survey are ratings of various aspects of Hackage and also Hask
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by nickknw 15y ago
Hi Mike! In your first post you say "I've got great aesthetics and design sense". I could definitely use your advice on my personal website - http://nickknowlson.com My skills are those of a developer much more than a designer, but I trie
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by nickknw 15y ago
He was just responding directly to the article's points. The author lamented that now he would "need to write If (1==1) instead"
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by nickknw 15y ago
Wow that's really interesting, thanks!
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by nickknw 15y ago
I generally agree with his argument, but I don't appreciate the way some of the examples were framed. They were a bit misleading. Specifically the paragraph where he inserts smaller fonts into the middle of his paragraph, hoping to shock yo
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by nickknw 15y ago
> macro-style code (where the code is ever-evolving and is practically a media file) I'm afraid I don't follow; what do you mean by this bit here?
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by nickknw 15y ago
To me it seems like HN comments have been getting more hostile in general. More often than not the topmost comments on a link now are pretty negative (in my subjective opinion).
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by nickknw 15y ago
Hey, thanks for submitting this to HN :) There's some discussion going on in the Haskell subreddit[1] for anyone who's interested. [1] - http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/kd2ky/categorized_w...
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by nickknw 15y ago
I didn't attempt to define anything in my post, although I did quote from the article. In other words: I think we agree.
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by nickknw 15y ago
Didn't know you were interested in SC at all, patrick. Would you like to play some time? I'm a platinum zerg, and don't play super often, but really enjoy the game. My email is on my HN profile if you are interested.
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by nickknw 15y ago
> 80% of players are at platinum league or less By definition, platinum or below is the bottom 80% of the player base. No matter how good the sc2 population gets, around 80% will ALWAYS be platinum or below. That doesn't necessarily me
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by nickknw 15y ago
Yeah it would, good catch. So to be more accurate, he was comparing explicit static typing with dynamic typing.
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by nickknw 15y ago
> I'm pretty sure the last time I read that article it said that there is no generally accepted definition of weak typing. This discussion seems to echo that. Agreed. There ARE definitions but they aren't terribly specific, useful, or
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by nickknw 15y ago
> In fact, if I were asked to guess, I would have answered that most new users would pick up pretty quickly how to use context menus As someone who has done a fair amount of tutoring seniors on basic computer usage, I have a large amou

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