nickmain

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Restricting Temptations: Neural Mechanisms of Precommitment(cell.com)
1 points by nickmain 13y ago|0 comments
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The Realm of Racket is an enjoyable read(debasishg.blogspot.in)
2 points by nickmain 13y ago|0 comments
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The Underbelly of Racket Macro Basics(jeapostrophe.github.io)
39 points by nickmain 13y ago|6 comments
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by nickmain 13y ago
I'm lucky enough to work at a place that is building Math games for K-6. I watched the curriculum experts and content design teams white-boarding the many ways to conceptualize and visualize fractions for several weeks. It's not t
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Google Caught Red-Handed Ripping Off an Apple Patent Graphic(patentlyapple.com)
3 points by nickmain 13y ago|0 comments
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by nickmain 13y ago
How can the end-user then replace the executable on their iOS device ? That is the problem.
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An introduction to deep code-walking macros with Clojure(blog.fogus.me)
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by nickmain 13y ago
Is anyone here planning an implementation ?
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by nickmain 13y ago
Didn't they try this before ? http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s1614 "Status: Died (Referred to Committee)"
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by nickmain 13y ago
What is their monetization strategy ?
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by nickmain 13y ago
This recent HN comment about Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind is worth following up on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5866404 As I understand it the theory pos
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by nickmain 13y ago
There are many examples of programming language runtime apps, such as Scheme: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gambit-repl/id434534076 OCaml: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ocamlexam
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What does this app do?(bytebaker.com)
2 points by nickmain 13y ago|0 comments
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The reaction to Eric Weinstein's May 23rd lecture(quora.com)
1 points by nickmain 13y ago|0 comments
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Marketplace: A language for network-aware programming(blog.racket-lang.org)
6 points by nickmain 13y ago|1 comments
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Getting to simple(alarmingdevelopment.org)
1 points by nickmain 13y ago|0 comments
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by nickmain 13y ago
Any alien species that is capable of coming here, and curious enough to want to learn about our form of life, is probably more than capable of doing so without alerting us to their presence.
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The Devil’s Programming Glossary: Yak sweater(blog.fogus.me)
2 points by nickmain 13y ago|0 comments
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An Intuitive Introduction To Limits(betterexplained.com)
2 points by nickmain 14y ago|0 comments
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by nickmain 14y ago
Other than the sharing/social aspect how much has been added on top of the underlying jsUML2 library ? I ask because jsUML2 looks interesting and I am wondering how usable it is out of the box. (I need statecharts which umlbin doesn't yet s
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by nickmain 14y ago
Thanks for the pointer. This note in the documentation for that egg looks worrisome [1]: "IMPORTANT: This only works when the code will be run on exactly the same platform as the Scheme compiler ran on. Cross-compilation and compiling to C
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by nickmain 14y ago
From the Chicken documentation [1] it appears that it does not include bignums in the core but as a separate package that requires GMP [2] to be installed. Since GMP is LGPL licensed this might cause an issue if you are sensitive to such th
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by nickmain 14y ago
I was thinking more of propagating the read state of the feeds. Maybe just a script that can run occasionally and dump the new items as a single HTML page (plus another file with state info) into Dropbox.
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by nickmain 14y ago
Are there any RSS aggregators that leverage Dropbox, GDrive/GDocs or Skydrive for cross-device synchronization ?
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by nickmain 14y ago
Would Dropbox be a viable way to propagate an aggregated feed across devices ? (Just thinking out loud)
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by nickmain 14y ago
If the analogy is the medical profession then most software engineers are nurses or EMTs or ambulance drivers, not doctors.
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by nickmain 14y ago
If we want to teach the next generation to code we should make sure that the "programming languages" we use work well on a touch screen with no keyboard or mouse. That is, probably not text-based.
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by nickmain 14y ago
Maybe we should be talking less about forming "tribes" and more about how to make programming accessible to anyone who needs to solve real problems using computers.
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by nickmain 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light#Universal_exp...
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by nickmain 14y ago
Are you referring to the fact that the furthest galaxies are actually receding from us at faster than the speed of light (due to the expansion of space itself) ?

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