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by okal 14y ago
It's not. It's pretty explicitly stated in the guidelines what sorts of books are allowed. I have a day job, I don't sit and watch submissions all day. I manually review them every evening to cull non-free books. All commercial titles you'l
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by okal 14y ago
It's not, and has never been, purely for technical books. The non-free submissions always happen when the site goes viral every few months, which is inevitable with any crowdsourced collection. Already working on removing those. You can fla
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by okal 14y ago
Haven't had much time to work on it since last year. I'll look into this over the weekend. Thanks.
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by okal 14y ago
Hey. I'm the developer behind the site. You could submit those if you'd like. That's where the "community" bit comes in :)
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by okal 14y ago
Most parts of the world that aren't the US or Canada likely also say "aluminium".
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APL: A glimpse of heaven(archive.vector.org.uk)
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Gizoogle: A Google Parody(gizoogle.net)
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by okal 14y ago
Pity it doesn't work on Ubuntu, and I'd assume Windows. Looks pretty interesting.
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by okal 14y ago
Hadn't heard of Lamarr before, thanks for the link. I don't think Lovelace suffers from any lack of recognition, though.
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by okal 14y ago
Thanks. Hadn't thought of that.
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by okal 14y ago
This post is a bit all-over-the-place, but I'll bite. I used to share this belief once. The only gains to be had from intimately understanding underlying structures are to be found in performance optimizations. You don't model a problem spa
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Idempotence versus Referential Transparency(blog.tmorris.net)
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Unicorns and strong typing (mblinn.com)
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by okal 14y ago
OT, but I love your work. I've learnt a lot of what I know from free resources, which inspired me to start http://hackershelf.com . Just out of curiosity, why do you do it?
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by okal 14y ago
To be fair that's true for my country, Kenya, as well. Asian here refers to subcontinentals. The Chinese are just that, the Chinese.
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by okal 14y ago
The exclusion of Indians from "Asians" isn't a people thing. It's a very American thing, I suspect. EDIT: Formatting
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by okal 14y ago
Oh, thanks. I'm a pretty good cook, or so I've been told, but I'm really into improvisation. Not sure how much of that would carry over to art and music. I have an intuitive sense of flavours that work well together, but I haven't been able
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by okal 14y ago
Care to explain how?
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by okal 14y ago
1. Music, theory and practice. I'm currently experimenting with the bass guitar, acoustic guitar and electric piano. 2. CS theory. I'm a fresh ECE grad and our program was light on CS content. I plan to work through Daume's "Yet another Has
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by okal 14y ago
I'm Kenyan. The scene mostly revolves around the incubators in Nairobi, the iHub, Nailabs and the 88mph Garage being the most vibrant. The iHub is closer to a typical hackerspace than the others, which are more concerned with startups activ
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Show HN: Flash cards from the future (Our Grails48 Hackathon entry)(flipp.me)
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by okal 14y ago
To add to what davycro said, entry level Android devices are becoming price competitive with feature phones. Phones are seen as a long term investment, so poorer families often make sacrifices to acquire them. It wouldn't be unheard of for
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by okal 14y ago
That sounds interesting. Are you building on SMS/USSD or J2ME?
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by okal 14y ago
You have personal experience with "Africa"? African countries have much less in common with each other than non-Africans tend to imagine. That being said, I agree with you regarding computer adoption. A new, low end Droid can be had for rou
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by okal 14y ago
The exercises were paradigm-agnostic last I checked. Any reason why you feel they're specially suited to FP?
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by okal 14y ago
Why is speaking in an American accent considered a mark of English mastery? I've always thought of good grammar as the only meaningful measure.
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by okal 14y ago
Another possibility is the non-CS crowd on HN might be bigger than is generally assumed. I'm an ECE undergrad, though the programme at my school skews to EE rather than CS. Our compilers course always felt like an afterthought, with impleme
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by okal 14y ago
As a developer very keen on honing my design skills, your work has been an inspiration. Thanks.
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by okal 14y ago
You'd be surprised at how few __cheap__ shared hosts provide SSH. Sometimes that's all that's available to you, for cost or managerial reasons.
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by okal 14y ago
I used this a while back when I still did PHP work, deploying to shared hosts. I personally enjoyed using it and don't recall having had any issues with it. It's not much use if you have shell access of some sort on your server, though.

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