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by ooqr 10y ago
I was very skeptical but pleasantly surprised.
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by ooqr 10y ago
Well now we're opening up a can of worms. Are not those with instructors also partially self-taught?
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by ooqr 10y ago
I feel like software engineers get access to an odd, exclusive source of humor in things like these.
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by ooqr 10y ago
Are you an engineer? I ask because you're on Hacker News. I've long been curious what the day to day workflow is for a blind engineer. Particularly if there are any folks doing software development. I'd be tempted to believ
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by ooqr 10y ago
Oh man! Those are actually what I was thinking of. I used to live in CA and my folks had a plant. The thing got out of control huge.
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by ooqr 10y ago
I thought I disliked tomatoes as a kid, eating around them as you describe. Only when I discovered garden-grown cherry tomatoes did I flip the other way. So far the other way I'm surprised I didn't get sick eating so many of the
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by ooqr 10y ago
As an American (and German as a second language speaker) I'm very sorry. I hope you will consider coming back to visit when this nonsense ends. I've lived here my whole life and have hardly had a chance to explore 10% of the lan
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by ooqr 10y ago
Thank you for teaching me what this is called. I always found it awkward.
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by ooqr 10y ago
I've actually run into methods defined from names concatenated from multiple strings, i.e. methods you can't even use grep over the whole codebase to find. This has left me with a lingering vague fear ever since.
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by ooqr 10y ago
I am a rails dev. I inherited a legacy application. The biggest problem with Ruby/Rails is that anything Ruby will allow, someone will do. Ruby is the language I learned data structures and algorithms in, built my first significant
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by ooqr 10y ago
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/rsync-...
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by ooqr 10y ago
I moved to this area from the West Coast and found the market much better for these same reasons. Happily living in a forested area while working as a developer.
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by ooqr 10y ago
The justice system has more overhead.
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by ooqr 10y ago
Thanks for the reply. I came up with: f(x) = (sin((pi * x) - (pi / 2)) + 1) / 2 where x is between 0 and 1 I'm a collector of randomness functions for games. Weighted, gaussian, linear, etc. This sinusoidal randomness will
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by ooqr 10y ago
And yet I bet they're more addicted or fueled in their rage. The most vile gaming communities are also huge. It may not be a causal link, but I wouldn't be surprised.
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by ooqr 10y ago
Is there in general a formula for fudging statistics in the direction of bias? I.e., 90% becomes 99% as 10% becomes 1%? Was there a general algorithm you used. I'd be interested in hearing the technical details.
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by ooqr 10y ago
I see many echoes of the sentiment that players don't understand probability in this thread, but I think it's worth considering that maybe also a compromise between randomness and determinism in games is more fun than either alone
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by ooqr 10y ago
Do you know of any forks or clean implementations of browsers which cut out legacy support more aggressively and/or are tuned for performance? Something like Chrome with less overhead because it doesn't bother to support deprecat
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by ooqr 10y ago
"Listening to him it feel like your brain is moving twice as fast as normal. That's how clearly and quickly he explains concepts." Excellent sales pitch. I'm going to listen to some of his lectures next snow day.
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by ooqr 10y ago
Not a chance. This is something we can agree on. :)
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by ooqr 10y ago
While I agree that MOOCs lack face time, I was a terrible traditional student and excel when given the opportunity to structure my time as I see fit. Accountability is overrated.
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by ooqr 10y ago
What have you found to be a good introduction?
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by ooqr 10y ago
It really is beautiful. I was hoping there was a high res version.
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by ooqr 10y ago
do y'all really think Cinnamon is unpolished? I use a Mac at work and definitely prefer Cinnamon over the Mac interface
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by ooqr 10y ago
Not rolling your own crypto makes sense given that one is unlikely to fully comprehend the potential failures. But then does that not also mean that rolling ones own crypto (with full intention to never use it on anything 'real')
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by ooqr 10y ago
I don't think it's fair for Apple to evade taxes even if it's legal. I don't think it's fair for the EU to claim those taxes from an American company. But I also don't want the taxes to go to a Trump administ
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by ooqr 10y ago
Also, the only reasons I'd need backups for paper documents are disasters that would also ruin my drives
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by ooqr 10y ago
Yeah, I'm frequently surprised I'm able to get anything done on computers at all. (only half kidding)
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by ooqr 10y ago
To answer the question in the title, much as I love computers, nothing beats the flexibility and carefree nature of paper. I can draw diagrams, block out pseudocode, etc. I've thought about maybe a Surface would be nice for that, but
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by ooqr 10y ago
"If someone gave you the entire list of cities ahead of time, you could plan the fastest possible route." Dynamic programming. So it saves time in the end.

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