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by open_bear 9y ago
Paraphrasing Sheldon fron "The Big Bang Theory": "Everything is better with blockchain".
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by open_bear 9y ago
See significant change in 'going to toilet' procedure or blood in stool? Go to the doctor! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQIHJmvnzwg
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by open_bear 9y ago
Subscription is the best way for companies to do software in capitalism. Take Microsoft Word 2003: perfectly good word processor, still works fine. I've spent 60$ 14 years ago and had no intention to switch. But Microsoft needs money,
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by open_bear 9y ago
The hard part about coding for 5-10 y.o. kids is typing without errors. Programming is hard as it is, adding typing errors makes it even harder - 1 mistake and computer is yelling at you and you have no idea what went wrong.
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by open_bear 9y ago
Nice idea! This reminded me of 750words.com. I tried it for a while, but writing 750 words every day was too much. I think 130 characters will better suit my ability to write.
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by open_bear 9y ago
'pytest --lf' reruns only tests that have failed during the previous run. Helps a lot when your test suite is not very fast.
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by open_bear 9y ago
I've been reading the Michael Abrash's Black Book, and it was quite eye opening, especially when working around serious limitations of the old hardware.
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by open_bear 9y ago
Wirth said that program is a combination of data structures and algorithms in 1976, there were no _really_ new ways of constructing programs ever since. HtDP teaches exactly that: proper construction of abstractions, small functions that op
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by open_bear 9y ago
Try Pilot Metropolitan, they are nice entry-level fountain pens.
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by open_bear 9y ago
Starsector is quite performant Java-based 2d space merchant sim. It shows a lot of visual effects and does a lot of processing in the background.
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by open_bear 9y ago
Survivorship bias: because for every Steve Jobs and Bill Gates there are millions of folks, whose business ended without any success (something like 80% of businesses close during the first year).
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by open_bear 9y ago
There is a code of ethics by NSPE (National Society of Professional Engineers): https://www.nspe.org/resources/ethics/code-ethics And as programmers are calling themselves engineers, they should adhere to that cod
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by open_bear 9y ago
Fabien Sanglard's bookshelf has all you need: http://fabiensanglard.net/Computer_Graphics_Principles_and_P...
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by open_bear 9y ago
What makes it worse is that programmers don't have an ethical code, akin to what engineers and doctors have. CEO says we need to track every user? Sure, boss! Show invasive ads up every user's orifice? Can do! Ship it, who cares i
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by open_bear 9y ago
> The average web developer writing Ruby or Node in Atom on their Macbook Pro It does not matter who it was designed for, git is the de-facto VCS that almost everyone uses today. And people are having trouble using it because there is no
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by open_bear 9y ago
There is even a science paper showing that "for most people Git is a magic black box they whisper obscure spells into": http://www.ppig.org/sites/default/files/2014-PPIG-25th-Churc...
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by open_bear 9y ago
Airlines have been ripping customers for years. Ever tried to search for tickets while in incognito mode? Prices will most likely be lower, because there is no tracking information that can tell the airline "this person can pay more&qu
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by open_bear 9y ago
There is a ton of COBOL code out there, and banks are not going to retire those mainframes any time soon :(
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by open_bear 9y ago
Image-based, as Pharo is a close fork of Smalltalk. I've been thinking about a source control system, that will track functions/classes, instead of bytes. You could track who changed that helper method and not be distracted by mov
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by open_bear 9y ago
Take a look at how Smalltalk does this (try Pharo, for example). You don't edit code as a whole: you add classes, methods, fields and edit them separately. This has several benefits: changes are isolated - easier to reason about and tr
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by open_bear 10y ago
Same story here: used Nikon D40 bought in 2008 is still producing amazing photos.
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by open_bear 10y ago
There was a video of a teacher doing exactly that, made me rethink some approaches I use when teaching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leBEFaVHllE
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by open_bear 10y ago
There is now even a word for that: humblebragging.
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by open_bear 10y ago
First bourgeoisie states/city-states started to appear in 1500-1600s (Italian region). Many countries experienced a periods of reaction and return to feudal state (France and Britain for example). Last traces of feudalism ended somewhe
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by open_bear 10y ago
GorillaREPL is very nice. There is also a Proto-REPL that looks very promising ( https://github.com/jasongilman/proto-repl )
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by open_bear 10y ago
I think that IPython is one of the best tools for scientists. Jupyter Notebooks that allow reproducible results, a lot of data-wrangling libraries, visualizations, distributed computing. I wish more scientists knew of IPython.
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by open_bear 10y ago
Every time I need to use Gimp to make a collage of two screenshots to file a bug report I want to smash my monitor and throw it out of the window. Gimp workflow/UI just does not stick in my brain. I can get back to using Photoshop afte
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by open_bear 10y ago
IIRC, uranium enrichment centrifuges in Iran were infected by Stuxnet because someone brought an infected USB stick, found in the parking lot, into the facility. Social engineering is the best way to infiltrate the airgapped infrastructure.
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by open_bear 10y ago
Try Yousician. It's an app for learning the guitar (I think they are working on adding the piano lessons). There are some theory lessons with practice sessions. I tried learning the guitar by tabs and accords of the songs I liked, but
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by open_bear 10y ago
MaRo started a "New World Order" ( http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/ne... ) design approach in 2011, where they try to manage some of the complexity by making commons and

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