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by phlakaton 10y ago
I agree with the principles, but I am curious what so-called "coding app programming" approach they're referring to. I strongly suspect it's a straw man. I taught a semester of CS to high school students in Snap!, a deri
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by phlakaton 10y ago
TEALS volunteer here ( https://www.tealsk12.org ). TEALS offers its Intro to CS curricula as open textbooks: Sem 1: https://teals-introcs.gitbooks.io/introduction-to-computer-s... Sem 2: https://www.git
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by phlakaton 10y ago
Go in a group of 3 or more. Keep calm and friendly when asking. Make sure the stakes are low for you. Try ice cream.
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by phlakaton 10y ago
I found that to be a fun article, and it could be a starting point for creative exploration, but I think any suggestion that these images relate to our actual psychoacoustic perception of notes and music is wholly unsubstantiated. I do perc
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by phlakaton 10y ago
The notation system evolved as an efficient way to read Western classical music, both in terms of space and legibility. It's oriented towards the fundamentals of musical performance, and is read by millions of people around the world.
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by phlakaton 10y ago
Indeed, but not only is it not a tritone, it is (to my knowledge) not "diabolus in musica" either (that's also the tritone). The author noted the original error, but then corrected it incorrectly. :-(
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by phlakaton 10y ago
I don't want to derail a splendid rant on yaks, but for GAE users running into this little problem of how to test and run: We use OS X for development, for the most part, but Linux works well too. We use nose2 with the following plugin
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by phlakaton 10y ago
(BTW, I don't really mean to pick too much on Sunnyvale in particular here. The increased demand on housing and infrastructure can't be solved by Sunnyvale alone. It's a massive regional problem, if not a state problem, and t
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by phlakaton 10y ago
Yes, but do the good people of Sunnyvale vote for infrastructure projects? Do they allocate enough funds for building that infrastructure, and/or do they have rational expectations for where those funds will come from? Even if you fear
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by phlakaton 10y ago
All that and it still couldn't get the right answer? With a basic pattern like that? I suspect somewhere Hofstadter is having a good laugh.
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by phlakaton 10y ago
That's the point though - in those cases, you're passing a keyword list, a set of options, instead of an atom which acts as a selector. IIUC the Web module violates the convention attached to and documented for `use`, which to me,
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by phlakaton 11y ago
I'm just starting to learn Elixir and Phoenix. Here are two little bits of "magic" that have thrown me for a loop so far: 1. @var's in templates are not module attributes (though they do seem to be convenient!) 2. The fo
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by phlakaton 11y ago
They're fringe extremists who are nevertheless the appointed representatives of vast numbers of artists, producers, and heavily-monied interests. We're a bunch of angry people. I have no problem with people expressing the outrage
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by phlakaton 11y ago
In my experience, many if not most command-line tools and programs we use on UNIX are not great examples of simple, small, focused design. Lots of Swiss army knives packed with options. And the interface is limited in frustrating ways. One
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by phlakaton 11y ago
Countering anecdata: I've taken the CA Zephyr from Emeryville to Grand Junction twice, and arrived on-time with the first and I think 30 mins late with the second. With a mobile phone as a hotspot, and sone snacks in the bag for lunch
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by phlakaton 11y ago
I suspect the best way to read any of Heinlein is not to consider whether the story and arguments really represent his views; rather, simply to consider why they should not be yours. Rico is not necessarily a reliable narrator, so even if t
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by phlakaton 11y ago
I think that's a gross oversimplification. Here you're critiquing XML's use as a substrate for a query language, for which I think you have a good point. For APIs there are reasons why JSON is generally easy enough to work wi
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by phlakaton 11y ago
His point was: be aware that to be a good manager you need to be effective in all three directions. From my experience, engineers stepping into the manager's role will primarily want to make their team happy and productive. But if that
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by phlakaton 11y ago
You say you distrust the author's views and opinions because of his politics. I say: good! You should never take an author's work at face value. Every bit of nonfiction you read should be read critically. Nobody's judgment is
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by phlakaton 12y ago
Do you say "unfortunately" because you cannot envision a tech culture that is meritocratic and actively working towards diversity and inclusivity at the same time? Or maybe because you think that the trends of decreasing diversity
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by phlakaton 12y ago
That is a ridiculous and insulting characterization of the audience and the answer. This is a question that I've actually wondered about on and off over the years, and whatever you think of me for not knowing the answer flat-out, or fo
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by phlakaton 12y ago
The author claims that real, measurable differences in how people think based on how they speak is too insignificant, because it doesn't constitute a "worldview." I rather think he sells short the importance of seeing actual
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by phlakaton 12y ago
Hey, I'm one of those, I think! For me, dropping a few in a conversation is one thing. Seeing it chiseled onto a web page is quite another.
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by phlakaton 12y ago
PayPal and AliPay have been in competition since 2005, when PayPal launched a payments platform in China. So... definitely sooner rather than later.
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by phlakaton 12y ago
How about, for the same reason credit card processors accept multiple credit card networks? PayPal is a pretty well-known payment brand now, and some people prefer to pay with it. It doesn't have to completely displace every other paym
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by phlakaton 12y ago
There is an interesting parallel between Mr Carmack's "inlining" observations and one of the sessions I went to at Strange Loop this year. Jonathan Edwards was trying to beat back "callback hell" (i.e. unpredictable
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by phlakaton 12y ago
Something in a novel I just read last night comes back into my head: "I reflected bitterly that I had walked away from people I had known and cared about to avoid the very situation I was now in with comparative strangers. I wondered i