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by plf 14y ago
On Chrome/Fedora that PDF has no spaces between letters at all.
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by plf 14y ago
The second edition is even better. It skips many chapters from the first edition that you don't really need and it goes into more detail in other more important ones to what OP is asking.
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by plf 14y ago
I'm curious, did Newton name Newton's law himself or did other people do that for him? Did Gantt name his diagrams? Isn't it a bit vain to name a law with your own name?
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by plf 14y ago
Aside from being interesting and a new thing to learn, is Go used extensively in the professional world? For network programming I've often used Python + Twisted + ZMQ, what are the most commonly used alternatives?
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by plf 14y ago
I've considered this for the summer. I'm still deciding between swimming, climbing or thaiboxing. Do you know any other fun ones that might make you grow muscle?
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by plf 15y ago
If there was any doubt as to whether the original technique described in the original video worked, this blog post has just confirmed it.
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by plf 15y ago
I came to the same conclusion about a month ago. Some of the examples he listed I solve by tossing a coin and leaving it up to chance. I only do this when I really don't care about the outcome. Before tossing the coin, I make sure of this,
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by plf 15y ago
Hello, I also started rails by reading your tutorial. I have a question, this post http://stackoverflow.com/a/5612941 suggests that the way to model a friendship is to duplicate rows in a transaction and it cites a book you wrote. Is this
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by plf 15y ago
I know it's probably harmless, but this is one of those things that I rather wait before trying it out. You never know, there could be very small hidden side effects. The brain is so complex and poorly understood that I rather not mess with
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by plf 15y ago
I found the comparison for CPU use kind of confusing. You can't tell which stat belongs to which technology.
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by plf 15y ago
Thank you!
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by plf 15y ago
I meant something that would not be detected when compiling to JavaScript from CoffeeScript. Maybe I got it all wrong and CoffeeScript just translates without performing any checks. Also I thought maybe the subset of code you can write with
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by plf 15y ago
Can there be invalid CoffeScript?
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by plf 15y ago
I'm learning CoffeeScript right now, is what I write using it always valid JavaScript?
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by plf 15y ago
Personally, even though I had a premium account, what worries me the most is the precedent this sets. I think everyone should be worried.
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by plf 15y ago
How? I've just started experimenting with web development and I can't figure out how it could possibly cost that much. Maybe there is a whole world I haven't seen yet, but if they had used the latest open source libraries/frameworks that do