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by radmuzom 11y ago
I agree with some of your examples, but geometry is best learned old school; with the use of a protractor, compass, etc. for diagrams and reasoning about proofs in your head assisted by paper. I have no scientific evidence to offer so the s
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by radmuzom 11y ago
On a similar note, people seem to think that internet access will magically allow people to lift themselves out of poverty in developing countries. I personally find this idea to be pretty stupid; just because you have the sum total of the
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by radmuzom 11y ago
The article seems to assume that there is something "wrong" with running on 25M lines oF Fortran. It does not provide any technical reason why Fortran is not the right tool for the job. Why does this need to be "Web 2.0"
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by radmuzom 11y ago
I am from a third world country myself :) and have always earned in the country's currency. And even though I did start working as a software engineer in the startup I mentioned, I did not eventually continue in the field and do statis
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by radmuzom 11y ago
In this specific case, 1. Very low salary - just enough to afford housing and food. 2. No equity - though the founders promised that I would get some later (yeah, I know I was an idiot). 3. Working 12 hour days including Saturdays. The foun
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by radmuzom 11y ago
Yep, that's exactly what I am planning on doing. At this stage, gaining some knowledge around a few ideas which interest me.
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by radmuzom 11y ago
Ten years back, when I was fresh out of college, I joined a startup - not as a founder but as the first employee. A lot of it was driven by reading Paul Graham's essays, and I was naive and immature enough to believe that I was doing s
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by radmuzom 11y ago
It was called 'Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth' - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html
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Speak for yourself. As a Microsoft fan, I am considering switching to GNU/Linux as all commercial operating systems seem to be moving towards the model of "don't pay us with money, pay us with data". A lot of this is dri
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by radmuzom 11y ago
This looks good but I have not personally tried the courses mentioned at the top of the article - https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell
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by radmuzom 11y ago
Jon Harrop often comes across as too negative and is described as "well known internet troll". However, his thoughts are usually quite valuable and often better than what he is credited for. His contributions to the F# community a
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by radmuzom 11y ago
Note that the book is a bit dated, though most chapters are still "valid". See this question from Stackoverflow [1] - Which parts of Real World Haskell are now obsolete or considered bad practice? [1] http://stackoverfl
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Which of Haskell and OCaml is more practical?(quora.com)
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Reddit AMA: Lawrence Lessig and Jimmy Wales(reddit.com)
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by radmuzom 11y ago
Back in the day, a lot of my friends and me (mostly introvert and socially not very popular) used to spend a lot of time playing dating Flash games where the ultimate reward was sex. Good times!
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Gun violence in America, in 17 maps and charts(vox.com)
5 points by radmuzom 11y ago|2 comments
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by radmuzom 11y ago
Well, Android is open source and not free software. It appears that's what people want nowadays. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.e...
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by radmuzom 11y ago
Around 54% of the respondents to the survey use Windows as their desktop operating system. In contrast, HN seems to be heavily skewed towards Mac OS X or GNU/Linux.
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by radmuzom 11y ago
Oops commented too fast without reading the entire article. It says later - "I hope people will, in the course of robbing them blind, actually learn what major Wall Street institutions do for a living and come to a more nuanced underst
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by radmuzom 11y ago
Interesting sentence in the article - "Trading systems touch low-level coding, networking (all seven layers of hello OSI Model), APIs, end-user UI, databases, embedded systems, enterprise web frameworks, cutting-edge programming langua
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by radmuzom 11y ago
It's interesting to see the lowest throughput provided by the C implementation for the 1k case. Any idea why?
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We Are Not Thinking Big Enough(medium.com)
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An Analysis of Zirtual’s Reality and the Perils of Debt(techcrunch.com)
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The Secret Lives of L.A.’s Bottle-Service Girls(firstwefeast.com)
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14 Police Officers Take Down a One-Legged Homeless Black Man Outside Twitter HQ(medium.com)
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Robot Weapons: What’s the Harm?(nytimes.com)
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by radmuzom 11y ago
This is a great and a balanced list. I have definitely enjoyed some time spent programming in Haskell. One frustration that I have had while dabbling in Haskell is that some libraries in Hackage assume a GNU/Linux kind of system. For e
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Who wrote the Batman equation?(quora.com)
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by radmuzom 11y ago
If you are using ad-blockers, how does it matter if you are a paying member or not? Am I missing something obvious?
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Ask HN: Where can I learn more about programming video and audio codecs?
4 points by radmuzom 11y ago|2 comments

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