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by rbarooah 16y ago
Thanks. I've just gone through it. It looks like a great way to cover a lot the basic texture of things that most programming books ignore. I'm recommending it to him. I will be interested to see how you deal with the more complex topic
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Ask HN: Simple exercises for a python beginner?
26 points by rbarooah 16y ago|18 comments
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by rbarooah 17y ago
I think an intervention would be a disaster. If Steve Jobs is right, and the progress of the platform is really slowed by cross platform toolkits, then intervention would literally slow down the progress of computing, and possibly set a pre
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by rbarooah 17y ago
This is going to be interesting, because if they do manage to put flash and Air on a broad range of other platforms then we will see Jobs's assertion about cross platform frameworks slowing down progress be put to the test.
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Google warns that opt-in privacy could lead to a 'dystopia'(arstechnica.com)
13 points by rbarooah 17y ago|11 comments
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by rbarooah 17y ago
It would be a better post if you explained how each piece of your advice would help the situation for apple. For example - the $100 per year fee means that a lot of the most useless apps will disappear from the store if their authors don't
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by rbarooah 17y ago
I think it's worth saying that it's not just that gifted people don't need to learn study skills to get through school. They can be actively prevented from learning them by being forced to focus on a curriculum for which they don't need th
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by rbarooah 17y ago
I think the interesting point is that if HTC settles using either cross licensing some patent of their own, or by paying to license whichever of Apple's patents are upheld, the outcome will be to limit Android to those who can defend themse
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by rbarooah 17y ago
Do we actually have any statistics on what 'most people' are jailbreaking their iPhones for, or is this just guesswork? I am quite prepares to believe that most of the hackers who actually create the jailbreaks are doing so for ideologica
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by rbarooah 17y ago
The opening line is provocative, but I didn't read the article because I'm not a subscriber. Do they have evidence to support the claim that google will sell these to the public, or is it just a guess based on the rumours?
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by rbarooah 17y ago
I am not referring to the general google updater that comes with the google pack. I mean the silent autoupdate that chrome for windows has.
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by rbarooah 17y ago
Does anyone know whether this has auto-update?
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by rbarooah 17y ago
They don't look very comparable to me. Unless I'm mistaken, the clojure one communicates with telnet clients who maintain a socket connect, but only relies on the basic libraries which ship with clojure. The scala one is a webapp that is s
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by rbarooah 17y ago
Fantastic read. I love the way he charts the ups and downs in his personal motivation. It's a great reminder to be persistent.
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by rbarooah 17y ago
I found it an interesting read. I especially liked the sentiment, "An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win by doing better work.", which I firmly believe. However I don't see how PG shows that Apple
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by rbarooah 17y ago
I almost subscribed immediately and probably will. The key thing about ARS that makes them different from the average news site is that their quality is consistently high, they aren't obviously pushing a particular viewpoint, and more impo
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by rbarooah 17y ago
This argument sets up a false dichotomy. Comparing the internet to the app store and claiming that just because the internet is a free for all, every service that is built on top of it 'should' also be a free for all is simply illogical. B
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by rbarooah 17y ago
I've paid my rent online in the US for the past 7 years - with 4 different landlords using PayTrust, which simply prints and mails checks automatically. It also scans paper bills, and gives a lot of control and feedback to stop things goin
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by rbarooah 18y ago
I already have one, although it took me a little while to even remember that fact.
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by rbarooah 18y ago
GeekIsp has been very solid for me. Reasonably priced, communicative, and modern.