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Show HN: Practice Makes Regexp, a book to practice and master regular expressions(practicemakesregexp.com)
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by reuven 11y ago
There are several types of academic writers, for sure. Some are amazingly clear in their writing. Those people are fantastic, and really do help to advance the spread of new ideas. But some (many) use long words and convoluted sentences,
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Oh, how could I have forgotten Microsoft? Microsoft Research has a lot of amazing people working there, doing very impressive stuff.
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by reuven 11y ago
It's at http://modelingcommons.org/ , and is for NetLogo models. (Yay, NetLogo!) It's far from perfect, and I really need to do some maintenance on it one of these days. But as things stand, I have the largest pu
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by reuven 11y ago
A friend of mine in my program kept asking me why I was doing a PhD. He called it an entrance card to the academic world, allowing you to apply for certain types of jobs. He kept wondering why I was subjecting myself to so much work, and d
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by reuven 11y ago
Any of the big companies -- Google, Facebook, and Amazon come to mind -- do tons of things that even 10 years ago would have been considered cutting-edge computer science research. Whether it's OS changes, algorithm development, datab
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Well, I've been a consultant for 20 years. That started before the PhD, and has continued since then. And while my advisor didn't know about it at the time, I was also doing some consulting work during the PhD, so that my famil
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by reuven 11y ago
Oh, I'm open to any and all questions! I did it in a program called "Learning Sciences," which is a mix of computer science, cognitive science, and design, all for educational purposes. I studied at Northwestern University,
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Elixir obsoletes Ruby, Erlang and Clojure in one go(medium.com)
6 points by reuven 11y ago|1 comments
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Look, a PhD is for one thing, and one thing only: Teaching you to be a researcher. You're basically an apprentice researcher, learning from your advisor and others in the field the current state of affairs, the language they use, the
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If you hate telemarketers, you’ll love this robot designed to waste their time(washingtonpost.com)
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Even if you hate Michael Moore (and I don't), here's a fun piece that he did more than 20 years ago, in which he hired lobbyists to get a resolution passed in Congress declaring "TV Nation Day," in honor of his TV show:
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by reuven 11y ago
Hmm, interesting point. I think that most companies that engage in lobbying try to keep such activity relatively quiet, and aren't interested in having it exposed or written about. I'm not saying that lobbying is bad; I realize th
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by reuven 11y ago
I'm pleased and impressed that the Post is writing skeptical and/or negative stories about Amazon, despite (as the author notes) the fact that Bezos owns the newspaper. He might indeed, after all is said and done, want to see it
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Freelance Remote Conf(freelanceremoteconf.com)
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I run Daily Tech Video, at http://DailyTechVideo.com/ , with a single, curated conference video about the sorts of topics I like -- namely, Web development, programming languages, and databases. I started it to keep up on t
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by reuven 11y ago
I run Mandarin Weekly ( http://MandarinWeekly.com/ ), for people learning Chinese. It comes out every Monday, and I've been doing it for more than a year. It's fun to hear from other people learning Chinese, aroun
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by reuven 11y ago
I'm sensing some very, very strong irony here. When GitHub (which has always been cash-flow positive) took VC money, they said that it wasn't because they needed the money. Rather, they said that the money would be used to fund n
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How I Sold My Bible App Company(trevormckendrick.com)
422 points by reuven 11y ago|130 comments
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I have been learning Chinese for about 18 months. Before I started my studies, I had similar opinions to the author of this article -- that Chinese characters are antiquated, hard or impossible to learn, and a hindrance to anyone who wants
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by reuven 11y ago
Someone contacted me on Twitter and asked if I could add a length, which I did (starting with the latest). A very smart idea from both of you! The idea of categorizing by length is great, and I'll do it, because it's so easy (wel
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by reuven 11y ago
Thanks so much for the warm words! I'll see what I can do in terms of the stylesheets, but I must admit that my oh-so-amazing design sense basically led me to use the default, built-in WordPress stylesheet. If someone here knows what
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Maybe, except that I have a bunch of things about data science and programming languages. And things like Git. And sometimes computer-industry history. And sometimes legal issues. I could just define it as, "I'm interested in l
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If you can suggest a better summary and title, I'm open to it!
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Whoops! Thanks for noticing that; I've fixed it now.
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Show HN: DailyTechVideo – curated conference talks for full-stack developers(dailytechvideo.com)
46 points by reuven 11y ago|13 comments
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I'm in Beijing this week. The pollution here has to be seen (and felt, as you breathe) to be believed. I'm not surprised that all sorts of technical solutions are being discussed, just because it's so crazy terrible. Whethe
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A rosy picture inevitably includes a number of thorns... I'm learning Chinese, and am having a wonderful time doing so. But there's no doubt that there's a great deal of historical baggage with the language, which is bewilder
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I bought the DVDs when they came out, about 10 years ago. Look for "The Best of the Electric Company." It was, and remains, totally brilliant. My two elder children loved it, and couldn't get enough. My son (who is now 10
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They tried. The new Electric Company lasted 1.5 seasons or so. It was totally new and different... and not nearly as addictive, funny, or clever as the original one.

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