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Shark Tank increased our traffic by 1000x. Here’s how we handled it(blog.lerner.co.il)
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Python’s objects and classes – a visual guide(blog.lerner.co.il)
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by reuven 11y ago
This was always a fun read; I think that it was about 20 years ago that a falling out among the editors led to a split between IJR and the Annals of Improbable Research, now best known for their annual Ig Nobel prizes. I got the "best
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by reuven 11y ago
I have been teaching programming for years, and love to point out that floating-point arithmetic isn't accurate. Many experienced programmers are shocked to discover the problems with floats. But I never before had a good answer for
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Python’s objects and classes – a visual guide(blog.lerner.co.il)
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Finally, a cruise line sets reasonable Wi-Fi fees(fortune.com)
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The Ubuntu Conspiracy(linuxjournal.com)
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The government steered millions away from whole milk. Was that wrong?(washingtonpost.com)
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by reuven 11y ago
Given how long it took to replace Perl 6, and the fact that I (and most others I know) have moved onto other languages, I can't decide if I'm more (a) surprised, (b) impressed, or (c) indifferent. Kudos to Larry for sticking with
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by reuven 11y ago
I'm a very casual Evernote user; I only use the free version, every few months, to sync basic things (e.g., shopping lists, or directions) between my desktop and phone. A few months ago, I noticed that there were suddenly lots of ads
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In PostgreSQL, as in life, don’t wait too long to commit(blog.lerner.co.il)
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by reuven 11y ago
They also said that this didn't affect business users. Which sounds a lot like, "Non-cheapskates didn't have any problems!"
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Skype Service Disrupted for Some Users Worldwide(nytimes.com)
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In PostgreSQL, as in life, don’t wait too long to commit(blog.lerner.co.il)
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by reuven 11y ago
Maybe. And I fully admit that given those two choices, it's better to save the company and lay of 30k people. But I do have to wonder how the company grew to be so bloated and large. Perhaps it was unfair for HP to hire them to beg
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Show HN: Coaching for technical trainers(blog.lerner.co.il)
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by reuven 11y ago
My first job, when I finished college in 1992, was at HP. They hesitated to offer me a job, because they said that when HP offers someone a position, they're basically offering them a job for life. Sure, you can snicker at that comment
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Chinese people want to know “How was China’s economy destroyed?”(qz.com)
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Practice Makes Python: 50 exercises to improve your Python fluency(lerner.co.il)
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by reuven 11y ago
I launched http://DailyTechVideo.com/ about eight months ago, and continue to upload a new video (nearly) every day. I've learned a ton, and hope that others have, too! If you know of a good video that I can add to th
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Show HN: DailyTechVideo – curated conference talks for full-stack developers(dailytechvideo.com)
2 points by reuven 11y ago|1 comments
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by reuven 11y ago
That's precisely what ends up causing an accent, no? Using the sounds and pronunciation of your native language in another one, with different rules. I don't think that Apple has created the World's Best Accent Impersonator
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by reuven 11y ago
This article was nice, but it indicated that you need to change the system preferences in order to change the voice. It turns out that you can pass the -v flag to use a different voice, or "-v ?" to get a list of names. So you ca
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by reuven 11y ago
Sacks was clearly a great doctor in many ways. But he'll probably be better known, and remembered, for popularizing science and medicine in a way that we rarely see: He describes people's symptoms carefully, but also sympathetica
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by reuven 11y ago
So what you're saying is that Stallman doesn't like the way in which universities work -- so he gets to make his own rules, and claim that he's equivalent to someone who did play by the rules? I defended my dissertation, and
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by reuven 11y ago
I'm guessing that if Stallman were to approach most universities, and say that he wants to turn his life's work into a PhD dissertation, they would welcome him with open arms. Within months, at most, he would have the PhD. He has
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by reuven 11y ago
A PhD doesn't mean that you worked hard. It means that you have worked on research in a certain field, judged by the standards of that field. Believe me, those "standards" can be arbitrary, and they often involve a lot of r
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by reuven 11y ago
Stallman is a hugely influential person. He has contributed a great deal to the world of free software. And giving him an honorary degree is a great thing, demonstrating his many accomplishments. But it still really bugs me that he calls h
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by reuven 11y ago
The biggest differences (from what I can remember) have to do with the behavior with remote branches, especially when it comes to pushing to a remote.
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by reuven 11y ago
This is excellent news. I teach Git courses, and the Windows users (often the majority) are often frustrated to be left behind, and/or be unable to use modern features. This will be a big boost to their productivity, as well as their

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