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by sevensor 6y ago
Norvig's classic _Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years_ still holds up well here. http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html Learning to program can be a smooth path, but it's also a long one.
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by sevensor 6y ago
Good choice to use Platypus! I've collaborated with its author in the past and I have a lot of respect for him. In general, I'm really glad you're talking about modern MOEAs. There's far too much material on the intern
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by sevensor 6y ago
Giant text file full of notes in chronological order, stored in a git repo visible to my colleagues. Not that I write about every line of code I write, but the ratio of lines of notes to lines of code is at least 5:1. I pull material from
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by sevensor 6y ago
You'll find there are also plenty of people on here who like Forth, and even a few Fortran partisans. There are lots of ways to gratify your curiosity.
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by sevensor 6y ago
Fortunately, this blog seems to get a fair amount of love from HN. That's how I discovered it and became a regular reader. It makes lots of points that seem like they would be common sense, except that they are directly opposite the
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by sevensor 6y ago
My personal relationship with linked lists has had its highs and lows. When I was teaching myself C as a teenager, the linked list was the first pointer-based data structure I implemented myself, and the cause of so very many segfaults. I
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by sevensor 6y ago
This is one of those positions that's so obvious, I struggle to articulate what the contrary position would even be. And yet, my community continues to squeeze out its trailer parks, even though I live in an area with plenty of land.
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by sevensor 6y ago
My local newspaper. It's not great, but it's all we've got. It buys wire service articles, so we're paying for the wire services indirectly too.
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by sevensor 6y ago
I don't see that as a waste of time at all. The programmer learned a lot and didn't damage the codebase, assuming the changes went unmerged. This sounds like a pretty good way to come to grips with the problem domain.
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by sevensor 6y ago
No, I think that would be a lazy and unjustified criticism. My remarks shouldn't be taken as criticism at all. In the same way that a calculus textbook has the student work carefully constructed math problems, HTDP has the student wo
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by sevensor 6y ago
This is a book that embodies its thesis, that learning to design programs is like learning how to write or do mathematics. In the same way that academic treatments of writing or math abstract out the things you might actually do with writi
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by sevensor 6y ago
Inhaling products of combustion is a bad idea and we should do as little of it as we can. If we're going to burn stuff, let's do it at power plants with centralized monitoring and mitigation, so that we can all avoid breathing ex
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by sevensor 6y ago
Every now and then (like right now) I visit today's HN, but usually I like to follow it 48-72 hours behind (using the _past_ link). After a couple of days, the dust has settled, and you don't have to check back to see how a conve
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by sevensor 6y ago
His appearance at this event must have been just about peak ESR. I've been following his long slow slide into crank-dom on his blog, at least up until its stop last fall. I wonder what he's up to now.
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by sevensor 6y ago
That's amazing. I want that. I like how clear it is about what it's for, which is the sort of thing one does all the time in other languages that lack a vocabulary for it. I'm going to assume you could put any predicate you
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by sevensor 6y ago
I have a slow-moving side project in Racket. I picked it up for its reputation for being the Python of the Scheme world, but I think the analogy doesn't hold up and you're better off accepting Racket on its own terms. Racket doe
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by sevensor 6y ago
Works fine in w3m, but not really worth the read. It's on Medium, after all.
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by sevensor 6y ago
Never seen so many bleeding aerials!
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by sevensor 6y ago
Not only that, real cyclists may be riding for transportation instead of fitness, and this means they're probably carrying extra mass. Most of the time, bicycles aren't equipped for this, so the cyclist carries items in a backpac
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by sevensor 6y ago
When I carried a pager as an engineer at a factory, it lasted for months on AA batteries. It's been almost a dozen years, so I'm starting to forget whether it was one cell or two. It took me years before I stopped reaching for m
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by sevensor 6y ago
I recommend "The Unknown Masterpiece" by Balzac, if you'd like to see some of these ideas developed further by a master.
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by sevensor 6y ago
I had a great time running Tiny Core on a ThinkPad R31 about 10 years ago. I eventually put Arch on it because Arch is so easy to use, but I miss how snappy Tiny Core was and I think I may try it again.
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by sevensor 6y ago
Oh my yes. Some years ago, I did not realize this. My mental model of Git had it de-duplicating common text between commits, but this is not the case. I learned the truth the hard way when I wrote a commit hook that automatically appende
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by sevensor 6y ago
I once traveled from the U.S. to Italy with a colleague who insisted on ordering cappuccino after supper. I think he mainly did it because he enjoyed scandalizing restauraunt staff.
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by sevensor 6y ago
A week or two ago, I was working with a colleague who wanted to get me set up to deploy my code to an AWS service he had provisioned for us. "I use this tool that makes it super-simple," he said. It's true, typing the comma
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by sevensor 6y ago
Not all programming is web programming, and not all users of text editors are trying to turn them into IDEs. I think the article itself was insightful in identifying two camps of programmers with minimal overlap. Most of the discussion I&
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by sevensor 6y ago
I unlocked an Athlon in 2000 using pencil graphite and used it to heat my apartment all winter long.
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by sevensor 6y ago
Get involved in local politics. Observe council meetings and school board meetings and committee meetings. Whatever is public. This stuff can be boring; you'll observe pointless personality clashes and interminable dumb arguments, b
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by sevensor 6y ago
At least 9 times out of 10, I end up typing scp instead of rsync, and then regretting it. Rsync makes an effort not to move bytes it doesn't have to and generally saves me a bunch of time. If I'm actually thinking about what I&#
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by sevensor 6y ago
Good information! I may try this tonight. I like everything about my Brother laser printer except that I have to have an old computer sitting next to it that does almost nothing but print stuff.

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