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Understanding the Emotional Response (2015)(alistapart.com)
26 points by thelastnode 9y ago|1 comments
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The Uber Game: can you make it in the gig economy?(ig.ft.com)
2 points by thelastnode 9y ago|0 comments
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by thelastnode 11y ago
You can use a good number of these today with Retrolambda: https://github.com/orfjackal/retrolambda
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by thelastnode 11y ago
Yes, the initial parts of the example could be accomplished with awk and xargs, but as the article goes on to demonstrate, even doing something like printing every nth element would be difficult. I think the intent was for this to be more o
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Understanding the Emotional Response (2015)(alistapart.com)
1 points by thelastnode 11y ago|0 comments
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by thelastnode 11y ago
It looks like the TodoMVC[1] example has a bug: 1. Create an entry "foo" 2. Check the box, observe strikethrough on "foo" 3. Check the "check/uncheck all" box (left of input box) 4. Observe strikethrough s
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Writing a Spotify Client in Emacs in 16 Minutes(youtube.com)
15 points by thelastnode 13y ago|0 comments
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by thelastnode 13y ago
The videos are hosted on Dropbox. Dropbox disabled the videos because there has been too much public traffic.
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by thelastnode 13y ago
True, but sometimes there isn't a choice, e.g., working with a clowntown library, poorly designed legacy code, etc.
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by thelastnode 13y ago
I like to put a summarizing comment in the code for lines that require justification like the ones you mention. That way the discussion happens on GitHub and the conclusion is in the code, where future developers will see it.
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by thelastnode 14y ago
Best tweet: "Code so hard, VC's wanna find me"
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by thelastnode 14y ago
Took me a second to find, but here's the all-on-one-page version: http://www.linuxprogrammingblog.com/all-about-linux-signals?...
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by thelastnode 15y ago
Even in the movie 3 Idiots, at the end of the movie, the man with the pen points out that there's a reason for the complexity: bits of graphite flying around in zero gravity near instrument panels and people's eyes, etc. Simplicity is great
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by thelastnode 15y ago
Why? While I have worked through a decent amount of CLRS myself, I think there are much better ways to learn how to solve algorithmic problems. For example, programming competition books like Programming Challenges[1] forces students to sol
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by thelastnode 15y ago
Regarding the Coffeescript-Javascript difference, Coffeescript and Javascript can be used transparently in node. Once require('coffee-script') is run, the module replaces the require function with one that can load both Coffeescript and Jav
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by thelastnode 15y ago
How does this compare to Heroku? Neither seem to support WebSockets (though the Heroku article I found was a bit dated[1]) for the time being. From the article, it seems like AppHarbor doesn't automagically pull in the dependencies from the
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by thelastnode 15y ago
For Javascript, async.js[1] offers some good tools for different kinds of control flow with callbacks. [1]: https://github.com/caolan/async
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by thelastnode 15y ago
A fix to the halting problem? Jokes aside, timing out would be useful.
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by thelastnode 15y ago
What are the consequences of running this in production? What's the performance hit like, is it unsafe, etc.?
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by thelastnode 15y ago
For find, you need to use single quotes so your shell doesn't automatically expand the .java glob into the names of all the files. Also, find uses one dash for parameters, and can take an exec parameter: find . -name .java -exec wc -l
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by thelastnode 15y ago
This is an interesting alternative to StackOverflow, though I think that you might be able to hit a wider and more skilled audience in an already established community.
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by thelastnode 15y ago
This also works with live camera feed because of how OpenCV handles video streams. You can extract frames from the stream and then run the same face detection code on those extracted frames. This is a great post given that a lot of the Open
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by thelastnode 16y ago
I definitely agree; it's just a matter of finding the right people. Anecdote: attending some of the tech talks that companies give at Tech, there is always a gradient of people, from the people that are there for free food to the people tha
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by thelastnode 16y ago
No idea where this came from (or if it's a good idea to feed the trolls; "hn_is_dumb" - really?), but Tech does have the policy to accept most and then fail out those who don't belong there. Only 29% of incoming freshman graduate in 4 yea
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by thelastnode 16y ago
This is the problem that I had when I was applying to colleges: I used to ignore classes that bored me but were required and instead spent time that should have been spent on homework, etc. doing programming side projects and learning CS co
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by thelastnode 16y ago
Does not work on a Thinkpad T410 on Arch Linux. With Chrome I can see the marble but it doesn't move, with Firefox 4 nightly I can't even see the marble.
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by thelastnode 16y ago
Which then opens the print dialog, so actually two :P
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by thelastnode 16y ago
Another great resource for learning about vim is the Vim Tips Wiki [1]. The have a LOT of content on there, most of which will be useful at some point. The best tips page [2] has a good set to get started. [1]: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vi
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by thelastnode 16y ago
I actually did this recently! I kept vim as vim though, so if I REALLY needed to edit something quickly, I still could. It's very natural to type "vi <filename>", so it certainly helped.
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by thelastnode 16y ago
The regular way to do this would be just trudging through them after grouping by date or something. A cooler way (albeit significantly harder, at least until it's working) way to do this would be to consider it an AI classification problem.

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