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by timroy 11y ago
I can recommend Gerard O'Neill's The High Frontier. https://www.scribd.com/doc/239652061/The-High-Frontier-Human... Thanks for the recommendation for The Millenium Project, jasonpeacock, I'll check
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by timroy 11y ago
1. The overall pace of the video - animations and narration - seems pretty slow. People today are used to very fast video editing. 2. You don't start to say what the product actually does until 31 seconds in ("filing cabinet in th
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by timroy 11y ago
You might also check out spaced repetition software. I've started putting anything I want to remember for the long haul into org-drill, an SRS package for Emacs, though Anki and Mnemosyne are more well known. I even schedule articles t
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by timroy 11y ago
To be fair to the book author, on page 22 he writes, "often there will be complex non-linear relationships between the parts of a biological chemical pathway." Still, I found alex's comment very informative, a good addition t
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by timroy 11y ago
I work only with Clojure and ClojureScript (including a simple DSL which lets me write HTML in Clojure-syntax). Error reporting in Clojure is bad - no two ways about it. Once I got used to scanning the JVM stack trace, it wasn't so bad
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by timroy 11y ago
Calculus and chemistry.
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by timroy 11y ago
I used this book to get started with Clojure, and I can't imagine learning Clojure any other way. I still refer to it, most recently for multimethods. I used to search the website for updates before they were officially released (like
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by timroy 11y ago
I'm also an Emacs guy, but I agree with the post's assessment of the complexity of starting out with Emacs vs. another editor. I prefer Emacs because it is so easy to switch between buffers holding different files, or different pl
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Hacker School Application, Part II(ungoodspeak.com)
3 points by timroy 12y ago|0 comments
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Hacker School Application, Part I(ungoodspeak.com)
2 points by timroy 12y ago|0 comments
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Hacks or Effort Shock?(ungoodspeak.com)
1 points by timroy 12y ago|0 comments
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by timroy 12y ago
I finished my job three months ago, and my wife and I are working on a startup together. I'm learning to code, she's about to start, and we're planning the business together. Since we're both lawyers, we're also pla