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by tkahn6 16y ago
You should seriously consider checking out Clojure. It's awesome.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I guess that would make me ignorant in that respect. The first paragraph of the wiki article clears it up for me. Thanks.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
It would help me a lot if you defined what you mean by 'holistic' since you use it frequently in your article. I'm not familiar with this term used in other contexts besides medicine. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/holistic i
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by tkahn6 16y ago
He's not frustrated with the unforgivability of hardware design. He's frustrated with the overhead involved in getting started learning the ropes (finding the right tools, learning about the conventions involved in identifying the right par
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I'm an soon-to-be-undergraduate just learning the language and Lisp. I found this great series by Rich Hickey last night: http://clojure.blip.tv/
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by tkahn6 16y ago
If I had known what the usenet was at the time I would have really found useful. I was super ignorant of those types of things until I was about 14 or 15. I'll consolidate our discussion into this one thread, in saying that I did use the in
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by tkahn6 16y ago
It's not a problem now. I have an exponentially better idea of where to look when I want answers to a question that I did when I was 12 or 13. The single largest hurdle for learning on your own is knowing the right questions to ask and how
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I still have not physically met any person my own age that can program more than a little Java and I'm about to enter college. And I've never known an adult IRL that has been able to teach me any CS or programming. Very much almost exclusiv
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by tkahn6 16y ago
[username] at gmail.com http://www.simplelistapp.com/site/lists/2
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I'd be interested in one :) [username]@gmail.com
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by tkahn6 16y ago
This seems interesting but I'm having a hard time figuring out what exactly he is talking about. He starts out talking about the alt tag and then I start to lose him. Can anyone clarify or give some context?
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Tell HN: I'll trade you a Google Voice invite for a Forrst invite
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by tkahn6 16y ago
You may not have asked what CPU is in your Mazda 3 when you were looking to buy it, but you most likely asked what MPG it gets, what its safety rating is, and how powerful its engine is. If you're using you're phone as a platform to run app
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by tkahn6 16y ago
"And I didn't use any knowledge that a high school kid shouldn't have" ...a high-school kid that has studied haskell maybe. Either you're being arrogant or you are very lucky to have gone to a school which teaches rudimentary type theory.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
It seems like you want something more concrete than abstract to work on, but if you want something that is very challenging and rewarding studying The Art of Computer Programming Vol. 1 is something you should consider. Depending on the pro
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by tkahn6 16y ago
Can you elaborate on what exactly bothers you?
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by tkahn6 16y ago
I actually enjoyed this writing style and I'm glad he shared his thoughts - I found what he had to say interesting. I think I enjoyed it for the very reason you didn't.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
For what purpose do you believe we went into Afghanistan? For their opium? [Edit: Afghanistan, not Iraq.]
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by tkahn6 16y ago
If he's in his twenties, he already done with his mandatory military service (apart from being in the reserves). He would be doing this as a civilian just like an American citizen can get a job at the CIA out of college.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
If this is Israel, I believe the OP means right-wing pro-settlement ex-military. And by ex-military, I mean they served in combat units and likely went on to become officers and stayed on after their 3-year mandatory service term was up.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
"From 2004 to 2008, tens of thousands of older people sought to make some fast cash by taking out multimillion-dollar policies on their own lives and flipping these to brokers, who resold them to investors like hedge funds and investment b
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by tkahn6 16y ago
This woman has some major balls to blame her shitty choice in a major and subsequent debt on other people. She made a poor choice and she needs to pay for it. This is a systemic problem and the only way to cure it is to enforce personal res
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by tkahn6 16y ago
The problem with Digg is that the community is terrible and that it's a miracle whenever something remotely intellectual makes it to the front page. I found HN through StackOverflow about a year ago and haven't looked back.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
It took me a few seconds to realize the CSS had completely loaded.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
>Depth depends on connections formed with other areas of knowledge Agreed. I believe this is the most important part of education.
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by tkahn6 16y ago
This does not surprise me at all. Anyone with average intelligence can get good grades in high school - it's just a matter of how much time you're willing to devote to getting them. The trade-off comes in deciding whether you'd rather get g
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by tkahn6 16y ago
It depends how you define 'gifted'. If you define 'gifted' to mean someone who is adept at manipulating the system and/or playing within the system, an IQ test or other aptitude tests might not be the best metric. I interpret 'gifted' to me
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by tkahn6 16y ago
How is that offensive and condescending? He derives enjoyment from creating while maybe you choose to do other things for enjoyment. To each his own - isn't that your point?
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by tkahn6 17y ago
The justification must come from the free market, if free market is to be the moral system. How can there exist a free market without the guarantee of the protection of private property? Without that you have anarchy (whoever is physicall
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by tkahn6 17y ago
Do not confuse capitalism with anarchism. Capitalism believes in a government which protects private property and human life with physical force. You can pay someone to punch someone else, but that's inconsistent with capitalistic philosoph

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