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by weavie 10y ago
In Pakistan you often hear the chant "Pakistan Zindabad", which I believe means something like "Long Live Pakistan".
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by weavie 11y ago
You may find this helpful ( http://sachachua.com/blog/2014/01/tips-learning-org-mode-ema... ). Also remember org mode is as simple or as complex as you want it to be!
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by weavie 11y ago
I am finding doing Go puzzles help here. I have an android app, I'm sure there are iOS equivalents. The puzzles only seem to tell you when you have made a wrong move and not why, but after spending some time thinking about it it usuall
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by weavie 11y ago
Here is another list of useful go resources : https://forums.online-go.com/t/free-resources-for-beginners/... Another useful site which has interactive tutorials : https://online-go.com/learn-to-p
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by weavie 11y ago
He mentions GnuGo ( https://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/ )
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by weavie 11y ago
http://www.r-bloggers.com/in-depth-introduction-to-machine-l...
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by weavie 11y ago
I found Mastering "Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies" by Andreas M. Antonopoulos to be a good introduction.
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by weavie 11y ago
Out of interest, would using your finger to trace along the line you are reading help you to maintain your reading position? This is a well known speed reading technique, so I imagine many people would have this skipping issue when reading
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by weavie 11y ago
Arithmetic is one place where infix notation is generally easier to read. If I were writing a program that basically just did a load of mathematics I may even consider using a different language.. However looking over the software I general
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by weavie 11y ago
Care to say why? I've coincidentally just been referring to this guide whilst I explore some CLOS. It seemed adequate to me. (Not saying gigamonkeys isn't great - it is just a bit more long winded..)
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by weavie 11y ago
I installed XMonad. Can't remember the exact sequence of events, but I think whilst messing with the config to set it as the default desktop it crashed and could only boot into recovery.. It would probably have been an easy fix, but I
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by weavie 11y ago
Me... I had been using Arch and FreeBSD for a time because I felt it was what serious programmers had to use. Then one day after FreeBSD refused to boot up again I figured I was bored of messing about in recovery mode yet again so I just th
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by weavie 11y ago
Yes, how much fun folks could have if you could connect a Repl into your game and arbitrarily change the rules on the fly!
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by weavie 11y ago
Visual Basic.NET more popular than Javascript? Assembly language more popular than Ruby? That doesn't seem right to me.
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by weavie 11y ago
Moving to Emacs from Visual Studio means that I am amazed at how quickly it starts up even without any optimization.
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by weavie 11y ago
Yes, I have an obsession with doing stuff that is practical and has real tangible benefits. I can't justify sinking hours into something that won't really advance me in anything other than getting better at chess. If I ever struck
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by weavie 11y ago
I've just bought this for my son in the hope that it will encourage him to actually read something rather than always look stuff up on YouTube.
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by weavie 11y ago
I would imagine coverage is a more important metric for dynamic languages than static. Just running through code paths to ensure it doesn't crash due to misspellings etc.. is not really something a compiled language would need as the c
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by weavie 11y ago
From what I can gather this will have virtually no nutritional content whatsoever. I really do struggle to see how it could be considered a "health" food. Although food like kale does have 10x the amount of calories, I have a snea
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by weavie 11y ago
Wow, that's probably one of the last things I would have thought of. I look forward to listening to that.
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by weavie 11y ago
I understand. Yes that is exciting. Thanks.
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by weavie 11y ago
I'm not sure I fully understand what Guix is. Is it a replacement for pacman / apt-get etc..?
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by weavie 11y ago
How well does it work on macbbooks? I had a painful experience a while ago trying to install Arch on my mac. It kept freezing up, so I had to give up as I had a load of other things to do. I would really like to have another bash at getting
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by weavie 11y ago
So the article seems to suggest that for smaller clusters use Kubernetes, for larger ones use Mesos. Would people agree?
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by weavie 11y ago
I have heard it said that evil springs from ignorance. In which case I can say that yes, definitely I am evil. I cannot possibly know and understand everything, no matter how hard I strive for it. I am sure I have (unwillingly) upset and hu
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by weavie 11y ago
No. It's Clojurescript and Om you should be using.
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by weavie 11y ago
https://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdoger.io%2F should work
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by weavie 11y ago
Non-technical partners. My wife constantly gets all sorts of crap on her machine. I have tried to explain to her the difference between popups that says she has a virus on her computer and OS alerts, but it just goes right over her head.
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by weavie 11y ago
If you run an SSL server it is well worth running it through https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html to spot any config errors. It was this that spotted I had SSLv3 enabled. I would have been completely clueless oth
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by weavie 11y ago
You would have thought they would have had systems in place to ensure that it would take more than just a simple email from the boss to transfer thousands of bitcoins.

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