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by yannis 7y ago
Notable is Alan Edelman's tip using Julia at the 36th lecture.
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by yannis 7y ago
Jacaranda trees are possibly the most beautiful trees for residential areas. I used to leave in South Africa in a street lined with jacarandas. Only disadvantage streets need to be cleaned often and if the flowers drop on a parked car they
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by yannis 7y ago
More likely a hat (following Russel's Principia) maybe simulated as a `/\` capital Greek letter "L" which then was changed to the Greek lower letter lambda. Church's book in 1941 was typed using what looks like a ty
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by yannis 8y ago
His videos on you tube are also very informative.
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by yannis 8y ago
A technique I use, is to enter the data in an sqlite3 database, using SQLiteStudio and use spreadsheets for importing, exporting and presentation only.
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by yannis 9y ago
three
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by yannis 9y ago
The best ever presentation that I remember was by Edward De Bono. Some of these are on the net. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5DK8XPUEaU He was really a gifted presenter and the man that invented "lateral thinking&q
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by yannis 9y ago
It has Indo-European roots https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/lex/master/0821 . Although Tamil is Dravidian, probably a loan word.
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by yannis 9y ago
I have four kids and watched all the births. I can assure you that in most cases, the nurses manipulate the timing, even with natural births, so that they allow the doctor to come at around 7h30. Of course there are many exceptions.
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by yannis 9y ago
Large Project Construction Management. Has everything a programmer needs, logic, abstraction, modularizing the problem, keep an eye on the big picture, working under pressure, people skills, planning skills, mythical man-months and unfortun
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I still love jQuery and you should too(hackernoon.com)
4 points by yannis 9y ago|0 comments
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by yannis 9y ago
For a part-time programmer Mechanical Engineer, it is such a gratifying task to use ngrok. I first came across it a couple of years back. Great Project, great development, open sourced and well written in go. https://github.com&
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Programming as a Way of Thinking(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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by yannis 10y ago
Looking at the github repository there is nothing fundamentally earth shuttering here. It is mostly the normal way of interpreters/compilers representing everything with number codes and then mapping to characters. For example: c
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by yannis 10y ago
Think of it, as if God is pulling a joke on us or the physicists.
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by yannis 10y ago
And a self-cleaning toilet with that brush and software would be more effective and cheaper...
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by yannis 10y ago
Here is an alternative way to master LaTeX http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/5713/963 .
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by yannis 10y ago
Try writing a 300 page book in HTML, create citations and bibliographies, table of contents etc. Then convert it to a pdf, say using Pandoc and then you will have a better understanding where TeX/LaTeX fits in. Write also some complica
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by yannis 10y ago
Go has been a game changer for me also. There is also a very good package https://github.com/spf13/cobra that can make the development of complex CLIs easier.
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by yannis 10y ago
>Think PHP vs. Python, PHP may cut few corners but it's not ideal language for teaching generic concepts. Maybe not even Python, suggest go or rust. My generation we started learning CS with Pascal and moved to C, when we had a bit
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Moon rover tested in Qatari desert(aljazeera.com)
2 points by yannis 10y ago|0 comments
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by yannis 10y ago
Hopefully we will forget earlier experiences, if we ever become anything near immortal.
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by yannis 10y ago
Interesting, but where can I use it?
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From ISS to Earth: Amazing Videos of Astronauts’ Journey(sputniknews.com)
2 points by yannis 10y ago|0 comments
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by yannis 10y ago
But it may give you a different perspective as to how to deal with the problems of native Americans and disadvantaged communities today.
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Google wins copyright battle over books(bbc.com)
4 points by yannis 10y ago|1 comments
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The story behind China's 'Minecraft' military camouflage(bbc.com)
88 points by yannis 11y ago|60 comments
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by yannis 11y ago
Get some help http://tex.stackexchange.com waiting for four decades to get your figures to appear where you want them is too long...
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by yannis 11y ago
Knuth's TeX. Set the standards for documentation, reliability, portability, typography, extensibility and scripting, is well into its fourth decade and is free software.
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by yannis 11y ago
But perhaps they are missing an opportunity to become a "hub" of their communities and replace the now mostly gone local newspapers.

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