yannis

18 ms·

151.
by yannis 11y ago
Thanks for posting this. I am an old Pascal programmer. Love the language and did a phd thesis entirely in the old turbo Pascal IDE. (All programming + using the editor for LaTeX files).
152.
by yannis 11y ago
Just hang in there. Your mind and gut feeling is trying to tell you where you should be going. Try writing down "where" your mind wanders off and see if you can identify the "why". Don't worry and there is not a sin
153.
by yannis 11y ago
What is this? apikey3_6g4agvfjdvochfub5nfpcbh...? Try http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/zika-virus-16012815173... , captures js and cdn and other junk in tags. Seems cleaning algo needs some work. Great wo
154.
by yannis 11y ago
I also dislike "gallery" type of presentations. I also prefer an example similar to the "bostonglobe.com", perhaps with some blazy effects http://dinbror.dk/blazy/ .
155.
by yannis 11y ago
>Perma.cc is developed and maintained by the Harvard Library Innovation Lab at the Harvard Law School Library. Perma.cc is administered by a consortium of libraries, with each library assisting its local journals and faculty users. This
156.
by yannis 11y ago
And they needed Bezos to figure that one out?
157.
by yannis 11y ago
... and easier to deploy.
158.
by yannis 11y ago
Do you have an upwork profile?
159.
by yannis 11y ago
As Snowden twitted: "This is not a blow against the US Government, but an open hand extended by friends. It is a chance to move forward." I hope the US stops for a second and hears the rest of the world and its own citizens.
160.
by yannis 11y ago
The README is really short, one or two more lines can make the life of those just learning python a bit better.
161.
by yannis 11y ago
This is a very good application, as many times just writing a spec is not adequate to describe a project and I am sure you did some iterations to arrive with a prototype. I am currently outsourcing something similar with similar results. Th
162.
Paris catacombs: Airbnb stay in 'world's largest grave'(bbc.com)
1 points by yannis 11y ago|0 comments
163.
by yannis 11y ago
Besides being an excellent application, this is a valuable resource for anyone studying Golang.
164.
by yannis 11y ago
I know it is difficult to describe complicated software simply. Make the examples more prominent, and provide a sandbox for someone to try them. Some people like watching videos, others don't.
165.
Python ruby and golang a web service application comparison(realpython.com)
3 points by yannis 11y ago|0 comments
166.
by yannis 11y ago
>The thrilling thing about Google Books, it seemed to me, was not just the opportunity to read a line here or there; it was the possibility of exploring the full text of millions of out-of-print books and periodicals that had no real com
167.
by yannis 11y ago
One of the basic tenets of TeX and LaTeX is stability, Maths has a very long shelf life! You can TeX Knuth's papers from 30 years ago and they will still produce the same output. If I were to spend 3-5 years on writing a PhD Thesis the
168.
by yannis 11y ago
It is a very difficult problem to solve see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4507/avoiding-rivers-... . With TeX most of the time you will not see any rivers.
169.
by yannis 11y ago
>go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think. After a time it always seems as if they want to banish my self from myself and rob m
170.
Not the retiring type: people still working in their 70s, 80s and 90s(theguardian.com)
65 points by yannis 11y ago|61 comments
171.
by yannis 11y ago
The Greek Cypriot language has a similar word "Hasura" which means waste, possibly also from Spanish influences.
172.
by yannis 12y ago
Can you post a link that is not behind a $28 paywall for having to look at an example?
173.
by yannis 12y ago
icanreadstufflikethis without a problem.
174.
by yannis 12y ago
These are great. I was looking for such a set to illustrate sorting algorithms for a pet project of mine.
175.
by yannis 12y ago
Thanks for posting it. It is such a difference when one sees hand-picked photos, rather than photos uploaded randomly by users. Bookmarked it, to have a closer look afterwards.
176.
by yannis 12y ago
To quote Knuth [1] describing TeX “Think thrice before extending,” because that may save a lot of work, and it will also keep incompatible extensions of TeX from proliferating. Personally, I am of the opinion that the original TeX was well
177.
by yannis 12y ago
Absolutely, and you cannot build a business upon scraping. Maybe for some seeding, but not to this extend.
178.
by yannis 12y ago
I would be very interested to hear more about the user Listnerd http://www.listnerd.com/Listnerd#lists and how Listnerd has created 492,988 lists and received 3,072,466 votes!
179.
by yannis 12y ago
The RFS never said one million low end jobs and specifically stated they are not looking for companies that would employ one million people. Maybe creating 1,000,000 enterpreneurs?
180.
by yannis 12y ago
The toughest part of this is the idea needs to help expand the economy that is how real jobs are created. There are many ways folks! From the absurd, such as moving money from inefficient areas of the economy (i.e. taxation to efficient

More ›