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by _giu 17y ago
you're right... Sal received his MBA from Harvard Business School. He also holds a Masters in electrical engineering and computer science, a BS in electrical engineering and computer science, and a BS in mathematics from the Massachusetts
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A Tale of Two Qubits: How Quantum Computers Work(arstechnica.com)
2 points by _giu 17y ago|1 comments
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Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK(microsoft.com)
3 points by _giu 17y ago|0 comments
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by _giu 17y ago
I have to admit that I haven't experimented a lot with REST, so maybe some REST-experts here on HN will help me out answering some of these questions or give feedback regarding the answers that will follow in the next paragraphs :) regardin
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by _giu 17y ago
With a REST implementation you roll yourself, you'd just have to re-implement this stuff, wouldn't you? Or what am I missing? No, you wouldn't. as generalk sayed in his comment ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1053384 ), it's the rev
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You can always do less(37signals.com)
68 points by _giu 17y ago|28 comments
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by _giu 17y ago
you can find a short description of what the algorithm does and some pseudo code here: http://www.kfish.org/boids/pseudocode.html
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by _giu 17y ago
I think the leaderboard is a very good reward for the people who spend quite a lot of time on submitting quality links and contributing to discussions with good comments. every upvote on Hacker News (especially in the comments section) is h
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by _giu 17y ago
yes, that definitely works only if you have 1 coder. fellow students of mine used email for SCM while working on a school project. it was pretty funny to hear that, since a) the major was Computer Science and b) the university would have se
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The Barometer of Hacker News Knowledge Half-life(zedshaw.com)
34 points by _giu 17y ago|19 comments
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Magic Tricks based on deep Mathematics(mathoverflow.net)
25 points by _giu 17y ago|4 comments
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by _giu 17y ago
OP Vistars is "[...]a web-based resource which one can use to receive up-to-the-minute updates on the status of the LHC proton beams.". you can read more about this tool here: http://www.cernlove.org/blog/2009/12/im-down-with-op-v/ pictur
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OP V: up-to-the-minute updates on the status of the LHC proton beam (CERN)(op-webtools.web.cern.ch)
1 points by _giu 17y ago|1 comments
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by _giu 17y ago
very good point! we have a mathematician in our engineering team. one of our teachers (software engineer) was working toward his PhD in nuclear physics, but stopped in the tick of it because he wanted to work in the IT. you really just shou
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by _giu 17y ago
nice new features. the diamond operator looks good. closures will be fun, too! starts to feel like C# (automatic resource management (C#'s IDisposable), language support for collections, strings in switch).
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by _giu 17y ago
the submitted link works for me! anyone else has the same issue described on the comment above?
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Amazing: Tupper's self-referential formula (en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by _giu 17y ago|2 comments
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Dr. Quantum explains the Double-slit Experiment (youtube.com)
1 points by _giu 17y ago|0 comments
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A New Perl.org (Redesigned)(perl.org)
15 points by _giu 17y ago|5 comments
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by _giu 17y ago
agreed. a whiteboard helps, too!
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by _giu 17y ago
thanks for the alternative link and the hint regarding Slideshare. next time when I find an interesting presentation on Slideshare I'll look out for an alternative link.
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Extreme JavaScript Performance(slideshare.net)
39 points by _giu 17y ago|17 comments
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Gates' Memo about why the Office format should be a proprietary format (1998)(antitrust.slated.org)
1 points by _giu 17y ago|0 comments
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Spreadsheet of TED Talks(spreadsheets.google.com)
1 points by _giu 17y ago|1 comments
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by _giu 17y ago
I use a proxy (Pivoxy) to block requests to distracting sites. not the most effective method, but it works pretty good for me.
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by _giu 17y ago
_why really deserves this tribute! he created great things and I always liked _why's idea of bringing programming to a wider audience (especially children). reading through john's post and thinking about the mystic (and very smart) person
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by _giu 17y ago
looks a little bit suspicious to me: http://twitpic.com/ehm2h (_why created a repository called "lol" 30 minutes ago)
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by _giu 17y ago
may I call this a very brilliant move ?
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Guess who registered http://expert-s**-change.com(twitter.com)
12 points by _giu 17y ago|2 comments
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by _giu 17y ago
I totally agree with you! the code is definitely more readable. I think the object initalizer (e.g. var o = new MyObject(){ID=123};) was a step in the direction of named parameters. however, it looks like named parameters will be shipped wi

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