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by chrishenn 9mo ago
This looks really excellent, I'm excited to try it out.
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by chrishenn 7y ago
A similar and very powerful narrative can be found in _The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism_, by Edward E. Baptist. The book is slightly problematic in some of its methods, but overall I would highly r
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by chrishenn 8y ago
Cool! I once wrote a much hackier version of complex arithmetic in JavaScript [0]. It was to support a visualization of the complex derivative [1]. I found it useful to think of a complex number as a point in R^2 that operates under some di
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by chrishenn 9y ago
This is rad! I wish it had MathSciNet as well. https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/index.html
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by chrishenn 11y ago
Good ol' Socrates :) This resonates with me very strongly. But it seems all too easy to extend this sentiment towards others and remind them that they don't know what they're doing, which creates a pretty toxic environment.
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by chrishenn 12y ago
The violin plots are cool and look like a great alternative to box plots, I had not seen those before. Sweet!
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by chrishenn 12y ago
I've been working with Ember over the past few months and am still impressed with how simple and productive it makes every day tasks. Basic CRUD stuff, especially render code, is a lot less drudge work. I'm even more excited for w
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by chrishenn 12y ago
I will soon, thanks!
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by chrishenn 12y ago
One pain point I've really felt recently with Python is in the deploy step. pip installing dependencies with a requirements.txt file seems to be the recommended way, but it's far from easy. Many dependencies (such as PyTables) don
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by chrishenn 12y ago
Reed Esau creates a bunch of vim plugins for writing, I've found them to work very nice: http://wynnnetherland.com/journal/reed-esau-s-growing-list-o...
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by chrishenn 13y ago
I've always wondered what coding is like for those who don't speak english, or only speak a little. I imagine it's something like working with code beatified by this tool. Almost every codebase is filled with english verbs an
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New York Times: Today's Paper(nytimes.com)
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by chrishenn 13y ago
How do provisioning systems compare to Docker? Right now I have a development environment that consists of salt stack provisioning Vagrant. Spinning up a production server just means running salt on the host (Rackspace, DO, whatever.) Is th
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by chrishenn 13y ago
Hey krrishd, I also offer my help. It will be the most useful for front-end web design, or maybe some minor backend things.
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Mocking a server for Backbone applications with Sinon.JS(writing.chrishenn.net)
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by chrishenn 13y ago
You are thinking of https://letscrate.com/ .
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by chrishenn 13y ago
When I was learning more about this, I found this[1] article to be of great help. I think the key idea is that JS is a prototype-based OO model. It's easy to forget because there are so many abstractions[2] that act like a JS is a static cl
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by chrishenn 13y ago
Thanks. The low level stuff certainly seems like a good thing to learn—I made an effort to read Code[0] a while back and most of it went over my head. The high level programming languages most people work in today are abstracted to a point
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by chrishenn 13y ago
As a Senior in high school who already works in a startup, I have another question: what shit should I being trying to learn in college? There's a prominent attitude here that a degree in CS isn't all that practical—work experience matters
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by chrishenn 14y ago
I built a site using ProcessWire[1] a while back, it was a joy to use. Really clean modern php cms. [1] http://processwire.com/
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by chrishenn 14y ago
I would add RequireJS to the list. Being able to think in terms of modules while developing a large application is extremely helpful, and explicitly defining dependencies is great when it comes time to build/concat the project. Mocha is ano
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by chrishenn 14y ago
Are you using jsPlumb? I just spent some time on a project that uses jsPlumb for a similar effect.
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by chrishenn 14y ago
I've never come across a website that I felt needed a responsive layout, though I regularly think emails are a pain to read on a phone if they use html. However, most html emails are marketing emails, so I'm still not sold of the idea of re
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by chrishenn 14y ago
If you enjoyed this piece, you might like the book "The Information Diet" [1]. It's not particularly compelling writing, but the author has good ideas that are very much inline with this post. Boredom is essential. [1] http://www.informati
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by chrishenn 14y ago
I used xflux when I used linux a while back, it worked very well.
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by chrishenn 14y ago
"Twitter has an enormous advantage over Facebook in one key area: while people on Facebook tend to friend their friends, people on Twitter tend to follow their interests. The following graph from Twitter is worth far more on a per-account b
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by chrishenn 14y ago
Seems like it will only help the very first part of making a web app, where you have to set up directories and libraries and such (scaffolding.) There is a package manager, but you could also use something like [Volo]( https://github.com/vo
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by chrishenn 14y ago
If you use Google Apps with your own domain and make backups of your mail, then you have a very small chance of losing your address and your mail. People hate on Google Apps, but you don't give up control if you follow both these steps (whi
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by chrishenn 14y ago
“We believe in the power of the technical community to help improve GS Collections.” They aren't accepting code contributions right now, so that doesn't make much sense.
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by chrishenn 14y ago
OSX comes with (an old version of) python installed already.

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