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by jalanb 7y ago
pycharm is a workflow now?
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by jalanb 9y ago
How about OP does anyway? Bash as a scripting language is fucking great! Since when is simplicity an argument against writing programs? Whether scripts or frameworks? "Hard to read" is not neccessarily an inherent trait[1] of the
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by jalanb 9y ago
TIL Rapoport's rule, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapoport%27s_rule Oh I do love the interwebs.
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by jalanb 9y ago
I implemented it in Python (while reading from that LISP version, a Java version, and Melanie Mitchell's "Analogy-Making as Perception"): https://github.com/jalanb/co.py.cat
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by jalanb 10y ago
> most students choose to major in CS because they want to become professional programmers (aka Software Engineers) Then why not major in Software Engineering? Is that not an option in American universities?
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by jalanb 10y ago
Because "The custom and practice of the web has always been that publicly accessible pages are served without payment" The publishers are not offering content subject to a fee (which I am not paying). They are offering content f
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by jalanb 10y ago
Muphry strikes again :-)
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by jalanb 10y ago
Typo in he pdf link, should be: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.01450v1.pdf
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by jalanb 11y ago
If working with recursively expressed data, recursively expressed algorithms are usually easier to understand.
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by jalanb 11y ago
Yes, but the kind of people who do use "password123" are going to run a mile from this method as soon as they hear "algorithm"
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Ask HN: How do I hear capitalists who are a-venturing?
1 points by jalanb 11y ago|2 comments
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by jalanb 11y ago
Maybe what you are really interested in is counting days?
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by jalanb 12y ago
> I wonder how he got into it. I'm a programmer by profession, but at one stage there were no such jobs available, so I went back to teaching. Teaching office computer skills (typing, Microsoft Office, drawing apps, ...) to kids who
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by jalanb 12y ago
> There's nothing inherently monochrome about ... vi/vim But it is nonetheless "a great monochrome editor"
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by jalanb 12y ago
What I find strange about this test is that it also weeds out 99.5% of candidates who can't seem to google for "programming interview" before turning up at one! Amazing how many (3rd year Comp Sci) students have never heard o
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by jalanb 12y ago
Won't work: the free thing is a howto for suicide, so "Everyone else" is now dead!
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by jalanb 12y ago
It will be trusted completely by their target market, which thinks Snowden is like, a real hero, but that PGP is not something they'd want to catch.
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by jalanb 12y ago
All languages actually represent source code as trees. It's just that the shavings are less obvious in other languages.
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by jalanb 12y ago
Actually, speaking as a former addict, I would call it simple. Damned hard, fucking painful, betimes hopeless, ..., but the most consistent memory from my early recovery was the simplicity of the process. There really was only one thing imp
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by jalanb 12y ago
Für mich auch!
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by jalanb 12y ago
That was a nice interruption to work which was nearly starting over at https://pym.readthedocs.org/ But I really have to write some code. Saved for later: https://github.com/jalanb/pym/commit/
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by jalanb 12y ago
Some nice looking apps there: well done!
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by jalanb 12y ago
A couple of points on the website, https://srclib.org/ 1. Can't find an actual Download link, even in the section called "Try it now". Oh - turns out the download links are under "Docs", which is ki
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by jalanb 12y ago
Ну, как цивилизованный человек, я бы всегда использовать доступные инструменты, прежде чем просить занятой человек
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by jalanb 12y ago
Except for the civilized ones with search engines https://duckduckgo.com/?q=77+kg+in+pounds :-)
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by jalanb 12y ago
I notice j.py in that list. I forked that a wee while back, and have been enhancing it ever since: http://www.al-got-rhythm.net/kd/
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by jalanb 12y ago
+1 for Xenix: the first Unix variant I met, where I learnt C and sh, and capable of handling 8 student terminals linked to a single 386!
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by jalanb 12y ago
> there are simply many other market forces (... a good football team ...) Not being an American, may I just take a slight space to admit that Mind == Blown
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by jalanb 12y ago
They get that all the time: http://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-to-from-zero-to-the-8th-bigg... But then - they would say that, wouldn't you^H^H^H they?
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by jalanb 12y ago
> I think driverless cars is still very much ... in the distant future, I cannot see it working in a city like London with the complex layout of its streets. Best of luck with that, mate.

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