jpcooper

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   by jpcooper 5y ago

   Rights are an arbitrary human construct.
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   by jpcooper 5y ago

   Any more travel tales similar to this?
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   Smart Pipe [video](youtube.com)

   2 points by jpcooper 5y ago|0 comments
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   by jpcooper 5y ago

   If anyone in Istanbul wants to hang out, details on profile.
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   by jpcooper 5y ago

   Uniqueness types are a way to get around monads.
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   by jpcooper 5y ago

   Pure maths BSc., CS MSc. with work experience in banking, high-performance data analytics, smart energy and recently cryptocurrency. Location: Istanbul, UTC+3, UK citizen, NL residence permit Remote: Preferred. Will possibly relocate for ri
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   by jpcooper 5y ago

   Great film. Thanks. Here's my contribution: Thumbs Up. A series about a guy hitchhiking across America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO3-AAVTeDA
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   by jpcooper 5y ago

   Any more interesting films along this theme?
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   The King’s Letters(damninteresting.com)

   1 points by jpcooper 5y ago|0 comments
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    Okay. I will concede.
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    Yes, but he doesn’t just like, he _would_ like. The word would is a past-tense form of the verb to will. Checkmate.
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    Pure maths BSc., CS MSc. with work experience in banking, high-performance data analytics, smart energy and recently cryptocurrency. Location: Istanbul, UTC+3, UK citizen, NL residence permit Remote: Preferred. Will possibly relocate for ri
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    In the UK there is no such thing as a small claims court. A small claim is lodged in a county court. Easily done online.
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    Maybe not the best place to ask, but how to people organise their Pandas research? Are there any useful methods?
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    Artist's Shit(en.wikipedia.org)

    19 points by jpcooper 5y ago|4 comments
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    Thanks.
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    Is it beej or bj?
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    I'm in Istanbul, currently working on a couple of projects in crypto. Let me know if you're also in Istanbul (or not) and want to work on something fun together in crypto, betting or similar. Address in profile.
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    Law and application seem to differ/lag somewhat. Each influences the other. It’s worth being aware that neither fully determines the other, and that each evolves in parallel. We live in an organic world where things are not as well def
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    You are right. Such demands are written in a contract. You either sign or not.
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    Also worth following on Soundcloud for old school jungle, with lots of mixes from back in the day: https://soundcloud.com/ethereal94 . The ones from "KOOL - 94.5FM" (straight out of Clapton) are well worth listenin
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    Yartsa Gunbu(en.wikipedia.org)

    1 points by jpcooper 5y ago|0 comments
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    The Sir John Soane's museum, my favourite museum in London, houses the Sarcophagus of King Seti I. The guy who took it from Egypt, Giovanni Belzoni, engraved his signature on it.
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    I learnt a good bit of C++ by going through Elements of Programming Interviews, trawling through cppreference.com and getting help from #C++ on FreeNode for the difficult parts. Coming from mainly functional languages, I actually found it q
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    Was it the Kings Cross and the River Fleet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Fleet
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    Nice link. Will Self wrote a book called Psychogeography. Haven't read it yet, although it sounds interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography_(book) .
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    The article’s a bit of a troll piece, so I’m going to ignore it. One of my favourite pastimes in London was picking somewhere on the map I’d never been and just walking there. Sometimes just the centre of a borough I hadn’t been to before.
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    What's the simplest plugin I can use on Firefox that prevents me from seeing posts from chosen domains such as this on HN? It is clear that the risk of my losing out on a good post from domains such as this is minimal. I got excellent
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    Location: Istanbul, UTC+3, UK citizen, NL residence permit Remote: Preferred. Will possibly relocate for right job. Education: Pure Maths BSc., CS MSc. Technologies: Scala, Haskell, C/C++, Python, Pandas, Linux, SQL, J, more CV: https
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    by jpcooper 5y ago

    Quite refreshing to read. My first job out of university was at a start-up bank whose first version was, would you believe, built on PHP+MySQL. This disgusted my functional purist build beautiful abstractions wanker self at the time, and I