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by kaiwetzel 10y ago
They also have Mastering Dyalog APL by Bernard Legrand as a free PDF download. I've just starting reading it, seems to be a very gentle introduction to APL: http://www.dyalog.com/mastering-dyalog-apl.htm
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by kaiwetzel 13y ago
The inline threaded comments look like an awesome feature, would be amazing to have an inline widget like that in Code Mirror. Submitting tiny local patches this way might be useful, too :D
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Shipping Parallella to early Kickstarter backers(kickstarter.com)
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by kaiwetzel 13y ago
For those who haven't seen one of the "tire swing" cartoons mentioned in the article: http://www.projectcartoon.com/create/ and some historical versions: http://www.businessballs.com/treeswing.htm :)
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by kaiwetzel 14y ago
Not being a native speaker I had to google for it but it seems the correct usage is "hear, hear"[1]. (Just pointing it out in case other people are in a similar situation as me). [1] http://www.unbecominglevity.com/2008/11/10/hear-hear-or-
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by kaiwetzel 14y ago
I'm pretty much at the other end of the spectrum. For the time being I would probably discontinue my contribution if one of the developers I am tipping decides to do something I don't approve of (say, join Oracle). However, that's not my id
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by kaiwetzel 14y ago
I really love that idea. I think a lot of students which are bored by school (and/or feel left behind) would regain their natural curiosity in such an environment. I think the technical possibilities we have now make much more individual ap
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by kaiwetzel 14y ago
I'm dreaming of a curriculum where students start to program their own computer algebra system in 9th grade (or earlier), say, using Python or Clojure. Starting by teaching it to solve simple equations for x, then proceed over the next 4 ye
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by kaiwetzel 14y ago
I've taken an introduction to statistics course with social science students and based on that experience, I can relate to what you are saying, 100%. However, I think there is a broad group of students[1] for which a significantly earlier e
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by kaiwetzel 14y ago
I had totally forgotten about this :-( Searching a little I found this interesting document addressing some of the problems which I have put on my reading list: "The Science of Thinking, and Science for Thinking: A Description of Cognitive
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by kaiwetzel 14y ago
(largely agreement here, can't say much about Knuth, though) The essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/progbot.html ? I think a lot of everyday reuse (by factoring commonly used code) happens at a level of programming which neither fits applic
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by kaiwetzel 14y ago
I like your explanation of this feature. I guess it rarely works for me because I open dozens of tabs when I start and some of them inevitably become stale if I do something else in between and then go back to read some hacker news discussi
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by kaiwetzel 14y ago
I don't really know where they get their data and the overall picture might well be right but e.g. the rent index within Germany is quite dubious: In their list, Frankfurt and Cologne have a lower rent index than Berlin, whereas I think t
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by kaiwetzel 14y ago
Good point. Maybe that's the reason why it's not found by search, too. I think claiming the app's name was "Timer" when in fact it is called "Timer :"[1] is dubious. Ok, maybe the app stores search should prioritize highly rated apps but it
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Side projects can cure our woes(boagworld.com)
1 points by kaiwetzel 14y ago|0 comments
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by kaiwetzel 14y ago
Good luck to you! I find it very encouraging to hear from cases like yours, hoping to enter the app store later this year as well. Have you experimented with in-app purchases? (E.g. looking at the impromptu presenter and the fertility app)
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by kaiwetzel 14y ago
I love the artwork :) A way to sign up to get informed by e-mail when shipment outside the US becomes available would be awesome.
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by kaiwetzel 14y ago
I'm just reading the book Flow-Based Programming (2nd Edition) by Paul Morrison[1]. I would say the main idea is to shift focus from control-flow to how data ("information packets") flow through a network of (black box) components and only
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by kaiwetzel 14y ago
The instruction set page linked in the article mentions: To move a double quadword to or from memory locations that are known to be aligned on 16-byte boundaries, use the MOVDQA instruction - would it not be beneficial to use this instruc
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by kaiwetzel 15y ago
A mapping of a 3 dimensional space to a 2 dimensional space will bring some points (colors) too close together, this happens with the missing color cones. So now the driver tries to correct this by changing the mapping from 3d to 2d color
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by kaiwetzel 15y ago
I don't think it's as easy as you make it sound. The hypothetical driver would need to map everythink produced for "standard" trichromatic vision "down" to dichromatic vision in a meaningful way, maintaining contrast where it is relevant, b
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by kaiwetzel 15y ago
A nice addition to my slime/Emacs environment (which is really a rediscovery for me after almost 10 years in IDEs like Eclipse) was iimage[1]. It converts image file name in the REPL to inline images, makes it very easy to prototype functio
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by kaiwetzel 15y ago
A small free tool for OS X I found useful is Sim Daltonism[1] Sim Daltonism is a color blindness simulator for Mac OS X. It filters in real-time the area around the mouse pointer and displays the result ” as seen by a color blind person ”
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by kaiwetzel 15y ago
My road to lisp has not been without bumps but after initially being inspired by pg's essays and reading the highly motivating Practical Common Lisp [1], quicklisp has greatly lowered the barrier to write real programs for me, installing p
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by kaiwetzel 15y ago
Neat script, thanks for releasing it under an MIT license! Cool to see support for FF 3.6, though for me the demos rendered nicer (and faster) using Chrome (Safari, Opera on Mac seemed to work as well from a quick check). Why are the fonts
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by kaiwetzel 15y ago
The equivalent on the German Apple page seems to be "Sehvolutionär", literally "see-volutionary". (In case you thought it couldn't be worse.) Though I actually think it's a fun idea.
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by kaiwetzel 15y ago
From a quick glance it looks ok but there are a few features (missing, I think) which would make me (as a mac book air 11") envious: - 1080p screen - 1080p web cam, tilting - large choice of colors for the anodized aluminum lid (the carbon
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by kaiwetzel 15y ago
Very nice work! I wonder if it's possible to highlight the reddit mascot with css according to the :visited pseudo-class if you put an a-element around it (or some other way)? Showing "recent activity" for sub-reddits in a subtle way would
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by kaiwetzel 15y ago
For me it works on most URLs not containing a path components but sometimes it chokes. Seems to return the latest successful query then? I think it's a very useful idea. Maybe a bookmarklet is second best to a browser plugin (but this one c
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by kaiwetzel 15y ago
I would add that "cheap" usually extends to some parts of the former West, namely Kreuzberg (quite a few startup/tech meetups there), Neukölln, and Wedding (not my personal favourite but definitely cheap), all of those used to be "in the sh

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