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Ask HN: Would learning category theory be useful in my programming career?
3 points by polyphonicist 7y ago|3 comments
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GNU Guix: Defining Packages(guix.gnu.org)
4 points by polyphonicist 7y ago|0 comments
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Product of Negatives (2010)(susam.in)
94 points by polyphonicist 7y ago|76 comments
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
From the article: > We will be dealing with arbitrary precision integers (bignums) in the problem, so let us also make a few assumptions: > Addition or subtraction of an m-bit integer and an n-bit integer (m <= n) takes O(n) time.
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
Here is the fun bit hidden away in the comments page of this post: > Randal L. Schwartz said: > 27 Apr 2008 02:30 AM GMT (#1 of 1 comment) > Glad you enjoyed that bit. That was Tom's humor on that one. I could never have been
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Ask HN: What are good distance learning Bachelor's/Master's degrees one can do?
161 points by polyphonicist 7y ago|66 comments
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
Like other sibling comments, I would also like to know how you have used Anki to transform your career. I like Anki but I have never been able to figure out how to capture complex and often long business related information in tiny cards.
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
Which university, if you don't mind me asking? Can you share the names of the textbooks?
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
Shared a similar thought here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22401420 Yes, it is really important to learn math with study-mates. Just like in code, we do reviews, in math too, we need someone else who can review our
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
The book looks lovely. Did you write it using latex? What is your tooling to author a book like this?
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
I am going to suggest something that might go against this idea of self-studying math. Do not do it alone. I mean, it is okay to self-learn mathematics as much as possible but don't let that be the only way to learn. Find a self-study
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
Can you provide detailed steps to reproduce? What strings did you search? Two examples of repos that appeared in the results? What is the link to your repo that did not appear in the results? Details like this would help the OP to track dow
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Ask HN: Do you use any web frameworks to develop web apps/microservices in Go?
1 points by polyphonicist 7y ago|1 comments
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
Why does Go need web framework? What's wrong with net/http?
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
> Even if you do hand your pod over to some company, it'll be like letting them host your domain name or manage your cell phone number. If you don't like what they're doing, you can always move your pod -- just like you ca
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
Google has a reputation of shutting their services down. What if they shut their fonts CDN down or change their URLs without redirects?
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
> For example, most people don't consider that the W and the M in your font must look distinctly different, and not just vertical mirrors of each other. Why isn't relying on default fonts provided by the user's system good
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
I have a regular five-day workweek but to be honest, I work productively only 4 days a week. I find it hard to work productively all 5 days. On the day's I am not working productively, I just pretend to look busy to my manager. It woul
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
Actual quote from the article for context: > Modeless: Computer scientists when writing code typically worked in different modes; you might have an insert mode, a delete mode, or a replace mode. You would first select the mode, then sele
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
VSCode has a plug-in for Vim keybindings. Does not emulate Vim entirely but good enough to feel at home. Gives you best of both worlds: IDE-like features of VSCode and ergonomic manipulation of code of Vim.
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
Does this require the user to make any changes? I run a simple static website served with Nginx. I would like to know if this change has any impact on me.
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
> If you share a development branch with someone, then you should prefer merging over rebasing Your parent comment is suggesting rebase only for pulling latest changes in master into your pull request. For merging someone's pull req
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
Yes. And now this whole code-of-conduct business would probably have these perfectly reasonable greybeards banned from their own projects. Gone are the good old days of open source.
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
Can you elaborate this more? I know about continental drifts and I know they occur at a scale much larger than a tiny box. Does it have any effect on the small scale a tiny box would be buried in if we are not burying the box near fault lin
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
Came here to say the same thing. Certainly haven't seen such depiction of infinity earlier. But this is a nice way. I am going to use it myself.
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
That's interesting indeed. Any idea why Physics constants obey Benford's Law? Did the universe pick the physical constants from an exponential distribution?
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
I am a Linux user. What would be a good reason for me to try out NetBSD? Honest question.
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Ask HN: Which Vim plugins do you use?
2 points by polyphonicist 7y ago|2 comments
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
Copyright statements themselves are not required by Berne convention. Copyright exists by default whether or not you put a copyright statement.
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by polyphonicist 7y ago
Why is VLA useless? Why was it added to C99?

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