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by tierack 14y ago
I've been through Clojure Programming, The Joy of Clojure, and Programming Clojure, and this is the one I'm recommending. The review hits on many of the reasons, but I also particularly liked how this book dealt with Java interop (not until
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by tierack 16y ago
I don't have a handle on the Python implementation landscape, but the various Rubies all regularly contribute to rubyspec[0] and report on how they're doing. And with rvm[1] it's incredibly easy to test code across rubies. From where I'm
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by tierack 16y ago
Not only does Safari work, it uses this user agent: "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B334b Safari/531.21.10"
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Outside.in's hyperlocal news API refreshed(blog.outside.in)
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by tierack 16y ago
Ruby dev - New York, NY Hyperlocal news. Check out the description here: http://outside.in/jobs/ruby_software_engineer Email me if you'd like to chat about it (or apply): chris@outside.in
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by tierack 16y ago
I'm guessing it's internal, but made one of their marketing teams. ( http://www.notesondesign.net/inspiration/advertising/google-... )
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by tierack 16y ago
Whatever comes of this paper specifically, it's been a very entertaining couple of days to watch this unfold.
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by tierack 16y ago
I only looked at the colors/fonts/seo section, and the quality there is abysmal. Web safe colors shouldn't really be a concern anymore. This was the real winner though: http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/?highlight_columns=true CSS c
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by tierack 17y ago
See also this story of a biologist thinking that even fruit flies have free will: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1532077920070516
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by tierack 17y ago
I was thinking about legal monopolies or companies barely profitable by virtue of tax credits/breaks or companies that don't have to follow certain costly regulations for some (legal) reason. Would those factors actually make them "not real
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by tierack 17y ago
Perhaps FexEx and UPS could "destroy" the USPS if they didn't have to worry about guaranteeing relatively quick delivery for envelopes from Kirby, WY to Boone, TN for the same inexpensive price as deliveries within a few blocks. The USPS m
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by tierack 17y ago
This isn't copy protection, or even watermarking to identify who's "leaking the source". Hand-copying text is error-prone, and copies are often made from copies, so there's the chance to reconstruct a "family tree" even after knowledge of w
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by tierack 17y ago
Did you mean that you personally didn't like it? Or that it was objectively bad or unworthy of acclaim? Yes, there are people who think that Catcher in the Rye was "a load of rubbish", but that doesn't make it so. Having a sympathetic prota
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by tierack 17y ago
Typically, this sort of pattern means that "low income" includes low income students across all races, that's the only selection criterion for that group. The "white" group will include all white students (including low-income), and the "bl
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by tierack 17y ago
Why would courting a woman need to be couched in terms like "creating attraction", and why would it need to be as efficient as possible?
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by tierack 17y ago
But the fact that "many psychological studies suggest" that intelligence (not IQ specifically) is changeable makes this a different scenario than outright lying to students as in your gym class example. Whether or not the students are actua
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by tierack 17y ago
In that case, /([^@]+)@(.+$)/.match("foo@example.com")[0] returns the whole string matched by the expression, and [1] and [2] return the first and second groups. That's why the throwaway is there. To get rid of the throwaway, this is a po
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by tierack 17y ago
It seems like it would only work for subjects where students have the capacity to figure out errors on their own. It would be disastrous in a foreign language class if you were told the word for "mother" was "banana". As I've mentioned in
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by tierack 17y ago
The stripe is perpendicular to the direction of the magnetic field of the galaxy and not in line with the ecliptic plane. The interview I heard here ( http://ww.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyI... ) suggests that the hydr
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by tierack 17y ago
They're mostly gimmicky because they were all made for a middleware contest. Even their gimmickiness doesn't really go against the goals of the contest, the primary one being "to encourage Ruby developers to explore the possibilities". In
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by tierack 17y ago
In a slight twist, and one that may only work for small classes of highly motivated students, I took a set theory class where the professor would sneak an impossible question into the homework. He warned us during the very first class that
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by tierack 17y ago
There are a couple of reasons I'm not a huge fan of plans like this. I have a friend running for state legislature under a similar goal (though only district residents would vote on his votes, not all state residents), and these are the tw
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by tierack 17y ago
I used to work for a online golf tee time company, and you're absolutely correct in saying that building a better online reservation system wouldn't be that hard (the bar is pretty low). I'm not sure about what smaller providers give the c
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by tierack 17y ago
From your first post (and my real contention): > Placebos aren't working better because people have more faith in medicine, they're working better because of the Hawthorne effect; people feel like they have someone who cares about them.
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by tierack 17y ago
To be blunt: citations needed. The article not only talks about conditions that are clearly mental (depression) and ones that are arguably mentally related (IBS), but also ones that you'd have a hard time attributing to "lifestyle 'choices'
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by tierack 17y ago
The shortest path would be my maternal grandmother, who came to the United States from Australia after WWII. The longest path (on my maternal grandfather's side) goes back to before the Revolution.
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by tierack 17y ago
Topologically speaking, the Earth is a 2-sphere. It's irregularities don't change that. On the other hand, a hairy coffee mug must be combable (since it's a doughnut).
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by tierack 17y ago
As someone who received an MFA in creative writing I get nervous when this question comes up. I'm pleased, though, that the article matches my experience. I think zimbabwe has a point that "the classroom rarely adds more than what students
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by tierack 17y ago
The brief description of this little Arduino project why did was enough to get me started: http://twitter.com/_why/status/1065757843 I'd love to see it in person. Someone made and documented a similar idea here: http://www.urbanhonking.
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by tierack 17y ago
"It's not about discussion" is accurate, but not because Twitter is a narcissist platform. I think it's more akin to sending UDP packets (with no guarantee of delivery to the recipients) than email (with its excessive guarantees). It's ev

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