The DHH Problem
http://codon.com/the-dhh-problem
Slides and audio from a lightning talk by Tom Stuart at Scottish Ruby Conference 2014.
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Re:Phonetic change in an Antarctic winter (2019)
on Sunday August 20, 2023 @01:43PM (#37201313)
I spent 2 winters in Antarctica with people with strong accents, e.g. Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, Scouse, Geordie, Cumbrian, and Devonian. On my return to the UK a lot of people said I'd developed a Brummie accent, although none of my fellow winterers were from Birmingham. My theory was that I'd developed an accent averaged across all the strong ones! It's interesting to see a scientific study showing how accents changed over an Antarctic winter!
Re:Orca Rams into Yacht Near Scotland, Suggesting the Behavior May Be ...
on Saturday July 01, 2023 @04:36PM (#36554905)
> In June 1972, the 43-foor schooner Lucette was attacked by killer whales and sank in 60 seconds. What happened next is almost incredible...
Re:WeWork has frittered away $46.7B in value as the stock sinks below ¢50
on Saturday May 20, 2023 @09:08AM (#36011640)
> the Venture Predator constructs a pile of shit so large and impressive that investors are convinced that there must be a pony under there somewhere
https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/19/fake-it-till-you-make-it/
Re:Better World Books
on Friday March 31, 2023 @03:11AM (#35383704)
I use https://www.ethicalbooksearch.com/ to find books sold by responsible booksellers including BWB.
Re:Differentiable programming from scratch
on Sunday July 31, 2022 @11:48PM (#32301827)
You may also enjoy https://tomstu.art/automatic-differentiation-in-ruby and the accompanying video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI7mtWB4WiA.
Re:Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]
on Saturday June 25, 2022 @01:42PM (#31877156)
I first heard this as a radio play on BBC Radio4 back in 1991!
* Metadata: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/05b414af4bfa4923b9c9c3bc2257d5ef * Audio: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=602882533671599
Re:The fragmented nature of modern-day railways
on Saturday June 25, 2022 @01:28PM (#31877030)
Jon Worth's [1] CrossBorderRail project [2] aims to highlight missing cross-border rail links in Europe. He's recently embarked on a huge rail and bike journey that crosses every internal border inside the European Union (and EFTA countries) that you can cross by train. En route he's stopping off to organise a meeting in the political capital of each country to discuss the missing rail links with local activists.
[1]: https://twitter.com/jonworth [2]: https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/
Re:Resources to encourage children to learn to code
on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @10:50AM (#30274072)
The Raspberry Pi Foundation's Code Club World [1] is designed for young people aged 9-13. It provides a fun and more gradual introduction to block-based programming leading on to projects using Scratch and Python.
Re:Ask HN: Examples of tech worker cooperatives?
on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @11:57AM (#7634799)
Go Free Range - http://gofreerange.com
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Re:Programming With Nothing: FizzBuzz in the lambda calculus in Ruby
on Monday December 12, 2011 @07:18AM (#3343310)
I agree. This is presentation was brilliant and I'd really encourage people to watch it.