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Re:For mathematicians, = does not mean equality
on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:02PM (#16833888)
Thanks, fixed.
For mathematicians, = does not mean equality
My graduate career in math
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Re:Ask HN: What are the most beautifully written tutorials for beginners?
on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @02:41PM (#8763883)
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good is a fantastic introduction to Haskell in particular and functional programming in general. Definitely a great place to start:
Re:Ask HN: How did you find a job in another country?
on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @09:40AM (#8757301)
That looks interesting, I'll check it out. Maybe someone needs to write one of these for software engineers...
Ask HN: How did you find a job in another country?
In an effort to keep this fairly general so that it will help others in similar situations, here's an outline.I'm currently looking for a job outside of the country I'm living in. I've done this before (almost 10 years ago) and found that the lack of contacts and not having permanent residency status hindered my job search. To top it all off, I've just finished a long stint at university, so I...
Re:Logo Interpreter
on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @07:09AM (#8360805)
I've wanted to see a JS version of Logo for ages. Well done to the programmer who finally got around to doing it!
Now it just needs to be forked and adapted to match NetLogo[1] and I can run all those social sciences simulations without Java!
Computer Pioneers – Harvey Cohn, 1923-2014 (1995)
Re:Drawbridge
on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @12:52PM (#8258695)
"a version of Windows enlightened to run efficiently" is just begging to be quoted out of context.
Re:Mapcode – A short address for any location on Earth
on Friday July 18, 2014 @12:12PM (#8053799)
I'm curious about what happens when a geographical location changes country. If Catalunya gains independence from Spain, will the MapCode associated with my house here in Barcelona change? Will the old "Spanish" MapCode still be valid?
Speaking of current events, do Isreal and Palestine have separate MapCodes and what happens when borders shift?
Make your own hyperbolic blanket (2013)
Re:Watch a Ph.D. thesis dissertation being written in (somewhat) realtime
on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @01:37PM (#7841603)
Partly it's what I'm used to, but I've yet to find anything "easier" for the large amount of mathematics I typeset. There is a lot of notation and very little graphics or difficult formatting.
Re:Watch a Ph.D. thesis dissertation being written in (somewhat) realtime
on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @12:16PM (#7841064)
The code is horrible, but it's here: https://github.com/hds/repo-flatplan-animation
You'll find the JS bits in the repository for the website which is there too.
Re:Watch a Ph.D. thesis dissertation being written in (somewhat) realtime
on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @12:00PM (#7840957)
At the moment I'm a little hesitant to make it public. Partly because there's a large chunk of unpublished research in there, but also because some of the early drafts are a little embarrassing.
Perhaps when the thesis is deposited (and hence public) I could add that in for "historical" interest.
Watch a Ph.D. thesis dissertation being written in (somewhat) realtime
Re:Programming is a Terrible Job
on Monday September 30, 2013 @07:08AM (#6468849)
My (unsolicited) advice would be, go and find one of those jobs that you idealise from a few decades ago. They still exist, just where they always were, in academia. Of course, it's not all playing, but if you want your job to revolve around programming things that nobody has programmed before, that's the place to be.
Have a look at getting into a PhD programme in Computer Science, Computational Engineering or something even more abstract like Computation Number Theory.
Open source iOS audio framework
Re:Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
on Friday September 14, 2012 @09:30AM (#4521507)
Of course if we did add 6 months (mod 12) then we could have hot July (almost) everywhere.
And an australian christmas in June, but it would be worth it!
Re:Google's "Bacon number" search
on Thursday September 13, 2012 @11:28AM (#4516633)
It doesn't appear to work if you are using google (even .com) in another language, confirmed with Spanish (Castilian).