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For clojure, I'd actually recommend using light table. From my experience with the latest dev versions, the learning curve isn't hard at all and immediately having your code evalua…

True -- any visualization that doesn't get the message across is just about useless. Luckily we have very tight feedback loops -- and I can push new versions every couple of hours …

I disagree with this post: there's another use case for visualizations -- consuming data as fast as possible to take action (eg firefighting). I work on tools for engineers, and I'…

I just tried the Beethoven intro lesson for guitar -- first off, these are awesome for me as an almost-n00b guitar player! Two suggestions: - When you're holding really long notes …

My attempt at hammering the xkcd servers -- also colours missing tiles correctly (black/white depending on south/north): http://explog.in/xkcd.html [edit: basically lays everything…

For those who don't tweak their toolchains spending one chunk of time and forgetting about them is obviously better than doing nothing else, but personally I recommend continuously…

I think that you _can_ join ml-class and db-class right now (the currently on going set of courses). It's only ai-class that has closed enrollment.

I think you're referring to Knuth -- in the introduction to TAOCP he compares the series to a cookbook, comparing recipes and algorithms.

You might want to edit the title and prefix an "Ask HN:" so that more people can respond to your question.

Hmm. 1) Fake name, yes -- I wasn't aware of that practice; not that common in India, at least in my friend circle. 2) That was what I meant -- syncing actual details with your anon…

I am supposed to _start_ work at FB assuming I get a visa. I'm a bit curious about why a search for name won't show the alternate persona? I've had friends who made 2 profiles and …

I'm not sure that's such a huge sin -- technically I think FB says that you cannot have more than 1 account/actual person; I'd imagine when this `feature` was baked in the engineer…

I'm not particularly sure about this, but why would revealing the people who have stored YOUR phone number to YOU be such a big deal? I'm assuming phone number verification checks …

I'm an amateurish PHP dev; so I can't suggest specific projects to get into. BUT I've found the best way to go about getting into any open source project probably would be: - Choos…

noprocrast is time based. this extension only lets you submit links, and view the discussions of "Show hn" links that you created. visiting any other discussion on hacker news redi…