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I've been investing in taking notes to enable better understanding of the material. I tend to follow Andy Matuchak's philosophy on note taking ( https://notes.andymatuschak.org ). …

If it helps, currently if you buy the Nexus 5X from Project Fi, it is about $150 cheaper than retail (Google Store) value. https://fi.google.com/about/phones/ - 16GB $199 / 32GB $2…

Things seems a little buggy. It just told me that alt+b was wrong for backward word in emacs, but that's what it just told me was how to do it in the learning portion of it.

Would following their advice of changing your password actually help in this situation? While it's a good practice in general, if I'm understanding this right, the attacker never h…

I think the Haskell example should've used this type signature instead. Compared to the OP's example, this has a much stronger implication. There's very few implementations of this…

I don't have a lot of trust in Dropbox caring about the casual users. [Votebox] is filled with suggestions around 3 years old that have generally gone unaddressed. And this is prob…

Honestly, I don't think danidiaz was trying to be clever so much as not knowing about the existence of filterM. A good chunk of the code was just an implementation of it: filterM' …

and since Haskell has non-strict evaluation, we don't have to worry about generating too much data (list of inexistant files) for nothing. Be careful here. Because you're in the IO…

Yeah, I'll likely end up using S3. Or maybe even bitbucket. But there's a very real and somewhat irrational negative emotional response when going from free to not-free. Or alterna…

Good for them on cutting bloat and focusing on what's important to them. Bad for me as now I have to find another service to store my project binaries and (likely) add to my monthl…

From their compiled heist docs [1]: There are two things that compiled Heist loses: the ability to bind new splices on the fly at runtime and splice recursion/composability. I have…

Similar concept but a little simpler and avoids manually written recursion. notes = cycle ["c", "c#", "d", "d#", "e", "f", "f#", "g", "g#", "a", "a#", "b"] majorSteps = [2, 2, 1, 2…

I personally don't suggest the truly ergonomic. While it's well designed from the outset, the underpinnings are a bit lacking. The existing firmware is buggy and has issues with Ma…

While I prefer the module solution, it's not always possible when you have mutually recursive record definitions. Well, technically it is possible - but it's very unpleasant [1]. […

I think it's referring to the sudoku TDD blog series that happened a few years back. Essentially, someone tried to implement a sudoku solver using TDD - and after several posts, ne…

Sigh - easier said than done. Hard decisions are difficult things to do with a stress-shot mind. Particularly when it's so easily framed as "admitting defeat"

I'd like to second SICP and specifically the accompanying book - available online at http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

I'm starting to reach this point too. And I can't seem to convince myself to buy fancy (expensive) keyboards - even though I /know/ I should.

Jakob Nielson argues that, specifically in usability testing, 5 people gives you a majority of your flaws but not the entire picture - where ~15 people would give you that. That is…

I fully agree. For instance, PHP implements it's own round function. Now there very well may be a good reason they don't just use/implement the C99 round - but one can at least exp…

I used vim for about 5 years. I decided to give emacs a roll about a year ago. The first few weeks were hard, the next few were interesting, and the rest was just fun. I suppose it…