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Has anyone tried this with a Python backend and a Ruby user interface?

I'm not sure which of these factors contributed most to getting out of my bad spot, but in no particular order: 1. Running. (Strength training is good for many other goals, but fra…

I learned sporadically: I fooled around in Scheme and Java when I was a kid, and used MATLAB as a student doing research, and learned the modicum of Unix that everybody in a math d…

Test and iterate is obvious. What's not obvious here is just how early and where: test the idea before you have a project, test on a high-traffic site instead of picking a group of…

Seconded.

Networking can mean two different things and the author's conflating them. 1. You have a connection with a successful professional and so you're closer to promising job opportuniti…

How does one get non-bullshit advice? I understand that nobody wants to be "brutally" honest. And, being only human, on some level I'd prefer to hear that I'm awesome. But it's mor…

Chicago.

Also note that high schoolers who apply to college are applying to more colleges. Ever since the Common App made it convenient there's an arms race to apply to more schools every y…

I think this is more a matter of transferability. If you're good at one quantitative or technical skill, it's not so hard to learn another, and you can do it pretty quickly. Teachi…

To summarize a few of the articles you linked: Students do better at math in East Asia than in the US because East Asian math teachers know math and American math teachers don't. M…

Learning Python, Django, and JavaScript for a project; goal is to have a prototype by the beginning of July. Stuff to learn: numerical linear algebra, dictionary learning, Judea Pe…

I weighed the advice/secrecy tradeoff myself, and I figured I needed the advice more than I could benefit from secrecy. Never sharing your ideas just seems idiotic if you're a novi…

Learning on your own != learning as a college CS student, it seems. I'd be curious to compare and contrast "Hacker's Paths" for students versus people trying to squeeze in a few ho…

Music with lyrics is distracting; classical instrumental music is usually ok, and techno (at low volume) actually helps me work. Also important: music that you change often (e.g. y…

How about: Python first (because it's intuitive and I want to build motivation by completing a project right away), and then C (to learn memory management and other subtleties.) Th…

Try an experiment: tell some people it's called "Sfalma" and tell other people it's called "The Bug Eater" and see which group is more likely to create an account within 2 weeks. I…

These questions are important, but I doubt it's best to define the laws before developing the technology, if the risk is on the order of killing a person per upload.

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