alter8 | 12 years ago | on: Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes Course
There's a python script to download them. https://github.com/dgorissen/coursera-dl
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alter8 | 13 years ago | on: Books from the Soviet era
I'm quite late for this, but anyway. To whoever has put the original title back, thank you.
alter8 | 13 years ago | on: Books from the Soviet era
This is the first time I see moderation adding to the title instead of subtracting or replacing it. But in the way it is titled now, they made it look like I meant to submit the latest post and haven't put the permalink by mistake.
alter8 | 13 years ago | on: Is getting rich worth it?
I'm surprised there isn't any answer to this, after seeing the heavy (and undeserved) criticism to Dustin Curtis for his post, The Best: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4755470
alter8 | 13 years ago | on: C# is the past, the present and the future
Redirects to this: http://blog.filipekberg.se/2013/01/11/c-is-the-past-the-pres...
Discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5042055
alter8 | 13 years ago | on: IF-less programming
A nice blog series on if-less programming (in Portuguese): http://alquerubim.blogspot.com/search/label/ifless
alter8 | 13 years ago | on: The Word "Hacker" (2004)
I am surprised by the community reaction on the philosophy essay. It's not undeserved, I just couldn't expect him getting that much critic around here.
alter8 | 13 years ago | on: Let's make GitHub better, together
That is a problem only because Github uses the root domain for its own pages. They could rather use www.github.com.
To solve your case on NoScript, whitelist the full address https://github.com/ and that will keep http subdomains out.
alter8 | 13 years ago | on: Black Ops 2: $1 Billion in 15 Days, 150 Million Hours of Online Play
How did you get your site unbanned from HN?
alter8 | 13 years ago | on: Why math is painful to read
Math notation should be terse because you have to do symbolic manipulation on the expressions. It's easy to argue for longer variable names when you are just using the ready-made results. I think it's acceptable to use long names for programming.
alter8 | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Responsive Email Templates
I noticed today that my submitted stories page shows upvote arrows for my older submissions (as if I hadn't upvoted/submitted them). Only the 20 first ones have the red asterisk. And my saved stories page does not show old stories.
So it's not just me. Just to make sure, you know that link only works for yourself, each user can only see his own saved stories page.
alter8 | 13 years ago | on: Advice to a Young Mathematician [pdf]
Why? They're not that large, just click the original title instead. I would understand if you asked for a Google Cache replacement, though (I use a bookmarklet for that).
alter8 | 13 years ago | on: A Hacker News vote button
My answer to GP looks silly now. I see what he meant. The submission title should change to vote-counter button to avoid the confusion.
alter8 | 13 years ago | on: A Hacker News vote button
They use the search API. https://github.com/igrigorik/hackernews-button/blob/master/h...
alter8 | 13 years ago | on: Compass and straightedge geometry meets HTML5
Really good post, can't believe I'm the first one upvoting that submission after all this time. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4316831
alter8 | 13 years ago | on: The entire win32 API in JavaScript
Why did you copy the [dead] post from sarvesh (hellbanned 3 years ago) without attribution? Are you him?
alter8 | 13 years ago | on: The entire win32 API in JavaScript
sarvesh, you were hellbanned more than 3 years ago. His post:
Windows script host (cscript) allows you to execute js files in addition to vbscript (vbs). This is particularly useful in extending the functionality of batch files. This can be useful in a lot of circumstances build process, installation etc.
alter8 | 13 years ago | on: DLL injection tool to unlock guest VMs
I think it's this: "Evil, or why Douglas Crockford is harmful to Free Software". http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4762035
alter8 | 13 years ago | on: Is JavaScript the Future of Programming?
No, it can't be the future because it's already the present. The future comes when something else replaces it.
alter8 | 13 years ago | on: Mastering Linear Algebra in 10 Days: Astounding Experiments in Ultra-Learning
> he completed all 33 courses (...) in less than one year.
> That works out to around 1 course every 1.5 weeks
WTF? What kind of university imposes that you take only one course at any given time? It's not just linkbait, it starts from a wrong assumption. When you take many related courses simultaneously, you see the pieces meshing together and that helps learning. That's different from taking them in a serial manner.
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