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I want to reach Satori, but the Iversonian enlightenment may be too powerful to bear for a mere ALGOL-like accustomed mortal.

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I have a fear that the problem with these APL family languages is that they ruin coding in any other language for you.

How is this not double jeopardy?

Two .gr / Greek links on HN in a day, nice.

Thanks, I was confused when tmux didn't act as gnu screen did when I first tried to use it for pair programming.

Why Saudi Arabia?

Where did you learn to type like that?

I missed that one, do you mind sharing a link?

There have been KA video apps for iPhone for quite a long while now, I was expecting that the official one would have the exercise dashboard and practice problems. Hopefully this will ship in future versions. Thanks KA team.

Side trades at the family food cart I ran during summers, like selling drugs.

libGDX[1][2] (it's not an engine) is a great cross-platform Java library that allows you target the desktop (Win/Mac/Linux/etc), Android, HTML5 (through GWT), and now iOS all with the same codebase, built on standards like OpenGL ES/WebGL.

Mario Zechner (the main guy behind libGDX) wrote an excellent book[3] last year on Android gamedev that has you start from the basics up to creating your own game engine and games.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/libgdx/

[2] https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx

[3] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430230428/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

10gen is conducting free MongoDB classes on edX (MOOC platform by Harvard+MIT+Berkeley) currently.

https://education.10gen.com/courses

M101: MongoDB for Developers

M102: MongoDB for DBAs

I am actually from Ethiopia, and from what my parents who were raised there tell me, the education was in Amharic so they learned to read/speak it early on, alongside their morhertongue Somali. Of course ethnic groups tend to use their language first and Amharic for more official matters. So I don't really see what the problem with using Amharic and English is. You're reaching more kids and like another poster said, there's more resources and apps available in Amharic than Afaan Oromo.

Actually most Oromo people can speak, and many can read/write in Amharic as it's the dominant national language.

Are these COCOM limitations based in the hardware or software of the GPS devices by the manufacturers? If it's in the software, are there not free and opensource firmwares out there that can go around such limitations?

By realizing the payout matrix for me isn't positive and not wasting my time?

Where'd you go to school?

Are the wiring rates low, relative to other countries around Germany or otherwise? How are wire rates for wiring money from say the UK? Who are the primary wire transfer companies in use in Germany?

Thank you for your time.

I am curious what the alternative but far more popular payment variants in Germany to credit cards are.

buro9 answered this question very well, and I just link to his comment whenever it comes up again: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2249789

Well, there's people like dons and ibdknox who are famous from their open source contributions who make good comments and are worth following, or those who show up and make worthwhile contributions in their domain space like cynicalkane in finance threads, grellas in law threads, tptacek and daeken in security threads, or garbowza in patents ones. These days some these users don't comment as much however. Mostly it's a matter of lots of lurking until you come to hate the site.

There was/is a chrome extension for following hn users I used a few years ago that was useful, but I haven't bothered to reinstall it after a few OS moves since, mainly because it didn't sync the friends list across computers.

Besides people associated with YC like pg, rtm, jl, paul etc, a good litmus test is often simply age of account and the person's background from their profile. People I know who have good backgrounds and make consistently good comments from their experience for years now are usually all I read anymore, since there are so many comments on HN now.

Hi, do you have an email I could reach you with? Your profile is empty.

I'd be interested in seeing which keys I press most when I'm programming in APL.

Actually, what you say about the price for kdb+ is true, but Q (the new language to query kdb+, essentially the latest version of K which is now deprecated) is very much like SQL, syntaxwise.

The way I see it, this is very much targeted at financial firms that use kdb+ or products like it that perform really well for things like writing lots of tick data from dozens of exchanges at a time and querying across them quickly in a familiar SQL style.

We in #Udacity on irc.freenode.net definitely are :) !

You can join via webchat if you don't have an IRC client yet: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=udacity

I noticed awhile back that user rougefeta used Arc or something strongly resembling it for their webapp they were applying to YC with, have any others also used Arc-based webapps to apply to YC?

rougefeta seems to have taken the site down though.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rougefeta

Hawala has been operating primarily for remittances to family back home for decades in the West.