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lightonphirion Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

I have been cycling to work, during my 4.6 km commute, every Friday, for the last three months now. (1) I save about USD 10.00 every Friday: a substantial amount in the part of the world I live in (2) I get off work two hours early on Fridays, so I use this time to explore the city (3) This is a form of exercise for me.

lightonphirion Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

I started this while in gradschool---left gradschool about six months ago, after seven years. It is so funny how this particular habit has stuck on me. I have found I actually enjoy cooking now [...]

lightonphirion Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?

In my previous life, MD of company I worked for gave a copy of Who Moved My Cheese to all 300+ employees. Great read.

lightonphirion Ask HN: Are SF and NY the best cities for programming jobs?

> I also believe that you should make the most of the city you live in.

Care to talk more about this. I know it might seem obvious, but I would really love to hear how you make the most of living in Detroit for instance.

lightonphirion Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises

It certainly does look like it was made by Microsoft Office, however, pdfinfo says Producer: PDF Annotator 5.0.0.511 [Debenu Quick PDF Library 11.15 (www.debenu.com)]

lightonphirion A System for Detecting Software Plagiarism

Yes, MOSS does that.

I have been TA'ing a first year Python Programming course since beginning of this year; what you describe is the most common trick used by students---even though they have been told time and again that this will be detected.

As an example, MOSS picked up 91% similarity---between two students---for one of the module files.

  # Student 1
  at1 = input("Attempt 1:\n")
  at2 = input("Attempt 2:\n")
  at3 = input("Attempt 3:\n")
  maxi.append(max(eval(at1),eval(at2),eval(at3)))

  # Student 2
  attempt1 = input("Attempt 1:\n")
  attempt2 = input("Attempt 2:\n")
  attempt3 = input("Attempt 3:\n")
  maximums.append(max(eval(attempt1),eval(attempt2),eval(attempt3)))

I find it interesting that MOSS does a one-on-one comparison for each student.

lightonphirion Whatsapp Web

I have been using whatsapp-purple---a WhatsApp protocol implementation of libpurple [1] for some time now and it works really well.

That being said, accessing it from within a browser window has it's advantage. I currently have to install whatsapp-purple on all machines I use & syncronising chatlogs via Dropbox has it's challenges...

[1] https://github.com/davidgfnet/whatsapp-purple