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morganwilde··on Where to begin when learning C? Start by making lots of errors
Nice suggestion. Although I can't seem where one would have to look for those "pretty colours" you mentioned, I certainly can't see any of them on my Mac terminal...
morganwilde··on Where to begin when learning C? Start by making lots of errors
Absolutely, but my way of going about this would be to first show _why_ something is a best practice, rather than forcing people to take it at face value.
morganwilde··on Where to begin when learning C? Start by making lots of errors
I guess this is sort of I'm thinking about this, that is forcing people first to think how something should work, rather then just duplicating some code and seeing that it works. Thanks for sharing!
morganwilde··on Where to begin when learning C? Start by making lots of errors
I am using the default `cc` compiler on Mac OS X for this without any flags, are you saying I should something non-stock in this case?
morganwilde··on Where to begin when learning C? Start by making lots of errors
By the way, I would love any feedback on this approach and where I should take this further.
morganwilde··on Show HN: Journal Your Life as Data with Thyself.io
I'm confused by this, because there doesn't seem to be a clear "do this, to achieve this" message anywhere on the page.
morganwilde··on "Instead of cures for cancer we got Angry Birds"
Well then you share the same feelings with the author of this article.
morganwilde··on Snowden to leave airport: LIVE
First people had to watch a door and how a driveway. Live media is certainly losing its touch.
morganwilde··on Starting up? Forget about Mark Zuckerberg and go listen to Gary Vaynerchuk
This is just one example where going out of your circle of heroes, you can find great insight. Issues often come up, when engineers only learn from engineers and then hit a wall of reality. I do realise, that Gary is not extraordinarily outside of the Valley culture, but he's a good start.
morganwilde··on Elon Musk's mission to Mars
Yes, absolutely, I'm not sure what other options are there, but yes, mentoring was what I meant.
morganwilde··on Elon Musk's mission to Mars
This is easy to overlook, but if he's correct and will be able to achieve his goals, those 80,000 plus people will have one man to thank. Although it is still so unbelievably hard to imagine that, with so many obstacles ahead.

As with any highly risky enterprise, I think he should be increasing his odds by raising one or more prodigies of his own, that would be able to carry on with his work, if he himself wasn't able to.

morganwilde··on Bolivian president's plane forced to divert over a rumor Snowden was on board
To follow your parallel, let's imagine it's not the plane of the Bolivian President, but say, Airforce One, flying over South America with Barack Obama on board towards Washington. Let's say Spain has suspicion that someone that broke Spanish law is on board.

Please, honestly, tell me you believe that The President's plane would be grounded?

morganwilde··on Bolivian president's plane forced to divert over a rumor Snowden was on board
At this point one has to ask the question: who's afraid of the big, bad USA? And the answer more and more seems to be "Everybody".

From Putin emphasising that Snowden stops hurting "Our friends the Americans", to the whole of Western Europe succumbing to their outrageous demands, not to mention the reversal of Ecuadorian President's change of stance after a talk with Biden.

Is this the States showing off it's true colours or is it the administration failing badly at handling this embarrassing situation? I honestly hope it's the latter.

morganwilde··on Do we have the money for a manned mission to Mars?
The reason I'm posting this is because after digging around for some time, I don't have a clue. Sure, it seems we have less money relative to the 1960s, but it's not orders-of-magnitude less. I would love someone else chipping their opinion. Thanks.
morganwilde··on The IIT Entrance Exam
This seemed like a key omission when comparing IIT to Harvard. As for self-selection, it seems that developed countries have more options for viable education, and a more independent youth at that age, thus it becomes possible for future students to spread more evenly across the system. Not something that's possible at this point in the developing world, where these kids carry a much bigger weight on their shoulders.
morganwilde··on Ask HN :How to become a low-end big data consultant?
I don't know if that's the right or wrong way of seeking out what to do - searching for "low hanging fruit" to pluck. By definition, they are easy to reach, thus by the time you become aware of such opportunities, usually, you're too late.
morganwilde··on Video on Instagram
Because it's BEAUTIFUL, duh, Captain Obvious!

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morganwilde··on European roaming charges will end in 2014
Yes, OK, if you travel to a country with Starbucks, you can walk 10 minutes (if you're in central London or other bigger cities) or 30-60 minutes to the nearest one. But we live in the smartphone age, I want to be able to use all my apps everywhere I go, the way I'm used to back home. What's the point of all those hyper local apps if you need an immobile wi-fi connection to access them.
morganwilde··on How About an iOS App Idea Contest?
Oh absolutely I will, you definitely got my gears turning! :)
morganwilde··on European roaming charges will end in 2014
As far as I'm concerned, this is bigger than the freedom of physical movement within the EU country borders. Now our data will move with us!
morganwilde··on How About an iOS App Idea Contest?
This looks brilliant :) As a lead generation tool this should work perfectly! Having a minimum barrier to entry weed out all the undecided, and acts as a forcing function to prepare the brief for your project as well as possible, since there's money involved. A+ guys!
morganwilde··on Poll: What Language would/do you use to build a web application
To be honest, I always felt the same way about both Ruby and Python, the level of intuitiveness seems the same to me.
morganwilde··on Poll: What Language would/do you use to build a web application
Have you ever seen PyCharm http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/? I do feel it is a much better solution than what Eclipse has to offer.
morganwilde··on Poll: What Language would/do you use to build a web application
Let's not forget Dropbox
morganwilde··on CSS3 Animations with special effects
What's displayed on the left side of your desktop?
morganwilde··on CSS3 Animations with special effects
Awesome stuff, the fluidness of those animations versus something made with jQuery is astonishing. I wonder what kind of compatibility would this have with older browsers?
morganwilde··on Jordanian citizen was denied re-entry to the US on eve of his PhD defense at JHU
OK, then explain the Tsarnajevs (the Boston bombers) getting past even with multiple terrorist flags? If the system is stonewalling and so tight, then why were they successful in going to terrorist camps and then coming back?
morganwilde··on Jordanian citizen was denied re-entry to the US on eve of his PhD defense at JHU
To extend this line of thinking - you are (possibly) not an immigrant only if you were born in Africa - our place of origin.
morganwilde··on Your First Hadoop App, Step-by-Step
Had an early look into this book and I can vouch that the book definitely shows everything you need from zero to an AWS working EMR.
morganwilde··on A founder-friendly term sheet
OK, what does this mean exactly - "All founders equityshall be subject to a repurchase right"? Sorry if this is supposed to be obvious, but this is the first term-sheet I've encountered.
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