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Comment by richardburton | Hacker News Reader

The Y-combinator allows an anonymous function to call itself, that is, it allows anonymous function recursion.

I have just started out in my coding journey so I can appreciate but not fully understand what that means. With enough work, I hope that changes.

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The quickest way to get from point A to point B, in this case, is the SICP video lectures: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...

If you can spare two hours a day for two weeks (or the equivalent) you're golden.

I am heading off to Cape Town in the new year for 3 months with two objectives:

  Improve my coding
  Improve my kiting

I will definitely go through those and let you know how it goes. Thank you!

Maybe I didn't find the best conversions, but the only ones I found with decent image quality were the MPEG1's from archive.org . Note also that in VLC I found I had to force-set the proper aspect ratio when viewing them.

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