BruceIV

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by BruceIV 13y ago
As I understand it (and I'm not a Go expert), but panic/recover is not idiomatic Go, and they much prefer the style of using a second return parameter for errors. defer is just a useful syntactic construct that becomes complicate
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I read the intro as "I like Rust, I'm going to twist my requirements to match", but that may be a bad read of the author.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
One tendency of the arrogantly self-taught that the poster didn't mention is that they don't know what they don't know (and aren't willing to learn, because they know it all already). Even though the majority of the cour
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by BruceIV 13y ago
The top paid public employee in most states is the football coach at one of the state schools. At most of the others it's the basketball coach.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Fair - I don't have a great grasp on what higher education costs Stateside, as I'm Canadian - the publicly funded schools tend to manage ~$6000/yr tuition, and the private schools aren't much more.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Agreed - I think that good programmers will become polyglots naturally (from picking up different tools for different jobs), which in turn will reinforce their programming skills.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
"Fluent" has a rather vague definition, but the word root means "flowing" (like a river) - if you can speak a natural language in proper idioms without pauses in the wrong places to look for or translate words, you'
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by BruceIV 13y ago
This is the first "let's completely overhaul university" idea I've heard that doesn't completely suck. I like the ideas of world travel and reasonable tuition, and doing away with a lot of the useless cruft of a tra
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Take the analogy from natural languages, and you're fluent in any language where you can write simple programs without consulting the documentation (or only minimal consultation), conversant in any language you can get real work done i
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Fair, I agree - and I think that basic computer literacy should be taught in schools - my point was just that if the way to teach the children computer literacy is to give them laptops to use in every class (it's trendy these days), th
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by BruceIV 13y ago
There are possible good reasons for this - I wouldn't give elementary students calculators, because they won't learn their math; similarly, in an educational environment (that's not teaching computing), computers are often mo
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Yeah - I never want to get paid to do tech support - I generally find it either so trivial it's not worth charging for, or so hair-pullingly frustrating that no reasonable amount of money would be enough.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Same - I'm not super car-literate, but I was able to refill wiper fluid before I went on a long trip, and if it came down to it I could change the tire (I at least know where the jack is, and roughly where it goes under the car). But I
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I started porting one of my side projects (written in C++11) to Rust because I thought it looked promising - I still think it does, but I filed two bug reports before I even got argument parsing working, and the documentation is still rathe
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I've actually been playing around a bit with Hyper-V in Windows 8, and you can run Linux guests, but nearly as nicely as VirtualBox does (it's harder to set up, and you don't get shared folders, shared clipboard, or proper fu
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I think they mean Microsoft Virtual PC, but I believe that only supports Windows guest OSes - Oracle VirtualBox is similar software. I have a Xubuntu VM running in VirtualBox on my Windows 8 laptop that I keep around for coding; it's a
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Linux Mint, probably - it's got Ubuntu's hardware support and the out-of-the box install has Flash, mp3 codecs, proprietary video drivers, and all the other "non-free" software you generally expect on a consumer desktop.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
If they haven't changed their policies lately you get a certain number of free articles daily as well (five, I think, but they might have removed that).
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I'm glad to hear this is a thing. I'm a first-year CS PhD student, and my end goal is to get a tenured position at a small school where they care more about my teaching than research skills; I want to teach, but I get paid about a
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Yeah, "Track Changes" and that feature that lets people put initialed notes in the margins of Word docs are pretty widely used among Word power users (it's how my wife and her supervisor are editing her thesis - my supervisor
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I took your recommendation and looked through Google+ for communities that interested me, and didn't see anything promising, but the idea does have some potential - I do follow Linus and a few authors, and would probably check Google+
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by BruceIV 13y ago
To answer your original question, I use Facebook for communication with my friends and low-level awareness of what old acquaintances are doing, and HN for tech news. HN won't help me meet up with my friends to watch a movie, and my Fac
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Of course network effects are more important than technical factors for a social network. For what it's worth, I gave Google+ a pretty solid try when it came out, but very little of my social network actually moved over there, and then
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Show HN: Egg - C++11 Parsing Expression Grammar Generator(github.com)
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I don't think there's a less intrusive way to pull it off, but with sufficient compiler support you should be able to make it fairly transparent to the programmer.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I think the point is that character is formed early, and in small ways, and it's better to form a character of respect for others and their property.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
So knocking down castles is okay if you can also overpower the builder so she can't hit you?
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I've actually only really just started, I'm less than a year into my PhD, so I don't have anything published yet. My current project involves doing some non-trivial calculations on a large matrix of multi-precision integers -
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I use mine as an always-on home print server. I might come up with another good use case for it later, but I'm good for now.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Thanks! What kind of performance do you get with some of those more intricate pointer structures? My own research right now is focused on how to build some common abstract data types with less pointer indirection, so as to be more easily ve

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