Koshkin

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961.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> C is hard, and is supposed to be hard I don't know why anyone would say that. C remains a simple little language. It is programming, especially the kind C is used for, that is hard.
962.
by Koshkin 4y ago
I used RSS to read HN up until Google killed their reader. (Being able to filter the feed by the post title was nice.)
963.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> twenty years ago... college-age women That's literally saying "too old."
964.
by Koshkin 4y ago
I don't know about that. The firm I work at constantly loses talent to it.
965.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Yet, "this guy"'s comment was an interesting read, while yours was not.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Pretty much the only reason I like the Fahrenheit scale, miles, inches and ounces seems to be that it’s something no one else uses. On the other hand, computers make calculations with these non-metric units just as easy, and precision-wise
967.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Bumping up visibility, is all… Lisp deserves more attention than it has.
968.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Well, I guess, the UNIX derivatives were just grouped together, which is logical.
969.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Indeed, the process of how software is developed by a large team is different from how it is done by a small team, which in turn is also different from the workflow followed by an individual developer. The larger the team, the more indispen
970.
by Koshkin 4y ago
... and, since you need the OS, there's always FreeDOS.
971.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Mechanical cuckoo clocks are pretty hard to find these days, are they not?
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by Koshkin 4y ago
I wish Ken Shirriff [1], too, published a book like this. Such a treasure. [1] http://www.righto.com/
973.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Used the N1 for about a year, and while I enjoyed the experience with it as a decent Linux machine, the video acceleration left a sour taste, especially the atrociously basic kplayer which is the only video player that had it.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
I used the words ‘sound’ in its literal sense, i.e. I referred to phonetics.
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Euclid's Elements of Geometry [pdf](farside.ph.utexas.edu)
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Modern Greek sounds much like Spanish to me. It is interesting, then, that having arisen, one from Latin and the other from Ancient Greek - quite different sounding languages - they somehow converged.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
I just pronounced your comment the way it is written, and I did not like what I heard.
978.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Or the Polish chrząszcz [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrz%C4%85szcz
979.
by Koshkin 4y ago
I like the sound and the grammar of the Finnish language, if only they had an alphabet more suitable for it: päämäärä is too much for me. (Anteeksi.)
980.
by Koshkin 4y ago
At the other extreme, there's Yiddish, it is full of idioms and it's more fun for that!
981.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Coming out of the third work meeting since 7AM I am starting to think: Yes, we need more of those! The more the merrier!
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by Koshkin 4y ago
I remember trying out an Oberon-07 compiler some years back. The speed at which it worked was impressive: it was able to build itself and the standard library modules in a small fraction of a second.
983.
by Koshkin 4y ago
But the first year of this century was 2001…
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Of course there is - I can write “0” on it!
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Halleluiah?
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by Koshkin 4y ago
The handwriting skills were common back in the day... By the way, are you sure that it was Dijkstra himself who hand printed these texts (rather than have, say, his secretary do that)? Because this is not exactly the (beautiful) handwritin
987.
by Koshkin 4y ago
The first element having the index zero may be natural or unnatural depending on the context . In mathematics, we count the rows in a matrix starting from 1, but we count the monomials in a polynomial starting (or ending) with 0. General
988.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Indeed, the issue of non-existence is a somewhat tricky philosophical question (e.g. there are many ways something may not exist).
989.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Don’t these exist for a reason?
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by Koshkin 4y ago
FWIW in LINQ, Select comes after From and Where.

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