MattHarrington

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Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles(ithare.com)
219 points by MattHarrington 10y ago|67 comments
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Inside the Fantastical Workshop of Inventor Michael Dubno(wsj.com)
1 points by MattHarrington 10y ago|0 comments
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by MattHarrington 10y ago
Try Kate Gregory's Pluralsight courses.
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by MattHarrington 11y ago
I think the best book for complete beginners is "Jumping into C++" by Alex Allain. From there, move on to "C++ Primer Plus" by Stephen Prata.
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by MattHarrington 11y ago
Quantitative finance, scientific computing.
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by MattHarrington 11y ago
Recommended resources for learning C++ nowadays: "Jumping into C++" by Alex Allain, "C++ Primer Plus" by Stephen Prata, and Kate Gregory's C++ courses on Pluralsight. You can get a free 3 or 6 month Pluralsight subs
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by MattHarrington 11y ago
It might not be common knowledge yet, but C#, F#, and .NET are fully open source and cross-platform. Development is done in public on GitHub ( https://github.com/dotnet ), and pull requests are accepted from the community. Yo
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by MattHarrington 11y ago
One option with C# Windows Store apps is that they can generate native code using something called ".NET Native". https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dotnetnative.aspx
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by MattHarrington 14y ago
VS2012 for Windows Phone development is free: http://aka.ms/winphone8sdk
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by MattHarrington 14y ago
You may be surprised to hear that there's lots of stuff happening with open source here at Microsoft. ASP.NET MVC, the Azure SDKs, and F# are all open source. Check out this blog for more: http://blogs.technet.com/b/port25/ .