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by NAFV_P 13y ago
A, B && C players. First you categorise programming languages, next people. I thought this type of thinking died out in the late nineties, when people realised it was a load of shite.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
The latter applies here, this is the node: typedef struct dll__ { struct dll__ *lnk[2]; void *dat; }ndi; I've seen some examples on the web, but I haven't seen it done this way. I have a suspicion it might be
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Sigh. Sadly, it has become fashionable to bring up Perl only to ridicule it even when there is absolutely no context or need. A lot of people ridicule C, I just laugh my head off. Apologies, I assure you that I am not ridiculing it.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
If you think that snippet was bad, you should see the rest of it. It covers nine files and around 500 odd lines. Good practise though.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I cannot remember, but it was damn good stuff.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
One underscore indicates a pointer, two indicates a pointer to pointer.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I'll confess, it is deliberately obfuscated. *(q->lnk+!dec) and the like were originally written in macro.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> I look at this from the other side as well. I've worked with brilliant people with ivy league CS degrees who wrote much messier and less maintainable code than me, an autodidact designer/js dev with 1.5 years of experience.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
My father sent me a link to lifehacker, and was surprised to find I really enjoyed it. I thought it was humourous yet well designed and it explained loops well. The example I tried involved moving angry birds and zombies around on the scree
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> For C, all you need is simple arithmetic. I would say C and its standard library . For example, you have to convert an element of argv that contains only the numerical characters from a char[] to an int. This requires a knowledge of
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Turing died only a few years before the emergence of high level languages. I have often wondered if he would go for FORTRAN or LISP.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> If only people on HN could be downvoted for being completely and arguably wilfully ignorant about what they comment on. I'm new to HN, so I recently had a good look at the rules governing it. They are a bit more complex than you
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> But I think that most programmers who are serious about what they do should know calculus (the real kind), linear algebra, and statistics. What does he mean by calculus of the real kind? I parsed that as referring to calculus of real
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Of course, certain censorship is fine. I don't mind certain art, like films or computer games being censored, and think that it is key to keeping a powerful art community when protecting those from harmful images or powerful mater
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I'm surprised that the NSA hasn't looked into it yet (or have they?...), with what they've been up to over the past decade.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Sorry I should have explained myself better: I am referring to the C-standards, and I don't consider K&R to be one of them. I tried compiling the source with: gcc file -std=c89 -Wall -o out && gcc file -std=c99 -
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
> Implement a simple linked list in C (not C++). It can be compiled on a C++ compiler, but do not use any feature of C++. Er, which standard of C?
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Stay in college, and keep your education fairly broad, polymathy is getting back into fashion. I cannot get a minimum wage job mainly because I am overqualified. I cannot get a higher paid job because I lack specific qualifications. I canno
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I didn't read that book, but I did read Mark 'Chopper' Read's How to Shoot Friends and Influence People .
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
What, nobody take a chill pill till '81?
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Triethylborane(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by NAFV_P 13y ago|0 comments
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I'm myopic with astigmatism, so I am very interested when the ophthalmic version is coming out. When I visit HN using my 15.6 inch screen laptop I have the zoom set to 150% or higher (the text is tiny), with my specs on. An ophthalmic
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Greg Chaitin wrote a LISP interpreter in FORTRAN.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
If I believed in a god, I'd have trouble deciding which news would be more unbearable: finding out there is no god, or finding out that this god wrote the universe in Perl.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
I'll tell you what, God is the ultimate programmer. Let me guess, was the universe written in javascript?
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Ask HN: What kind of syntax highlighting do you prefer?
2 points by NAFV_P 13y ago|0 comments
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
... Where each one of us has to memorise a web page in html format.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
If you ever find yourself complaining about the amount of time wasted on HN, just look at all those millions of hours wasted on facebook, then write some bloody Python.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
For situations like this I will give one piece of advice, read the man pages. I'm sure you will find a suitable entry regarding your problem.
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by NAFV_P 13y ago
Set up a distillery to make martian whiskey, it would cost a bomb.

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