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by a-saleh 11y ago
I am affraid the in our research lab we didn't have 10 000$ up front/200$ a month to get a pc with 1TB ram ... we did have a large computer hall and BOINC though :)
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by a-saleh 11y ago
Can anybody point me to a good 'modern c programming' book? I liked the approach of Learn C the Hard Way, (i.e. lesson 1: "Now compile the hello.c with -Wall", lesson 2: "Lets learn to write simple makefiles",.
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by a-saleh 12y ago
To be honest, I don't really care for the games made on AAA budget. For past two years I have mostly played FTL, Shadowrun Returns, Transistor and Heartstone. Two of those were made mostly on kick-starter money. Rest of them are far fr
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by a-saleh 12y ago
I remember my 14 year old self disliking Pascal and liking C, because C had {} instead of Begin and End and you could do funny stuff inside of C for-cycle. I remember my 20 self disliking Pascal and liking Java, because while my class-mates
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by a-saleh 12y ago
How did it look like? I faintly remember that we did `use` graph theory in our HS assignments, but haven't actually touched hypothesis or proofs, that I now associate with it. I remember we wrote programs to higlight a graphs skelet, f
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by a-saleh 12y ago
This might be technicality, but at a university I studied in Czech Republic, it was sufficient if the bachelors thesis contained no original research, and was more or less just an overview of current developments in a subfield of what you s
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by a-saleh 12y ago
I have read his "you and your research", and it is a really good essay, pg has it on his site. http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html
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by a-saleh 12y ago
It is a way to create embedded DSLs in haskell. If I understand correctly, when haskell compiler sees [foo|some dsl language inside|] it knows, that it should use parser asigned to foo on string inside of quasi-quotes. Long time ago, I trie
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by a-saleh 12y ago
Well, it depends. I think the primary improvement is that loop is no longer a language construct. It is just another function. As a prime example I would take Clojure. On first look: "No loops?" "This reduce functions everyhe
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by a-saleh 12y ago
We had this on a school level. I am from different country and educational system, but have seen the pattern for several years as I was attending. After first 4 years of school, all the classmates were split according to some equivalent of
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by a-saleh 12y ago
Usually some pasta & sauce. I have became decently skilled in preparing the food, that it takes me ~30min from 0 to serving. It takes around 15 mins to get the water boiling and 10 mins until the pasta is done, and I usually try to make
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by a-saleh 12y ago
Not able to help directly, but you might try to apply for a PHD programme. I graduated in from a research university in Czech republic, and met several PHD students from non-eu countries who were quite happy here :) If you cast the net wide
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by a-saleh 12y ago
Actually, I kind of like doing just that and leaving 4 pm sharp :)
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by a-saleh 12y ago
"Where can i learn how to do my job correctly?" I believe the best place is to work your job, and have the right amount of introspection :) But what helped me the most with this "how to do software corectly" question, wa
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by a-saleh 12y ago
1) I would say around 5 years? That is how long it took my friend realizing that MBA on the school he was attending won't get him very far, banding together with a friend of mine that was already developing mobile apps, and working his
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by a-saleh 12y ago
Dungeon World rulebook - http://www.dungeon-world.com/ and Vornheim city kit - http://www.lotfp.com/RPG/products/vornheim Mostly because I always wanted to run a pen&paper rpg, even though I a
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by a-saleh 12y ago
Not sure about production use, but I know that Elm is bound to be used at Prezi, where Evan Czaplicky works, if I remember correctly.
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by a-saleh 12y ago
Try to sell him on type-inference first?
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by a-saleh 12y ago
I have just finished reading http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0019.html that he links in the article. Interesting, that though he mostly spoke about refactoring procedural C, it really reminded me how I would work w
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by a-saleh 12y ago
I remember how I was starting to think at the beginning of college, that with a reference sheet I could pick any language and start writing in it ... you know, C++/Java/Python, it all looked the same. Then I applied for a course i
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by a-saleh 12y ago
Hey I actually send him the one month full-time prototype as a rough estimate :) And I know that it is not that good of an idea, that is why I ask for time-based estimate, so that I would be able to send him to some od my freelancing friend
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Ask HN: Could you help me price a mobile application?
3 points by a-saleh 12y ago|5 comments
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by a-saleh 12y ago
Thanks, will investigate purescript :)
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by a-saleh 12y ago
Do you use some of them in production? I.E. I have fooled around with elm, but that is about it.
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by a-saleh 12y ago
When "Getting it Done with Haskell", how do you solve the JavaScript problem? :)
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by a-saleh 12y ago
Ever since we learned about Relational Algebra, I have felt, that as an approach it is superior to both SQL and ORM.
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by a-saleh 12y ago
Well, right now I have just built two "in-house corporate line of business apps" and so far, the pay was reasonable and time-savings due to underlying framework huge :)
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by a-saleh 12y ago
Well, first I am creating a little game, and MonoGame (awesomely cross-platform opensource port of XNA) is awesome, and I would love to work in officialy supported Xamarin on linux and not fiddle around with old builds of MonoDevelop. And s
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by a-saleh 12y ago
If you are interested in math in relation with programming, I really like blog at http://jeremykun.com If you feel your math is too rusty to follow along, http://jeremykun.com/primers/ should get you starte
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by a-saleh 12y ago
Well. I remember a time, when every store in my country had a shop-keeper, that would hand you the goods over the counter. Usualy shop had one shopkeeper that tended to all of the shop (counter, refilling, e.t.c) Then somebody figured out,

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