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Ask HN: What happened to the C++ Grandmaster Qualification?
1 points by abdulhaq 10y ago|0 comments
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by abdulhaq 10y ago
At first read the idea you propose is very attractive but I think you do need to address why APL didn't take off. Perhaps they chose a poor vocabulary, are there better ways to represent algorithms?
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by abdulhaq 10y ago
VB 1.0 was a revolution, really. I went on to buy Delphi and Paradox. Delphi was really something but the nod has to go to VB for the massive leap it took. It's not just 25 years for VB, it's 25yrs for all those GUI developers who
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by abdulhaq 10y ago
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. Winston Churchill
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by abdulhaq 11y ago
It came out red :-(
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by abdulhaq 11y ago
I enjoyed this little foray into the wilds of the Unicode(TM) landscape and typographic emptiness. As an aside, my interest in typography is matched by my interest in maps, and I've met numerous other men who share an interest in both
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by abdulhaq 11y ago
A handful of clever people end up in the right place at the right time, make billions, and get praised on news aggregator sites. Millions of others lead good lives full of moral bravery, and will rarely get a mention by anyone, anywhere. HN
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by abdulhaq 11y ago
It seems like an idle threat when you are using an anonymous post to protect your karma...
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by abdulhaq 11y ago
As they say, be warned - secondhand bookshops are the best way to "spend" your retirement.
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by abdulhaq 11y ago
The question is too vague to give a good brief answer. Narrowing it down, I believe that it is possible for a good driver to reduce the stop-go element of heavy traffic by following the car in front at a judicious (more than average) distan
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by abdulhaq 11y ago
When the deadline is tight and you don't have to debug the bluetooth stack to see why it doesn't work on Samsung XYZ on Android ABC, then SO is a godsend.
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by abdulhaq 11y ago
We (I include myself here) can learn so much from this post. First, let my convey my deep sympathy to Jeffrey for going through this now - a roller coaster of hope and fear as death approaches. I have some experience of it myself. The first
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by abdulhaq 11y ago
Maybe Jewish women started being accused of 'making a political statement' and being harrassed in the street because they covered their hair, so they had to make a compromise.
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by abdulhaq 11y ago
Great job. A few years ago I did something very similar myself but just for arabic - www.arabicreader.net (still running but needing some TLC) - but didn't pursue it the same way you've done. I take my hat off to you!
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by abdulhaq 11y ago
Yes I went up to Oxford in 1983 to read Natural Science and although I was mad on computers that meant simply that I had done some z80 and BASIC programming and read a few books on e.g. PL/1 programming and AI (i.e. lisp) from the loca
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by abdulhaq 12y ago
Sorry but that's an old, tired argument that only occasionally gets aired these days. Running a pre-processor as part of the build process does not mean that Qt is not standard C++. Also, if you knew anything about the history of Micro
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by abdulhaq 12y ago
I think this is a US/UK English thing, in the US 'quite' only means 'very' whereas in the UK it often means 'a bit'. (I'm guessing your from the UK).
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by abdulhaq 12y ago
For those who want to learn geometric algebra I strongly recommend Linear And Geometric Algebra by Macdonald. I taught myself this subject entirely from this book (making sure I did all the exercises) and even enjoyed the process! Slightly
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by abdulhaq 12y ago
Forget about the downvotes, if you're not trolling then know they are a red herring.
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by abdulhaq 12y ago
That was then and this is now, there is one standard library and the language has come on leaps and bounds. D is a great language.
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by abdulhaq 12y ago
PyQt for - you guessed it - python is a superb wrapper for Qt.
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by abdulhaq 12y ago
Your Dad let you down so badly, I feel for you. It seems like he didn't spend enough time with you to bond, I'm sure there were so many other issues in his head that you will never know about. You did well to keep trying as you di
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by abdulhaq 12y ago
I'm sure you know this but a good physician will closely track your lung function and on a dip will get a sputum test done and then get you on the right antibiotics asap. That is a very important part of CF treatment that does need reg
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Chocolate survival time in hospital wards(bmj.com)
2 points by abdulhaq 12y ago|0 comments
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by abdulhaq 13y ago
I'm not sure if you're serious or not, but you tell a good story! If you are serious and you really want to deliver something rather than enjoy the daydreaming about how great it's going to be (something I suffer from myself
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by abdulhaq 13y ago
Reading the D forums you see how friendly and approachable he really is. Hand in hand with that is great patience, I'd say. Where I fall down is that without encouragement I'm not a 'completer-finisher'. Walter has that
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by abdulhaq 13y ago
yep me too, I was going to email it my wife to say here was the proof I was more rational than her :-)
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by abdulhaq 13y ago
Avoiding a negative attitude to things is quite different to forcing a fake positive attitude. For instance, try to give people the benefit of the doubt - you can consciously change the way you react to other people, until it starts to beco
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by abdulhaq 13y ago
30 million words fewer in 3 years?? That's 27397 words per day... at 12 waking hours per day for a child it's about 38 words per minute - I find it hard to believe.
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by abdulhaq 13y ago
I've got to say that for anyone who owned a micro in this period, you should spend an evening reading this book. I loved it, fascinating stuff!

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