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by chriszhang 6y ago
TIL we can create polls on HN
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by chriszhang 6y ago
Awesome! Exactly the type of advice I was looking for. :) Thanks!
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by chriszhang 6y ago
Oh I agree it is an interesting and legit question for cryptocurrency.
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Ask HN: Have you gone from Editor A to Editor B and then back to Editor A? Why?
1 points by chriszhang 6y ago|2 comments
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by chriszhang 6y ago
[edit: this comment is outdated. the parent comment is updated now to change the word crypto to cryptocurrency. I misunderstood earlier crypto to be cryptography. with crypto meaning cryptocurrency my comment is not related now.] I think it
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by chriszhang 6y ago
Will you say it is ok for a complete new person to lisp to learn sugar? Example is someone who has never learnt lisp in life? Or will you recommend learning sugar after learning some other lisp?
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by chriszhang 6y ago
> Also, `lualatex` does not have some of the limitations of `xelatex` (memory limitations, `contours` package, ...) Are there some more details of the memory limitations you can share with us?
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by chriszhang 6y ago
Totally agree. How I look at this. I want to write simple text posts. I don't care how it looks. Let the browser present the way it wants. I want only HTML. I don't care about CSS or JS. I don't even want to know what they ar
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Ask HN: Do you write quick and dirty hacks using Lisp?
5 points by chriszhang 6y ago|2 comments
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by chriszhang 6y ago
A question to those who know both Lisp and Python. What one you generally prefer for quick and dirty hacks? Which one do you prefer for writing applications that will be used and maintained over a long period of time? I know both Python, Co
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by chriszhang 6y ago
OMSCS by Georgia Institute of Technology is by far the best course I have come across. You get a degree too in the end. Caveat: It takes a lot of effort. It is like doing a full time course and the degree they award in the end is indistingu
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by chriszhang 6y ago
What does your Octave code do in production, if you don't mind me asking?
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by chriszhang 6y ago
When I left university and did not have access to MATLAB anymore, I spent many a nights hacking away at GNU Octave. I have fond memories of Octave. I thought Octave will be a valuable skill when I enter the industry but I could not have bee
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by chriszhang 6y ago
I know it was a joke but I am curious where the 80 columns limit originated? Fortran? Punched cards?
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by chriszhang 6y ago
I have very fond memories of GNOME 2. I could not get used to GNOME 3. When GNOME 3 came out, I switched to Xfce and have been a happy user of Xfce ever since.
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by chriszhang 6y ago
Pencils don't do it for me. I find the color of the text written to be too faint for my comfort. Pens on the other hand write text in bright blue color which is I find more pleasing to read.
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by chriszhang 6y ago
> Free from distractions I agree. Digital device with connectivity to the Internet is full of distractions. If you mean a digital notepad with no Internet access, then yes, that can be a solution too.
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by chriszhang 6y ago
Does your organization use both MS teams and Slack? Why do they use both? Does one provide some advantages over another?
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by chriszhang 6y ago
Is this using images for math? Can it use Mathjax for math? Mathjax has nice accessibility tools that is very good for reading math.
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by chriszhang 6y ago
Can you explain "goto a function name" further? I wrote this: #include <stdio.h> void f() { printf("f"); } int main() { goto f; return 0; } It creates error: foo.c:8:10: error
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by chriszhang 6y ago
> Vim provides a plugin system for adding features to it as it is very minimal and only provides basic text editing functionality by default. Clearly the author does not understand Vim. Seeing this gross misunderstanding, I can confident
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by chriszhang 6y ago
Despite your disclaimer I think you are onto something. I am experienced in both Java and C++ and while I can read/write/refactor code in C++ just fine with Vim, doing so in Java without a sophisticated IDE is a painful experience
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by chriszhang 6y ago
> Perhaps you misread my comment. Which comment are you referring to you? IshKebab (the user you are replying to) was replying to svennek (not you).
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by chriszhang 6y ago
Can you elaborate how 'Ctrl-x f' looks up a file name? I tried 'Ctrl-x' but it decrements the integer under the cursor by 1. I tried 'f' but it starts a new motion command to search the next occurrence of the c
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by chriszhang 6y ago
> If I were a boss of a company I hope you do your colleagues a favor and never become the boss of a company. The attitude you have is totally inappropriate to become a boss.
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Ask HN: Good online service to ask for donations for my open source project?
3 points by chriszhang 6y ago|1 comments
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by chriszhang 6y ago
What are Ken Thompson attacks? I searched online but did not find anything informative. Can someone explain what these attacks are?
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by chriszhang 6y ago
Not trying to be snarky. Honest question: Why use C11 over C99? Or even why use C99 over C89? What significant advantages do the new standards provide that cannot be done in plain old C89?
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Sliced Bread Was Once Illegal in the United States?(culinarylore.com)
2 points by chriszhang 6y ago|0 comments
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Programming “Langton's Ant” on the MC64 Minecraft Computer(youtube.com)
1 points by chriszhang 6y ago|0 comments

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