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by creatornator 8y ago
... is just about as far from WYSIWYG as possible. LaTeX is not friendly for a newsroom full of non-technical journalists.
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Ask HN: Resources for learning LLVM?
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by creatornator 9y ago
No one equals Bach, but some come close enough to make the answer unclear. My favorite trivia about Boston's Symphony Hall is that there are dozens of empty plaques along the balconies, where composer's names were going to be engr
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by creatornator 9y ago
Have you ever been the subject of someone calling your work sh*t? The thing about using such inflammatory language as Linus does is that from the outside, you could say "he's criticizing your work, not you", but if it is dire
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by creatornator 9y ago
I'd say Java, a GC'ed language, is used for systems programming quite often.
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by creatornator 9y ago
Maybe this isn't "real-world" but I've made this cookiecutter template which generates projects with Makefiles less than 100 lines. It works decently well for my personal projects and for playing around. https:/&#x
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by creatornator 9y ago
I think with modern processor architectures there are some edge cases where you can shuffle calls around, keep the same runtime complexity, but have things go faster. For example, moving a conditional outside an inner loop function call to
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by creatornator 9y ago
I think you can break the for loop after the function call and it'll end after the wait is successful. Bit of a hack though
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I think even in software engineering, overengineering can be measurable. For example, let's say an API has an endpoint that responds on average within 10 ms, but it is only called once per hour. Spending resources to decrease that resp
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by creatornator 9y ago
That seems... backwards. If the standard of admission remains the same (which is unrelated to cost of attending), lowering prices doesn't decrease the quality of the admitted student body, but _increases_ it. Lowering the cost means th
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I'm not sure if this is true--in Wall Street, too, there is a seller for every buyer. Every time someone gets a killer deal on some stock, someone else got equally ripped off. As far as I can tell, the distinction between BTC and stock
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by creatornator 9y ago
At the end of the day, we write code not for its own sake, but to solve problems in real life. After realizing this I abandoned several pet projects that were basically going nowhere and only taking up time--they were not designed to solve
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by creatornator 9y ago
EEVBlog has some great videos on electronics for a decently broad range of skillsets: https://www.youtube.com/user/EEVblog Francesc Campoy of Google has a channel called JustForFunc where he teaches idiomatic golang--t
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I think the simplicity and lack of bloat make it more refreshing than "modern" UI's, if a little more dated. Also as others have mentioned, there are plenty of wrappers that add more "material design"-esque skins (I
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Your main point aside, your experience having taken more math and physics courses than "technicians", and bearing "more responsibility in dollars and livelihoods and use math more extensively in my job than most mechanical an