cygwin98

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   by cygwin98 16y ago

   To be a bit blunt, that article with a heavily misleading title totally disappointed me. I was expecting to glean some insights there on how they applied certain kind of technologies into a vertical market -- nothing but a few marketing pit
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   by cygwin98 16y ago

   I believe there is a difference between knowing how memory and pointers work and being proficient at pointer manipulation in C. If you enforce such kind of interviews in C, you will miss lots of great FP programmers. Maybe you don't care an
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   by cygwin98 16y ago

   I believe your comment is spot on. The debates here is basically about what "professional level" careful training and hard work can bring this guy up to. The "nay-sayers" (including myself) agree on that he might become much more proficient
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   by cygwin98 16y ago

   Same experience here, though I learned recursion in Pascal. Maybe it's just me, it just feels awkward when you do recursion in imperative languages. For the past two years, I've been playing/working with functional languages, firstly Erlang
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   by cygwin98 16y ago

   I think there is a limit that motivation and hard work can only push that far. Beyond that, it's basically gift or talent rules the game. That may sound bitter when you realize it, but it's a fact of truth. That's especially the case in Mat
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   by cygwin98 16y ago

   Just want to say that you can do iphone/android app dev in C# by using Monotouch/MonoDroid. Of course, you have to write a different UI layer for each platform.
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   by cygwin98 16y ago

   I thought you were joking about Firefox 7. From version 4 to 7 in one year, are you kidding? It turns out you're right. For some reasons, I really dislike software companies jack up version numbers: how can you have FOUR MAJOR releases with
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   by cygwin98 16y ago

   I think we need to compare apples to apples here: other competing hedge funds may have to pay a lot more to have those hackers code in C++, Java, or (gasp) VBA.
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   by cygwin98 16y ago

   I don't know why you got so many down votes. Maybe HN folks got too sick of armchair architects/hackers. Honestly, what your said somehow resonated my inside hacker. I think lots of hackers share similar opinion --- as hardware/network are
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    by cygwin98 16y ago

    I don't think this will be an issue if he manages to maintain the same API as Twitter.
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    by cygwin98 16y ago

    If it were me in this situation, I would talk to the guy who has the cable and share his connection (even pay for his monthly fee to provide incentive). It's relatively easy to connect two houses by using directional wireless antenna.
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    by cygwin98 16y ago

    Dummynet now supports Linux, check its homepage out.
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    by cygwin98 16y ago

    Ruby 1.9.2 handled it well here
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    by cygwin98 16y ago

    Just saw it last night. Hopefully, it will be fun.
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    Microsoft Research: Speller Challenge Registration opens(web-ngram.research.microsoft.com)

    2 points by cygwin98 16y ago|1 comments
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    by cygwin98 16y ago

    Sounds to me the web search is not yet a solved problem. As the hardware (storage and memory) is getting cheaper and cheaper, and the emerging enabling technologies such as cloud computing, building your own search engine may not sound impo
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    by cygwin98 16y ago

    I know I'm late to the party, :) I used Ruby 1.9.2. It's funny that it's the first time I used the combination generation method built in Ruby Array. The whole three questions took me about a bit more than 20 minutes, a bit longer than I th
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    by cygwin98 16y ago

    I turned a NAS device -- Intel SS-4200E (has Intel Celeron CPU) into my dedicated home dev server. Installed Ubuntu 9.10, latest Ruby on Rails, Mono and F#. It rocks as it only consumes 40Watts when loaded with tasks. Cutting eletricity bil
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    by cygwin98 16y ago

    I've been thinking of this for a while. Although there is fswebtools that shares the same spirit as GWT http://tomasp.net/blog/fswebtools-intro.aspx , it's not as polished. IMHO, F# for the backend to provide web service, jQuery for the fr
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    by cygwin98 18y ago

    I vote you up as I'd like to know the answer as well