edwkar

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   by edwkar 13y ago

   Devpressed seems like a really good initiative! Looking at HN's submission history, and from personal experience, I believe such a forum is much needed. As a student or professional struggling with mental illness, having someone to speak to
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   by edwkar 13y ago

   I roughly agree with your sentiment, but your last sentence is IMO a bit too rough with the "resort to a bunch of drugs" part. Any psychiatrist worth his salt, will primarly prescribe drugs as a means to help people cope, while working on t
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   by edwkar 13y ago

   This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time! Amazing!
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   by edwkar 14y ago

   I'm using PyPy for real-world code every day, because it runs fast as^H^H^H^H, uhm, very fast! I regularly see 6-15X speedups compared to CPython. That being said, if your code is mostly IO-bound or calls into foreign-language libraries, Py
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   by edwkar 14y ago

   Nice!!
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   by edwkar 14y ago

   Well, xmonad is an excellent example :-)
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   by edwkar 14y ago

   It's hard to approximate how long time you'll use, since it depends so much on what ideas you are familiar with, but I'd say that SICP is generally a nice and "easy" read for a programmer with some experience. I don't mean to say that the m