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by fizixer 9y ago
I'm on my way down but haven't seen the darkness yet :) Maybe because I didn't start out with money making in mind (not to say I don't want to make money. I do. I do.) Also how long did the whole process take for you? ..
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by fizixer 9y ago
Thanks to other responses for helpful documents. Replying to my own comment to add a 4-5 year old HN discussion about an article from 2003: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7220917 edit: Discussion of Guix, a package ma
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by fizixer 9y ago
> Otherwise autoconf is superior in every aspect. Now this is a statement I didn't expect. I currently use make for my simple projects and, as commented a few mintues ago, looking for insight into what makes a good build-system (ign
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by fizixer 9y ago
make, configure, autoconf/automake, m4 (I know it's just a macro language), cmake, scons, etc, etc, etc. Can anyone share a good survey article/paper on the fundamental issues related to build systems, or what is the criteria
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naming gore.
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by fizixer 9y ago
> Esperanto has no feature which set it apart from other European languages. Do you know why it was created? To have one language for communication for the whole world unencumbered by historical baggage of politico-cultural domineering (
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by fizixer 9y ago
Depends on what you mean by 'computational'. - Computational as in 'using programming and computers' - Computational as in 'solving a math problem' (as opposed to 'theoretical': definitions/theor
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> What alternative did you have in mind? My favorite question. Have a look at the sidebar in this link [1] for starters (by 'alternative' you didn't mean you expect me to advocate complete abolishment of OOP did you?). I&#
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by fizixer 9y ago
ORM is the Vietnam of Computer Science, because OOP is the Vietnam of Computer Science: A 25-year failed experiment in boosting productivity of masses of mediocre programmers using this one true silver bullet.
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> ... for over ten years my main job was developing and reviewing C++ code ... > I cannot consistently write safe C ... When you learn the difference and have spent over ten years on a C-only project and still have the same opinion, I
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by fizixer 9y ago
> Not a comment about tio but I didn't realize it isn't possible to write a simple hello world in C# dot net core. Not sure why you'd think it's impossible [1]. I even ran it in the TIO C# console and it works. [1] h
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> There are perfectly valid situations where your friend could be right. I didn't say he thinks banning goto is dogmatic (and I never heard him say that his team completely disallows any use of it). You could be against goto and sti
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by fizixer 9y ago
Slightly off-topic anecdote: I've been having conversations with a really smart friend of mine (PhD in one of the sciences, and fairly good with programming) who decided to repurpose himself as a software guy, got a job a couple years
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by fizixer 9y ago
This is good but Postscript is even better. Someday I'll learn it and see what I can do with it.
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by fizixer 9y ago
What makes you think a highly upvoted online discussion is something that resonates with people, especially in the era of strong correlation between anonymous foul-mouthed posts and massive vote manipulation. But let's discuss that pos
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by fizixer 9y ago
> Previous HN discussion: "Why can't you guys comment your fucking code" Who is that clown? and why is the shit-post of a 4-day old reddit account being discussed all over the interwebs like gospel? That person very likely
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by fizixer 9y ago
Maybe. Though I haven't gotten over the obnoxious housing prices in the first place, so I guess I'm not seeing what you're seeing.
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by fizixer 9y ago
Let me guess, that ~$5k is less than 1% of what you would pay in total. No offense (and sorry for being off-topic) but I never get how people obsess over the under 1 or 2% cost savings while completely ignoring the overvalued principal. Two
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That makes two of us (my comment is along the same lines).
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by fizixer 9y ago
Advice on back pain based on personal evidence (single data point). - Did squats and deadlifts for the first time at age 33. Did them for 1 year. At age 36, again did them for 3 months. (I'll get back into it again once I'm done w
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by fizixer 9y ago
The anecdote at the beginning utterly fails to convey anything meaningful.
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by fizixer 9y ago
Yeah that's more my line of thinking. Have a job ready but ask for a promotion without revealing that you have an offer. If they promote, great. If they don't, just leave. If they delay or waffle over the decision, leave. The dela
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by fizixer 9y ago
There is also a possibility that the manager would convince the employee to stay, and even give promotion, while behind the scenes start a replacement process, so that in a few weeks when the employee has rejected the other offer, he/s
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by fizixer 9y ago
Then you didn't read the comment upthread fully. It did acknowledge the title, and contrasted it with the tone of the article (the first half at least) which is way broader minus a mention of GPUs (the basics of parallel algorithms
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I wouldn't think so. Not sure why you asked though.
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by fizixer 9y ago
Title mentions multithreaded programming, while the first line of the text (as well as major emphasis through the article) is on parallel programming. And surprisingly, there is no mention of GPU. Almost as if they want you to think paralle
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by fizixer 9y ago
Dunning-kruger effect (DKE) maybe part of the salesperson mentality. But I see it as more than just DKE. You can be a DK without any pressure. With research/academia, - there is a lot of pressure to excel and show that your work is the
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Model fixed ('every' changed to 'most').
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by fizixer 9y ago
This is an instance of the general issue of conflict across, what I like to call, the salesperson-slacker spectrum. Most researchers/academics lie somewhere on this spectrum. (Well I guess most human beings involved in any activity pro
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by fizixer 9y ago
I assume you didn't mean the Racket implementation being a joke (only the C++ one). Personally, the Racket idea is good except for the hassle of typing in the borders (emacs-orgmode could help with that though).

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