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by gosu 14y ago
Like others here, I learned simply by doing and fumbling my way around until I was comfortable. That said, I think the most important thing for you to learn is how to get help. Learn how to find man(ual) pages, and how to interpret the very
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by gosu 14y ago
There are also videos and slides of the same class being taught by the chair of the machine learning department at CMU. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Etom/10701_sp11/ Direct link to the videos is here: http://cc-web.isri.cmu.edu/Panopto/Pages/
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by gosu 14y ago
Brutal.
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by gosu 14y ago
I actually got bored towards the end of my first game of DF because it was too easy. The interface adds a lot of illusory difficulty, but that's not an issue for people used to reading manuals. On the other hand, when you're not wrestling w
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by gosu 14y ago
What you're saying is reasonable, but I'm amused by the fact that the standard template for this discussion is NOT "it's the year of the Linux desktop, I just know it!" but rather: "Is this the year of the Linux desktop now?" "No, that's a
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by gosu 14y ago
> There seems to be the profiler that is windows only. I never used it so i can't report on that. nvvp? It works for me on Linux.
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by gosu 14y ago
I generally agree with you, and find myself revolted by pseudo-(or not-pseudo-)-religious tripe of the sort in the OP. But I also don't think that it's unreasonable to say that altering your manner of cognition for a while can cause you to
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by gosu 14y ago
>it seems damned impudent of them to be assuming my voice I agree. This is something that has been bothering me every since Windows XP. I think less about what marketers want and how desperate it may or may not be, and I spend more time
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by gosu 14y ago
>no matter what it says there are many people who love you I hear this platitude all the time and I don't think that it's constructive. Disconnectedness and depression go hand in hand, in my experience. You may be blessed to have many p
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by gosu 14y ago
That did go through my head when I was writing. I'd say that there's different ways to use that word, and that usage felt somehow different to me than the one that you're referring to.
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by gosu 14y ago
A mentally ill person - even one who is criminally so - is still a person, and not "the animal". Maybe you're just trying to hammer home the predator/hunt thing, but it still sounds really wrong to me. Whatever bad thing happened to you, do
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by gosu 14y ago
This isn't how I'd do a linked list in C. Having to malloc separate storage for the next/prev pointers imposes a big cost in terms of performance (it's hardly O(1)) and robustness. Your linked list operations can all fail now - sooner or la
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by gosu 14y ago
Perhaps the issue is that Mark hasn't been the only one working on Ubuntu. Maybe other people who have contributed their time and effort in some form are unhappy to see it go to waste. (You probably don't want those people to go away, by th
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by gosu 14y ago
After hanging on to vanilla 11.04 (the last gnome2 release) until it became too out-of-date to use, I switched to xmonad with a dzen workspace display in place of gnome-panel. It took a fair amount of time to customize (which I can do now,
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by gosu 14y ago
That was snarky and uncalled for. I think IRC is rubbing off on you, whether you want it to or not.
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by gosu 14y ago
Agreed. I just wanted to talk in general to make sure that people weren't too intimidated. I think a hobby OS is a great way to become a better programmer. About the course: the extent to which we were guided was minimal by design. It wasn'
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by gosu 14y ago
At my university, students in groups of 1 or 2 write a fully preemptible, multiprocessor unixy kernel and userspace on x86. Essentially nothing is provided except a bootloader, a build system, a syscall spec, and some moderate protection fr
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by gosu 14y ago
I used to draw out little graphs representing data and more exotic structures, but I found that trying to focus on the paper would ruin my train of thought. I try to visualize that stuff in my head now, and it's gotten easier with practice.
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by gosu 14y ago
Great idea. I'd use it, if there were things to rent in my area.
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by gosu 14y ago
Further in the future, eye-movement scans could also help security officials determine if someone is ill or emotionally distressed. Sounds like a Voight-Kampff test.
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by gosu 14y ago
I think that the author of the post was trying to address exactly this question of purpose. I'm basically going to reiterate what he said, but here's my own take on it: You can get over your hurdle in two ways: - You can trust that your wri
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by gosu 14y ago
So X will translate keycodes from the keyboard press/release events that contain keysyms + modifiers + more (look up X keypress event) that get sent to your terminal emulator. Your terminal emulator will translate those into ascii chars or
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by gosu 14y ago
I'd say that it's bad to put #pragma once in your minimal set, since it's nonstandard. Why not use plain old include guards? For me, container_of() is also indispensable. Although maybe it's on the level of 'errno' as being "not really a di
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by gosu 14y ago
For me, modern C means modern C features more than modern C style. I use the following "new" features all the time: compound literals, designated initializers, variadic macros, and anonymous arrays. Dr. Dobbs did a nice series on C99 featur
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by gosu 14y ago
I use #define to do things that plain C just can't do, and I wind up wanting to do these things pretty often. Two of the most important strengths of macro functions, for me, are VA_ARGS and the related ability to write a macro that counts t
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by gosu 14y ago
the debugger knows how to print them. I just want to emphasize this point, as this is the main advantage in my eyes.
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by gosu 14y ago
To be fair, what you've just proposed is also a conspiracy theory.
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by gosu 14y ago
And no one would ever ride a bike again.
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by gosu 14y ago
Math and my toy OS. A little lame for a programmer, but you do what you love, right?
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by gosu 14y ago
Tried it with Conkeror on Linux: "We're sorry, but something went wrong."

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