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by gusmd 9y ago
I just finished going through this book: https://www.amazon.com/C-Concurrency-Action-Practical-Multit... Talks in-depth about the thread library and also other C++11 features that made it possible. Highly recommended.
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by gusmd 9y ago
Once upon a time I was writing an Android app. I wrote a simple Python script to monitor the APK file and copy it to my Dropbox when it changed so that I could easily install and test it on my phone. Uses the Win32 API, so not portable. It&
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by gusmd 9y ago
It is kind of a necessity in some domains. For instance, I could cite Android applications in Java, or using Qt in C++.
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by gusmd 9y ago
At my company we use ODB [0] with SQLite in a VERY large commercial application. We've been using it for a couple of years now. Rock-solid. ps.: ODB is GPL v2. We have a commercial license to avoid it. ODB also offers a "free&quot
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by gusmd 10y ago
Especially as a non-native English speaker, I often rely on the Material Design guidelines as my source for UI writing style. https://material.google.com/style/writing.html I see you first sentence was taken directly f
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by gusmd 10y ago
I mainly use Visual Studio for C++, and Atom for all other things. I gave VSCode a chance a couple of weeks ago but its code completion was not as smart as on VS (no semantic analysis), so I ended up giving up and going back to my VS + Atom
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by gusmd 10y ago
for what it's worth, the "OK Google" functionality in my Android phone is trained against my voice and does a pretty good job at rejecting my wife's and coworkers commands.
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by gusmd 10y ago
Second that. I had no idea of his involvement in CS, though, and I'm happy to see this here. I did my master's in Acoustics (Am an M.E.), and his books were some of my go-to for "foundation" concepts in Acoustics. As a p
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by gusmd 10y ago
It is odd seeing this definition getting a lot of love here, while job ads for "Junior Developers" ask for a college degree, proficiency and 2+ years experience in Python, JS, HTML, and CSS, and a portfolio of 5 websites plus 1000
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by gusmd 10y ago
As counter-intuitive as this sounds, it's actually the complete opposite. Living downtown and commuting to Sorrento Valley is a pain. My boss does it and he does 6 AM - 8PM to avoid traffic. Meanwhile, my wife goes from Del Mar to Old
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by gusmd 10y ago
That reminds of how Windows asks you to press "ctrl+alt+del" before typing your account password in some situations, because other software cannot intercept ctrl+ald+del so you know the login prompt is legit.
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by gusmd 10y ago
I use Google Play Music and really like it. Both on the desktop (web version) and on my Android phone. If "premium", can make playlists offline, etc. Selection seems comparable to Spotify. Drawback is, IMO, that the "top char
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by gusmd 10y ago
I'm working on a Qt project, and our convention is to have a pure C++ back-end (i.e., STL), but use QObjects everywhere on the Models, Views and Controllers (as per Qt's MVC pattern). That way we can one day re-implement the UI if
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Ask HN: Does your employer let you choose your gear?
1 points by gusmd 10y ago|5 comments
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by gusmd 10y ago
If I was the defendant's lawyer, I would ask the "forensic expert": > Given a (encrypted) file named "bank_account_password'.txt", can you guess its contents? Based on the current reasoning, the "expe
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by gusmd 11y ago
Believe it or not, these guys are still using Visual Source Safe. They find "git pull, git checkout -b, git commit -a, git pull, open merge request on gitlab" too cumbersome for their day-to-day activities.
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by gusmd 11y ago
We actually have programmers who don't want to get involved with git...
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by gusmd 11y ago
How is that relevant at all? GPS works pretty much anywhere in the world, even in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It would not penetrate water or survive the crash, which means it couldn't be tracked NOW. Nonetheless, you could know th
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by gusmd 11y ago
I'm missing something here and would so happy if someone explained to me. I am sorry if I'm making false assumptions as my knowledge on the subject is very limited. If the universe started from a single point in space and time (i.
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by gusmd 11y ago
Hi anyone who is reading this. This was my first try at developing for Android. I know this is a very simple app, but I'm really proud of having accomplished it. I've developed it to scratch a personal itch -- I was doing this man
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Show HN: TrackMyGas, Android app to track gas consumption(play.google.com)
1 points by gusmd 11y ago|1 comments
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by gusmd 11y ago
I'm an ME and work in a simulation software company as a researcher. All of us researchers are PhD Mechanical/Aerospace Engineers (tbh I'm the only without a PhD, only a Masters here) and spend our days reading papers, implem
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by gusmd 11y ago
Why buy it, then?
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by gusmd 11y ago
Not sure If I understand your question, but my understanding is that we don't yet have the means to store energy in such a dense manner as to able to power a jet engine. Energy density of aircraft fuel is much higher than any battery a
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by gusmd 11y ago
The answer is no. Assuming nobody makes a mistake on the application or something like that, every applicant has the same chance in the lottery.
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by gusmd 11y ago
High-performance engineering simulation code (think Finite Element Method) is pretty much all written in C/C++ due to performance reasons.
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by gusmd 11y ago
She could not have been invited to multiple parties. Otherwise all parties would share a guest -- her.
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by gusmd 11y ago
Sorry if I'm going too far on a tangent here, but has anyone bought his book Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age [0]? It has been on my wishlist for quite a while now. The reviews are quite positive. [0] http:&#x2F
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by gusmd 11y ago
That's pretty much a 0.9% reduction on overall costs to the seller. Most credit cards offer 1% cashback and people love it, so I will dare to say that a 1% price reduction is very interesting.
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by gusmd 11y ago
I understand that this might be how you feel since the seller probably has refunded missing packages. Now please consider that the added cost to the seller has already been factored in on all your purchases. Therefore, if there were no stol

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