huherto

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by huherto 16y ago
Be careful with this company. They've burned open source developers with a bait and switch tactic. I lost about six months of work. http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thr...
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by huherto 16y ago
This has been down voted. But there is a grain of truth. I have worked in several american companies and often the directors were tall, white, gray hair, and good looking. In one case the director was like that and he had a guy (brasilian
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by huherto 16y ago
I would like to hear Linus opinion on Go.
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by huherto 16y ago
I think he means that many global variables create a big context. Which as you point out, it is not the same as context sensitive.
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by huherto 16y ago
It is funny how a very simple and innocent looking question by "newbie" started a big discussion. It is like watching somebody drop a candle in a bed. Can you use C++ in Linux kernel? In windows kernel you can, with some restricti
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Goldman Sachs: The World Cup and Economics 2010(villastjames.co.za)
2 points by huherto 16y ago|0 comments
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by huherto 16y ago
It really seems like doctors could start cooperating more; specially with rare diseases.
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by huherto 16y ago
In a related topic. It is surprising that many business applications use floating values to represent currency. That is very wrong, because it creates rounding errors that accumulate. A common symptom is if you have an invoice where the tot
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by huherto 16y ago
But it is more fun to see him do with just a few hundred million what huge corporation couldn't do with a lot more money.
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by huherto 16y ago
It is fascinating. I can't believe this is the same guys that is "broke", and is doing Tesla at the same time and co founded pay pal. Any of this would be a fantastic achievement. Unbelievable guy. I'm sorry I wasn't fully aware of him unti
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by huherto 16y ago
"(especially those whose health has an effect on their share prices)." if Ballmer were sick, would MSFT price go up or down?
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by huherto 16y ago
"Should a bank really be making $100,000 unsecured loans to 18-22 yo-s just because someone in their (future) field has the potential to repay it?" It is should be like insured deposit in a bank. The government guarantees up to $100k or so,
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by huherto 16y ago
"How about a third option,..." Here in Mexico the Tec of Monterrey (which is one of the best private Universities) does that. They give you a loan/scholarship based on a combination of good grades and socio-economic status. The students get
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by huherto 16y ago
(If understood correctly) You based it in speed and memory efficiency. I rather base it on having something simple and readable.
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by huherto 16y ago
His solution is so similar to mine that is scary. I also went thru the same optimization process. (e.g started with a while and changed that to a for later) I didn't go farther because I didn't want to loose readability. void condense_b
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by huherto 16y ago
"As of 10 years ago, the world needed more software engineers than it had; today this is questionable." My perception is that a lot of software engineers are needed. At least they are needed more(in numbers) than computer scientists.
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by huherto 16y ago
I see your point. If somebody is using something weird, they probably have problems everywhere.
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by huherto 16y ago
> Given this, why would we use regular expressions? If I can get a way with a simple regexp I will use it. If it starts getting complicated I would use something else.(e.g. top down parser or a combination)
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by huherto 16y ago
If I remember correctly my theory of languages course a parser (implemented in a turing machine) is more powerful than a reggex (which is a finite state machine).
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by huherto 16y ago
"you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards." http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
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by huherto 16y ago
I can't find the reference. But some time ago there was a post in HN about how different subjects require different strategies. It was written by a big shot AI or Math professor. Probably someone from MIT. I can't quite remember.
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by huherto 16y ago
Good for them! But it doesn't say what will happen with their service.
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The El Paso Miracle(reason.com)
6 points by huherto 16y ago|0 comments
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by huherto 16y ago
I kept thinking about the last part. Scala is a really nice language. The GWT route was to create a Java compiler to generate JavaScript. Doing the same for Scala seems like a huge effort. But what about this option? It is a little bit craz
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by huherto 16y ago
These are my thoughts about the subject: - Python and Ruby seem interesting. But JavaScript is going to be there nevertheless. Furthermore, it seems like 80% of the functionality in a RIA is going to happen in JavaScript anyway. - JavaScrip
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by huherto 16y ago
Very important when applied to personal problems. Worst-case thinking can get you in a lot of trouble. I cannot articulate how it happens but it does. Perhaps you become paranoid and blow things out of proportion. Fear immobilizes you. Or p
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by huherto 16y ago
The fact that he didn't like to be tricked into reading a book? :-P
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by huherto 16y ago
A little of topic. I may need to dive back in C++. I knew the language pretty well (circa 1994), the STL was brand new and namespaces were experimental. I don't know what happened after that. Can anyone recommend any online resources to fil
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by huherto 16y ago
Did you try with a stool? So you can seat or stand. I'm thinking about trying this set up.
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by huherto 16y ago
Does any body remember when Larry Wall and others were rewriting all the Unix commands in Perl? I thought that was cool but I never heard of it again, and haven't been able to find references to it.

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