hxchen

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by hxchen 8y ago
Addiction. I suffer from caffeine addiction: a cup of coffee in the morning just to make myself feel normal. I got terrible mental melt-down once I stopped coffee for a few days.
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by hxchen 8y ago
A great chance ahead is to solve the "I know it when I see it" kind of problems, with Programming-by-Example practice. Say sorting. You don't need to learn any computer science to tell a list of number is sorted or not. Probl
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by hxchen 8y ago
Same here. Another point is that many things are "anxious" because we are doing it for the first time. Like something you used to fear about few years ago, now turns out easy because you have done it tons of time. Something we can
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by hxchen 8y ago
Or use calloc. It does the same thing as malloc, but init memory to zero automatically.
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by hxchen 8y ago
Reason: performance. If you just do string manipulation, memncpy is faster. If you need to convert data type, like int to string, then use snprintf.
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by hxchen 8y ago
Yeah a good point. I think the issue here is order: solving which first. Algorithms motivate you, Handling interface demotivates. So start with the motivator.
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by hxchen 8y ago
You have to be really GOOD at your field to have this freedom. Good for you, dude. I also like to abstract away the non-sense part of a problem, so that I can focus on the real intellectual puzzles.
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by hxchen 8y ago
As an academia in CS, I use two filters: * top-tier peer-reviewed conference. * paper abstract and introduction. If I am not convinced that the problem is interesting by introduciton, I will skip it.
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by hxchen 8y ago
Dude I got you. Two kinds of "work": work that gives you money, and work that gives you value. They are not necessarily the same one. Most people have to work for money. The best we can do is to gather more "money" (or r
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by hxchen 8y ago
This should be on the top! Time savior.
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by hxchen 8y ago
I agree with you on that hybrid would be a more sustainable solution. I want to highlight a technical perspective. That’s the scalability issue of Blockchain. Fully decentralization cannot afford scalability, just as we cannot afford refere