khitchdee

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by khitchdee 8y ago
Well, if you follow the statistics, which I'm not sure you've been tracking, the composition of Hacker News has a larger number of gents than ladies. At least it was so, the last time I checked. However, that having been said, I w
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Ask HN? Occulus Rift Dev Question
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Ask HN? Dumb question about the Linux kernel
2 points by khitchdee 8y ago|6 comments
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by khitchdee 8y ago
I guess the fact that you have a delay associated with the recognition of commands not loaded into the recognizers current vocabulary is an artifact associated with the design of the recognizer which was probably tuned towards continuous sp
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by khitchdee 8y ago
Re: grammar changes: I assumed each language was associated with its grammar and it was not more fine grained than that. This makes sense though in the context where you're simply trying to replicate the keyboard-window-mouse based too
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by khitchdee 8y ago
I agree. I think a wrapper would be a good way to go about it with the voice based programming interface left only for a high level description of what the programmer is trying to do. Sort of akin to how many of today's new high level
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by khitchdee 8y ago
I think the scope system is a step in a useful direction. The speed at which you change a grammar is not really that relevant because typically, you don't program in more than one language. Being able to do it is. When you start with
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by khitchdee 8y ago
This article is skewed towards the use of hands-free programming interfaces for people who find typing inconvenient. Also, it appears that the tools that have been designed for the voice coding part have been designed in a generic way so as
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by khitchdee 8y ago
I'm not trying to glorify Knuth or downgrade Linux kernel developers. I'm only saying that you can leanr a lot from a good programmer, and an apprentice type arrangement is probably the best way to learn programming and we need mo
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by khitchdee 8y ago
Some people develop good coding techniques, like Donald Knuth. If you're new, you set out on your own or read up on what they've done or get lucky and work with a good programmer. That's how you pick it up. But, it's all
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by khitchdee 8y ago
It's a matter of getting good at it and that takes time and effort, but the end result is far better than not getting good at it and using a more automated, higher level lanuggae to take the easy way out
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by khitchdee 8y ago
They try to make programming easier but fail at it. Experienced programmers take this change in their stride. New programmers are most effected.
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by khitchdee 8y ago
I think the designers (Apple) have targeted a certain class of apps with Swift, XCode and the underlying libraries (Cocoa). A majority of their existing developer base will likely benefit from what they've done. But from the point of v
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by khitchdee 8y ago
Well, this article is about Result types in Swift, and my point is, I think this kind of thing is overkill. It tends to make the learning curve for a new programmer steeper because there's all these extra bells and whistles provided by
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by khitchdee 8y ago
Well the tooling you are referring to is more like buildingin an automatic sensor into a basic tool. So it's an enhancement to a basic rtool functionality, not a new tool. I'm only questioning the usefulness of that enhancement, s
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by khitchdee 8y ago
It's more like pre-tensioners in seatbelts are not as neccessary as seatbelts themselves.
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by khitchdee 8y ago
C. Just basic data types.
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by khitchdee 8y ago
It's more an expression of "if it any broke don't fix it" or a minimalist approach to prorgamming.
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by khitchdee 8y ago
Well I think basic data types are enough to express what the variable is expected to hold. Any highewr level types above that, such as what higher level languages provide are, I think a luxury for lazy programmers
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by khitchdee 8y ago
While typing is a good way to reduce programmer errors, specially for large scale programs, it's much like autocomplete in a word processor. It's cool to have but also a bad habit to form. The quality of prgrams would improve if
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by khitchdee 8y ago
I'm 50 and still counting, so maybe my perspective on things is a little more tired than yours.
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by khitchdee 8y ago
Yes. This is a ageist thinking. It's in sync with the tenor of this thread.
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by khitchdee 8y ago
Needing to find clients towards the end of each project takes it's toll on the worry related centers of your mind and should ideally be avoided . This helps you maintain continuity with what you are doing and helps you with your output
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by khitchdee 8y ago
That's an interesting observation. Let's take a sport. Say tennis. let's take competitive tennis, played by professionals. At the world level, tennis is both a physical and mental game where you are trying to outguess your op
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by khitchdee 8y ago
That's a double edged sword because the therapist you choose has a singificant role to play in your understanding of focus and it's level correlation with age. Your therapist's a bility to diagnose is stringly correlated with
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by khitchdee 8y ago
That's a question with many corollaries so my answer will be a bit lengthy. The reason you need to take less risks is because your ability to execute a task that you were used to executing before is reduced due to the ageing process. F
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by khitchdee 8y ago
I suspect this scenario is unique to the high tech software/hradware/IT industry due to the pace at which workers are expected to work at in this industry. With age related decline in efficiency, the only option available to you i
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by khitchdee 8y ago
At my age, being able to move around is limited and being able to stay in one place and work is preferred as it assists in keeping a more stable lifestyle which helps with foucs that tends todecay with age. Since contracting typically is fo
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by khitchdee 8y ago
Hi. I was in my 30s and holding a steady job as a programmer with big corporate. Then I decided to take a small sabbatical. Before I knew it, several years had passed and my savings were getting epleted. So I tried to get bck in the job ma
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by khitchdee 8y ago
In terms of number of programmers programming them compared to now, I'd guess a factor of 10000 at least

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