kol

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by kol 9y ago
Scientific software development (mostly biomedical), Telecommunication software development, Computer science / Budapest, Hungary / Laszlo K / kocsis1977 gmail Details can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com&#x
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by kol 9y ago
Sounds like Hungary :)
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by kol 10y ago
I wrote two mails yesterday which basically "push back against upper management", for a very good reason. At least that's what I think. Now I'm totally terrified about what will happen tomorrow. I have 4 kids and almost
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by kol 10y ago
6 and 7 were both great.
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by kol 10y ago
It's used a lot since there are lots of legacy apps written in Delphi. You can't throw away hundreds of thousands or more lines of code just because Delphi "went out of fashion" (I know the situation is more complex than
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by kol 10y ago
We used EurekaLog ( https://www.eurekalog.com/ ) to get nice exceptions and stack traces, even for access violations :) Imagine that: you have a native app, but you also have stack traces like in C# and Java. I loved to use D
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by kol 10y ago
> I am stuck with one critical and long discontinued grid component Try to replace it with Virtual TreeView: http://www.jam-software.com/virtual-treeview/ https://github.com/Virtual-TreeView&#x2F
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by kol 10y ago
Because 1 is not a prime: "A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself." https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Prime_number
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by kol 10y ago
"The Annotated Turing" by Charles Petzold: https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Turing-Through-Historic-Com...
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by kol 10y ago
Check out Derek Sivers' write-up on spaced repetition: https://sivers.org/srs
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by kol 10y ago
I watched season 1 on Netflix and liked it pretty much. I didn't know it was based on a book, thanks for the info.
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by kol 10y ago
Every single CS student should read this.
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by kol 10y ago
Rubik's cube can be used to teach group theory, see http://geometer.org/rubik/group.pdf or http://www.math.harvard.edu/~jjchen/docs/Group%20Theory%20an...
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by kol 10y ago
The classic in the topic: Evidence Based Scheduling, by Joel Spolsky http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html
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by kol 10y ago
At my company they are changing open offices to open offices with shared desks . At least if you cannot stand it, you are allowed to work from home. Cheap, cheaper, cheapest -- for the company. The fun part is when starry eyed managers are
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by kol 10y ago
Nothing special. She just couldn't come up with a proper recursive interpretation for ALIX. Now she is called MIRIAM (= MIRIAM Isn't RIchard's AnyMore).
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by kol 10y ago
Great idea! It'd also be great if someone created hackernewspapers.com too. There are so many great papers mentioned on HN. Since most links point to pdf files, it'd be possible to collect the pdfs on the same site (if there'
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by kol 10y ago
> It was then realized that the loose analogy between flow charts and Feynman diagrams could be made more precise and powerful with the aid of category theory This is fascinating!
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by kol 10y ago
I use Diodon on Ubuntu.
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by kol 10y ago
The wait is over, here is Oracle's official response to the rumors: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/07/not-de...
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by kol 10y ago
Pascal is not dead. Lots of Windows applications have been written in Delphi (Object Pascal), and these will require maintenance. Or a rewrite in C#.