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by kovac 4y ago
Can C really completely go away as long as there's embedded programming? Are there any other alternatives for that domain?
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by kovac 4y ago
> It blows my mind that there's so much devotion to the tool first, problems second What made you think that their devotion to the tool indicates that they care less about the problem? I wonder what you might think about me then in
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by kovac 4y ago
That's brilliant. Really put things into perspective.
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by kovac 4y ago
College-level means undergraduate-level? If so, how is algebra/calculus not that hard? Abstract algebra is one of the hardest stuff I've come across. Calculus? Do you think it's not that hard to prove convergence/bounds&
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by kovac 4y ago
I'm a C# guy who learnt C over the past 2 years. It absolutely made me a better programmer. I learnt by going through K&R first and then Expert C programming by Peter van der Linden. I also went through OS books, books that talk ab
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by kovac 4y ago
This is true and very unfortunate. My response to this is that when I want to learn anything in-depth, I use textbooks written by experts (e.g. professors, industry experts often from the past). It's hard to verify the expertise of blo
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by kovac 4y ago
There's no healthy social media. Please focus your resources on Firefox.
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by kovac 4y ago
Isn't that what we've been doing for a while now. Invent problems that don't exist, give it a cool name and propose a new "solution" :p
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by kovac 4y ago
Instead of searching the Web for hours, I think it's more effective to request help in a mailing list or their IRC channel if a few minutes of web search doesn't get you anywhere.
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Ask HN: Printed Computer Science Magazines?
21 points by kovac 4y ago|18 comments
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Ask HN: How is it like being interviewed by those far junior to you?
7 points by kovac 4y ago|7 comments
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by kovac 4y ago
I'm not an expert (sigh...) but the hardest work I had to do was implementing a computational geometry library. For the first time in my career I had to buy text books. Looks like the closer you are to the hardware, harder it is. If I
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by kovac 4y ago
Same here. Nowadays, I check out CLI applications before committing to a GUI version. All those seconds I shave off by not waiting for things to load for too long, hardly having to leave the keyboard have a lot of advantage. It just takes m
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Ask HN: What was being a software developer like about 30 years ago?
297 points by kovac 4y ago|467 comments
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by kovac 4y ago
Kind of similar, but I was thinking of replacing them with team assistants (a kin to PAs or secretaries) for teams. This is nothing but just renaming the current roles except that it takes the connotation of a manager being better, more exp
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Ask HN: Do you do things differently when you first join a team/company?
3 points by kovac 4y ago|4 comments
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by kovac 4y ago
I've switched email to Runbox after trying out Fastmail, protonmail, mailbox.org. So far so good. Reasons I chose Runbox over the rest - they let me try all the features during the trial period unlike others whose free trial period is
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by kovac 4y ago
This sounds true. Could you point out some features of a hiring process we can look out for for signs of good teams/leaders? Number of interviews, time it takes to complete the process, kind of questions they ask, etc?
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by kovac 4y ago
1-2 years can happen due to changes like your manager changes, large number of your team mates leave, company gets acquired. Such circumstances can bring about major changes to culture/environment/scope.
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by kovac 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. Thats indeed broken. I see people complain about Linux breaking on updates (not just about pop but almost about every distro), I was wondering what it means for the OS to actually break.
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by kovac 4y ago
What kind of break is this? Is it like you can't even boot into the tty, can't get from tty to graphical environment or just your user applications stopped working?
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by kovac 4y ago
Same here. Since I started using tiling window managers I stopped using external monitors. This is one place Linux helped me cut expenses...
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by kovac 4y ago
No, as long as you respect the original authors' terms of use of that "knowledge"
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by kovac 4y ago
Exactly. The features OP described are IDE like features that many vim users like myself don't want in my basic text editor. Adding extra features via plugins is not an afterthought but design. He clearly doesn't understand the vi
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by kovac 4y ago
Not sure why you're down voted but this is what I thought as well. What I mainly heard was that thus was aimed at casual gamers. But this felt like an over-engineered solution for casual gamers to make enough money from them while too
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by kovac 4y ago
I'm a firefox user and have no love for Google, but I disagree with this. No one is forcing you to use Chrome. This is also a good test for Mozilla/Brave to show if they truly stand by the principles they profess to defend. If Chr
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by kovac 4y ago
There are many of those. Runbox, fastmail, mailbox.org,...
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by kovac 4y ago
Just like with web over something like gopher or modern messengers over IRCs, I think the major problem is that too many fancy features are attached to email like html, calendars, calendar invites. Once you stop using them, emails are very
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by kovac 4y ago
That's a lot of excessive code to write just to avoid using exceptions though.
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by kovac 4y ago
With C I rarely use libs outside of stdlib and when I do I pay attention to performance more than convenience. I think even if it's dominated by libs and data types I think it has value as it might reflect what actually happens out the

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