mikevm

69 ms·

661.
by mikevm 14y ago
Sublime is a very cool editor, but since you can't debug in it, I guess it's only useful for web developers.
662.
by mikevm 14y ago
Wow, so many technologies. How do you people find out (and keep track) of these frameworks?
663.
by mikevm 14y ago
Gah, I'm tired of these Language Wars. Every week (day?) we see posts on the front page on why language X is the "bestest programming language eva!". There are now a gazillion programming languages, and new ones popping up every once in a w
664.
by mikevm 14y ago
I'm not gonna argue that repeating something is going to aid memorization, but in my experience, the best way to learn a programming language is to read a book and then actually use it. If you forget things you can always look them up, but
665.
by mikevm 14y ago
3 full reads of a book? That's highly inefficient, and it probably becomes very boring (at least for me -- but that might be my ADHD).
666.
by mikevm 14y ago
I'm a student that uses an iPad with ebooks exclusively, and I much prefer the experience to a physical book. As others have said, you complain about software problems, and not inherent problems in the hardware device. In fact, GoodReader l
667.
by mikevm 14y ago
I read some scanned PDF files (over 150MB) and they work fine in GoodReader on my iPad 2. I'm sure that graphics heavy vector PDF files would work even faster.
668.
by mikevm 14y ago
>Simply put, PDF is a format designed to allow me to give you a document where you can be sure (with certain well defined exceptions that I can work around anyway) that you see what I intended you to see. Well put. When I buy technical
669.
by mikevm 14y ago
You know that old joke? A patient says to the doctor, "it hurts when I do this", and the doctor replies: "so don't do that". Your 6" Kindle was not meant for reading PDF books, so don't complain when you're using it not what it was made fo
670.
by mikevm 14y ago
I'd leave your 6" Kindle for light reading, and a decent 9.7"+ tablet for technical reading.
671.
by mikevm 14y ago
It is, I read quite a lot of technical books. In fact, there is no better alternative. Just use a decent PDF reader such as GoodReader. It lets you ignore the margins so that you get the best experience.
672.
by mikevm 14y ago
That page is terrible. I'm zooming in but the font size stays the same.
673.
by mikevm 14y ago
They've released an update book which supersedes 'Algorithms for Interviews': http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Interviews-Adnan-...
674.
by mikevm 14y ago
I'm currently in my 2nd year, and from what I gather most of the people aren't enjoying it so far. The first year was mostly pure math (Mathematical Analysis I & II, Linear Algebra I & II, Discrete Math, Intro to Probability) + a fe
675.
by mikevm 14y ago
>I personally think the biggest reason to go to college is that it's just plain fun. A rare chance in your life to have very few responsibilities and explore being yourself. Doing a CS major (or probably any other science) barely leaves
676.
by mikevm 14y ago
Maybe you should try removing it from your Play Store account (the newest Play Store app allows you to remove apps completely), or just try disabling "auto update" for the Facebook app.
677.
by mikevm 14y ago
I agree with you, and I would appreciate seeing less scribd links posted on HN. Surely people can find other places to post PDFs...
678.
by mikevm 14y ago
This book helped turn my life around: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594743061
679.
by mikevm 14y ago
And here's a re-typeset version in PDF format: http://sicpebook.wordpress.com/
680.
by mikevm 14y ago
>so would you return the error that triggered the cleanup, or the error that resulted from the cleanup? That's a good question. Fortunately, I don't do anything complicated in the cleanup zone - mostly closing handles and freeing memory
681.
by mikevm 14y ago
If we're on the subject of anti-patterns, should GOTO really never be used, in any situation? I remember writing some code in C a few years ago and I needed a place in a function where cleanup is performed, and in case there were errors cau
682.
by mikevm 14y ago
Thanks! Do you happen to have the solutions manual for the IR book?
683.
by mikevm 14y ago
Dropbox is not necessarily free, some people do pay for more storage.
684.
by mikevm 14y ago
What's the definition of a good programmer anyway? It seems rather vague to me. Someone who writes clean, readable code? Someone who writes efficient and elegant algorithms? Which is it?
685.
by mikevm 14y ago
Are you so naive as to think that the real terrorists will be communicating in the open? "Real" terrorists will use Tor, TrueCrypt, PGP, Steganography and any other tool in the toolkit to hide their tracks. I don't see how a gov't surveilla
686.
by mikevm 14y ago
Same here, I also check to see whether this was the only book review this person did. Too many 5 star reviews for a new book is always suspicious, btw. Look at this piece of crap book, for example: http://www.amazon.com/Iterating-Infusion-
687.
by mikevm 14y ago
Why would one prefer to use LLVM over GCC?
688.
by mikevm 14y ago
How do you pronounce it? I say "Cue-tee", but I heard some people calling it "Cute" (wtf?).
689.
by mikevm 14y ago
I clicked the AnnotateMyPDF, but it looks like you need to be signed up for the course to see those materials :(
690.
by mikevm 14y ago
Even if something was first published in 1969, some of us are seeing it for the first time. Anyhow, no one was claiming that this was a "new development".

More ›