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by minighost 2y ago
No I ended up going to a university where CS was probably the smallest major on campus. But I worked my ass off to learn CS on my own. The tests wouldn’t have predicted the outcome I’ve been able to enjoy based on scores I received.
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by minighost 2y ago
I didn’t do well on my SATs back in the 90s. I’m not a good standardized test taker and I was working at a dialup internet provider while in high school, probably 30 hours a week. It left next to no time for studying for the SATs. As a resu
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by minighost 3y ago
A function that both opens a file and does something with its contents should be refactored. It’s painful to find code like this and happen to have a string or pointer to some buffer that already contains the data that needs to be converted
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by minighost 3y ago
No one even mentions Google X which rebranded to just X years ago. Clearly it’s been effective that no one even points this out. Yet another winning project.
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by minighost 4y ago
The author is absolutely right. codesearch is amazing. Blaze/bazel is amazing. When will sourcegraph support bazel repos? :-)
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by minighost 9y ago
Vim can do this 1. Open your script/code in vim editor 2. Enable syntax & set the required color scheme :syntax on :colorscheme darkblue 3. Print the file in PS file format :hardcopy >/tmp/filename.ps 4. Convert the PS
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by minighost 13y ago
The problem is that they tried to merge desktop and tablet user experiences in the first place. The idea of having to perform a full context switch / screen jump to launch a new app is a weakness of tablets... not a strength that shoul
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by minighost 13y ago
I sell my nature photography: mikewiacek.com :-) Drop me a note and I'll give you a hackernews price :-)