narag

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3001.
by narag 18y ago
And even if writing a more complete compiler wasn't difficult enough, there's more much to it. There are complex details like exception handling (stack unwinding, signals...), graphical debuggers, interface with GUI libraries, threads, etc.
3002.
by narag 18y ago
I don't think that the question is about public school. I went to public high school here in Spain and I found it fine. Maybe there are more factors than public vs private. For concerned fathers, I would recommend finding some side activity
3003.
by narag 18y ago
The chemical process needed to purify drugs is a qualitative jump.
3004.
by narag 18y ago
>Anyway what do you think of marijuana as a stepping stone to heavier drugs? In my experience this is not true. I can remember a numerous group of people that used to join to smoke hashish (here it's the most usual preparation) 25 o 30
3005.
by narag 18y ago
>Alcohol is an addictive substance that kills lots of people[1] directly through toxicity and indirectly through impaired judgment. There is strong evidence that red wine is a powerful antioxidant that prevents heart diseases. That'd be
3006.
by narag 18y ago
> Does anyone here actually know anyone who was ever hit by a bus? No, but I got married. Does it qualifies?
3007.
by narag 18y ago
The comment you are responding to is clearly tonge-in-cheek. On the other hand, how is compatible to be both anonymous (thus unreachable) and a spammer? I believe what this guy says because it's also my experience. I haven't set up a compan
3008.
by narag 18y ago
He wrote the software and then showed it to potential buyers. The latter doesn't seem more difficult than the former ç:-)
3009.
by narag 18y ago
"...how could such conclusions, were they actually true, be put to use by society?" If there's a cause, someone could try to find out what it is and it might be useful. Or not. But knowledge isn't moral or inmoral, it's knowledge. Wishful i
3010.
by narag 18y ago
"...there seems to be little correlation with siblings, at least beyond what you would expect from having parents who emphasize learning math." I'd bet for a set of negative factors. For you to be 100%, you need to have full 15% of genes
3011.
by narag 18y ago
Assuming as little as 10% could be nature, the lack of genetic conditions would mean a lot for top achievements. Also talking about a certain community doesn't necesarily mean something related to race. There could be some kind of selection
3012.
by narag 18y ago
>listing a few things like in his example won't be enough to give a candidate anything more than a vague idea of what the place will be like In fact long hours, low pay and "your opinion can't be better than others'" say a lot. Well, at
3013.
by narag 18y ago
It seems that Sweden has just approved a similar rogue law: http://armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com/2008/06/invasion-of-...
3014.
by narag 18y ago
I didn't mean to provoke an off-topic, but thank you anyway :-)
3015.
by narag 18y ago
I'd say people that uses Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice or eMule does know what they're using.
3016.
by narag 18y ago
The article doesn't say that hiring attractive persons is wrong The article says, or at least that's what I understood, that people hired attractive persons not knowing why.
3017.
by narag 18y ago
Yesterday I spent some time online looking for a new laptop. I would like 14'', thin-and-light, and long battery life. I needed no more than five minutes to know all the offer from Apple. Other companies like Sony or Asus are extremely anno
3018.
by narag 18y ago
I prefer to write slightly longer, clearer code. What I find infuriating is writing the same code all over again, with little variations over many files.
3019.
by narag 18y ago
One of the ways to do that is asking the government to ease the inmigration policies for programmers.
3020.
by narag 18y ago
>However, I cannot name any other instances or derivatives of the code which are active In Spain we have http://barrapunto.com much smaller but also using slashcode. IIRC there are also two more instances, one of them in Portugal. Bar
3021.
by narag 18y ago
I also have recognized that a handful of guys were smarter. But that's after working with them. Sometimes I realized how smart they were after I was elsewhere, found a problem that they had solved and found out how hard it was. A superheroe
3022.
by narag 18y ago
Who do you think that Google superheroe is?
3023.
by narag 18y ago
I signed off and still couldn't find it, but I didn't look for it too much time. Location is very important. It seems that I'm the best paid programmer in Madrid :-) But if I want to keep that smile, I better don't look to other EU countrie