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by tbirdz 13y ago
On Quora you have to sign up just to view the answers, although I believe there is some kind of hack to get around it with a cookie or something.
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by tbirdz 13y ago
I am not a systems programmer myself, but if you are looking for resources, I can recommend the book "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective". We used this textbook in some systems classes I took in school, and I though
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by tbirdz 13y ago
I think the commenter was referring to the literary device of allusion, where one poem could make a reference to another poem or other literary work by quoting it directly or paraphrasing, maybe even subverting the original context to creat
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by tbirdz 13y ago
Wow this looks really cool. I have been flipping through the book for a little bit, and it seems to have pretty lucid descriptions of some of the more unusual algorithms, especially those based off of physical processes, such as search algo
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by tbirdz 13y ago
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig: http://norvig.com/21-days.html
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What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic(floating-point-gui.de)
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by tbirdz 13y ago
In that case, why not have the ad blocker download the content, and execute the tracking js, but simply not display the resulting ad to the user. It would register as an impression to the ad company, so the content publisher would get paid,
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Fixed Point Arithmetic and Tricks (2007)(x86asm.net)
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by tbirdz 13y ago
Perhaps you read someone else quoting him in the other HN video games thread on the front page? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7067283
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Jubal.io(jubal.io)
1 points by tbirdz 13y ago|2 comments
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by tbirdz 13y ago
2 interesting things to me are how D is #18 and Go is #36. Given how many postings about Go you see on HN, you'd think it would be be the other way around. Also I thought it was interesting about the rise of F#. That is a language that
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by tbirdz 13y ago
I agree with this very much. Check out http://uva.onlinejudge.org for some example problems with automatic judging of contest problems.
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by tbirdz 13y ago
As far as books go, I am partial to "The Algorithm Design Manual" by Steven Skiena. It has good explanations of how the data structures and algorithms work, as well as entertaining "War Stories" of algorists in action.
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by tbirdz 13y ago
Or maybe /dev/random ?
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by tbirdz 13y ago
>"I'll pay someone who already knows this stuff to phone in the answers for me" - which isn't generally an applicable skill in the real world. I would argue that this is also a valuable skill. Knowing who to hire, ass
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by tbirdz 13y ago
>The challenge wasn't overwhelming complexity, as it is today. The challenge was cramming your ideas into machines so slow, so limited that most ideas didn't fit. I like this line right here. It does seem like we've piled
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by tbirdz 13y ago
Wow that's kind of sad. This guy has been continually commenting for over 2 years with no idea that he's been hellbanned?
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by tbirdz 13y ago
Perhaps obvious, but why not add some of Ray Bradbury's own short stories to the list?
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by tbirdz 13y ago
I was interested in the language, but was put off by the .NET connection for using on linux. Is F# running on mono on linux comparable, performance-wise, with the windows stack?
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by tbirdz 13y ago
Something else this could be useful for is in visualization of historical events on a common timeline.
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by tbirdz 13y ago
Is it a joke, or do they actually believe Scott Adams made this comic to make fun of their company?
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by tbirdz 13y ago
I think you could have waited until the book was actually available in some form (either e-book or paperback) before posting it to HN.
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by tbirdz 13y ago
My fellow geeks, we need to have a jobless future Did everybody see what just happened? The pendulum has swung. Do You Really Want to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary Why I won't be yo
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On DVCS, continuous integration, and feature branches (2011)(continuousdelivery.com)
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F# is open source, and available on github.
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by tbirdz 13y ago
webserver.com could be a nice personal domain for a blog or something, especially one related to http, etc. Though I would agree that the price it's going for seems inflated.
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by tbirdz 13y ago
I think C++ is still considered the "industry standard" in games programming, for whatever that is worth.
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SculptGL: A WebGL Sculpting App(stephaneginier.com)
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Can a Language be Safe? (2012)(mortoray.com)
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by tbirdz 13y ago
I don't feel bad about not having invested in it at the time. The only way I would feel bad now is if I had invested, and then sold it before it reached the height of today.

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