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by tralarpa 8y ago
I still don't understand why you should learn C if you really want to know "how the computer works". The author says "By learning C, you can learn more about how computers work", but why taking the long path if the
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Yes, could happen. The extermination of the host could put pressure on the parasite and favor mutations that give them the ability to live in other species of mosquitoes (which didn't happen in the past for whatever reason, for example
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by tralarpa 8y ago
> This is the sort of thing that would also probably need a new language. I have a good idea for a name of that new language: occam ;)
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by tralarpa 8y ago
I did my first serious programming steps with BASIC on the C64 and the Amiga. The (actually second) BASIC interpreter on the Amiga was made by Microsoft. It was great and horrible at the same time. Great because it had while-loops, labels i
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by tralarpa 8y ago
LOL, I got a downvote. I didn't know there is a "Party against Grammatical Cases" on HN :)
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> At the same time, it seems obvious... English: "My wife sent me an email", but "My wife sent an email to me". Yes, very obvious :)
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> It is acceptable to require a very small amount of assembly code, for example to implement something like memcpy or bcopy, or to provide atomic operations. There is some stuff missing in your list: preparing the stack pointer, address
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by tralarpa 8y ago
Interesting piece of information about textbooks. I haven't tried that. Concerning your tool, how well does the word segmentation of jieba work in your experience? I tried a few, but at the end I always returned to http://ma
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by tralarpa 8y ago
> I understand how depending on what language you come from other languages can be easier or harder of course Definitely. For me (native speaker of an Indo-European language), learning Chinese is like learning a functional programming la
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> Most words have two characters and knowing their meaning only helps slightly with guessing the meaning of the word. It's really infuriating how many two-character words contain an extremely frequent character (like 要 yào) and you
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by tralarpa 8y ago
> Theranos doesn't have anything to do with biomedical science Doesn't it? Wasn't that the main claim of the company? To have the technology that allows to do a lot of tests with very small amounts of blood? In your descri
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by tralarpa 8y ago
Just a word of warning to all HN readers who plan to follow the author's method. It is a quite painful way to learn a language, especially Chinese. I have learned a language (not Chinese) in this way, but I doubt that it is more effici
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Is that the same Blackboard that makes the course/exam management system? If I remember correctly, many years ago a student at my university found a huge security hole in their web interface (and reported it to the university btw).
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by tralarpa 8y ago
Do you know the fischertechnik toy line? It's a little bit like Lego technic (fischertechnik fans will hate me for this comment because fischertechnik appeared in 1964, while the first Lego technic was introduced only in 1977). They ha
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> I think the people that first encountered computers when they were relatively simple and constrained have a huge advantage over the rest of us I pity sometimes the young people who are studying computer science nowadays. I studied CS i
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by tralarpa 8y ago
> hoping it can stand with Neal Stephenson's work Thanks, always looking for new stuff to read. (edit: not really new, but new to me :) Concerning The Three-Body Problem, I found it a bit disappointing. Great build up with a rather
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> I'd argue the most interesting and important research is done in this way Links please :)
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The legal aspects of honeypots were discussed a lot when they became popular. Just two examples: https://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/honeypots-are-they... https://www.researchgate.net/profile
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> you're likely to cross the line sooner or later. That's basically the opposite of what security researchers working for companies and research institutes are doing. Document everything, get written consent of involved partie
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This is really a good example why it is so difficult for security experts to do research and experiments where real users are involved. What Mr. Petrovic did is illegal in most developed countries: copyright violation (copying web pages) an
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> What I'd like to know is whether I'm some weird outlier or whether many other readers are going through this same process. Been there, done that. I blame several things: (a) the Internet, of course. (b) I am much pickier abou
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It's one of the reasons I like Java. People call it a "verbose" language, but it's such a simple language syntax-wise that the IDE knows most of the time exactly what's going on in the editor window. Static typing h
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by tralarpa 8y ago
I have just compared the man pages for Linux and FreeBSD, but the result is not really clear: Example provided on the FreeBSD man page of cut. Examples provided on the Linux man page of xargs. More examples provided on the Linux man page of
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by tralarpa 8y ago
> Getting more current, does anybody else like to stroll down the aisles checking out the current lineups of calculators at their local office supply stores? Yes!!!!! Still love my Casio fx-4500PA and fx-50F. It's funny. I am a comp
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I don't see why Latex shouldn't be used for that. Whether you write # (markdown) or \section (Latex) to start a new section doesn't really matter for you as a writer, but the latter already gives you a correctly formatted bas
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by tralarpa 8y ago
> The questions worth discussing are Interesting that you ask how to diagnose and manage the complexity, but not how to avoid it. Do we really need a more or less complete OS+VM (aka web browser) running on top of another OS (Windows etc
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Web applications are the best example for Wirth's law. It's really mind-boggling if you think about it. None of the client-side components of a web application were originally designed for what they are used for today: 1. a progra
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by tralarpa 8y ago
It's great how much public real-time information is available on energy production and consumption. Some other links: France: https://www.rte-france.com/fr/eco2mix/eco2mix Data from the Irish grid: http:&#x2
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I don't know. Is there really a massive benefit? The visual explanation of the Markov chains on that web site looks elegant and simple because... it is, i.e. it's not really a contribution of the visualization, it's because D
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by tralarpa 8y ago
Wait a second. This is not how programming works at all. Flashcards are for memorization. If you need to memorize the answer to your "var x=0;..." example, that means that you have not understood how your programming language work

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