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by veddox 11y ago
> But they are not as free as Americans. Oh, give over! As if the US of A were the ultimate land of freedom. With the NSA, Guantanamo, race-based police violence... [Disclaimer: I have nothing against the USA (well, almost nothing). But
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by veddox 11y ago
You think Perl will still be that important in ten years time?
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by veddox 11y ago
I tried to build an online community of youths interested in politics and failed for lack of people. (We did have a very narrow target group: German youths who were both interested in social matters and enjoyed writing. That probably killed
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by veddox 11y ago
A very interesting link - I've been looking for something like that. Thanks for sharing! Turns out, I'm somewhere between "n^2" and "n" skillwise. Encouraging, but there's still some optimization to do ;-)
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by veddox 11y ago
You're probably going to have problems getting enough people to sign up though - they'd need a good incentive. (Speaking from experience here :-( )
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by veddox 11y ago
There are plenty of good, free online CS resources. Check out this page: https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr... Also, have a look at MOOCs on platforms like Udacity, Coursera, ed
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by veddox 11y ago
Check this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/3bstq2/plex_forums_ha... Someone from Plex gives some more details.
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by veddox 11y ago
Interesting idea... I think it's great that someone is doing this, but with all due respect - 1.6bn € via crowdfunding??? Canonical tried to get 32m back in 2013 for the Ubuntu Edge smartphone. Despite a promising start (> 1m in 5hr
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by veddox 11y ago
OK, thanks for the clarification everyone! > there are two operators (one taking the address of something, the result of which is a pointer, another taking a bitwise AND); they both use the same symbol "&". Don't you j
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by veddox 11y ago
I love it :D Pretty graphics, addictive levels - a brilliant idea! (I'm just wondering which of their web devs was feeling bored on the job? ;-) )
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by veddox 11y ago
It is basically just that :-) What I don't understand is the following line: prndindex = (prndindex+1)&0xff; (I'm not a C programmer.) AFAIK, the &0xff is a pointer - but what precisely does it do?
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by veddox 11y ago
One commenter on the page said: "In retrospect this post is obviously satire." I would agree - didn't realize it at first, but it does sound a bit too OTT on second thoughts...
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by veddox 11y ago
wow - 110 wpm, respect! That's close on twice my speed with ten fingers... Although I'm sure you could still better that with proper typing - from a purely physical perspective, your fingers have to travel a smaller distance, and
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by veddox 11y ago
Samsung GT-S5230 (terrible, but it works (mostly)) I want to switch to the Ubuntu phone soon (BQ Aquaris E4.5) - does anybody have any experience with that?
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by veddox 11y ago
When it comes down to it - is there anything that can't be cracked? Make sure you learn secure coding practices (especially if your games are going to involve networking), and then go ahead. I don't think there is anything inheren
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Show HN: A Unix utility for managing your personal quote collection(github.com)
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by veddox 11y ago
There are plenty of teen programmers around (self included), but I haven't seen or heard of one who does something "amazing" - although I'm sure there must be.
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by veddox 11y ago
I think that's the stage I'm at right now (or getting there). But what is the divide between "junior" and "senior/advanced" programmers? And what would help somebody (me) push across that boundary?
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by veddox 11y ago
What's your source? Having lived for over a decade in southern Africa, I find that somewhat hard to believe... If you say that only 7% is being used for farming, then yes, that might be accurate - the population density is way lower
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by veddox 11y ago
Germany is still up in arms about it - Snowden is the cause of the biggest strain in US-German relationships since I don't know when. (1945?)
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by veddox 11y ago
Watch the video - they show the chart. And yes, it is a noticeable difference in growth rate.
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by veddox 11y ago
That kinda reminds me of an old xkcd cartoon: https://xkcd.com/844/
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by veddox 11y ago
There is a desktop version you can download (as concerns the flash).
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by veddox 11y ago
I'd think there'll always be enough people around who are interested in any given subject to prevent that kind of scenario - although of course there is no way to say for sure.
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by veddox 11y ago
Definitely Scratch ( https://scratch.mit.edu/ ), I would say. It's a drag-and-drop, graphical programming environment designed specifically for kids of that age group. It teaches them about conditionals, iteration, a bit
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by veddox 11y ago
> Today, we can get away with ‘knowing’ how Google works without understanding what a ‘principal eigenvector’ is. Tomorrow, we need to absolutely know that. Part of the advancement of technology is that fewer and fewer people actually un
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by veddox 11y ago
Practising some Common Lisp/functional programming with a text-based MUD ( https://github.com/veddox/atlantis ). Don't expect the next nethack, but it's fun :-)
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by veddox 11y ago
I hope you find somebody to help you, but if not, here is some advice from somebody who is likewise self-taught: find some good books on programming. Not programming languages, programming. I discovered that there are several of these freel
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by veddox 11y ago
Just out of curiosity, what makes you say IDEs are bad?
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by veddox 11y ago
Any statistics on that? Or is that just a general impression?

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