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by vram22 6y ago
IIRC, a very simple implementation of a hash table was shown in the classic Kernighan & Ritchie C book, "The C Programming Language" (which was one of the first good programming books that I bought and read, early in my pro
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by vram22 6y ago
>4. If composition is not enough go through all other similar design patterns that are not based on inheritance. IMO, that seems like too formulaic an approach without enough thinking in that step. Also, you mention design patterns, but
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by vram22 6y ago
That's a great one. If only it were followed in reality instead of in the breach.
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by vram22 6y ago
Hope so. Want to try it out. I bought and read most of the llama and camel books years ago, at Perl v4 or so. Ditto for the Perl Cookbook. (All 3 by O'Reilly. Some of those Cookbooks were very good. Also had the Python and Java Cookboo
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by vram22 6y ago
Same opinion here. His humor was unbeatable in quality, quantity (sometimes multiple jokes per page) and sometimes even subtlety, not to mention unexpectedness (which is a key criterion of a joke being funny). Sample: From a Perl FAQ, IIRC
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by vram22 6y ago
That's why PHB managers want bums in seats. And the more the merrier, for their perceived status, too. As a consultant, I've literally come across project managers, at least in India, who measure their "prestige" by the
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by vram22 6y ago
Related: twitter.com/iamdevloper (sometimes hilarious) twitter.com/devops_borat (dead, but lots of good ones)
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by vram22 6y ago
Wow, I had no idea of this. Interesting. My guess is that these points in common between Sanskrit, Hindi and Latin may be because of the PIE (Proto-Indo-European) ancestry of all three of them (and other European and Indian languages too).
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by vram22 6y ago
A few interesting language-related points: Sanskrit and Hindi have no equivalent of the English word "the" (and, I think, of "a" either). Sanskrit and Hindi have no concept of upper case vs. lower case letters, just a c
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by vram22 6y ago
The software engineering book by Dr. Pankaj Jalote.
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by vram22 6y ago
gtkD easy only for configuring or for programming too?
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by vram22 6y ago
>>By convention comments are ignored, but the truth is they're not by the programmer. >Disagree. It's more like the opposite is mostly true: >By convention comments are not meant to be ignored Otherwise who on earth
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by vram22 6y ago
>natural organisational entropy Bon mot, considering the title of PG's essay :)
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by vram22 6y ago
Sorry, the millions of dollars was mostly for marketing (which is largely what led to its huge adoption), but at least some of that money would have been used to hire top people like computer science compiler specialist PhDs to work on maki
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by vram22 6y ago
Yes, that is possible. Java was dead slow early on (I first used it soon after it came out, and pioneered use of servlets in my company at the time), but after Sun's management threw millions of dollars and high-end tech people at the
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by vram22 6y ago
>By convention comments are ignored, but the truth is they're not by the programmer. Disagree. It's more like the opposite is mostly true: By convention comments are not meant to be ignored, but the truth is they mostly are
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by vram22 6y ago
And this does not mean that I am advocating that no one should start or join a startup. I just mean, for your own sake, do your due diligence. It's not only companies or VCs who need to do that.
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by vram22 6y ago
>lifestyle business" passive-aggressive shaming I should have added: by VCs, to founders or prospective founders, for their own selfish vested interests, of course. The more dupes join the startup lottery, the more the "house&q
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by vram22 6y ago
>foundrrs Meant founders, and I messed up the HN asterisk formatting stuff.
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by vram22 6y ago
>One unicorn every couple of years is all that YC needs True, but there is no ongoing guarantee of that, no matter how many times it has happened in the past, and no matter who claims it[1], be it a Midas-list VC or a serial founder or w
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by vram22 6y ago
Actually, now I think that your GP's question itself (to which I replied above) is not very clear or meaningful, or at least not clearly worded. Mea culpa, maybe. So won't add more.
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by vram22 6y ago
How about the reported Perl6 / Raku speed issues? Saying "reported" because I have not done an in-depth study if they exist, just read about it briefly somewhere (and a while ago, may a year or so). If they did/do exis
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by vram22 6y ago
>misalignment of interests between founders (growing a sustainable business) and VCs (dilution) Not all foundrrs are interested in growing a successful business. In fact, what with all the brainwashing that has been going on for years
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by vram22 6y ago
Yes, I was quite aware of, and was referring to, that (the first clause of your first sentence), but also something more. Maybe I did not make it clear. Will try to restate it better tomorrow.
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by vram22 6y ago
On a rough count, ~60 people, not including founders.
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by vram22 6y ago
Yes, but I was saying earlier that I didn't prefer the use of the word "capital", because it is abstract - a thing (money), not an actor. And I mentioned human nature i.e. people, who are real actors. Your use of the word &q
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by vram22 6y ago
Yes. Although I would label it a bit differently, not plain "capital": human nature and group / organizational dynamics. That's the reason why many smart companies try to stay small, the reason for spinoffs, skunkworks,
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by vram22 6y ago
>but organizations lose their ability to deliver value as they grow all the time, which is where startups come in... >I'm sure every person on this board can think of dozens of companies that failed because they got too big and c
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by vram22 6y ago
They don't have to be 100%, and I did not say so. But there has to be some alignment, say 60 to 80%, or the whole YC biz model falls apart, for obvious reasons. Good sales and profits, or being acquired for a good price, or a good IP
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by vram22 6y ago
>For the founders, is the YC network going to stay worth 7% of every company that joins it? That 7% is not at all a single number. Effectively, it is 7% of the valuation of each company in YC, which can vary from very low, zero or maybe

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