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Sanskrit and Lisp (2011)(ifacethoughts.net)
82 points by yati 13y ago|61 comments
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Ask HN: Can the NSA snoop on our (hosted) private repos?
2 points by yati 13y ago|5 comments
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Wrap your C++ OpenCV code with Boost Python(yati-sagade.github.io)
1 points by yati 13y ago|0 comments
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by yati 13y ago
> Why should I use a language that forces me to know about RAII and the difference between C pointers and "language provided idioms" to begin with? No one asked you to. I don't like Eclipse that much personally, but I did
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by yati 13y ago
I agree there are rough edges, and for specialized use cases like yours, you might have to walk that extra mile. But when I hear that a framework/library/tool is worth nothing just because it is written in C++ and not in the hip R
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by yati 13y ago
> And why on earth would you want to worry about buffer overflows and memory leaks Have you written a line of code in modern C++? Know what RAII is? If you use C arrays and char*s in C++, that's your problem - the language provides
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by yati 13y ago
I would really like to see a "Learn C++ in minutes" post.
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by yati 13y ago
"The images of offensive shirts were the result of a computer program that automatically generated random phrases and images" - I simply don't buy this. Generating stuff randomly is one thing. Putting random stuff on display
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Is it a crime to menstruate? (2010)(genderbytes.wordpress.com)
2 points by yati 13y ago|0 comments
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by yati 13y ago
Umm.. Minecraft, while awesome, is certainly not one of the graphically intensive games out there, and yet the Java promise of hogging all resources available is always kept.
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by yati 13y ago
"Fast" is subjective. "Fast enough for X" is better, but still subjective unless you have benchmarks. That said, I agree Java is good enough for, say, long running web-services where you take the JVM start-up hit once. http://www.techempow
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Why do people still say Java is slow?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
11 points by yati 13y ago|31 comments
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by yati 14y ago
From PEP-8, "Use 4 spaces per indentation level. For really old code that you don't want to mess up, you can continue to use 8-space tabs." [1]. While I agree on ending the '\r\n' mania(which itself is a very hard task), pushing tab stops d
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Volcanic Lightning: How does it work?(io9.com)
1 points by yati 14y ago|1 comments
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by yati 14y ago
This reminds me of the days when I was learning, even before I got into college. Fortunately, we as an industry have more resources than any other field for beginners, but as lelandbatey said, "...we really should do a better job of explain
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C++ Grandmaster Certification(cppgm.org)
1 points by yati 14y ago|0 comments
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by yati 14y ago
This is one thing I myself was considering writing, as there is no reason why today's terminal emulators, which I spend most of my time on my machine, shouldn't be able to also display media. This will team up with ranger very nicely for th
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Google Code Jam 2013 starts in about an hour.(code.google.com)
2 points by yati 14y ago|0 comments
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by yati 14y ago
People are (even I was) taught Java to believe that if you embrace Java, you no longer have to worry about security, without detailing them on what kind of security problems are alleviated by Java. And Oracle has proved itself highly ineffi
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by yati 14y ago
Do the OOP/Java courses still teach students that Java is "secure"?
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Doing it wrong: getters and setters(typicalprogrammer.com)
1 points by yati 14y ago|0 comments
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by yati 14y ago
With more and more "nativish" APIs being added to HTML5 (like the whole suite of mobile device APIs coming with Firefox OS), browsers are becoming functionally more and more similar to operating systems, just that the design is terrible fo
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Probabilistic programming and Bayesian methods for hackers (Python)(github.com)
7 points by yati 14y ago|0 comments
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by yati 14y ago
The page looks very bad (read: is almost unreadable) on non Macs :(
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by yati 14y ago
Solarized Dark! Actually, dark schemes are better on the eyes than light ones, but when you're browsing while coding, most Webpages tend to have a bright background, and too frequent switches between the dark console and the light browser m
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by yati 14y ago
I think you can use Java 8 features in the latest build of the JDK. Not sure, though.
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by yati 14y ago
I like this one! Superficially, the syntax looks like the marriage of Go and Scala.
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by yati 14y ago
I agree that at the grass root level, things are not as pleasant in India as they are portrayed in the article. But at least we have a way to challenge the government(which has been happening quite a lot these days). But imagine living in a
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Egypt: The Next India or the Next Pakistan?(nytimes.com)
44 points by yati 14y ago|39 comments
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Ten ways of being foolish(justicekatju.blogspot.in)
1 points by yati 14y ago|0 comments

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