DrKabab

Re:Don't Make Students Use Eclipse on Saturday April 11, 2020 @07:23PM (#22844958)

Harvard's CS50 does a great job at this. My first intro to CS was through this course, and I'm grateful I did it this way rather than wait till I was taught in the "broken" way at college.

Re:Ask HN: What are you learning? on Sunday April 05, 2020 @07:40PM (#22789675)

Learning a lot about CTFs and pentesting, most through tryhackme.com Highly recommend it

Re:Setting up Git identities on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @04:27AM (#22673052)

In many workplaces, you're required to use the company provided email address with git. And the name some people use at work isn't the same as what they use in their personal projects. (For ex, I use my full name at work but a shorter one for personal stuff)

Re:Setting up Git identities on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @04:20AM (#22673021)

I came up with a similar setup recently, and it works great. Also lets you keep the main gitconfig in version control with my other dotfiles

How not to write (factorial in) Java

Posted by DrKabab on Thursday March 12, 2020 @10:31AM
from the chaosinmotion.blog dept.

https://chaosinmotion.blog/2011/01/25/how-not-to-write-factorial-in-java/

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Re:When Betelgeuse goes supernova, the brightness will rival a full moon on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @03:12AM (#21877543)

I looked it up, turns out it could be any of those depending on how big it is, how far it is, and what its peak brightness here. [1] does a good job of explaining it

[1]. http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/physics/85-the-universe/sup...

Re:Curl to shell isn't so bad on Saturday November 09, 2019 @08:22AM (#21491365)

Ironically conda and Homebrew themselves need to be installed from a script off the internet

Re:Google Announces .new Domain Availability on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:58AM (#21396010)

Instead you could just have delete.foobar.com and delete.foobar.net instead, wouldn't need buying a new pricy domain name...

Re:Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @08:38PM (#21393574)

Can you please elaborate? What about it feels off?

Re:Show HN: You will die in X weeks on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:34PM (#21228197)

Yep. Something fishy about got defensive the replies are. Besides, its not just an idea from a "random inter Blog from 6 years ago", Tim Urban also shows it in his popular Ted(x) talk

Re:From Underwear to Cars, India’s Economy Is Fraying on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @10:16AM (#21060420)

How is this good for future generations?