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Re:Ask HN: If I've already taught myself to code, should I still get m... on Saturday March 21, 2020 @01:24PM (#22648090)

A gay guy can still "know about women" (a phrase which to me is a dog whistle anyway). And the assumption based on tone is what I was trying to point out.

Re:Ask HN: If I've already taught myself to code, should I still get m... on Saturday March 21, 2020 @01:16PM (#22648019)

Nothing in the above specifically indicates that the writer is a man.

Re:Physicists demonstrate new way to violate local causality on Saturday April 22, 2017 @02:44PM (#14174011)

Definitely _Quantum Mechanics_ by Susskind and Friedman. Only assumes that you are pretty good with probability, and the expositions are nice

Ask HN: Looking for a graphics framework recommendation

Posted by chwind on Monday April 10, 2017 @11:09AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Dear HN,I've been working on some 2d visualizations in my free time, just for fun, things like cellular automata, chaotic iterated maps, fractals, etc. I've been using OCaml and its Graphics package, and sometimes Python with Cairo to do this -- I really just need a canvas where I can draw pixels.So far, I've been running all computations on the CPU, but I'd like to start playing with the GPU,...

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Re:Ask HN: Is the old OCaml Rust compiler around anywhere? on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @11:30AM (#13590444)

thanks!

Ask HN: Is the old OCaml Rust compiler around anywhere?

Posted by chwind on Monday February 06, 2017 @11:28PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Looking for the OCaml compiler that I've heard was used to bootstrap Rust. Just curious about it -- thanks!

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Re:Rust creator Graydon Hoare is now at Apple working on Swift on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:10PM (#13534736)

what is a function head?

Ask HN: Is it OK to reverse engineer a file format for interoperability?

Posted by chwind on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @08:14PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Thinking about writing an app that will share a market with a widely used but very expensive piece of software. That software has a proprietary XML-based file format that I'd love to be able to open and save to from my app. Is that legal? I've seen examples like Google Docs & OpenOffice opening Microsoft Office files, but I'm not sure if that's generally the case. I've heard it's prohibited...

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