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Scientific software development (mostly biomedical), Telecommunication software development, Computer science / Budapest, Hungary / Laszlo K / kocsis1977 gmail

Details can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lkocsis

Sounds like Hungary :)

I wrote two mails yesterday which basically "push back against upper management", for a very good reason. At least that's what I think. Now I'm totally terrified about what will happen tomorrow. I have 4 kids and almost no money in the bank.

6 and 7 were both great.

It's used a lot since there are lots of legacy apps written in Delphi. You can't throw away hundreds of thousands or more lines of code just because Delphi "went out of fashion" (I know the situation is more complex than that, though).

We used EurekaLog (https://www.eurekalog.com/) to get nice exceptions and stack traces, even for access violations :) Imagine that: you have a native app, but you also have stack traces like in C# and Java.

I loved to use Delphi in the early- and mid-2000s, but unfortunately Delphi jobs disappeared, and I had to switch to C# and Java development.

> I am stuck with one critical and long discontinued grid component

Try to replace it with Virtual TreeView: http://www.jam-software.com/virtual-treeview/ https://github.com/Virtual-TreeView/Virtual-TreeView/

Because 1 is not a prime: "A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself." https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Prime_number

"The Annotated Turing" by Charles Petzold: https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Turing-Through-Historic-Com...

Check out Derek Sivers' write-up on spaced repetition: https://sivers.org/srs

I watched season 1 on Netflix and liked it pretty much. I didn't know it was based on a book, thanks for the info.

Every single CS student should read this.

Rubik's cube can be used to teach group theory, see http://geometer.org/rubik/group.pdf or http://www.math.harvard.edu/~jjchen/docs/Group%20Theory%20an...

The classic in the topic: Evidence Based Scheduling, by Joel Spolsky http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html

At my company they are changing open offices to open offices with shared desks. At least if you cannot stand it, you are allowed to work from home. Cheap, cheaper, cheapest -- for the company.

The fun part is when starry eyed managers are talking about this "upgrade", and call it "Future Work" project as if it was something great and innovative.

As Joel said, if you want to sell something, "take the most unfortunate truth about it, turn it upside down, and drill that lie home". http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html

Nothing special. She just couldn't come up with a proper recursive interpretation for ALIX. Now she is called MIRIAM (= MIRIAM Isn't RIchard's AnyMore).

Great idea! It'd also be great if someone created hackernewspapers.com too. There are so many great papers mentioned on HN. Since most links point to pdf files, it'd be possible to collect the pdfs on the same site (if there's no copyright violation).

> It was then realized that the loose analogy between flow charts and Feynman diagrams could be made more precise and powerful with the aid of category theory

This is fascinating!

I use Diodon on Ubuntu.

The wait is over, here is Oracle's official response to the rumors: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/07/not-de...

Pascal is not dead. Lots of Windows applications have been written in Delphi (Object Pascal), and these will require maintenance. Or a rewrite in C#.