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Re:Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
on Thursday January 14, 2016 @09:28AM (#10901538)
CS Lewis..look him up
Re:Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
on Thursday January 14, 2016 @09:25AM (#10901515)
Everyone who dies has probably used a smart phone or the internet so lets start the avalanche!
Re:Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
on Thursday January 14, 2016 @09:18AM (#10901483)
Harry Potter is a poorly written kids fantasy, how does that relate to programming?
Re:Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
on Thursday January 14, 2016 @08:46AM (#10901304)
Sad news, however how is this related to Hackery?
Re:Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort?
on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:27AM (#10900519)
There is an argument that it hasn't aged well and that with the advances of programming language design, libraries and hardware it is more of a historical look at the early days of programming. I disagree though as it gives the budding programmer a good foundation. I would also suggest SICP books/lectures. Also learn to program Visual Basic in 5 hours :-p
Re:Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art (1974)
on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @06:11AM (#10893526)
Paul Graham is no Knuth
Re:Two Weeks of Rust
on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @07:50AM (#10887068)
I disagree, all languages have the potential to be misused by poor programmers and it's the developer who is the source of the bug, the Linux kernel is written in C and is the most successful/widely used piece of software ever written largely due to the quality of the devs. Blaming a language for bugs or hoping new shiny one will stop a poor programmer for producing bugs is wishful thinking