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Thank you for your response. Sorry for seeing it so late.
Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @07:24AM (#20694365)
This wouldn't be a problem if people wrote programs in languages that have proper type systems that can correctly classify failure.

I'm thinking of types such as Maybe/Option or Either.

I hate it for example when a C/C++ function has to return a -1 in case of failure.

Will you sell the data I enter here or what do you do with it?
Re:Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google' on Thursday June 06, 2019 @05:52PM (#20119601)
:D

Sadly my time is like all taken up and Rust skills are zero but I'd love to contribute to such a cause for sure.

Re:Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google' on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @04:04PM (#20108540)
I wonder whether this is how it was when RMS had the userland and all he needed was someone with a Kernel.
Re:Topics in Advanced Data Structures [pdf] on Monday April 29, 2019 @02:50PM (#19781391)
I'm a Bioinformatics student, so it's not for work, but I have been looking into Suffix Arrays, BWTs and FM indexes for my project.

I've seen them applied to some real world next gen genomic tools for example this one https://github.com/vgteam/odgi implements a multi string BWT. Technically they're in academia and not making money afaik but it's interesting stuff.

Re:Going hungry affects children for their whole lives on Monday April 15, 2019 @03:19PM (#19668045)
Have you tried supplements and multi vitamins? If he won't eat maybe he'll drink it or swallow a pill?
Re:Going hungry affects children for their whole lives on Monday April 15, 2019 @03:07PM (#19667980)
> Hunger during childhood can have a ripple effect that we are only just beginning to understand.

I come from Africa and I attend talks at a medical research lab, many of which often end up involving malnutrition for obvious reasons.

I have seen a lot of research talking about how malnutrition affects kids intellectual abilities, immunity and more. This is not a problem we are just begining to understand.

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It's also fairly common knowledge that children who get malnourised never catch up in many facets of life.

Re:x86 Assembly Guide (2018) on Sunday April 07, 2019 @04:17AM (#19595531)
Hello, sorry I don't have your solution but I'm in your situation with not quite understanding linking. I have a lot of issues with linking/calling C++ and C libraries from each other or other low level languages. My background is in web stuff.

Could you please point me to the resources you used to get to your present level? Thanks :)

If it's software you can submit to The Journal of Open Source Software https://joss.theoj.org which will cost you as much as making a pull request as far as I know :-)
Re:The world might run out of people on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @10:30AM (#19095837)
Right? Most countries in Africa actually show dropping birth rates. The ones going up or stable are ones with war or poor social amenities.
Re:The world might run out of people on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @10:28AM (#19095813)
The commenter is talking about averages and you're talking about the tails of the graph.