wizardofoz
Re:Is Dvorak our only hope?
on Saturday August 15, 2009 @06:14PM (#765303)
No.
Launch your product. Quit your job.
Re:Are science fiction/fantasy writers insane?
on Sunday August 09, 2009 @05:35PM (#751332)
Excellent article. I like how the author's head turned to Star Wars at the face of death lol. I wonder if there's any similar kind of deviant thinking among hackers.
Re:Signs that you're a bad programmer
on Friday August 07, 2009 @12:20AM (#746989)
I'm getting the same message, could someone post a mirror? Or if any one still has the page open, please save it and post it elsewhere.
Re:If-else vs switch – Which is better?
on Sunday August 02, 2009 @10:28PM (#738473)
Code that test the finite switch:
3. for (int i = 0; i < iteration; i++) {
4. testSwitchFinite(i);
5. }
Once i > 5, testSwitchFinite will always skip to default. This function doesn't even test the switch properly.
Something like testSwitchFinite(i%5+1) would have made more sense (for the finite switch and if-else.)
Ask HN: How to protect/copyright code/essays/papers published on my site?
Hi,I'm thinking of creating a personal website and putting on it source code, articles/essays, unpublished papers, etc. that I have/will writ(t)e(n).However I am concerned some of these works might be stolen. I'm especially concerned that someone might publish on their own name the unpublished papers I have written and/or use my code in their programs and then claim it as their own.Is there...
Re:Hacker News clone for Singapore
on Thursday July 30, 2009 @09:46AM (#732179)
It would be awesome if you or someone could make a similar version for New York City.
Re:"US is empire of the devil": A visit to North Korea
on Sunday July 26, 2009 @12:45AM (#724063)
Very interesting story.
Re:Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
on Thursday July 23, 2009 @04:40AM (#719235)
What about an online meeting? On an IRC channel? Can a hacker working on a project multitask and attend the IRC meeting while simultaneously coding (perhaps he has 2 monitors, he codes on the larger one and IRCs on the other one) ?
I'd like to hear some thoughts on this.
Re:Dijkstra interview (subtitled, 24 mins, 300MB) [mpg video]
on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @02:29AM (#717478)
On Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6873628658308030363...
Re:The abolition of work
on Sunday July 05, 2009 @02:39PM (#688554)
I believe work is the source of happiness. Happiness comes to you when you see the fruits of your work.
I remember feeling really happy after finishing up a program that I had been working on for a long time. Just seeing it work so perfectly gave me an incredible sense of satisfaction. It was far better from the satisfaction/pleasure I got from doing things like watching TV/movies, going on dates, eating at nice restaurants, etc.
Developing the program was definitely not play either. It involved things (like fixing bugs, coming up with algorithms) for which I had to expend a considerable amount of intellectual energy. It was work, but it was work worth working on.
Here's a good reason why you should get rid of things you don't use.
Re:C++ - The Forgotten Trojan Horse
on Thursday July 02, 2009 @09:23PM (#685485)
Well I wrote (a command-line) program that was about 2000 lines long in C++ and during most of the development period I used g++ with the -ansi & -pedantic options.
Later I was able to get my program to compile on Visual C++ with absolutely no modification.
Re:C++ - The Forgotten Trojan Horse
on Thursday July 02, 2009 @09:09PM (#685470)
C++ has a high price in terms of binary incompatibility.
I find this statement to be rather untrue because I think most modern compilers when forced to be ISO/ANSI compliant (i do: g++ -ansi -pedantic) ensure your code is portable across systems.