Novash

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by Novash 17y ago
Can't seem to see this at work. Saving to see later at home.
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by Novash 17y ago
Ditto. Code my own projects with little to no interruptions.
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by Novash 17y ago
Obligatory joke. It was The Terminator.
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by Novash 17y ago
Do not forget to post here when the book is released. I will be sure to buy it by then.
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by Novash 17y ago
Isn't it a bit early for the 10.04 release? Like ... 6 months earlier? Where is 9.10?
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by Novash 17y ago
I talk like that because one of my first assignment in College when learning C was exactly a program to calculate change. And the inherent floating point erro causes the said 0.01 difference. I was fresh into C, third, maybe fourth class. Y
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by Novash 17y ago
He refers to the known floating point rounding error. You should not expect a 'new coder', as he put it, to trully understand floating point rounding errors because to understand it, you need to already be a coder with some experience.
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by Novash 17y ago
Wonder if they will do anything similar with the War game. The last players certainly also suffer an unfair advantage there.
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by Novash 17y ago
I am gonna dive in. You can be sure of that. But I disagree with you when you say that there isn't all that much noise. The are currently hundreds of distros. All of them serve a purpose. There are ones meant for servers, meant for gaming,
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by Novash 17y ago
It is not a matter of software, but a matter of usability. Think of a Windows user only perspective. When installing a distro, you are confronted with the choice between X, KDE, Gnome, Compix, or whatever else Windows Manager is out there n
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by Novash 17y ago
Some other games there are quite 'modernized' as well. SimCity being an example.
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by Novash 17y ago
I don't really care if it is an acceptable Lisp when I decide if I will or will not learn something. :P BUT, I will use that excuse on my teacher on the Calculus class.
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by Novash 17y ago
Java is not really my field. However, I have half a mind to learn F#.
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by Novash 17y ago
I must have wasted years playing those games... Wonder how many of them are abandonware now?
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by Novash 17y ago
CL on Lispbox is what I have now. Which means I use (use being a overstatement) e-Macs with a Lisp extension.
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by Novash 17y ago
That's exactly what I am trying to do. but I am hearing all those omens about Lisp but I sense I need to understand it better before I dive myself into it. There is absolutely NO market for it where I live so, if I would learn it, it would
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by Novash 17y ago
It may not be for you, but it was for me in the beggining. I already went through 3 distros - Kurumin, Suse and Ubuntu, and the only reason I still have a Windows partition is to play some games that I couldn't (or didn't bother to) make wo
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by Novash 17y ago
And even though Scheme was designed to be clean and elegant, CL has to be backward compatible and thus cannot be 'cleaned', right?. Is there any 'cleaner' CL standard, or at least a 'best practices' guide to code in a cleaner way, avoiding
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by Novash 17y ago
I never tried Scheme so you can assume I am talking about CL if that helps, but since I don't know the difference between them, the question is directed at both. In fact, if they are both 'Lisp', why do they exist at all? Why there ARE diff
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Ask HN: About all this Lisp fuzz
30 points by Novash 17y ago|38 comments
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by Novash 17y ago
I am not sure about the heavy metal / classical music approach. There are many classical music that are very challenging by themselves, even more than some heavy metal songs (which usually are 'play the same note at light speed'). I've hear
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by Novash 17y ago
Your reading comprehension is lacking. I didn't say intelligent. I said 'think faster', which is true: "Nerve conduction velocity (NCV) has been shown to increase in response to a period of sprint training." http://www.ingentaconnect.com/c
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by Novash 17y ago
If you want to do an interesting experience, doing sprints teach your brain to think faster (because it has to keep up with the information of your steps).
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by Novash 17y ago
Play Go, Chess, Sudoku and Dual-N Back. Learn another language. Learn to play an instrument. All this can make you 'smarter'.
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by Novash 17y ago
Flagged. Here hoping you are banned soon.
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by Novash 17y ago
Stablish goals (like reading one full chapter before a break). Take small breaks. Even 5 minutes help. Be interested in the task. Drink water. Dehydration reduces concentration and will make your situation worse.
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by Novash 17y ago
I think I will end up reading this book someday.
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by Novash 17y ago
I have a question... "Both sites maintain a database of known spammers and offer spam blocking services." Every time the spam topic arises, I always ask. Why hasn't those guys been shut down from the internet already?
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by Novash 17y ago
That's what I love in HN... great idea!
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by Novash 17y ago
We are more productive. It is not simply a matter of have/not have the routine. It is also a matter of usability. If you did the routine yourself, you would make it specific. When you needed it again, you would need to either write it again

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