anthnguyen94

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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
Cool to see lots of comments on real life algorithm applications, if anyone is interested in diving deeper there's a good book that came out recently called "Algorithms to Live By" by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. It tal
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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
SyntaxDB ( https://syntaxdb.com ) was put on PH and HN and that gave it a significant increase in traffic. It was actually posted on PH once before, but that time it wasn't featured. Almost one year later, I built an API, sev
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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
Hey Ooshma! I was at Startup School 2016 and absolutely loved your talk! I was just curious about how you built your initial product- you mentioned not being able to find a dev who wanted to play the long game. What did you end up trying an
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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
Location: Toronto, Canada Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Java, Ruby on Rails, C++, AngularJS, Node, HTML/CSS Résumé/CV: http://goo.gl/jrDw6X Email: anthony.nguyen(at)queensu.ca Github: anthonyn6
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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
Location: Toronto, Canada Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Java, Ruby on Rails, C++, AngularJS, Node, HTML/CSS Résumé/CV: http://goo.gl/jrDw6X Email: anthony.nguyen(at)queensu.ca Github: anthonyn6
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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
Was addressing the other commenter too! Hehe
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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
So many people (including myself at times LOL) have asked for Bash. It'll be on there soon enough!
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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
Thanks for pointing that out! As of right now, it all gets updated manually (there's an internal CMS I built and use). As of right now, when people point out corrections they do so via feedback form, and I update accordingly (if I can
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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
Glad you like it! When I designed the page, I thought it would look best if the code sections were split up. Interesting feedback, I'll get some other people's thoughts on this later.
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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
Yep, that has to do with the full-text search engine (Solr). There's definitely some optimizing to do, I definitely don't want additional words throwing off the search!
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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
The site doesn't actually support Haskell or Obj-C atm (will in the future). I also need to improve the search engine to handle queries with additional words that might give a null result, as well as words like "foreach" (tha
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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
Glad you like it! User contributions will definitely be a part of SyntaxDB in the near future.
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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
SO documentation looks very cool actually, and it'll be interesting to see how it turns out. I'm all for documentation being easier across all services, and I care a lot more about having this problem solved rather than pushing Sy
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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
That's the plan! Just a way to allow community contributions, provide incentives while maintaining the quality of content.
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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
I actually have something in place which handles some cases of differences in keywords across languages. For example, searching for "dictionary in java" would return a HashMap. I guess I didn't account the specific "fore
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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
Hey HN, I'm the developer behind SyntaxDB. This feedback is good and I encourage people to keep it coming! A lot of responses will be about "there's no result for x". You're right, there isn't nearly as much co
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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
I've had it since it first came out, it's miles better now than it was at first and I'm sure once it hits 1.0 it'll be usable for some dev work. Still going to stick with my Ubuntu book for full stack at the moment thoug
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Show HN: Syntax Lookup Slack Bot(syntaxdb.com)
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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
Location: Toronto, Canada area Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Java, Android, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, Angular, C, C++ Resumé/CV: http://anthnguyen.ca/files/ANTHONY%20NGUYEN%20-%20Resume.pdf h
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by anthnguyen94 10y ago
What about experts who are transitioning new languages or technologies? I'd say this tool has tremendous value for them. Also, as long as novice programmers understand the fundamentals (DS, algorithms) something like this won't ha
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by anthnguyen94 11y ago
VSCode's API is great for extensions. Markdown Viewer is incredibly useful in VSCode. I also really like the way VSCode does its Git integration. I've gotta say though, I'm still getting used to the non-tab layout...
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by anthnguyen94 11y ago
Developing technology for cleaning is a lot to ask for a social software startup...
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by anthnguyen94 11y ago
I think the neat thing about Medium is that it has the Facebook style validation. Surely, you're more careful about what you say on Facebook because your name and profile is attached to everything you post. Medium is the same. The focu
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by anthnguyen94 11y ago
I'm on a Samsung device, which means updates are pushed several months after Google pushes theirs. I'd love to go to CM, but then the camera quality is just downright awful because of a lack of TW drivers... Quite annoying
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by anthnguyen94 11y ago
As much as I don't like these games, I remember writing a bunch of these for my first ever CS class in Turing. One way to win, take a wrong turn and die. But we're they ever fun to make.
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by anthnguyen94 11y ago
Hey HN! I'm the creator of this project, would love to get some feedback or suggestions for it. Adding Objective-C to the site soon and then after that, I'll be writing an API! Cheers, Anthony