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by foo101 7y ago
What has referring to a variable twice got to do with whether it should be a macro or function?
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At a stealth startup, dozens of engineers relentlessly worked 20-hr days(twitter.com)
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by foo101 7y ago
From the header of the website: > arXiv Vanity renders academic papers from arXiv as responsive web pages so you don’t have to squint at a PDF. Why aren't more PDFs displayed like this on the web? I thought the math stuff would be a
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by foo101 7y ago
Not a Singaporean. But I have traveled extensively in Malaysia and Singapore and I can attest to the better experience of Grab. The Grab experience (availability, pickup time, price, etc.) was so much better that I never even thought of ins
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by foo101 7y ago
But it can still take a long time for a problem like this to solve itself, especially, in an area dominated by a monopoly. So the need for laws for this is not completely unnecessary.
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by foo101 7y ago
But no language, no matter however opinionated, does get most things right, does it? People complain about C, C++, Java, Go, you name it. I know many people are averse to the idea of macros that makes Lisp so malleable (you can add syntacti
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by foo101 7y ago
The trailer link on this page is very impressive. Here is the direct link to the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReDDgFfWlS4
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by foo101 7y ago
Thanks for the reply.I have a follow up question about the "operator pending mode". I understand you didn't know it was a thing. But say, you press 'd' in normal mode because you want to delete a line and then you c
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by foo101 7y ago
Do you realize that this is open source and being offered to you as a gift? The license allows you to compile this tool with whatever compiler and flags you want. Please do that if you care about the optimizations. But please do not post di
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by foo101 7y ago
Stop! Just stop this! This is a "Show HN" post. Someone out there is trying to develop something useful and share it with the community. By doing so, the author is willingly putting themselves in a vulnerable position where the au
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by foo101 7y ago
I do this. But then I find that whenever I have to help someone out at work in their Macbook, I have to go through the hassle of first mapping Caps Lock to Escape on their Mac, do the work, then remember to unmap it again after the helping
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by foo101 7y ago
> inoremap jj <Esc> That takes care of returning from insert mode to normal mode. What do you do for returning from other modes (operator pending mode, visual mode, etc.) to normal mode? I don't think it is possible to reliabl
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by foo101 7y ago
Is it? djk in normal mode would delete the current line and move the cursor one line up! d<Escape> on the other hand would cancel the operator-pending mode for delete and do nothing.
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by foo101 7y ago
There is no guarantee offered by the standard that you must be able to read and write to memory allocated by malloc(). What if the memory was allocated and just a split second later, the physical RAM burnt out due to overheating? How is the
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by foo101 8y ago
I tried the idea of using `jk` in the past and found that it surely cannot be a perfect replacement of Escape. Say I perform these mappings: :noremap jk <Esc> :inoremap jk <Esc> Now granted, pressing `jk` in insert mode
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by foo101 8y ago
Your original critique from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19161365 said this: > Yes, C doesn't force you to use braces here, but this is really overdoing it. It said nothing about nesting level depth. The que
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by foo101 8y ago
The second example does lack braces in two nested 'if' statements. Did you ignore that? Granted it is not three levels deep and granted there is a brace in the 'else' part but that's no reason to ignore the fact tha
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by foo101 8y ago
How were the illustrations in this post created?
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by foo101 8y ago
How can we show that real numbers form a vector space over rational numbers? I mean a real number like 2 is just a real number. How is it also possibly a vector? Where is the origin and where does this vector point to?
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by foo101 8y ago
Why would you make such an unfounded assumption and ask a loaded question?
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by foo101 8y ago
What is "Google+ for consumers"? Is it different from the Google+ a regular user like me?
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by foo101 8y ago
> The investigation also found that He’s experiment ran counter to national regulations forbidding people with HIV from using assisted reproduction — an allegation reported for the first time in the Xinhua article. What is the rationale
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by foo101 8y ago
> Algorithmic ability has no correlation to the ability to write maintainable code, though. This is not true in my experience. I usually see a strong correlation between algorithmic ability and writing maintainable code. At various organ
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by foo101 8y ago
> If one has great work ethics, the connection to the teacher doesn't really matter because one would learn regardless If one has great work ethics, there is a possibility that the student with connect better with the teacher. Do yo
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by foo101 8y ago
Is this sentence incomplete or am I missing the context of the word "compelling" here? > be able to write up a compelling Can someone clarify what this means?
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by foo101 8y ago
Same question as cjohnson318's. What are some low hanging fruits in mathematics? I have been looking for them for a few years now and have found none.
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by foo101 8y ago
Please don't do this here. Comments like this degrade the reading experience on HN. This is why you are getting downvoted. The HN crowd generally prefers more substantive comments and discourages low effort humor.
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by foo101 8y ago
> It's impossible for a site developer to know how much space to allocate to their page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design This concept is popular for more than 10 years now. Many websites do
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by foo101 8y ago
I have taken it a step further. I started with Blogger (blogspot), then Medium, then Jekyll, then Hugo. Even with self hosted Jekyll/Hugo, I never felt comfortable about the tooling dictating how my directory structure should be. Now I
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by foo101 8y ago
I have found Reddit to be a very hostile place to post content. You post your blog post. Regardless of how much hard work you put into your content, the first few comments on Reddit are going to be a snarky one that attacks some trivial poi

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