mamaniscalco

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by mamaniscalco 8y ago
When my older daughter (8) was upset because my younger daughter (3) destroyed her art work I taught her that, while her younger sister would not go without consequences for her actions, it was ultimately her own fault for leaving her artwo
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by mamaniscalco 9y ago
The ugly truth is that if you want to change a culture you must permeate it. This requires a multi-generational commitment. You can not assault an opposition into compliance. You must defeat its leaders and its men and then squat upon its c
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by mamaniscalco 9y ago
And exactly why the President has ordered this action (presumably). There are those who have demonstrated that they have no such restraints. They, Assad included, are the wild card that threaten long term stability.
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by mamaniscalco 9y ago
Yes. Given our history, mistakes and all, yes.
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by mamaniscalco 9y ago
"Write a function which produces the prime factors of a given integer." The kinds of people that I'm tasked with interviewing are not web developers nor user interface types but are generally more back end/non off the sh
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by mamaniscalco 9y ago
It sounds like you feel rudderless to me. Perhaps you should invest some time into finding yourself rather than a career. Work does define us for sure, but, you should clarify yourself to yourself before you invest time and energy into a ca
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by mamaniscalco 9y ago
The answer to this question will fall sharply upon two lines depending on how you interpret the definition of "better" developer. I see one interpretation of better as "can copy, repeat, fix, comprehend, maintain." And t
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by mamaniscalco 9y ago
On one of the previous comments argued that he would not could call Beej's work "a definitive guide". Fair enough but "classic" is very accurate. I don't know why your response is graying but I hear you ... nos
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by mamaniscalco 9y ago
It has been said that history is written by the victor. I am from this time (born in 69) and I was a mucisian from the liberal northeast of the US (born and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts). The history recounted by the author is not wh
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by mamaniscalco 9y ago
I appologize to both the OP and to the HN community.
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by mamaniscalco 9y ago
I'll push a high permormance Huffman to github for reference later on today and post a link here. For ANS info start with this link that leads to a thread by its creator: https://encode.ru/threads/2078-List-of-Asym
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by mamaniscalco 9y ago
Encoding can be greatly speed up by constructing an array of the codes for each symbol (left justified) plus the code length. During encode you look up the code for the current symbol, shift it to align with the current output bit position,
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by mamaniscalco 9y ago
An excellent article which speaks the obvious but all too often falls on deaf ears. My two cents: 1. Code reviews are to developers what proof reading is to writers. A person could read and re-read, numerous times, something which they have
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by mamaniscalco 10y ago
“No such thing as spare time, No such thing as free time, No such thing as down time, All you got is life time … Go!” —Henry Rollins, "Shine"
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by mamaniscalco 10y ago
I copied the text from the following and pasted it into the engine via your web site: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/freedom-of-speech I then deleted sections randomly (mostly from the tail) to see what effe
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by mamaniscalco 10y ago
At some point in the past each of us has had no work experience. Way back when I did not, my personal projects mirrored exactly what I was passionate about, which was data compression. Because I did what I was passionate about I was compe
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by mamaniscalco 10y ago
The fastest way to get down voted is to reply to any post which is even slightly political with anything other than a leftist bent. (^: In my opinion, down voting should require responding. If something is worthy of a down vote then surely
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by mamaniscalco 10y ago
Actually I started on an Atari 400 and then eventually an Amiga 1000. Perhaps that's more common here in the states?
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by mamaniscalco 10y ago
Steve, just brilliant! Like a lot of others will surely say, thanks for taking us all back for a brief moment. Your post has inspired me to write a similar one on my own site. It would be pretty cool if there were a website dedicated to the
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by mamaniscalco 10y ago
I agree. My first instinct when reading the headline, sadly, is not to first find merit in the argument begin made but to question the true motivation for the argument being made. The headline itself is somewhat disingenuous. It might as we
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by mamaniscalco 10y ago
I never said adults stop learning. It would be terrible if we did. But spoken language, absolutely true. For example, my wife speaks three languages fluently. But she dreams in Bulgarian, because that's what she is. I've been prog
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by mamaniscalco 10y ago
I honestly believe that learning to program is similar to learning to speak languages. You can't truely learn them after childhood. Atleast not in the way that you could when you were a child - in the way we learn our native language