shenman

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by shenman 3y ago
In my opinion, it's better to learn C first because it forces you to do a lot of painful memory management manually. You tend to really appreciates Rust's features when you understand how things can go wrong. Need absence to value
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by shenman 3y ago
It might not be wise to accuse people of having an "agenda", when the only source cited is a Guardian article (which is known to have a bias). The debate around culpability is vast, nuanced and cannot be settled with reductionist
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by shenman 3y ago
Would be interesting to see the visitors by country (per capita) version too.
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by shenman 3y ago
Is that a red herring? The contention here is that one country does not allow the other to do business in their territory, yet complains when their product is threatened with a ban. The contention is _not_ that double standards are being ap
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by shenman 3y ago
Perhaps it depends on the audience. For a non-CS person, it's a pretty good introduction to solvability vs verifiability, and how seemingly similar math operations are quite asymmetric. I personally might use the example to convey the
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Ask HN: Who is maintaining Aaron Swartz's website?
2 points by shenman 4y ago|2 comments
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Evolved Antenna(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by shenman 4y ago|1 comments
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by shenman 4y ago
The redesign does not look good. The colour scheme just defies logic and big rounded buttons don't improve usability in any way. Why has Google sworn to let down a large chunk of its users? I understand that companies need to innovate
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by shenman 5y ago
Don’t say it.
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by shenman 5y ago
Isn't crypto plagued with the same problems? Sure fiat isn't perfect but it doesn't look like crypto is solving any of those problems, as exemplified here.
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Sunshower has remarkably similar folkloric names(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by shenman 5y ago|0 comments
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Cattle, Not Pets – A Modern Approach to Developer Infrastructure(akshayeshenoi.github.io)
2 points by shenman 6y ago|0 comments