sizzla

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by sizzla 16y ago
If you want to be terse, you can just use typedefs but most of ISO C++03 libraries just assume your editor can autocomplete quickly. The culture is different and absolute clarity is preferred over terseness. There's a lot of infrastructure
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by sizzla 16y ago
Actually the only thing I checked is the original content (tools) and examples. All of those work. I fixed up the rest of the links (see my comment elsewhere on this page).
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by sizzla 16y ago
BTW my recommendation is to take a look at a 21st century file not on the page first: 25C3: Everything about the C64 in 64 minutes: http://chaosradio.ccc.de/25c3_m4v_2874.html OK, fixing the links by typing the basenames into Google. I be
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by sizzla 16y ago
The little tasks you assigned to yourself to try and tackle at least the low hanging fruit are in a way core to the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. CBT is the most often used form of psychotherapy not in small part due to its reported effecti
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by sizzla 16y ago
I am ill and bed-ridden right now otherwise I wouldn't have time to comment so much on HN or read reddit. I am not sure your "real-world" social skills will improve through reading reddit. It takes real time investment and accepting that yo
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by sizzla 16y ago
Cool, understood. Just keep in mind that most psychologists will tell you that you are (or you can be) by and large in full control of your personality traits and that these things can change dramatically through your life, either through y
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by sizzla 16y ago
It's not that good, which is why they gave up on using quicksort in Data.List .
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by sizzla 16y ago
Thanks. Beatifully written and I love the print-shop analogy. It's nice he is into the C&C Portland Wiki, there's golden nuggets of wisdom everywhere. I am reposting the link from his blog. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SufficientlySmartCompi
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by sizzla 16y ago
This is a great example of making something that is challenging for a novice, yet not so challenging they give up. The reward is much higher than watching some numbers show up in the correct order and you tend to cover more of the language
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by sizzla 16y ago
Beautiful. We really need more cynicism on HN.
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by sizzla 16y ago
I would rather teach them: 1) how to write a program that guesses a number you thought of by doing binary search. 2) solve 2-queens 3) solve n-queens 4) solve knapsacking or some other combinatorial problem requiring memoization or DP. Of c
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by sizzla 16y ago
Any knowledge about your data set, how much of it varies, etc can vastly improve your performance over any canned standard library solution. Sorting ints? Radix-sort that mofo.
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by sizzla 16y ago
That sounds impressive. A lot of really impressive C64 code is timing sensitive. The coder counts exact number of cycle a piece of code takes and attempts to, for example, synchronize it to the CRT rasterbeam, because the horizontal and ver
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by sizzla 16y ago
I still prefer using Socratic Method, because of how deeply and thoroughly a student understands the matter once the inquiry is over with. But yes, unfortunately, it drives people nuts, unless they have a penchant for this sort of thing. Ev
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by sizzla 16y ago
I wouldn't say introspection was harder for introverted and I definitely would have no reference for that. It's just that introversion is a personality trait whose meaning was overloaded by pop-culture and pop-psychology. Stuff by Freud, Ju
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by sizzla 16y ago
Mad props for posting this. Fairlight - when dreams come true These guys actually wrote their own linkers, assemblers, monitors, etc. when they were barely teenagers. http://www.c64.com/scene_display_interview.php?interview=181
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by sizzla 16y ago
Correct me if I am wrong but they are actually using mergesort (mergeAll) as it is significantly faster in Haskell than in-place quicksort (qsort). That means there is a lot of overhead for doing something simple like an in-place qsort that
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by sizzla 16y ago
Advancing compilers is hard. When people argue efficiency as a compiler implementation detail that is going to get worked out, they forget about many who have fallen before them. You can argue some older languages were written in a way in w
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by sizzla 16y ago
This is gold, thanks!
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by sizzla 16y ago
The comfort of being alone and not interacting awkwardly currently outweighs your resolve to solve this problem. It's hard to self-diagnose with introversion, you might just be seriously depressed and not willing to admit it to yourself, bu
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by sizzla 16y ago
I've met brilliant 30+ year olds who were still on the 8 year old level you describe. You need to adjust your value system until you don't feel like you've been wasting time by working on yourself rather than your software project. Be prepa
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by sizzla 16y ago
This looks like yet another Haskell "variant." From what I can tell this sort does not occur in place and thus would not make a particularly good quicksort. Memory use, number of accesses per element, etc. This style of programming is more
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by sizzla 16y ago
I think what the author is saying is that having done projects on your own helps your credibility. I disagree that ML is something that can be picked up through just an OCW site and such. "Real" ML involves way too much mathematics and does
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by sizzla 16y ago
I agree, the SSN/fake birth cert is the riskiest most dangerous proposition .. I have interacted with people who have done this some 15 years ago and they are still around, they have a family, a US passport and a steady decent paying job.
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by sizzla 16y ago
What the story might leave out is that Ashton's family is in a lot of trouble, Mom alcoholic, Dad MIA a long time ago. Mom's boyfriend is a physically abusive guy and thinking about that prick gave him strength to do just one more rep on hi
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by sizzla 16y ago
Something like DREAM will get passed eventually for the new wave of illegals, just look at this: 1. Immigration and Reform Control Act (IRCA), 1986: A blanket amnesty for over 2.7 million illegal aliens 2. Section 245(i) Amnesty, 1994: A te
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by sizzla 16y ago
Exactly, ICE won't deport you unless you get in the news or f__k up big time and get booked (such as, for example, driving over X mph in certain states) and on top of that if someone in the po-lice really hates you (they'll play dumb otherw
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by sizzla 16y ago
I read your post thoroughly and all the replies so far. Advice: 1) There are plenty of merit-based scholarships. Forget about Florida and think about out-of-state universities. Don't aim very high and get into a Tier 2 University where you
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by sizzla 16y ago
Seconded. A great read that finally conviced me to join. Thanks.