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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 ac…

Nothing but a bunch of leftists and a half assed news feed.

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 m…

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…

Yes. Given our history, mistakes and all, yes.

"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 ar…

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 your…

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, r…

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 …

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, M…

I appologize to both the OP and to the HN community.

First, I would suggest that you realize that the VAST majority of society does exactly that. Then I would suggest that you realize that you are not special and that you should do t…

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://e…

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 sym…

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…

“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"

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 (mostl…

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 compress…

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 re…

Actually I started on an Atari 400 and then eventually an Amiga 1000. Perhaps that's more common here in the states?

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 w…

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. …

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 Bul…