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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 i…

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).

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, …

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…

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…

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…

It's not that good, which is why they gave up on using quicksort in Data.List .

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 …

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 t…

Beautiful. We really need more cynicism on HN.

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 o…

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.

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, synchron…

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 …

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 over…

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.c6…

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 ove…

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. Y…

This is gold, thanks!

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 ser…

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 wor…

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 a…

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 an…

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 ha…

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 abou…