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Modern C++ is something nebulous. What is Modern C++ now would be obsolete few years down the line. So clearly maintenance of such a project wouldn’t be much fun, I suppose. C does…

Oh thanks

What happens if your parents are first cousins? You don’t have as many ancestors as the article assumes. And it’s only now that people are so connected that such a situation can ar…

My father told me the reason some years ago. As a rough sketch, it was because decades ago many highways used to be 'single lane', so if you had a truck in front of you, you needed…

I implemented a subset of Scheme, one that might just get you past the first chapter of SICP, in C. I wanted to implement a Scheme interpreter in C after doing SICP to attain a sen…

Read the first couple of pages and it’s talking about things like operator precedence and left associativity and couldn’t continue. Hopelessly uninspiring IMO.

good question

I felt that it was a good article, very straightforward, and he made an interesting point about numerical packages being often written by graduate students. Personally, I would lik…

Nice points. Going through SICP and solving problems using scheme, I did experience the “brain amplification” sensation. Once you flesh out the idea in lisp, it’s just a matter of …

I did seam carving as part of Coursera's Algorithms course by Bob Sedgewick. It was gratifying.

If you like it hard enough, it would soon stop being hard

When you have websites like hackingwithswift and you see Chris lattner (who is some genius because he made a new language) endorsing it with lavish praises, you tend to believe tha…

They don't tell the audience this otherwise they won't be able to fleece them. "It's so easy to make apps" "Learn X in 40 projects". I think the problem is also compounded by peopl…

Agree with the message, programming is really hard, and the earlier you realise it the better it is. Having “programmed” for the greater part of the last decade, starting out with …

Try to read the biography of the Prophet (upon him be peace) to know what his message was. Sufism is a later invention.

Yeah, that’s basically what I said. Let scientific inquiry conclude on this and then it can be shared as evidence. Otherwise it’s just anecdotal.

It’s got to do with the semantics, and for that you need to keep track of the context in which it was used by me.

“it came to me”

You need to first rid your society from the actual opium and its derivatives. It’s very convenient to throw the opium of the masses on Muslims, when the masses in your society have…

You are correct in assuming that whoever takes the Qur-aan as the central scripture is a Muslim. That’s really all that is to it. I will just add a bit of a historical background. …