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zura

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About zura

computer programmer

This is not my CV (Github): http://bit.ly/1INTXC3

Neither this: http://linkd.in/1INT0ts

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    I'd put it on a par with SICP. A very enjoyable reading.

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    Just saw on the wiki: "The book presents an overview of the operations of a major commercial airport, much of which is still applicable over 40 years later. Several major and minor…

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    Any idea how Airport by Arthur Hailey is relevant today? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_(novel)

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    The Knight in the Panther's Skin is a Georgian medieval epic poem, written in the 12th century by Shota Rustaveli: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knight_in_the_Panther%27s_...

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    Comment #16772083

    What about non-EU Europe, e.g. Georgia?

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    Thanks! It seems Erlang was not a best choice in the first place, for your project. Yes, please share the complete story when it's written.

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    > Erlang (being replaced with C++) Interesting. Any back-story about this? Also, what libraries do you use as processes (and OTP) alternative (if any)?

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    A shameful plug from 2001, while we are at it :) Playable: https://archive.org/details/tetris_201801 Tetris for DOS, text-mode but with colors! :)

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    Comment #16212446

    You can actually use Perl 5 and even Python modules from Perl 6: https://github.com/niner

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    > Microsoft has a cross-platform offering of some sort in the works using C++11 Casablanca, but I'm not sure how active is the project nowadays.

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    Why do you need to link statically?

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    Hey, I enjoyed your Perl 6 book this summer! Thank you! :) Pity, there are no Perl 6 jobs so far...

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    Playing with eComStation (OS/2) was quite enjoyable.

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    No mention of self-employed/freelancers/consultants.

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    Keep in mind, Effective Modern C++ is not a good book to learn modern C++. You learn modern C++ (11/14/17) from other resources and then come to this book to read about quirks and …

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    Have a local DB and sync when online.

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    Right, AFAIK none of the available players are advertised as official ways to run apps in production.

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    There are several React Native web players. One is used in their documentation site.

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    One would say Compilers is a multi-disciplinary field. You might enjoy some topics more than others. E.g. I personally favor stages after the parsing and before the actual code gen…

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    SEEKING WORK - Remote, occasional onsite OK. Location: Georgia Experienced C++ engineer specializing in cross-platform software development. wxWidgets, Qt/QML; JavaScript, React Na…