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Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

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Post by S4M »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #16

== Vim or Emacs == Just pick one and force yourself to use it to the exclusion of other editors. Future you will thank you later, because you'll still be using it 20 years from now. "We are typists first, programmers second" comes to mind. You need to be able to move chunks of code around, substitute things with regexes, use marks, use editor macros, etc. == 6.824: Distributed Systems == http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.8…

Did you study everything you are suggesting? That's really impressive. How long did it take you?

Oh well, I should spend less time on HN...

Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

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Post by wrs »

Cederfjard wrote: post #45
woola wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How long does it usually take to get a reply from Matasano. I have sent a mail couple of days ago, but no reply yet.

Saw tptacek mention the workload yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7598284 > There are at last count something like twelve thousand people who have reached out to us for our free crypto challenges [...] Every damn one of those people is an email exchange that me, Sean, or Marcin had to have directly, on our own time, with no compensation. I imagine the response time can vary quite a bit.

Response time for me on getting sets 1-3 has ranged up to months.

It got better when I remembered we're a Matasano client so I shouldn't feel so guilty about harassing them. But it's an awesome free thing they're doing, so I still do feel a little guilty.

Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

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Post by danellis »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #16

== Vim or Emacs == Just pick one and force yourself to use it to the exclusion of other editors. Future you will thank you later, because you'll still be using it 20 years from now. "We are typists first, programmers second" comes to mind. You need to be able to move chunks of code around, substitute things with regexes, use marks, use editor macros, etc. == 6.824: Distributed Systems == http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.8…

> Golang

I see this a lot. Do people not realize that the language is called Go, and that 'golang' is just a domain name, like 'ruby-lang', 'scala-lang' etc?

Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

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Post by jotux »

danellis wrote: post #157
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #16

== Vim or Emacs == Just pick one and force yourself to use it to the exclusion of other editors. Future you will thank you later, because you'll still be using it 20 years from now. "We are typists first, programmers second" comes to mind. You need to be able to move chunks of code around, substitute things with regexes, use marks, use editor macros, etc. == 6.824: Distributed Systems == http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.8…

> Golang I see this a lot. Do people not realize that the language is called Go, and that 'golang' is just a domain name, like 'ruby-lang', 'scala-lang' etc?

People realize it but also admit it's a terrible name for a language and referring to it as golang is much better in the long run.

Re: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

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Post by zatkin »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #16

== Vim or Emacs == Just pick one and force yourself to use it to the exclusion of other editors. Future you will thank you later, because you'll still be using it 20 years from now. "We are typists first, programmers second" comes to mind. You need to be able to move chunks of code around, substitute things with regexes, use marks, use editor macros, etc. == 6.824: Distributed Systems == http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.8…

Given that PuTTY has a wealth of features, would you recommend looking at the source code for studying?
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