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New comment by m3mpp in "Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview"

m3mpp — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:22:01 +0000

Reminds me that anecdote, not sure who it was, he was wondering where are the Caesars or the Hitlers of our time, all that brand of ambitious, manipulative and dominant personalities. The answer, he found, was that nowadays those people are absorbed into corporate instead of going into politics.

New comment by m3mpp in "Ask HN: Experienced programmers, how do you learn new language?"

m3mpp — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 01:15:37 +0000

Well, not your fault, most of the resources out there are just made to make a buck, or a click, it's pretty much hopeless nowadays. What I do usually is I try to find used books, they're cheap and often better. Doesn't work for all subjects obviously.

For C++, I'd download a working draft of the standard, that + examples on stackoverflow will teach you more than a 6 foot stacks of the latest books on the subject.

New comment by m3mpp in "Ask HN: How to stop being cynical all the time?"

m3mpp — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 02:26:10 +0000

Yes, half a joke, also a quote from Don Draper in Madmen. Great cynic character :)

New comment by m3mpp in "Ask HN: How to stop being cynical all the time?"

m3mpp — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 23:04:48 +0000

Love was invented by advertisers to sell nylons...

New comment by m3mpp in "Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics of Open Source (2014)"

m3mpp — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:55:06 +0000

Looks like 1917 russian revolution to me... no, thank you.

New comment by m3mpp in "'Human brain' supercomputer with 1M processors switched on for first time"

m3mpp — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 16:45:59 +0000

"Conservatives are anti-science": no downvote. "Liberals are anti-biology": downvote.

HN is funny...

New comment by m3mpp in "Ask HN: How did you manage your stress or recover from depression?"

m3mpp — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 17:29:05 +0000

exercise, a lot of walk in parks, daily and also when feeling in "hell" during the day, and also developing a spirituality, very important to find a way to deal with the bigger questions...

New comment by m3mpp in "Ask HN: Best robust laptop for everyday software development"

m3mpp — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:47:47 +0000

Thinkpad E560 owner here, bought it a couple of years ago for less than $500 on newegg, installed ubuntu on it and that's it. Dropped it a few times, and work like 8-10 hours a day on it, never had any issue. Solid.

New comment by m3mpp in "'Mindful people' feel less pain"

m3mpp — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:08:37 +0000

Pain is also linked to fear, so more mindfulness, less fear and less pain. Some people, while physically training can inflict extreme pains on their bodies, but without any fear whatsoever, so they're ok, even enjoying it for some, "working hard!"

New comment by m3mpp in "Ask HN: Fake résumé generator"

m3mpp — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 15:56:47 +0000

"The game is hard so I cheated!" Do you think it's a good way to start a business relationship?

New comment by m3mpp in "Ask HN: I'm 40 this year, and have depression. Any words of wisdom?"

m3mpp — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 15:07:13 +0000

Religion/spirituality is a great asset, especially as we get older.

New comment by m3mpp in "EU to recommend that member states abolish daylight saving time"

m3mpp — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 18:43:26 +0000

Of course, the European political instances don't care at all about the effect of their laws so it's easier...

Ask HN: Book recommendation for math behind formal verification in software?

m3mpp — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:04:04 +0000

I'm very interested in that field, unfortunately, the math part pretty much escapes me.

The long term goal is to be able to use Coq or Isabelle to prove some small piece of software.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17879083

Points: 3

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New comment by m3mpp in "A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use"

m3mpp — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 13:15:06 +0000

> 57% say they’re trying to limit social media usage and 58% are trying to limit video games.

I think 98% of US teens are trolling polls...

New comment by m3mpp in "Ask HN: Should I should switch my career path to coding after 27?"

m3mpp — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:41:29 +0000

As you said, the first level is the language syntax, var, control flow etc. Second level, data structures, list and list comprehension, dictionaries etc. Third level, recursion and algorithms, or how to solve problems in python, what you'll often see it referred as "the pythonic way".

Don't be too academic with these that it becomes boring, but just enough that you start feeling comfortable building some small console apps, that can read and write files, crawl some pages from the web, that kind of thing.

Once you're good with that, you can start with frameworks. The danger you want to avoid is to start too soon, and have a hard time separating the complexities of the language with the ones from the framework.

New comment by m3mpp in "An introduction to the Julia language, part 1"

m3mpp — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:02:30 +0000

Looks very interesting, any known drawback, maturity, package available, anything?

New comment by m3mpp in "An introduction to the Julia language, part 1"

m3mpp — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 22:46:11 +0000

Yes, I've read it breifly, it's a good description but I always prefer human feedback, with languages, the devil is in the details :)

New comment by m3mpp in "An introduction to the Julia language, part 1"

m3mpp — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 22:08:38 +0000

What is the language lineage? Is it functional or imperative? Dynamic or statically typed? Garbage collected or not? I wish every introduction to a new language would contain that kind of info, it'd be so much more informative.

Edit: missed one, natively compiled or VM based.

New comment by m3mpp in "Ask HN: Should I should switch my career path to coding after 27?"

m3mpp — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:21:57 +0000

Of course you should, you're gonna live a good additional 50 years, do you want to spend them doing something you don't like?

Python is good language to start, concentrate on that first and keep js for later, it's a complex language that may confuse you more than anything else.

Mix theory and practice, learn and build console apps, avoid web dev for now, you don't want to confuse yourself with all the web framework stuff. Your goal at that point should be to learn the language and how to think like a software dev, not learning some apis or frameworks.

27 is a good age to learn, technologies are always changing so, even at that age, you can learn and become an expert at something, and after a few years, nobody will ask you for how long you've done it.

New comment by m3mpp in "How Netflix outsmarted everyone else in TV"

m3mpp — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:01:49 +0000

The whole streaming industry is a joke. It's like fast food for the brain, and I include HBO in it. Where are the documentaries, where are the interviews, there are so many good stuff to watch out there, why the only thing available on all those services is junk, stupid nonsense fiction? I include amazon in that critic.

>For what reason do you dislike autoplay?

Because it doesn't bring anything but distraction. If I want it to play, I can click, if I want to browse, I don't need a preview. Most of their movies is shit anyway so why would I need to preview them?

> It's admittedly not the best but certainly no worse than any other streaming service

Amazon is way better, both on their app and website.

EDIT: amazon (prime) is better for the search, content wise, it's the same poor selection of violent movies and idiotic documentaries.