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New comment by urbanslug in "Show HN: H1-B problems? Check your eligibility to move to Canada"

urbanslug — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:30:04 +0000

Thank you for your response. Sorry for seeing it so late.

New comment by urbanslug in "NULL license plate not such a bright idea"

urbanslug — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:24:24 +0000

This wouldn't be a problem if people wrote programs in languages that have proper type systems that can correctly classify failure.

I'm thinking of types such as Maybe/Option or Either.

I hate it for example when a C/C++ function has to return a -1 in case of failure.

New comment by urbanslug in "Show HN: H1-B problems? Check your eligibility to move to Canada"

urbanslug — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 19:14:33 +0000

Will you sell the data I enter here or what do you do with it?

New comment by urbanslug in "Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'"

urbanslug — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 21:52:27 +0000

Sadly my time is like all taken up and Rust skills are zero but I'd love to contribute to such a cause for sure.

New comment by urbanslug in "Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'"

urbanslug — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 20:04:07 +0000

I wonder whether this is how it was when RMS had the userland and all he needed was someone with a Kernel.

New comment by urbanslug in "Topics in Advanced Data Structures [pdf]"

urbanslug — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:50:59 +0000

I'm a Bioinformatics student, so it's not for work, but I have been looking into Suffix Arrays, BWTs and FM indexes for my project.

I've seen them applied to some real world next gen genomic tools for example this one https://github.com/vgteam/odgi implements a multi string BWT. Technically they're in academia and not making money afaik but it's interesting stuff.

New comment by urbanslug in "Going hungry affects children for their whole lives"

urbanslug — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 19:19:13 +0000

Have you tried supplements and multi vitamins? If he won't eat maybe he'll drink it or swallow a pill?

New comment by urbanslug in "Going hungry affects children for their whole lives"

urbanslug — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 19:07:32 +0000

> Hunger during childhood can have a ripple effect that we are only just beginning to understand.

I come from Africa and I attend talks at a medical research lab, many of which often end up involving malnutrition for obvious reasons.

I have seen a lot of research talking about how malnutrition affects kids intellectual abilities, immunity and more. This is not a problem we are just begining to understand.

[Edit]

It's also fairly common knowledge that children who get malnourised never catch up in many facets of life.

New comment by urbanslug in "x86 Assembly Guide (2018)"

urbanslug — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 08:17:15 +0000

Hello, sorry I don't have your solution but I'm in your situation with not quite understanding linking. I have a lot of issues with linking/calling C++ and C libraries from each other or other low level languages. My background is in web stuff.

Could you please point me to the resources you used to get to your present level? Thanks :)

New comment by urbanslug in "Ask HN: What are the best open-access journals for non-academics to submit to?"

urbanslug — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 20:16:30 +0000

If it's software you can submit to The Journal of Open Source Software https://joss.theoj.org which will cost you as much as making a pull request as far as I know :-)

New comment by urbanslug in "The world might run out of people"

urbanslug — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 15:30:45 +0000

Right? Most countries in Africa actually show dropping birth rates. The ones going up or stable are ones with war or poor social amenities.

New comment by urbanslug in "The world might run out of people"

urbanslug — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 15:28:59 +0000

The commenter is talking about averages and you're talking about the tails of the graph.