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NigelTufnel | 11 years ago | on: Cursors

This is so much fun. It's kind of like RPG. There are 3 character classes. 1. Asshole: just goes straight after the green square. 2. Prankster: draws arrows pointing to the wrong exits. 3. Batman: stays on the button and clicks.

I've tried all three characters. Playing prankster is fun (I was a true trickster and sometimes drew the right arrow). Playing asshole is boring. Playing Batman is ok.

My apologies to all the guys/gals who followed the wrong arrow.

Many, many thanks to the author.

Also, I haven't seen so many poorly drawn dicks and swastikas since grade school.

NigelTufnel | 12 years ago | on: You Got Your Web Browser in my Compiler

Were it GCC instead of VC++ that wouldn't change much for a lot of people. Fixing bugs in a program with 7 million lines of code is not easy.

Fixing bugs in GCC for an unitiated person is probably super hard.

NigelTufnel | 12 years ago | on: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

Personal experience: weird jargon is a good thing. I've read a book on Hadoop once and it didn't use weird jargon - everything was in my native language. It was super hard to read - basically I needed to translate the book from my native language into English in my mind.

NigelTufnel | 12 years ago | on: Why Python Runs Slow, Part 1: Data Structures

I just did. And either a) I'm doing something terribly wrong or b) ctypes.Structure is slower than Python class with __slots__.

I would bet on a) - I've never worked with ctypes before.

EDIT: I bet on a) and I was wrong: ctypes offers no speed advantage.

NigelTufnel | 12 years ago | on: Mozilla will put ads directly into Firefox

What was wrong with the honest: "We'll show ads to the first-time Firefox users, so we can make extra money with our free product. We'll show ads only once"?

"User-first" bit is the textbook example of PRspeak.

NigelTufnel | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What should I learn to stay relevant in the next 5 – 10 years?

A slightly paradoxical advice: learn Objective-C. Learning of one thing never stops.

Suppose you're now top 5% iOS developer. 5 years later you'll probably be top 1%. That's cool.

I can see only one hugely improbable risk in doing this. If Apple goes down then Objective-C developers will be as valuable as toilet paper.

NigelTufnel | 12 years ago | on: Make the Type System Do the Work

Maybe it's just something I don't understand but I would go with Celsius everywhere with converting to Fahrenheit/Kelvin when showing/grabbing temperature to/from user.

NigelTufnel | 12 years ago | on: Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

I agree. It's not just the algorithm, scale etc. It's the chicken/egg problem - to have a good page ranking you need a lot of usage data from a lot of users and to get a lot of users you need a good page ranking.
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