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c4n4rd | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you do any mentoring outside of work?

PM me and let me know how I can help. We can set up an initial set of emails.

1. What you currently do 2. What you would like to be doing/learning 3. Where you want to go From there, we can discuss how we can both work on your development.

c4n4rd | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you do any mentoring outside of work?

PM me and let me know how I can help. We can set up an initial set of emails.

1. What you currently do 2. What you would like to be doing/learning 3. Where you want to go From there, we can discuss how we can both work on your development. Thank you,

c4n4rd | 9 years ago | on: Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United Airlines incident

Tweeter and all others you mentioned are private corporations. Their goal is to turn profit to their shareholders - NOTHING MORE.

He who believes these companies exist as a way for the mass population to voice their opinion and as a way to exercise democracy should rethink what these companies are all about.

Note: I do not necessarily agree with that they do, just pointing out what they are all about.

c4n4rd | 9 years ago | on: Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2013)

Based on the comments I see here (about how they wished to learn CS, or CS vs EE), I wish this book had a different title with more of an indication that this is a operating systems book (though not 100%). Computer Science is more than what is presented here.

Big O Notation/Data Structures/Algorithms, ala Dr. Knuth

Proof and theorems

Computer architecture and design (NAND gates and the like)

Language design, interpretation, and implementation

...and much more.

Do not get me wrong, I believe this book is valuable (BIG 'THANK YOU' to Ian Wienand for it). I just wish the title could have been different.

c4n4rd | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Skov – A visual programming environment

Just a quick note:

1-minute away to get your bot alive .. maybe should be "bot live"? not sure what you intention was here, but one would use "live" more likely in this context.

"Use it, is free" should be "Use it, it is free" or "User it. It's free". English always requires a pronoun before the verb (with exception)

c4n4rd | 10 years ago | on: Left-pad as a service

This is really exciting!!! I was a bit disappointed that the right-pad will be out only in 2017. I am looking forward to that release because there is a high demand for it now.

What kind of load balancing is being used on the back-end? I called leftpad(str, ch, len) with the length I needed and noticed that is not very scalable because it is blocking.

A better approach I would recommend to those using it is to call the API in a for loop. In my tests, it had performance very close to those I see in C or assembly.

I was a bit turned off that the free version can only handle strings up to 1024 in length. I know you need to make some money, but it is big turn off for a lot of my projects.

Edit: I finally signed up for it but still noticed that I am only allowed to use 1024. I called your customer support line and they said I was calling the API from multiple IP addresses and for that I need an enterprise license. Please help me with this issue, it is very crucial at this point as my project is in a complete stop because of this.

c4n4rd | 10 years ago | on: Rikers Drove My Innocent Patient to Plead Guilty

1. Someone died. Most DAs (district attorneys) sees this as a reason to charge people. They will charge even if it is not the case so that the shirt-storm that might come from the media does not fall into his hands - it is like district attorneys think: "It will not decide, let the jury decide and I have my hands clean: If the person was found guilty, it was the jury who did it. If not found guilty, it was also the jury - so do not blame me for the situation"

2. You really need to watch a documentary called "The Plea" (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plea/) to get an insight on how FUCKED UP the "justice" in the USA is.

3. The media and politicians have much to blame here. If you are ever convicted of a crime (even like in the case of a plea bargain) you life is likely over because no one wants to take a chance by hiring a "convict" - Business do not want to take this kind of risk.

c4n4rd | 10 years ago | on: Céu: Structured Synchronous Reactive Programming

Ceu (Portuguese) means Sky in English.

I think it is a take on Lua (the scripting language) which means moon.

The pronunciation is like 'Seoul' (South Korean Capital), with the 'e' pronuonced slightly more open as in egg.

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