pgathogo | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you read programming books?
Yeah, head first Java was really good.
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pgathogo | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you read programming books?
I tried this technique with C++ but soon I realized it was a dead end. You try to build anything with C++ without some inner understanding of concepts like const, templates and STL, and I can bet things will blow up pretty fast.
pgathogo | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: What books are you reading?
Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins, awesome stuff
pgathogo | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?
5:20 - Wake up - Take a shower
5:45 - Leave for the office (to avoid MAD traffic)
6:15 - 7:15 - Read a book
7:15 - 7:30 - Breakfast (office), catch-up local news
7:45 - 8:10 - Hacker news/Reddit/Techcrunch et al ...
8:30 - 11:15 - Office work / side projects
11:15 - 11:45 - Tea break (office)
12:00 - 12:50 - Office work/ Side projects
13:00 - 14:30 - Gym
14:45 - 16:00 - Office work/side Projects
16:30 - 17:00 - Tea break
17:30 - 19:45 - Office work/side projects/hacker news et al ...
20:00 - 21:00 - Drive back home
21:00 - 22:45 - Read a book
22:45 - 05:20 - Sleep
... a tight loop of trying to define life...
pgathogo | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is HN reading?
Age Of Reason by Thomas Paine
A Tour of C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup
Effective C++ by Scott Meyers
Moon Walking With Einstein by Joshua Foer
pgathogo | 14 years ago | on: Google+ will burst the tech bubble
I beg all of you to read this article by Douglas Rushkoff, it predicts the demise of facebook cleanly. My opinion, time is up for facebook.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/07/rushkoff.facebook....
pgathogo | 14 years ago | on: Poll: What database does your company use?
Informix
pgathogo | 15 years ago | on: Poll: Does the amount of time that you spend on HN hurt your productivity?
YES! Am addicted, completely! How can i stop, please help.
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