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AlexeyBrin

11,535karma·1,345submissions·January 25, 2013
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Actually Fortran works best if you combine Visual Studio with Intel Fortran compiler. You can freely call C from Fortran and viceversa, furthermore Intel's versions of BLAS and LAPACK are serious…
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> writing to NTFS Ever tried to write to HFS+ or to EXT3 from Windows ? Did it work without installing a third party tool ? > reverse scrolling, keeping the system from going to sleep You can ch…
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You can try to record a course and sell it through Udemy or Pluralsight.
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> you shouldn't share ssh keys between machines anyway. Are you talking about public or private keys ? I see nothing wrong in using same public key to log in from a particular machine to a num…
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Once you learn a programming language, the second one is usually much easier to learn.
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* Want to make webpages ? Learn JavaScript, HTML and CSS. * Android apps ? Learn Java. * iOS apps ? Learn Swift. * No idea what you want to do, but strong desire to learn to code ? Learn Python. You c…
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At a minimum, unless it is a trivial piece of code (like a few lines), you should comment about the purpose of a function and usage. Here is an example of how the old school numerical analysts docum…
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I guess you are lucky to have a hardware that is well supported by the OS.
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You are confusing a fresh install, which almost always works, with upgrading a system.
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OK, so now every time Windows 10 decides it is time to force an update it becomes a kind of Sci-Fi thriller ... you watch it and watch it and hope the hero doesn't die at the end. I know people t…
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Any breaking changes in the JavaScript language in the last .. . 10 years or more ? On the other hand Swift had quite a few breaking changes in 2016.
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AFAIK, Swift runs on Ubuntu, I think they've ported a large part of the Foundation framework to Swift. On Windows, some people reported about using Swift under the new Bash for Windows (Windows S…
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It will be great if you could write a blog post about how to reproduce your setup.
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If you want to buy a cheap printed version search on abebooks.com. They usually have international editions at competitive prices. I used to buy all my college textbooks from there.
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Backup systems - save a copy of the universe at some fixed time interval. In case of failure restore from the most recent backup and eventually correct the cause of the last failure.
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A few suggestions, in no particular order: - Pico-8 (Lua) - Love2d (Lua) - Scratch (visual coding)
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<strike>While at launch it was a decent book, at this time the book is outdated, you are better off using Apple's book on Swift 2.2 (and soon 3).</strike> Edit: My bad I was talk…
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Nothing, this was my point. The OP just implied that the small devil image of FreeBSD represents evil in the entire history of humanity which is false.
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> poor taste to use as a mascot a mythological creature who is reputed to be the source of every single evil, cruel, horrible thing in all of history Well ... what about Pan and Dionysus ? What abo…
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Yes, I done it. It is a question of where you were born and the culture in which you were born. Don't extrapolate your own feelings and cultural idiosyncrasies to everyone. People live in wildly …
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