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AlexeyBrin
11,534karma·1,345submissions·January 25, 2013
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Hopefully someone from Google reads HN and can do something or talk to someone.
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I wonder how can you implement such a law without forcing people to identify online ? Will they enforce a digital ID that you need to use to access the web or social media ?
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Maybe it is just me, but I find it strange (almost dehumanizing) to have to live or sleep in such a pod for months or years. It is like the plot of a SciFi dystopia. Also the price is outrageous $700&…
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If you want to reduce IQ discrimination you would also need to forbid high IQ people the use of AI to augment their intelligence, or you will simply move the level of discrimination to a slightly …
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It was a confusion between ** used as the rise to power operator in languages like Fortran or Python which just validated the grandparent point of confusing syntax for people not used with C that come…
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Cool, I would still not advice a beginner to start with it. But it is nice to know that the compiler supports at least the ANSI C standard. I may use it in my next retro programming project.
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Just curious, can you use GCC with an SDF account ? What C compilers are available and how recent are the available compilers ?
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> Turbo C++ Terrible suggestion in 2024 for a beginner as I assume the OP is. (If you are into retro development and you are already an experience programmer, it will be just fine.) I doubt that Tu…
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> Trying to do dev on Apple devices, This is false, you can use an Apple MacBook or iMac just fine for development. macOS is a full blown UNIX OS, 100% POSIX compatible, and you can do anything on …
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Apple actively discourages most attempts to make the iPad more programmer friendly so while the hardware is perfectly capable, the software that runs on it is not meant for developers. If you are Ok w…