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I never really liked the way pointers are declared in C/C++:

int *a, *b, *c; // a, b and c are pointers to int

The reason is that I am used to reading variable declarations as MyType myVar1, myVar2, myVar3; and I always read “int” as the type “integer pointer”. I therefore wanted the following

int* a, b, c; // a is a pointer to int, b and c are ints

to mean that a, b and c all were of type int, i.e. pointers to int. and I therefore found it slightly annoying to repeat the asterisk for every variable. This also meant that the symbol * had two slightly different meanings to me: (1) It declares a pointer or (2) it dereferences a pointer.

I usually don’t declare a whole lot of pointers in one line, but still, this is a (minor) annoyance I have briefly discussed with few fellow programmers over the years.

Today I started reading C Traps and Pitfalls by Andrew Koenig and after reading one sentence, in chapter two, the pointer declaration syntax suddenly makes sense:

[…] Analogously,

float *pf;

means that *pf is a float and therefore that pf is a pointer to a float.

Of course! If I instead of looking at it as a variable a of type int, we read it as a – i.e. “a dereferenced” – it makes sense. That is indeed an int, and that also means that * always means “dereference”.
I live in the Benelux, so Cologne would be a lot better.
But more importantly, those who would consider going to a Hackernews Meetup, where do they live?
interesting question. is there a tool to poll for locations?
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Key point here is that although the courses sound potentially advanced, they seem targeted towards people who are beginners at programming/computer science. I'm not entirely sure if this is stressed enough on the site.

However I'm also curious what the later units will look like, as I completed the final quiz in a few minutes for the first search engine unit without watching any lectures and without any python knowledge. Very basic stuff.
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My cynic guess for all the re-using of existing C syntax in new and confusing roles for C++ is that the creators of C++ shirked away from writing a new parser as much as possible.
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What is the best and easy way to unit test Android apps... 
I have been developing Android application for a small company and during the development process we need to do repetitive testing of some modules, So i searched tools for doing automation testing (unit testing) of the app. Android has a unit test tool however to write those test cases will itself take more time then to actually test it by hand.

I found some apps which do some great stuff and provide good charts for example robotium, fonemonkey4android, but am confused to what to be used, any one with any experience with the same can help thanks.
I sadly missed a talk by its creator last week :( It looks interesting as a framework for parallelised algorithms where the dataflow isn't quite as straightforward as MapReduce (quite common in machine learning). I may try and use it for my dissertation actually. But no experience yet to speak of.
If you had started with something more sane, like Forth or I guess even flawed Pascal, you would have understood pointers much earlier. C is such a horrible language to learn first, second or even third.
Pffft. Typical women entrepreneurs with their bootstrapping to stability and growing their business steadily and by not taking crazy, stupid, and extreme risks or clearing out their kid's collage funds and piling on debt.
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Stuttgart is great!
Maybe in the Shackspace (http://shackspace.de/)?
Unfortunately, I'm out of the country or I might have made the trip over to the island. Best of luck with this.

For your future conferences, you may have better luck not having your event at the same time as TED. Though you may not be attracting the same speakers, you may be able to attract some of their audience, and some of their audience may make excellent speakers for your event.
I have never used AirBnB but I would be very surprised if they would send someone $28k without also reporting it on a 1099. I learned that the IRS does keep track of those.
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Which meaning of `auto' do you use there?
There's a regular HN meetup in Cologne for some months now: http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-Cologne/. Next one will be in about 4 weeks.
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Another one for Munich. I could provide a location too.
have you come across any such real-time tools for Wireframing/Mockups?

Thanks.
Being around doesn't have to make a species more likely to survive. Specie don't exist in a vacuum.

Like an invasive species, a very old resurrect species, won't have to cope with all its usual predators and parasites.
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These young fun loving gals were already boiling over with sultriness before they donned glasses, but now things have just got out of hand.
Awesome! Do this!
Hope we could make it down once in your area. There is the Drupal tour coming in Shenzhen in March if you feel like joining http://wiredcraft.github.com/drupal_tour/
This event is every month in Shanghai, the first Thursday of the month. Hope to see you another time then ;)
Wow , that's ridiculous.
Although I'm not sure what game you could play in the 10 seconds or so it takes to load a program these days, plus you've got to load the game itself.

I have always wondered though why when doing an OS install they never provided a game or something interesting to do while you wait rather than show adverts for the product you are currently installing ("Windows 7 has all these great new features!".. "I know , hence why I bought it.."). They could at least give me a browser to use though.
Then what happens when you inevitably need to work on a project that doesn't use ARC?
Ah thanks. It's organizers like you that give the place hope. I also can't wait for the next Startup Weekend. I'll probably still be in town.
This is an interesting link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17101370
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Thanks, I just updated the build instructions.
I dreamt in Spanish (and spoke Spanish in my sleep) way before I had mastered it. Hell, I haven't "mastered" it now after four years and doubt I ever will. It's not a particularly useful barometer for language domination; I dreamt in it just because I was immersed in the language and went to sleep reading or thinking about it.
+1 for Munich!
http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#objc_gc_flags
A little background to the 'NS' prefix:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_(API)#Cocoa_history
I remember being sent by my parents to Germany, when I was a kid, where I stayed with a German family for 2 weeks. My command of German was pretty pathetic, but that didn't stop me from engaging in a (in hindsight, hilariously insensitive from both sides) debate about whether the Swiss were more evil than the Germans (my hosts unwisely decided to claim that Switzerland was evil because of the Swiss banks... I couldn't resist such a gaping wide opening for counter-argument, and the ensuring argument included me retorting that I felt that given the history of Germany, they were hardly in a position to call other countries evil, considering they had slaughtered millions of people around Europe not all that long ago). I was 12 or so, I think.

Anyway, the point of this: I think adversarial conversation is more a matter of mindset than of mastery of the language. If anything, not understanding half of what is being said helps to encourage adversarial conversation on both sides :-)

With respect to your problem, yes, total immersion is a good solution (imho, disclaimer, etc). Travel to that country and stay away from English speakers, and speak only that language for a month. If I'm right, you'll build the mental wiring necessary to speak that language in any circumstances (whether you're understood is then just a matter of practice).
Yes, having cname domain mapping would be awesome.
Eg. I usually have Gmail open in other browsers in Windows even if I run Sparrow on the Mac, and it takes several minutes for Sparrow to notice that a message has already been read, which is super annoying.
Wow! You created your own conference. Extremely awesome.

As someone who wants to do the same thing (and has the contact network to feasibly do it), I am extremely interested in knowing how you did it :) Any pointers?

Edit: Also, I would be happy to join in on your project. As in become your assistant organizer or something like that. I am awesome at finding interesting talent and getting it to work for free :) Email me for more info :)
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Sry for my bad english.
I agree with you, but there are other possibilities.

Singularity University is a superb experience and filled with big thinkers. eg "Made In Space" for example is building 3d printers in space, opening up the possibility of building replication technology on the moon.

I'm staying with a 20 year old that founded a company that is reducing solar costs by 20%+. They have some pretty large customers signed up.
Funnily enough, it was learning Javascript that made my Perl use a lot more higher-order functions, so when it came to Haskell, I was already on that page...
Great. Will the event be bilingual (I can barely understand Chinese)? Also, feel free to advertise your meeting here: shenzhen-startup@googlegroups.com
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Hardly anybody speaks Romansch, though. The languages are loosely mapped to geography, and it's typical for the french-speaking parts to learn German as a second language from early on (and then pick up English on their own, or get taught it in later years). Iirc it's the reverse in the german part. Not sure what the Italian-speakers do...

So, in short, most french/german native swiss should speak at least French, English and German fluently enough to have conversations in it.
Started reading and here we go: "Apple gives Xcode away FOR FREE, [...] you can GET IT."

About Apple's this and that: "WONDERFUL" (new compiler service), "which [...(does miracles)] FOR YOU", "arc is AWESOME"

Long story short - there are a lot of evangelist's marks badly hidden that convey into "acceptance and humility" - requested, and... oh yeah: "pay Apple".
I also would like to have a meetup in Munich
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Is it my imagination or is this a lot like the vision for Mozilla Raindrop. I was quite disappointed that they started talking about it and then stopped work on it almost at the same time. The ability to pump all of your messaging into a single client and have it prioritise what was important seemed a no-brainer to me.

I'd love to have rss/tweets/fb/g+ updates alongside emails for people I care about rather than maintaining increasingly complex methods of keeping up to date with each in different apps
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What would I do?

I guess firstly I'd try and be as realistic as I possibly could, what I mean bu that is to approach this in a real hard-ass way as opposed to a "its my idea, so I should keep x" kind of way. But you don't seem like that kinda guy/gal.

One of the main things you should take into account is longevity of the relationship - if you think this guy might be around for a few months, then his job is done and he's off elsewhere - you'll want to make sure his stock has a vesting type option to ensure that if he does take the stock, and leaves in a few weeks because I don't know, say he gets a better offer, his wife has a baby - then you'll want to make sure he doesn't take 40% of the stock with him.

In the same breath you'll want to make sure you take into consideration how much effort/available this person can bring to the table. Do they already have a full-time job? Are they just bringing you the odd-contact? Or are they full-blown in it until the death?

I would also put a serious value on this guy. I suppose the short answer to your question "what would I do" is honestly think, if I continued on my own path for x, how much could I achieve alone? If what I can achieve is quite a lot, then would I be 30% better off (I mean in stock terms) waiting until I have something to show and THEN bringing on this guy (or filling this role, even). Obviously totally depends on your business type.

Additionally, the old school answer to this question is essentially the golden rule - if you give this guy 40% of your business, will your 60% be worth more than the 100% originally was because of the effect he will have on the business?

Best of luck.
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Yandex = FSB (former KGB)

why?

An oversimplification, yes, but people should be more careful. Current security services in Russia haven't really changed much since the Soviet times, except they are more "capitalistic" in their motivations. Actually, the top people are all former officers of the Soviet apparatus, except now they have a bigger taste not only for power, but for money too.

There is no big company in Russia that wouldn't need "protection" from the services and in result wouldn't share its profits and wouldn't do the services' bidding. For instance, if Yandex has any preferential access to Twitter servers or data, you can be sure the FSB has it too. And Russian security services are no benevolent protector of Russian citizens. They are effectively an organized crime network, acting with impunity at home and with state resources abroad.

For further research, I encourage everyone to google: russia mafia state. And only go to credible sources, like The Economist and The Guardian.
I am Brazilian and although I believe a international administration of the Internet would be better than what we have now, I would hate if it came in Brazilian hands.

There in too much legalese running in my country and sometimes the judges are not reasonable in their decisions, if this same framework is applied to the internet things for me would be worse than they are now.
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Interesting his idea to learn similar languages to observe the derivation process.

I don't speak more than 2 languages, but spend a lot of times on etymology websites, the more words history you see, the easier it gets to decode languages.

- phonetic transformation
- semantic 'slip'
- multidimensional denotation/connotation projection

At the end you kinda build a core set of ideas used in all languages, either for lexicon or speech structure. Then the learning feels a lot more gradual.

btw : his french accent is almost there, he feels comfortable using common idioms, which is a good point.
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No, we will have several referenda until we get one right.
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At least in the case of dereferencing, I think it's more likely that C++ generalized something that C took for granted as having one specific meaning. C was created with the idea that the only thing that could ever be dereferenced was a memory address. C++ added flexibility to the system thereby violating this precept.
I don't think it will be too long before every PC or laptop ships with an SSD as standard and mechanical disks will be relegated primarily to archiving duties.
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Sounds good, but it is expensive here!
Its not the first time the ITU have been sniffing around this for decades.
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I'm having a hard time finding the first homework assignment. Is there one to be found at this point?
Ooo, excellent! A responsive developer! :D

Could I perhaps persuade you to include a link to a pre-compiled .app? I keep failing on `lein uberjar` with:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jdesktop.jdic.tray.internal.impl.MacSystemTrayService

Also on `lein native-deps`:

WARNING: lancet namespace is deprecated; use lancet.core.
[WARNING] POM for 'org.clojars.pka:jdic-macos-tray:pom:0.0.2:compile' is invalid.
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Cristophe Grand and David Nolen talks were very interesting subjects as usual, but not well delivered, former accents was painful, latter slides seemed random, going back and forth and aside cry.
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> Yandex = FSB (former KGB)

Can you show us some evidence?
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The Foreign Service Institute has a nice ranking of difficulty per language, for an english speaker

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Language_Learning_Difficulty_fo...
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Not true in that he doesn't show it, or that this doesn't happen in reality?

I see the latter happening with specialists - firms will overpay to get a much needed specialist. I have seen instances where "key resources" get bid up internally until they make more than they could elsewhere. I only have 4 data points though - not enough to make a broad generalization.
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No one is suggesting that Brazil should run the Internet.

I'm just saying that Brazil is capable of independent thinking and could be a force for positive change in Internet governance.

And, personally, I would be even more hopeful for EU influence, which would be even more positive in terms of values, but I'm afraid the EU isn't vocal and active enough to be an effective change agent. (Well, maybe at least we'll kill ACTA. :)
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It seems to me that all the e-learning courses that are popping up these days are focused on programming.

When will we see courses on psychology, Spanish, martial arts, etc? What would those courses even look like in an e-learning format?
This is identified in K&R C on Page 1 about pointers, though its subtle.

I'm paraphrasing, but I believe the explanation is that `int a* = 5;` is a mnemonic, i.e. that dereferencing the pointer a will evaluate to 5.

Must have read that section five or six times over the years but only a few months ago did it sink in.
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Would something like a United States Constitutional Amendment do anything to stop all these talks about making the Internet less free?
Why even use a database then? Fill your memory with a bunch of objects until you need persistence... Even then a flat file works well until you expect multiple people to post at once.
Why is it that governments are all for deregulating the financial, health and environmental sectors, but are chomping at the bit to impose more regulation on the greatest success story in the history of human civilisation?

If I were a cynic, I'd say it's because they're corrupt.
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