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karlherler

81 karma · joined October 6, 2010

Computer Scientist, CTO at Comsel System, Data addict, hacker, technologist.

http://karlherler.com

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karlherler··on Ask HN: Is C++ still worth learning?
I wouldn't say that you ever "learn" c++, it's more a lifelong activity of understanding the intricate details various disjoint concepts and how they interact.

I would say that it's a good thing to at least keep an eye on and have some understanding of. If not for anything useful then you can at least experiment with http://libcinder.org/. I do also find reading the c++ standards committee articles a worthwhile activity just to further my understanding of how things like lambda expressions can be implemented and their impact on other concepts.

karlherler··on Ask HN: Have you considered switching from OS X to Linux?
Yes, and I am right now.

I've been using OS X pretty much as my primary OS for 6 years. Lately, because I've been working on a lot of systems programming, I've felt that it's too much of a hassle of constantly running everything on a virtual machine (although vagrant makes it a very nice process) so I switched to elementaryos[1].

It took a lot of tweaking but I'm generally happy with the switch, I still use sublime text as my general editing workhorse and other than some window management tool that I haven't found a easy replacement for I'm all good. It sure made the day to day work easier.

[1] http://elementaryos.org/

karlherler··on Wikipedia Redefined
This design forgoes my second biggest usage of Wikipedia (and I suspect it's a big use case for other multilinguals). (My primary usage of course being reading and enjoying the vast content.)

I often use Wikipedia as a high quality word translator. I study at a Swedish speaking university which requires that a lot of the written material I produce is of course in swedish. Whenever I'm writing a comp sci text and I wonder what in gods name a "morphism" is in swedish I just look up the english article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphism) and hover over the swedish language in the sidebar and voilà I've got a peer reviewed translation (peer reviewed because it probably has sources in both languages, in most cases).

karlherler··on Show HN: a better visual admin for redis
Seems really cool but the signup on https://reddi.sh/ sends me to a 404 (https://reddi.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=50cd9ee6a...).

Probably due too the Certificate for https used by mailchimp is for *mailchimp.com domains while you are on a us2.list-manage.com. It worked fine when i switched to http.

I used Chrome 17.0.963.12 on a mac.

karlherler··on DropZap 3 rejected again on appeal. What should I do?
Remove #1 & #2 and make them as in-app purchases of #3 and call them like "classic pack" or something?

Or perhaps bundle #1 & #2 as DropZap classic and DropZap 3 as DropZap 3 or DropZap best gameplay edition or something that apple likes more then numbers?

karlherler··on Ask HN: which (web)framework should I focus on?
Thanks a lot, seems like a solid stack. I've got to check it out. I've never really used flask for anything other than some light experimenting.