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| location | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| age | 28 | |
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Former wannabe materials scientist. Worked with computational geometry, GIS, computational materials science and now doing biometrics for a large Brazilian company.
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Is it possible to use the Intel C/C++ compiler on Linux to create object files to be linked on Windows? From the Intel forums the answer appears to be "no": software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/282588 |
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May 10 |
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How should I behave as a developer in a project that's headed for failure? Voted for reopen (despite the close vote) after @LouisRhys remarks. |
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May 10 |
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How should I behave as a developer in a project that's headed for failure? @LouisRhys Point taken. But anyway, how's different from a group of people inheriting any other messy project with a tight deadline in any other discipline (like manufacturing, or hardware), and so on. Anyway, I hope a moderator or someone else can clarify the issue. |
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May 10 |
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How should I behave as a developer in a project that's headed for failure? Because career advice is off topic here. A question should relate to all (or a significant group of) software developers, instead of relating to a specific person in a specific situation. |
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May 10 |
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How should I behave as a developer in a project that's headed for failure? Put in the extra effort for professionalis, update your resume and say goodbye. (BTW, I'm quite sure this question is offtopic). |
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May 2 |
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I want to program, my school won't help me Do your school have something like "extra curricular activities"? My group of friends used to run "The Robotics Club": small "robots", mostly controlled by a PC using a parallel port and programmed in local variant of Logo and later using Pascal. It used to make school more entraitaning for all of us. Also, take to your parents and/or school counselour about disliking school: maybe change for other school? You're going to keep studying for a long time and you'll be better off if you like it. Good luck! |
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Apr 18 |
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Detecting areas of isotropic vs anisotropic diffusion in a flood-fill (or similar) operation @blz At least for my case, a collision meant the walker stayed in place for that iteration, instead of moving, if I recall correctly. I don't think there's any special optmization but be sure to benchmark your random number generator :-) |
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Apr 17 |
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Detecting areas of isotropic vs anisotropic diffusion in a flood-fill (or similar) operation @blz Yes, you got the idea. I remember it being slow as hell for many iterations (about 10^7 back when I did it). I was in college then, so I could just submit a job to a HPC cluster instead of running it on my laptop. If you're in a research setting, you probably have access to a similar resource. I'd send you my paper but it's in Portuguese... |
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Apr 17 |
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Detecting areas of isotropic vs anisotropic diffusion in a flood-fill (or similar) operation If you add n "random walkers" to a n random start nodes, make them move to a random neighboor each time step, count how many times each node are 'touched' by a random walker after (many) iterations, you're probably going to have something close to what you want. I did something like that to find tortuosity of a porous media back in college. Google for 'random walker' |
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Apr 12 |
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How GUI toolkits are made for c++? If I recall correctly, Qt draws everything using it's own functions and later only uses Windows API to draw the painting buffer on the screen. GTK probably does the same. |
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Mar 8 |
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Recommendations for C++ refresh? @Emilio Garavaglia This is a two years old answer. Please, feel free to edit and suggest updates if you feel like it (or add a new answer?). |
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Dec 14 |
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Is it sensible to teach programming with a language I don't know myself (yet)? Processing is amazing. |
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Dec 8 |
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How can I migrate from Excel VBA with ADO to C++ with OCCI? @Xophmeister If you're still interested in going the C++ way, take a look at Ocilib (orclib.sourceforge.net). It's way nicer than OCCI and has amazing performance. C++ + Qt + Ocilib is a really smooth choice. |
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Oct 17 |
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Is there any comercial application written in Visual Basic .NET? Out of curiosity: what cool feature makes you believe that VB.NET is a better language than C#? |
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Oct 14 |
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Why is it so difficult to get a programming job? @Victor An "undergraduate student" means the same as "estudante de graduação" in Portuguese, ie. someone who is studying for his University degree. Anyway, for an entry level job, what you know is not really important: I expect any fresher to learn on the job. Ask someone to review your resume (specially someone with HR experience), dress correctly for interview, and you ought to find some job. At least in the Rio de Janeiro area, qualified coders are scarce. The same is valid for São Paulo and most of the country. If you're in Rio or nearby, get in touch. I might be able to help. |
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Oct 13 |
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Why is it so difficult to get a programming job? @Brian I'm quite sure that location is not his problem. Brazil has a constant problem with the availability of qualified work force. There's always openings (my company has a lot of them right now). Heck, I've seen companies doing hiring campaigns in Argentina, Uruguay, Portugal and Spain. Anyway, I don't he qualifies for a H1B visa without a college degree (I might be mistaken). |
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Oct 13 |
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Why is it so difficult to get a programming job? @Victor As a fellow Brazilian (and a fellow Vitor as well ! :)) I'd say it's time to take a look at the mirror and try to understand what's going on. The largest time I've been without a job was about two months: and half of it was a self given vacation time in Fortaleza. And I'm no better than the average programmer, you can be sure (I've been doing mostly C++ and C#). PHP is not a good thing in Brazil, most of the time the gigs are low paying, you'd be better doing something else. Same goes for Delphi, it has been mostly exchanged for .NET in the corporate environment. Good luck! |
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Sep 17 |
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How do you call a “Proxy” that delegates to *several* implementations? +1 Excellent answer. |
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Sep 13 |
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What is the Startup spirit? Just for Startup Spirit never asks the question "what would be the return on investment": you should try submitting a BP to a VC company. You can rest assured that the startup spirit will ask you about ROI, exit strategies, and a lot of other funny numbers with crazy names. |
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Sep 13 |
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What is the Startup spirit? +1 for rose-tinted hindsight glasses. |
