Rocket Surgeon

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May 29	awarded	Nice Answer
May 28	answered	Stuck due to “knowing too much”
May 28	revised	On developing deep programming knowledge added 356 characters in body
May 28	answered	On developing deep programming knowledge
Nov 5	awarded	Yearling
Sep 15	awarded	Scholar
Sep 15	accepted	Did eastern PKUFFT algorithm beat FFTW3 (Fastest FFT on the west) 20 fold?
Sep 7	comment	How do you tackle really bizarre errors that keep you puzzled for more than 10 hours? Agree with Mikey. There should not be "bizzare" errors to start with.
Sep 7	comment	How can I sharpen my team player skills? Don't mix Lone Wolfs with Cave Bears. Lone ones or in packs, they are always worse than Wolfs.
Sep 2	comment	Is there a good commandline console for Windows? Can not agree with Cygwin being "good" for anything.
Sep 2	comment	Is there a canonical book on general abstractions and modeling? No. Every decade or so, the book is different. It is ok, but the problem is that everyone thinks of not the same book.
Aug 30	comment	I want to learn Java but I am finding it difficult - Can anyone recommend a tutorial? Don't ignore Mikera's answer with Android. Most likely in few years, the Android packages will be the only part of Java (as a whole) anyone will need to know.
Aug 30	comment	I want to learn Java but I am finding it difficult - Can anyone recommend a tutorial? I vote up for Android. The question was from person bored with GUI-less coding, asking if there is some single consistent high quality way to learn Java. The Android Java package footprint is one nice very restricted environment with zero risk of contaminating the knowlege with unnecessary junk. Google spent billions to make it very clean.
Aug 29	suggested	suggested edit on Mobile Apps for Hospitals?
Aug 29	comment	Mobile Apps for Hospitals? I am advocating the Android in our hospital. Android is good start, if the devs team is familiar with Java
Jul 25	comment	Why is C++ often the first language taught in college? Ok. I read some wiki and interview with Kerrigan. It was 1978, when book was a bestseller well timed to first affordable PDP-11. Pascal was about 8 yrs old news at the time and Wirth was busy with Modula-2. In my opinion the major book quality was that it was first book written in "how to" and "hello world" way, instead of strict and methodical book by Wirth with Bachus-Nauer and things too academish.
Jul 25	comment	Teaching programmer looking for a simple statically and weakly typed language I fail to follow up on it, because there is no definitive language to define the languages. What did Christopher asked about languages being "static" is a mystery
Jul 25	comment	Why is C++ often the first language taught in college? It is hard to put into single phrase. The today, the past, the whole story and mass adoption and mass inertia. C++ is the legacy, it is half lucky, half unlucky, still questionable choice, the industry is stuck with.
Jul 25	answered	Program Loaders in Linux and Windows
Jul 25	comment	Why is C++ often the first language taught in college? Agree, the book about C should not make any top 100 today. But back in times it was the top one.