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Comment by coupdejarnac | Hacker News Reader

I was hoping to read something juicy like null termination was created by a summer intern.

This is the origination of null terminated strings in C:

"In BCPL, the first packed byte contains the number of characters in the string; in B, there is no count and strings are terminated by a special character, which B spelled ‘*e’. This change was made partially to avoid the limitation on the length of a string caused by holding the count in an 8- or 9-bit slot, and partly because maintaining the count seemed, in our experience, less convenient than using a terminator.

From https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.pdf

Nope! Only time-wasting and mind-engaging software like solitaire.

So am I overachieving by trying to learn React+Flux and Angular.js + typescript and also trying to learn ASP.NET 5 MVC 6 while working my internship?

Maybe I should just make HTML 5 games instead...

I don't know a less blunt way to say this, but the tools you use are usually not as important as the software you write. It sounds like you're more focussed on padding your resume with buzzwords. Try to work on writing an interesting application.

If you aimed to land on a job in a big company, "Padding your resume with buzzwords" is not that bad, because HR people filter CV's from the pile using these same keywords. Not that I say it's a good practice..

React and Redux are a great stack for making solitaire

Those technologies are unlikely to still exist by the time you graduate. Learn C.

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