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by Adrock 16y ago
Why single out Jews? Do you have any evidence that Jewish mothers do this in any sort of systematic way? Why not ask why when _any_ mother dies this, no one complains? And what makes you think they don't?
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by Adrock 16y ago
Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational is really good and the very first chapter discusses this exact phenomenon and some of the subtleties surrounding it. He also mentions it in one of his excellent TED talks: http://www.ted.com/speakers/dan
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by Adrock 16y ago
One thing I like about this solution is that you can easily trade memory for accuracy by tweaking the hashcode space.
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by Adrock 16y ago
Instead of being probabilistically wrong, you can save memory by removing some branches of the trie and becoming deterministically wrong. You could remove the largest branches that correspond to the fewest words. Alternatively, you could r
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by Adrock 16y ago
My personal favorite solution to this problem is to use a trie. When asked to reduce the memory usage, you can recognize that the trie is actually a DFA and apply a DFA-minimization algorithm. There are several other interesting approaches
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by Adrock 16y ago
I think I know why so many of these are simple binary search questions. If you actually read the full interview descriptions that most of these come from, you'll see that the vast majority of them were rejected. As an interviewer, the ver
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Agile Hiring: get rid of the open headcount(code.dblock.org)
5 points by Adrock 16y ago|0 comments
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Lessons from United Airlines on How To Build A Crappy Survey(uie.com)
2 points by Adrock 16y ago|0 comments
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The Setup - Aaron Boodman (Greasemonkey, Chrome)(aaron.boodman.usesthis.com)
55 points by Adrock 16y ago|14 comments
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Google's First Steps (2008)(ubergizmo.com)
3 points by Adrock 16y ago|0 comments
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Can a Ship Sail Faster Than the Wind?(futilitycloset.com)
2 points by Adrock 16y ago|1 comments
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by Adrock 16y ago
"The CR-48 stores almost everything in the cloud so that if your device is lost or stolen; someone else winds up with the device rather than all of your files and personal information." Actually, someone else winds up with all of you files
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by Adrock 16y ago
Maybe the fear of sharks prevents people from getting themselves into situations where they would be killed by one. My takeaway is that I need to start cultivating a healthy fear of pigs.
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Test Sizes(feedproxy.google.com)
2 points by Adrock 16y ago|0 comments
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What appears superficially to be a line is actually just a one-dimensional mob(blogs.msdn.com)
1 points by Adrock 16y ago|1 comments
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Giant Pandas Are Poorly Designed(onefoottsunami.com)
2 points by Adrock 16y ago|0 comments
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Here Is The Main Reason Why You Suck At Interviews(skorks.com)
13 points by Adrock 16y ago|4 comments
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Evolution of Script Loading(stevesouders.com)
4 points by Adrock 16y ago|0 comments
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Is Groovy++ already doomed?(schneide.wordpress.com)
2 points by Adrock 16y ago|0 comments
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by Adrock 16y ago
Awesomely minimal?
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Do Virus Scanners Slow Down Your System?(tomshardware.com)
2 points by Adrock 16y ago|0 comments
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Steal This Presentation(slideshare.net)
182 points by Adrock 16y ago|23 comments
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Clues Suggest Stuxnet Virus Was Built for Subtle Nuclear Sabotage(wired.com)
2 points by Adrock 16y ago|0 comments
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Explain the Internet to a Street Urchin(fastcompany.com)
4 points by Adrock 16y ago|0 comments
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by Adrock 16y ago
The next step is to ironically embrace Comic Sans. If anyone has typography skills, I'd love to see a stab at Comic Mono for use in IDEs. Ironic Sans, perhaps?
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by Adrock 16y ago
Use it as a training data set for a bunch of machine learning algorithms and go pro, or discover that it's a really hard problem.
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LinkedIn Labs(blog.linkedin.com)
2 points by Adrock 16y ago|0 comments
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by Adrock 16y ago
The article makes no mention of the solutions implemented in the newer languages on the JVM: - Groovy has Gant ( http://gant.codehaus.org/ ) - Clojure has Lancet ( http://github.com/stuarthalloway/lancet ) Both of these avoid the "XML tag s
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IBM Visual Communication Lab's Matthew Mckeon's Setup(matthew.mckeon.usesthis.com)
4 points by Adrock 16y ago|0 comments
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Programmatic generation of an xkcd comic(blog.wolfram.com)
2 points by Adrock 16y ago|0 comments

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