AgentIcarus

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   by AgentIcarus 9y ago

   Out of interest, why is being on Verizon a selling point?
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   by AgentIcarus 9y ago

   Was there something special about OS/2 that suggested it would be the winner of this war or did WP and Lotus just make the same bad bet at the same time?
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   by AgentIcarus 9y ago

   Do you think they would be if they charged?
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   Uber to Lose Private Hire Licence in London(twitter.com)

   82 points by AgentIcarus 9y ago|41 comments
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   by AgentIcarus 10y ago

   I'm not seeing a smoking gun here and the thread looks very reasonable. I see nothing related to "growth" so maybe link to something that actually backs up your assertion?
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   by AgentIcarus 10y ago

   I'm not a huge fan of this question. I've been programming for 20 years (professionally for 13). Is the hardest problem some noddy maths i worked out at 15 to convert real coordinates to screen coordinates? Is it the first app i w
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   by AgentIcarus 10y ago

   If you enjoyed this you might also like http://www.hackersdelight.org and the associated book.
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   by AgentIcarus 10y ago

   You're being downvoted because you're wrong on a "Europe" level.
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   by AgentIcarus 11y ago

   I think patatino's point was that his boss would say "You're not working" not "You're not taking time off to be sick"
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    by AgentIcarus 12y ago

    That's a really good point, thanks taeric. Anything less than O(n) obviously means not needing to look at every element of the input, i.e. it's already sorted or similar. For most other interview problems that seems like a reasona
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    by AgentIcarus 12y ago

    So. Having just messed up an interview at a large tech company by having trouble deriving an O(n) solution on the whiteboard, anyone got any good tips on how to take algorithms / data structures to the next level and look good at this
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    by AgentIcarus 12y ago

    I think this is actually the original definition of honey trap.
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    by AgentIcarus 12y ago

    I always thought the point was that he spots a ... tattoo? Of a snake? That reminds him of the club? Or the dancer... I'm going to have to watch it again aren't I?
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    by AgentIcarus 12y ago

    This seems similar to michaelochurch's thinking about 'guilds' - which I guess is a precursor to formalised 'engineers' or master craftsmen, which is something Software 'Engineering' seems to be in dire ne
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    by AgentIcarus 12y ago

    I can recommend the book "Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7" - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creating-Interactive-Fiction-Inform-... - it walks through the process of creating a quite complex game and has some
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    by AgentIcarus 12y ago

    Thanks, that was fun and not as tricky as the blank grid initially made it appear! And the implementation was nice (although a little twitchy if you rotate twice quickly).
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    by AgentIcarus 13y ago

    I agree with the author that the Single Responsibility Principle is being violated with all these annotations, but I disagree that the resolution is to move the annotations into hbm.xml files (or similar). I would, in the limited example gi
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    by AgentIcarus 13y ago

    I've just started looking at this sort of thing - can I ask what technology you decided on for the apt repo? (I'm especially interested in whether the restriction most of them impose on having multiple versions of a package is som
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    Hitch a ride through Google's Cloud(news.cnet.com)

    2 points by AgentIcarus 14y ago|0 comments
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    Designing a Windows 8 Metro app starting from a Windows Phone app(blogs.telerik.com)

    2 points by AgentIcarus 14y ago|0 comments
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    by AgentIcarus 15y ago

    The title of the image is "firefox-home-tab-mockup" - I don't think it represents the current state of the art.
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    by AgentIcarus 15y ago

    If you enjoyed this, you'll also probably like Hacker's Delight: http://www.hackersdelight.org/
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    Inside Google London: A park, a coffee lab, and nightclub-style meeting rooms(pocket-lint.com)

    3 points by AgentIcarus 15y ago|0 comments
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    Quantum Chess adds Uncertainty(wired.co.uk)

    1 points by AgentIcarus 16y ago|0 comments
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    by AgentIcarus 16y ago

    Purchased on the 1st of June last year - I'll keep an eye on it in the future, thanks for the warning!
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    by AgentIcarus 16y ago

    One that was recommended to me on here before (and I ended up buying - thanks HN!) was the Markus from Ikea - http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/20103101 It's a lovely chair for working in, very comfortable and with a decent head
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    by AgentIcarus 16y ago

    From http://store.steampowered.com/news/3820/ : Win32 side support for Steam Play / Steam Cloud integration with upcoming Mac titles It's coming to Mac, and I imagine that'll come to Linux in time too.
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    by AgentIcarus 16y ago

    I didn't realise the link in the topic would cause a download (I opened it from my RSS reader and was surprised to see a blank tab!). Would you consider adding a [DMG] or similar to the title?
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    Why SXSW Sucks(jolieodell.wordpress.com)

    68 points by AgentIcarus 17y ago|41 comments
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    by AgentIcarus 17y ago

    That was my first thought as well. That article is found at http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm... (if that's the one you were thinking of)