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by S4M 11y ago
I am politically on the right wing (in the French way), but Sarkozy is no better, honestly - amongst other things, he tried to push his then 19 years old son to become head of the administration managing the business area of La Defense (dea
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by S4M 11y ago
Well, you simplify the given expression by dragging one sub expression on the other, until the remaining expression is not simplifiable anymore. Also, while the website gives you a hint, you don't need to follow it and can do something
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Show HN: Interactive maths exercises(magako.com)
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by S4M 11y ago
I would be wary about that too, but I would rather answer with the first algorithm that comes to my mind, without worrying about efficiency yet, and if the interviewer ask me for something more efficient, well, then I would start digging.
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by S4M 11y ago
I remember reading an interview of Apptimize's CEO [0] and got the impression that she must be someone very energetic but also tough and demanding from her employees. Somehow this job post confirms my impression, and it seems she wants
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by S4M 11y ago
I am wondering the same actually. I wonder if he could paste his comments as replies and then a moderator could make dead the ones left as main comments. As it is the threads are quite hard to follow.
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by S4M 11y ago
I think the OP made the mistake of trying to solve the problem directly, and when he got errors, he got nervous which made him get more errors. Instead the right strategy would be to think aloud "well, how do I get the digits of a numb
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by S4M 11y ago
No. I never understood the attraction of casinos.
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by S4M 11y ago
Not exactly low level programming, but you can try the Matasano crypto challenge: http://cryptopals.com/
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by S4M 11y ago
> "linear combination of pre-existing socioeconomic resources and inflated self-image" > What do you mean here by linear combination? I suspect that Michael means that the people who claim on leadership position without havi
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by S4M 11y ago
Wow, I am working on something very similar... still in beta... it's here: http://magako.com/exercise/symbolic/eng
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by S4M 11y ago
I drink only tea, never coffee - I hate the taste.
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by S4M 11y ago
> Large tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have a lot of politics but are still very successful. Those large tech companies have put some solid barriers to enter in their markets before being run by politics. I suspect nos
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by S4M 11y ago
I sometimes give food to homeless, never cash. However, when I see someone begging, I tried to look at him and say "sorry, I don't have money" or have a polite smile. I tell myself that homeless people have already a hard lif
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by S4M 11y ago
On top of the trust issue, one advantage of giving food to a beggar is that he is much less likely to get mugged for food than for cash.
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by S4M 12y ago
Maybe the higher ups thought about that and invited the relevant engineers (or their boss) from Google and the likes at their offices in the Pentagon or some other place. At least that is not fakable.
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by S4M 12y ago
Isn't that super creepy?
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by S4M 12y ago
> Can it easily call into Java libraries? Yes, see [0]. If you need help making it available in Clojure, please ping me and I'll be happy to give you a hand. [0] http://clojure.org/java_interop
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by S4M 12y ago
Looks good, looking forward to it! One question: > My implementation uses Scala, so the API will initially be for Scala/Java only, but I want it to be possible to write wrappers for other languages as well. Why isn't Clojure su
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by S4M 12y ago
Have you tried public libraries? I worked sometimes in one where I was staying. It was pretty silent, with a table to put the computer, and there was a wifi there - which I didn't want to try, I went there to be in a place without Inte
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by S4M 12y ago
I can't remember the exact quote or its authoer, but it's like that: "The best for of government is a good dictatorship, then it's a good oligarchy, then it's a good democracy, then it's a bad democracy, then a
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by S4M 12y ago
Thinking of it, maybe you need to create a company, have odesk pay to that company and make yourself an employee of that company so you can pay yourself a salary.
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by S4M 12y ago
Not really answering, but would there be a way to convert odesk earnings into bit coins, thus avoiding, well, to have to declare anything?
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by S4M 12y ago
Seems like another initiative to disrupt the traditional model <good university> -> <good job>, after the MOOCs and soon Star Fighter. I think it's a good thing to disrupt prestigious universities that hire on credential
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by S4M 12y ago
I'd build lots of houses and apartments, hopefully creating a massive worldwide drop in real estate.
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by S4M 12y ago
OS: Debian Hardware: Dell laptop Tools: Emacs, python, javascript, git; playing a bit with C, Clojure, Haskell.
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by S4M 12y ago
I am making an app for education. For now it's a website but I will port it to Android soon. Wanna talk?
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by S4M 12y ago
Wow, that indeed doesn't look good. In France I learnt trigonometry at 13 (I gonna turn 34 this year so maybe it has changed by now).
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by S4M 12y ago
I would agree in general with your proposal, but I'd suggest replacing the iPad by a cheap laptop, like a chromebook: it's cheaper, gives the kids more freedom, and for the ones who will be interested, it can be a first step to pr
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by S4M 12y ago
You could try that on IRC.

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