alboy

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by alboy 8y ago
> If do add(1.0e30, 1.0, -1.0e30) is that the same (aka IEEE fp addition is noncommutative) You might be thinking of associativity. Both addition and multiplication are commutative up to NaN.
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by alboy 8y ago
Doesn't every browser extension increase the attack surface a bit? It all comes down to your personal risk/reward profile. I can't live without an adblocker, a Vim emulator and a dark theme in my browser, but I don't use
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by alboy 8y ago
There're plenty of browser extensions for this which also prevent the problem you get when eventually you have to switch to a different site that doesn't have a dark mode (like 99% of the sites on the web). I use Midnight Lizard.
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by alboy 8y ago
They may very well be, but is the quality of signal truly worse than that which an interviewer can extract from a few hours of your writing code on the board?
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by alboy 8y ago
I always thought that the primary quality measured by this popular interviewing style is "being-like-your-interviewer" which leads naturally to the avalanche effect due to which the practice becomes even more popular within the co
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by alboy 8y ago
Time spent by a new employee learning the ropes is time wasted from the perspective of an individual employer-actor. On the surface, it sounds similar enough to the iterated prisoner's dilemma so I'm inclined to think that a greed
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by alboy 8y ago
I wonder if the added friction of changing your place of work caused by this practice is meant to somewhat counterbalance the heavy incentives engineers have to job-hop in the current climate. Kind of makes sense from the point of view of t
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by alboy 8y ago
One could argue that CS undergraduate degrees are perfectly suited for this purpose. FAANG & Co don't seem to care for that. You've successfully passed a few dozen exams at MIT or Stanford? Well, let's make the reasonable
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by alboy 8y ago
"Starting with definitions" is the opposite of the language-less, intuitive way of understanding something. It means precisely that one has been provided with an effective formal language for the domain. The fact that you rederive
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by alboy 8y ago
In Russian goluboy is seen as a "primary" colour though.
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by alboy 8y ago
Developing an understanding of quantum mechanics landed Heisenberg the Nobel prize, whereas nowadays thousands of students manage to work through their textbooks just fine. Having information expressed in human language, a form highly optim
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by alboy 8y ago
That's preposterous, they should just throw an UnluckyIndexAccessException depending on the host's locale.
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by alboy 8y ago
> Statistically, the amount of time I save per day by riding a motorcycle in San Francisco heavily outpaces the number of average life-minutes lost due to the risks of riding a motorcycle. Those are the minutes spent stuck in traffic vs
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by alboy 8y ago
> Additive and multiplicative notations are used, when your set A can have 2 different algebras defined for it, e.g. real numbers are group for addition: (R,+,0) and multiplication: (R,∗,1). 2 different notations help us keep trace which