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by arghbleargh 12y ago
Here's an interesting small extension of the problem: prove that it is not possible to guarantee survival if 64 is replaced by some number that is not a power of 2.
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
In the same vein, an easy way to get the tests to pass is to add a bunch of "if" statements to handle each test case. Of course, that is counterproductive in terms of the usefulness of the software. However, because so much weight
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
What about Sandbox doesn't suit your needs?
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
I agree with most of these points, but there is one niche where this could make a lot of sense: programming contests (e.g. topcoder, google codejam). These are very similar to sports to begin with, and it can be quite interesting to watch s
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
As you noted, the biggest thing is practice. But here are a few specific tips that I believe significantly improved my programming ability: 1) Try to get the implementation 100% correct on the first try. I don't mean that you should im
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
Moreover, you don't even need to get to the "testing" step in a lot of cases. Are people going to like your spicy anchovy and cottage cheese pizza topped with ice cream? Answer: no. I didn't have to interact with a singl
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
It would definitely help if you said more about what your product is. But generally speaking, from the customer's perspective, you should charge for the thing that the customer can predict better up-front, so that it's easier for
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
Some feedback: 1) There's a lot of miscellaneous info on the front page, but none of the things that I really care about. The basic info I want to know: price, what areas you serve, and what times you're available. It would also b
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
I do think "learning styles" can be easily used as an excuse to give up at the first sign of difficulty. However, I'm not sure that it's "rubbish". I've always been very good at spatial reasoning, so I oft
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
Just like you said! Start a project with it, and learn what you need along the way. Obviously your code will not be all idiomatic on the first try, but that's OK. Along the way you will run into situations where you'll think, &quo
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
This is a pretty interesting concept, but the site doesn't do a good job of explaining exactly what it does. A realistic step-by-step example would help a lot. Is it doing some kind of static analysis, or is it looking at the object gr
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Seeing a Supersize Yacht as a Job Engine, Not a Self-Indulgence(nytimes.com)
2 points by arghbleargh 12y ago|2 comments
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
It might not be an accurate comparison to consider how language has been lost in the past 10,000 years to predict how much will be lost in the next 10,000. Surely nowadays we leave behind many more artifacts than before, and our literacy ra
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
I am not experienced in these matters, but my intuition is that an IOU as you described isn't really fair in all situations. As an extreme example, if you invented and quickly prototyped a genuinely new technology that no one else knew
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
I won't deny that a lot of times you only need to convey a very short message, but what makes this better than just texting?
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
Maybe you should narrow your focus to the one or two projects you think have the strongest value proposition for the general public and treat all the others as just tools for your own use?
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
I agree with a lot of what the author says, but I got a little confused at the end when he started talking about fixtures. It didn't seem to tie in with the rest of the article. But I think the underlying thesis of the article could be
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
For me the pointer hand is a little too subtle. I prefer to have the border highlighted on mouseover, which gives a strong visual indication without obscuring the content. I have to agree though that modern designs, while slick, are often n
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
Those are actually matrix multiplications and additions, so it can make a significant difference (e.g. it's way faster to add two 50x50 matrices than to multiply them).
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
Hmmm.. but how did the theorem prover find the solution? Probably by heuristics + brute force.
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
I don't see causality as defined in this context as needing any extra "motivation". It's pretty clear that if an agent tries to do A and then B, your system probably should not first execute B and then A. Imagine if the
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
Yes, I found the latest post quotes to be rather distracting. There is no context for the posts (not even thread name), so it's all wasted space for me. Maybe it would be more useful to show something like recently commented threads an
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
Seems like a fine design, but doesn't it require a lot of space? It looks like you would have to widen existing roads by at least 10 ft or so, which wouldn't be practical for a lot of roads in the city.
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
Or you could do it even faster by solving it directly. First note that all the parities change together, so pick the two smallest groups with the same parity, say wolves and goats. These will be the species to try to eliminate. Then have al
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
I wouldn't be so sure that this isn't exactly what they want. Consciously you get annoyed, but it's those same ads that pop into your head from your subconscious every once in a while.
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
I'm still in the middle of reading, but I think many people (especially outside of the Bay area) have a certain perception on what the life of a startup founder is like. And the point of the story is to presumably give a real-life view
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
Yes, I guess the examples shown are indeed "game mechanics" of a sort, but it seems to be heavily focused on game physics, at least for now. When I saw the title I was thinking of something much broader that would include things l
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
Disclaimer: I have not read the book either. One thing I don't understand about the r and g thing is how it makes sense to compare these two values at all. Isn't capital a measure of accumulated wealth, while GDP is a measure of w
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by arghbleargh 12y ago
That sounds amazing to me too. What you described is really the only way that making lists of "core values" could possibly achieve something useful. I just never thought it could happen. Usually people just remember the core value
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by arghbleargh 13y ago
You can always replace dialoguegue with dialogue again afterwards.

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