aston

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   by aston 19y ago

   I would say learning the ins and outs of a single language prepares you a lot better for general coding in the real world than learning algorithms does. In day to day work, I haven't ever coded up a linked list, but knowing whether Python p
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   by aston 19y ago

   It's been in Java since about 2000.
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   by aston 19y ago

   The racial diversity bit is clearly a red-herring.
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   by aston 19y ago

   This article has some weird examples. I could've sworn most C++ compilers would go ahead and throw in default and copy constructors for you by default. It's only by explicitly defining a lack of one of these that you would hit an error (a
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   by aston 19y ago

   The Java code mostly looks bad because it's a statically typed language, and templated/generified code always looks ugly (in part because it's going directly against the general grain of the language). If you were content throwing around li
6. 696.▲
   by aston 19y ago

   From one half of the currently-winning BellKor team.
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   by aston 19y ago

   If you like that, you'll really like this: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~rs/talks/LLRB/RedBlack.pdf Sedgewick's left-leaving red-black trees. Easier code to understand, same performance bounds. Beware, though, some of the code in the preso
8. 698.▲
   by aston 19y ago

   Meanwhile, Intel looks into taking in nvidia...
9. 699.▲
   by aston 19y ago

   Looks like it's pounding the server enough as it is.
10. 700.▲
    by aston 19y ago

    Escape generally helps.
11. 701.▲
    by aston 19y ago

    I've been trying it out. Not bad, especially the error highlighting. The only downside is that you have to stop typing to get syntax highlighting.
12. 702.▲
    by aston 19y ago

    Kaiser Soze.
13. 703.▲
    by aston 19y ago

    Clever take on the situation. However, unlike a straight up B2B play, you do still have a huge chunk of your company doing B2C work, and the more good you do in the latter, the easier the former gets. Ask the engineers at Google and Faceboo
14. 704.▲
    by aston 19y ago

    Meta.
15. 705.▲
    by aston 19y ago

    Still not really worth noting. It shouldn't take a celebrity telling you the obvious for you to acknowledge it.
16. 706.▲
    by aston 19y ago

    Muxtape is getting a lot more coverage than YC's own Mixwit, despite the latter looking a lot cooler and more polished. Unintuitive...
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    by aston 19y ago

    Despite their (and threadless') success, selling witty t-shirts is actually a really rough business to be in. It's number two on the list of stupid frat-boy business ideas here: http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/8-stupid-frat-boy-.
18. 708.▲
    by aston 19y ago

    Trying to drum up customers by driving people crazy.
19. 709.▲
    by aston 19y ago

    Sweet. I dunno why this is titled so pessimistically...the dollar is finally rallying.
20. 710.▲
    by aston 19y ago

    Still haven't seen that software in action. I'm more than a bit skeptical that it can do what it claims in the general case.
21. 711.▲
    by aston 19y ago

    And a really subtle watermark, too. All around good job.
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    by aston 19y ago

    Kinda misleading title. It's not the int, it's the int in an array. Or, more precisely, in a hash table, since PHP doesn't actually have strictly-numerically-indexed vectors.
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    by aston 19y ago

    Such a freaky picture.
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    by aston 19y ago

    If you like that, you'll really like this: http://www.limerickdb.com/?269
25. 715.▲
    by aston 19y ago

    Foul play there. Linking to the video would've been cool, but the betcha-can't-close-this-window site, no good.
26. 716.▲
    by aston 19y ago

    Posted by a man named Christian.
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    by aston 19y ago

    I think it'd be awesome to have a mode in news.yc where I can paste in a quote, mark it off with like a "|" and have it turn into an indented blockquote with some special styling. As much as we copy and paste snippets from articles around h
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    by aston 19y ago

    Yeah, probably a good idea. Harder, though, since arc turns > into > before running the markdown stuff on it.
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    by aston 19y ago

    I want it to look pretty, though. Not like code.
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    by aston 19y ago

    Also, here's a quick-and-dirty diff for it: --- news.arc.old 2008-03-31 15:07:54.000000000 -0700 +++ news.arc 2008-03-31 15:08:34.000000000 -0700 @@ -382,7 +382,9 @@ .pagebreak {page-break-before:always} pr