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by bfung 9y ago
Is there a common core method to teach arithmetic in different a different base, like 8 or 16? The "old way" algorithm still works with different bases, you just change extend or truncate the rule for when to carry. Easy to teach
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by bfung 9y ago
Quite a tangent topic to the article. The article uses the first 3 paragraphs to setup the premise that schooling is not translating directly to job skills. The article is not about "we should get rid of non tech subjects". The r
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by bfung 9y ago
A recurring common theme every so often. The blog post isn't really focused though - the solution proposed is to "keep it simple". Click on the "Simple Thread" menu option - ah, all makes sense now. A "Software
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by bfung 9y ago
"Talk to them like they're five" when they're adults that can figure out that they're being talked down upon is a quick way to alienate the crowd even more. If instead you mean to use more common words and to make c
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by bfung 9y ago
The author is not a victim. A "meticulous FB feed peruser" is at best a by-stander. Why wait passively for a FB post? A simple "I haven't heard from you for awhile, what's up?" text or call or even message on
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by bfung 9y ago
You can meet them online, however, are they truly, honestly someone you care about if you don't ever contact them outside of facebook? Or wait passively for facebook posts to broadcast messages? I assume that you met your wife in pers
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by bfung 9y ago
As defined by "The third (and golden) basic law": "A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses." These are ab
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by bfung 9y ago
It happens that SC2 implements certain micro AI functions for the game player, however, that doesn't stop a player from micro-ing all the units themselves, just like in SC1. The number of units in SC2 make it much harder to micro for h
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by bfung 9y ago
From creating an AI perspective - they are actually pretty similar games! All the elements are there, the end goal is mostly the same, the constraints on the systems are not all too different...
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by bfung 9y ago
Hmm, are they truly completely different games? From a high level, it seems like the elements for an AI to learn are mostly the same: Resource gathering and optimization, map/location battle optimizations, building/technology dec
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Why Aren’t Wages Rising Faster Now That Unemployment Is Lower?(nytimes.com)
3 points by bfung 9y ago|0 comments
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by bfung 9y ago
I wonder if that would make people drive progressively faster over a stretch of road until they notice the bump. Or more common, people will speed towards the bump and again, brake right before it.
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by bfung 9y ago
I believe only in Russia does a speedbump launch someone and in America, you only launch yourself off speedbumps. Apologies if joking about it is too soon =P Unsure how this fluid bump would affect bikes - maybe it has too much traction and
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by bfung 9y ago
Can someone enlighten me on why we need a smarter speed bump? If cars going too fast are going to be damaged either way, there's no benefits on that end. If the motivation is that cars can go slightly faster overall over the bump to re
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by bfung 9y ago
But that's where it all falls down - the poor in america are most likely not to understand why they need to "pay more" to vote when it's already "free"!
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by bfung 9y ago
> I don't believe we are close to having a voter base that is capable of understanding, and hence accepting an outcome of such a voting system. Completely on point. Especially true of the American public. Getting people to migrate
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by bfung 9y ago
In support of FP and OOP being compatible: The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that objects are a very good thing -
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by bfung 9y ago
> anything other than lack of an advanced editor with live preview? Nope, that's pretty much it. I just happen to forget the formatting of comments a lot =P I may help to make discussions better if the output of comments were easi
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Ask HN: Modernize the posting and viewing experience of HN?
4 points by bfung 9y ago|3 comments
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by bfung 9y ago
So...(start internal monologue) - The 10x engineer is so because of 10x practice (numbers not precise nor accurate). Companies - need to keep challenging people to get experts. Bootcampers - keep practicing. - As with the soccer study in
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by bfung 9y ago
An opinion piece written as recruiting/marketing at the same time. I've never found open layouts distracting. I don't even use headphones - just focus on the work hard enough that everything else blurs into the background.
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by bfung 9y ago
Take a closer look - I had the same confusion at first. The PHD and VPE is the interviewer.
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by bfung 9y ago
The BEST way to figure out if someone has built large systems is to ask them about it - how it was designed, who initiated which part, edge cases, people involved, etc. The candidate will often start talking more than they would if asked a
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by bfung 9y ago
Lessons learned: 1. Stop posting to HN and let others do it for you 2. Spend more effort in writing blog and less on HN karma 3. ... (monetize) 4. Profit!!! (+ more blog posts about how you monetized and instantly gain mor
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by bfung 10y ago
It's usually put up when a notable person to the hn/yc crowd has passed away. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14118290
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This is the Jeff Bezos playbook for preventing Amazon’s demise(recode.net)
1 points by bfung 10y ago|0 comments
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by bfung 10y ago
Also, this is a resubmission from 3 days ago from the same user. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Cieplak https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13896750
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by bfung 10y ago
1 proposer(v): 2 while not decided: 2 choose n, unique and higher than any n seen so far 26 lines. It's pseudocode, so not really only 26 lines as it needs some more supporting functions to "choose n, uniq
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by bfung 10y ago
" 3. Denitions. As used in this order: The term ?critical infrastructure? means systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems would have a debilitating
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by bfung 10y ago
"...in Greenspun's Tenth Rule Of Programming terms...slow implementation of half of a .Net VM"... ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.[1] So we're back to FP... =P 1. htt

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