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by billybob 15y ago
You're right - it wasn't O(n^2); the number of operations was (Number of checkboxes) x (Number of products). So with 10 checkboxes and 200 products, I had 2000 operations. 201 products = 2010 operations. My problem would have been N^N if I
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by billybob 15y ago
Maybe 8 checkboxes, but hundreds of products.
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by billybob 15y ago
I am a fanatical Vim user who listens to iTunes frequently while working. But I don't see the point of this. It takes very little time for me to switch spaces and click to change playlists, and I only need to do that a few times per day. Wh
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by billybob 15y ago
I actually learned about Big O from a friend with a computer science background (I don't have one) when I was working on some jQuery show/hide code a few years ago. The idea was: you have a bunch of products on a page, and as you check and
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by billybob 15y ago
I wouldn't do ALL of these, but it is pretty easy to avoid multiple inputs for things like U.S. phone numbers. I like the approach of MaskedInput: the user can type parens and dashes or not; if they type them, they're ignored. In any case,
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by billybob 15y ago
The "Berekley gender bias case" section made it make sense to me. Every single department was more likely to admit a woman than a man, and yet the school as a whole was more likely to admit a man than a woman. This was because women were ap
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by billybob 15y ago
Right. But we're both making the point that "gives a good interview" is contingent on "isn't given a good interview."
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by billybob 15y ago
"Some people excel.... on well... giving good interviews." The sort of interview that this guy would do well in is a poorly-conducted one. A simple question like "what does it mean to hash a password and why would one do that?" or "what is
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by billybob 15y ago
This comment on the original post is interesting: "Fixing svn is a lot of work. You could instead write a wrapper around git-svn to make it look like svn. The wrapper can enforce a centralized workflow. The user should not be able to tell t
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by billybob 15y ago
I have not used Emacs, but Vim feels incredibly powerful to me. I feel that I can tell it what to do in a very natural way: "change inside parentheses", or "delete from here to the word 'foo'," or "replace 'bar' with 'baz' inside the curren
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by billybob 15y ago
Naturally. "Consumer facing" = "more widely known" = "interesting to a bigger audience."
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by billybob 15y ago
Naturally. "Consumer facing" = "more widely known" = "interesting to a wider audience."
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by billybob 15y ago
"Here is the ideal: we pay people for the time/effort/resources to create" This could only work for ideas that are obvious. For instance, it's obvious that a more efficient solar cell would be great, so we could create a prize for that. But
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by billybob 15y ago
True. Civilization itself is made up of a dense web of people's contributions, only a small number of which are protected by law. Maybe the most important ones, in fact, have no protection. Writing, steel, structural engineering, etc. Imagi
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by billybob 15y ago
I don't like the phrase "post-materialist" either, because it implies this is something new. "People used to want more stuff, but now we're moving beyond that." There have always been people who want more stuff and people who don't, and the
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by billybob 15y ago
"businesses have the goal of making as much money as possible and, by extension, since money can only be acquired by working, essentially attempt to automate as little as possible." What? If a business gets paid $10 for something that costs
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by billybob 15y ago
If I do some work and grow some food from seeds, I have created actual value by my work. Monetary and fiscal policy does not do this. It creates or destroys currency, thereby either diluting or concentrating the value of dollars, creates te
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by billybob 15y ago
"I know you want to be hired full time by me. And I want to be doing my part. But please understand: I’m running a business. I want to make profits. And these tools are letting me make more profits by employing people only when I need
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by billybob 15y ago
Which is no different from having your top talent poached based on resumes or word of mouth. Quiz: if you're worried about your best employees being recruited away, how do you react? 1. Give them more opportunities to grow, learn, advance,
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by billybob 15y ago
Pricing gripes aside, by packaging DVDs and streaming separately, they'll have much clearer signals about which one users really want, as measured in dollars. I'm assuming they'll be watching the numbers for DVD rental drop until it no long
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by billybob 15y ago
"We are still having conversations now about the meaning of 'opening doors'. Opening doors is seen as a transgressive act for feminists since the 1960s, but actually the action is rooted in notions of moral purity from 1600s. It has taken u
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by billybob 15y ago
"The complexity of software and low standards for patent eligibility mean that software engineers produce potentially patentable ideas all the time. [Snip] Auditing 10 million lines of code for compliance with 18,000 patents is an impossibl
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by billybob 15y ago
Isn't that infuriating? The carrier is literally selling you spam: they charge you to receive that spam message. They could provide a whitelisting service, which would be technically simple to implement and would solve the problem completel
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by billybob 15y ago
This. The glaring assumption of economics is that people are rational. We are not, entirely.
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by billybob 15y ago
Terrorism is about creating terror. It's about magnifying, in your enemy's mind, what is actually a small threat. If you have an entire military, you don't use terrorism; you kill your enemies en masse. If you're a small band of nutjobs, yo
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by billybob 15y ago
It's also very unlikely that you can prevent anyone from seeing your party pics on Facebook, given FB's disregard for privacy.
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by billybob 15y ago
I agree that Circles seems like a great idea. I've always hated that in Facebook, everyone is either my friend or not. It's awkward to have to decide if someone is a friend. You either end up with lots of non-friend friends, or you have to
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by billybob 15y ago
Seems like the idea behind "Circles" is that it can be both. "Sharing the right stuff with the right people shouldn’t be a hassle. Circles makes it easy to put your friends from Saturday night in one circle, your parents in another, and you
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by billybob 15y ago
Right. That's why infomercials always say "here's our number, call whenever it's convenient." :) Clearly there is such a thing as taking too long, but "no correlation" is overstating it. Impulse decisions can be bad.
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by billybob 15y ago
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