btmorex

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by btmorex 14y ago
I think there is a subtle bug in his second two person::~person examples. Specifically, from the perspective of other threads an object is no longer valid once its destructor has been called. So, imagine two person objects side-by-side in a
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by btmorex 14y ago
I was curious so I took a quick look. Good indicators are: 1. Most of the code is error checking/handling. This isn't necessarily a good indicator in general, but for C code it is. 2. Consistent style. 3. Functions are static unless otherwi
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by btmorex 14y ago
In fairness, by population Bulgaria is closest to Virginia and I'm sure you could find the Governor of Virginia dancing at some state fair at some point.
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by btmorex 14y ago
The issue is that the first $1000 gained is worth more than the second $1000. Similarly, the first $1000 lost hurts more than the second $1000. On the gain side, the different values should be self evident. I think we can all intuitively un
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by btmorex 15y ago
They're are both acceptable, but: learnt - British learned - American
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by btmorex 15y ago
I wonder how you define successful. Microsoft doesn't seem to like releasing simultaneous player counts except on launch days and of course launch is almost always the highest count you'll find, but the Halo 3 launch day count (750k) I foun
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by btmorex 15y ago
If you have a British passport, you can just come here for up to 90 days. That should be enough time to find an employer who will sponsor an H1B.
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by btmorex 15y ago
Fab.com, Batch.com, Groupon.com, Mint.com, Dropbox.com, Airtime.com, Oink.com With the possible exception of groupon and dropbox, all of those names would very expensive to acquire. The problem is that a startup typically has to pick a na
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by btmorex 15y ago
This whole problem would be solved if .com's cost $100+ per year to register. Don't have that kind of money? Get a different TLD. I'm tired of having every single name I can think of -- even bad ones -- already registered and unused.
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Why We Moved Off The Cloud(code.mixpanel.com)
341 points by btmorex 15y ago|151 comments
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by btmorex 15y ago
I'm not familiar with .NET at all, but isn't there some way that you can move a group of objects outside of the GC system and manually manage their allocation and deallocation? Seems like doing that would be far cleaner than what they actua
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by btmorex 15y ago
Well, I don't care about my math rep so... I don't get it. You've listed 3 sides of a box. Does that mean that the "fourth" side is part of one of those 3 sides so a = b = c? Or are you asking for the orientation and relative length of the
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by btmorex 15y ago
2011 Q2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Smartphone_share_current.p...
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by btmorex 15y ago
My current favorite interview question is write itoa in C, and actually this comes up in almost every solution. (generally, people want to set some flag for negative and then treat every input the same so... if (n < 0) {negative = true;
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by btmorex 15y ago
I've actually used "Who's hiring" in the past. Two things made it very useful to me: 1.) It tells me something about the company. At the very least, it tells me that at least one founder/employee/etc. is reading HN. 2.) I can leisurely chec
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by btmorex 15y ago
Count me as someone who doesn't want to see recruiters posting in "Who's hiring" regardless of how good they are.
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by btmorex 15y ago
Everything I've read suggests that a downgrade from AAA to AA+ or AA would have have little to no effect on interest rates. The only downgrade that really matters is from "investment grade" to "junk" status because that prevents many instit
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by btmorex 15y ago
That's not really a conservative ideology though (at least in the traditional sense). For example, Reagan raised taxes a number of times. The whole never raise taxes thing is quite new and comes from the Tea Party, not Republicans or cons
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by btmorex 15y ago
I'm not sure I would say she doesn't speak English. Check out her blog post about this: http://fossil.instinctive.eu/libupskirt/wiki?name=about-the-... Especially: I did know the sexual and voyeurism connotations of the word “upskirt” an
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by btmorex 15y ago
She wouldn't be able to release those without consent or major editing / censorship due to patient privacy laws.
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by btmorex 15y ago
So, the C++ performance numbers were with the "public" version? It wasn't clear whether they left the internal version out completely (besides the changelog) or simple didn't release the code. The published C++ numbers are already way bette
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by btmorex 15y ago
You could do 6 like so for kicks (it's pretty horrible and writing a real partition function is easy neough): passed, failed = reduce(lambda r, g: r[g <= 60].append(g) or r, [49, 58, 76, 82, 88, 90], ([], []))
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by btmorex 15y ago
I think you're getting a lot criticism because thinking in terms of "social inferiors" is foreign to many Americans, but quite common in the rest of the world in my experience. I don't really know anything about you, but I'd be surprised if
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by btmorex 15y ago
It's not just impractical. It's a complete nonstarter in any competitive job market (like the bay area). First, contract to hire is a pure negative for the employee. People can "try a company" out just fine with a full time offer and then q
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by btmorex 15y ago
I guess you could take that viewpoint if you're planning on releasing your product 3 years from now (for example, that might be okay for a game developer with long product cycles), but 500ms to render a page is slow today. So, is the idea t
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by btmorex 15y ago
I'd rather not waste an hour of my life listening to a conspiracy theorist.
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by btmorex 15y ago
I know which website I'll never be visiting, I just don't "like" the people behind it anymore. Google? I mean they didn't buy like.com without knowing about this lawsuit.
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Richard Feynman on education in Brazil(v.cx)
152 points by btmorex 15y ago|73 comments
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by btmorex 15y ago
Sort of, although in the case of the OOM killer, the goal is actually to kill the "right" process. Of course choosing the "right" process in code turns out to be exceptionally hard over a lot of different workloads.
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by btmorex 15y ago
Show me one cloud offering that gives consistently good or even average disk performance. (hint: there isn't one) Basically, if you're running a database that does not completely fit in memory you should be on dedicated hardware. I'd also p

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