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by crntaylor 15y ago
Maybe that's true for non-technical people (though I have strong reservations). But for coders and other techy types there's a rock solid metric of how good you are, which is to look at what you've built. Who knew Mark Zuckerberg before fac
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by crntaylor 15y ago
Here's a fun fact. There are approximately 365 * 24 ~ 10,000 hours in a year. If he can pull this off, then problems which currently take a year of CPU time could be solved in _one hour_ with the proviso that your results can be off by up t
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by crntaylor 15y ago
Matlab already allows you to omit the 'end' from function definitions, which many people find easier to read, and my experience seeing people transition from Matlab/Octave to Python+Numpy+Scipy is that people get on board with indentation-d
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by crntaylor 15y ago
On one hand, awwwww. On the other hand, this makes me feel terrible. I've been learning to code for about a year, I have a job which involves plenty of coding, I have a PhD, and I'm pretty sure that I couldn't build and deploy a web app ri
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by crntaylor 15y ago
He's mocking the concept of a 'sprint' [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(scrum)#Sprint
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by crntaylor 15y ago
I've got to admit, I don't understand why this article exists. If you're a beginner, the math is too complicated. If you're anything more than a beginner then you already know that bubble sort is O(n^2) and quick sort is O(n log n) and you
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by crntaylor 15y ago
This is cool, but you really should have used bar charts rather than pie charts. Humans are really good at comparing lengths, and terrible at comparing areas. As an example, your chart of which database systems HNers use is almost meaningle
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by crntaylor 15y ago
The quiz that accompanies this article [1] makes an error. Question 2 asks "A team of psychologists performed personality tests on 100 professionals, of which 30 were engineers and 70 were lawyers. Brief descriptions were written for each s
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by crntaylor 15y ago
We use KDB+ for anything speed-critical - not on the lists, so I voted 'other'