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by cube13 14y ago
>i'm saying that most of what goes on in academic CS departments is not what we need as a society and it's not what most undergrads hope to get into when they enroll. most undergrads get into CS to write software, not to learn "theory"
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by cube13 14y ago
The article seems to indicate that a lot of people aren't utilizing 100% of their instances and are just wasting money. I'm honestly curious how much this could be.
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by cube13 14y ago
I think you're missing the entire point of what a Computer Science program is. It's not to teach programming. It's to teach computing theory, algorithm design, etc. That's the reason that the top-level university programs are so heavy on
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by cube13 14y ago
I'm actually curious how the compilers would handle this. The compiler may inline the gotos so it's really: int init_abc() { if(!init_a()) return 0; if(!init_b()) cleanup_a(); return 0;
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by cube13 14y ago
>That and I print out error diagnostics, the location of the error at the time, and the errno. These macros probably saved me a good decade of time finding errors in C. Line number and file macros are freaking awesome. Out of everythin
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by cube13 14y ago
C already has a command to jump backwards in a loop. Continue.
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by cube13 14y ago
Out of curiosity, how much does that come to per year? Looking at Amazon's EC2 pricing( http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ ), unless I'm missing something, keeping 7 reserved instances costs about $1000 per year. Even for a small startup,
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by cube13 15y ago
>So, the fact that you think those jobs are "unskilled" reflects a lot of how, as a society, we have come to trivialize a whole economic activity that was rendered obsolete by technology. Not really. By "unskilled" labor, I mean the en
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by cube13 15y ago
Here's a counterpoint: The traditional secretarial position has pretty much vanished in the workplace. A lot of offices had a TON of low-level administrative filing and assistant positions even in the 80's. But they've almost completely
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by cube13 15y ago
You're right that it's supposed to be the absolute upper bound. From a purely mathematical perspective, I agree completely. I wish I could edit my post to say: >By definition, a O(log n) structure takes, for most inputs, no more than
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by cube13 15y ago
>I predicated my assertion on bounded memory, hence n is constant. Therefore O(log n) means that the operation is bounded in time by k log n. But since n is also a constant, this is equal to some other constant k'. This is equivalent to
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by cube13 15y ago
>(b) I use an O(log n) structure (such as a binary tree): since n is bounded by the size of physically addressable memory, this reduces to O(1). (See also rwmj's comment about memory access times. [1]) Uh, no. By definition, a O(log n)
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by cube13 15y ago
I think the main issue is that a lot of CS programs don't really teach these subjects. The top rated CS programs teach them(I learned all of the subjects listed in TFA while I was an undergrad at UIUC) but I think a lot of CS degrees are j
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by cube13 15y ago
Facebook isn't worth $100 billion, considering that last year's revenue was only $3.7 billion.
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by cube13 15y ago
It's worth that only because Google can easily pay it. Google's net income was $9 billion in 2011( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google ). According to Facebook's S-1 filing in February 2012, Facebook's net income for 2011 was... $1 billion
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by cube13 15y ago
But once you dig down, it becomes a less rosy picture for Dr. Web. The citation for the 1992 date doesn't actually appear to contain that information. It's a bunch of rather poorly written(perhaps by non-English speakers) reviews that don
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by cube13 15y ago
I don't think this is really an analogy. This chain occurs with both in both physical manufacturing and software. In both, developers/design engineers design the product, leads make sure that everything stays within budget and time, and p
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by cube13 15y ago
Keep in mind that the content stays behind the paywall for 1 week before non-subscribers can access it. So unless a paid subscriber is posting links to every single article, I don't think it's that much of an issue for LWN. So given that i
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by cube13 15y ago
The PS3 and 360 are, without a doubt, used on a more consistent basis by their owners compared to the Wii. But in terms of sales, Nintendo blew everyone else away this generation, in both the console and portable markets.
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by cube13 15y ago
Re: 1: That actually makes the actions of a serious predatory trader even more dangerous, since the total pool of available bitcoins is smaller due to the number of people just sitting on their bitcoins. In fact, it could be worse, especia
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by cube13 15y ago
Not really. Linus isn't a Free Software zealot in the way that the FSF is. He's too pragmatic for that. EDIT: Downvotes? Really? Linus isn't a Free Software advocate in the way that the FSF wants their people to be. He's a serious open
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by cube13 15y ago
The PS3 didn't have a piracy problem for a long time because of Blu-Rays. For a couple of years after the initial hardware release, BR burners were prohibitively expensive, and the bandwidth required to download a single disc in a reasonab
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by cube13 15y ago
No trader is doing 29,000 trades a second. BATS is an exchange like NASDAQ. They're facilitating and executing trades for their clients. NASDAQ handled 70k per second in 2008, and could handle almost 4 times that load( http://www.forbes.c
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by cube13 15y ago
Honestly, the conversion was probably the lowest risk move Valve could have made(short of a new IP) for Free-to-play conversion. When Valve moved the game to F2P, the game was out for almost 4 years. By that point, basically everyone that
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by cube13 15y ago
Might want to double check your math there. 42 Mbps is 5.25 MB per second. At that rate, it'll take about 950 seconds to download that. That's about 15 minutes. The more common 2 GB plan would be up in about 6 minutes.
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by cube13 15y ago
The android market also auto-cancels your purchase if you are unable to download the app after a set period of time. I found this out when I bricked my kindle fire after trying to get the marketplace to work(it would allow the purchase, bu
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by cube13 15y ago
In this context, "working for" usually indicates that the person in question is under the FBI's payroll. "Working with" usually indicates that they're a witness of some sort helping with the investigation. You wouldn't say that a murder wi
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by cube13 15y ago
That has to be the reason, because any software(libraries or executables) that contains SSL encryption code is covered as a weapon under export rules.
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by cube13 15y ago
I'm not arguing that the WoW and SC2 expansions not major projects. I'm saying that compared to the new projects(D3 and Titan), the overall personnel allocation is smaller for Heart of the Swarm and Mists of Pandaria. The development effort
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by cube13 15y ago
Technically, it's 2 major projects: Diablo 3 and the new MMO Titan. Starcraft 2 and WoW are in more of a maintenance cycle with the expansions coming out this year. Neither probably need as many developers as the new projects at this point

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