currysoup_t

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by currysoup_t 9y ago
What leads you to believe performance follows a normal distribution? For a given especially slow request would you expect a corresponding especially fast request?
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by currysoup_t 9y ago
Not since April of this year.
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by currysoup_t 10y ago
Not so easy in practice. Representative democracy fundamentally limits the scope of available options. It's especially bad in the US; where the potential for damage is maximal.
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by currysoup_t 10y ago
As usual, memory access is the expensive operation. If the virtual function is already in L1 cache a virtual function should be only a minor slowdown. If it's all the way off in main memory it will be significantly slower. Eric Brumer
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by currysoup_t 10y ago
Most successful (Valley) startups don't start from nothing, far from it, they start from a vast network of other rich peoples money, usually VC, occasionally the state.
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by currysoup_t 10y ago
Your point about referencing socialist revolutionaries is indeed part of what I'm going for, and is why I'm very reluctant to align myself with vanguardists, but we're not discussing the efficacy of revolutionary socialist pa
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by currysoup_t 10y ago
It's a bit of a straw man to present failed socialist-in-name-only states when critiquing socialism. If someone were to bring up the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea as an attempt to critique democracy you'd rightly scoff. I&#
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by currysoup_t 10y ago
I think you'll find textbook socialism are very different to what you think socialism and communism are. Do the workers in Venezuela own the means of production?
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by currysoup_t 10y ago
Would you prefer it if the movement was called, 'Black Lives Don't Not Matter'?
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by currysoup_t 11y ago
As someone currently preparing to interview with Google I'd take 4 hours implementing real code over a (recommended) 2 weeks of basic algorithms, data structures, math, etc. revision.