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by curtis 7y ago
> This implementation only computes the distance if it's less than or equal to the threshold value, returning -1 if it's greater. The advantage is performance: unbounded distance is O(nm), but a bound of k allows us to reduce
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by curtis 7y ago
Here's my attempt to implement Levenshtein Distance in Go, with lots of comments: https://github.com/cbartley/diffy/blob/master/src/diffy/diff...
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Hundreds of people mysteriously died over a millennium at “Skeleton Lake”(vice.com)
1 points by curtis 7y ago|0 comments
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Volcanoes on the Moon May Have Erupted During the Dinosaur Age (2014)(space.com)
67 points by curtis 7y ago|34 comments
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Scrumban(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by curtis 7y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 7y ago
Damore was fired because a shocking number of people apparently have a fundamental reading comprehension problem. This article in The Atlantic is the best one I've seen on the issue: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics
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by curtis 7y ago
I'm OK with whiteboarding. I don't object to take-home assignments in principal, but I do object to them in practice -- they take up way too much time, and then part of the time you get ghosted after submitting them. I think the
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by curtis 7y ago
Last time I was looking for a job (about 3 years ago in Seattle) I had a lot of trouble getting through the initial screening to even get to a technical interview. I didn't have a lot of luck until I started applying through AngelList
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A list and count of keywords in programming languages(github.com)
2 points by curtis 7y ago|0 comments
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Two brothers invented an alphabet for their native language, Fulfulde(news.microsoft.com)
151 points by curtis 7y ago|59 comments
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by curtis 7y ago
https://xkcd.com/224/
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Survivors of rare wolf attack recount how animal tried to drag man from tent(cbc.ca)
39 points by curtis 7y ago|52 comments
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Rami Harpaz, Other Pilots, Translated the Hobbit into Hebrew While POWs in Egypt(jpost.com)
1 points by curtis 7y ago|0 comments
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Did Only 1.4 Percent of White Americans Own Slaves in 1860?(snopes.com)
1 points by curtis 7y ago|0 comments
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We should teach Python instead of Racket (at least here)(acbart.github.io)
3 points by curtis 7y ago|0 comments
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Klamath County is the worst place to be if someone threatens your life(magazine.atavist.com)
3 points by curtis 7y ago|0 comments
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Which States Are in the Midwest?(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by curtis 7y ago|1 comments
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by curtis 7y ago
There's a lot of the author's opinion embedded in that paragraph, and I'm disinclined to agree with it, but ... no wait -- was that paragraph generated by a Markov bot trained to make substanceless attacks on opinions that th
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Did Churchill Cause the Bengal Famine?(winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu)
8 points by curtis 7y ago|1 comments
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by curtis 7y ago
I wonder if it's practical to stick a couple of Space Shuttle external fuel tank-sized liquid hydrogen tanks on a typical container ship and then run it on hydrogen. One of the problems with liquid hydrogen (not the only one) is that
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Finnair Flight 915(en.wikipedia.org)
152 points by curtis 7y ago|41 comments
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by curtis 7y ago
> Half the gross weight of the entire system is fuel. That's true for jet propellant, but it's not true for hydrogen. A hydrogen powered airplane would have to have a much greater volume than an equivalent airplane fueled wi
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by curtis 7y ago
It's pretty clear that hydrogen-powered automobiles are not going to be a thing -- electric batteries work very well for that use case. There are some cases where I think hydrogen might still work better than the alternatives. The mos
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by curtis 7y ago
Introducing the Steel-Plate Composite Core: https://continuingeducation.bnpmedia.com/article_print.php?C...
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The Broomway(en.wikipedia.org)
60 points by curtis 7y ago|9 comments
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Isaac Asimov's Favorite Story(openculture.com)
1 points by curtis 7y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 7y ago
If your software development organization can't ship software without an agile process, then it's unlikely that it can ship software with an agile process either. I'm not saying that agile processes are inferior or even no be
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Punpedia – The Online Encyclopedia of Puns(punpedia.org)
215 points by curtis 7y ago|54 comments
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An asteroid hit Mars billions of years ago, may have caused a 1k-foot tsunami(astronomy.com)
2 points by curtis 7y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 7y ago
The Reddit live thread is here: https://www.reddit.com/live/13d5jgjysmbem/ .

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