doomjunky

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by doomjunky 8y ago
It's just a trade-off of mathematical probabilities. The alleged extreme safety comes with an extreme destructive disasters. When it comes to risk management, the human brain that is bound by evolution to dangers close in time and loca
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by doomjunky 8y ago
Thanks to GDPR now everyone can export all their data.
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by doomjunky 8y ago
Look at this lead pencil. There's not a single person in the world who could make this pencil. [0] [0]: Milton Friedman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Gppi-O3a8
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by doomjunky 8y ago
Assuming that sequential IDs are handed out sequentially. Assuming further that gaps in this sequence indicating deleted tweets. You could reduce the sequence ID space by employing the fact that it is overall less likely that a tweet is del
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by doomjunky 8y ago
1) The leaked location is just "datacenterlocally", e.g. westcoast USA or northern europe. 2) There is no guarantee that traffic IS NOT routed from another region to handle traffic peaks.
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by doomjunky 8y ago
I recommend everyone to read The Tao of Backup. It's a lovely but smart writeup concerning seven most crucial aspects of backup. http://taobackup.com/
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by doomjunky 8y ago
Have a look at interpolation search. The complexity is O(log log n), under the assumption of a uniform distribution of the data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpolation_search
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by doomjunky 8y ago
Actually it's a good didactical way to first implement the "raw" version of Dijkstra's algorithm without a priority queue and than discuss the other variants of the algorithm afterwards, because priority queues are anoth
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by doomjunky 8y ago
Functional programming! Functional programming languages have several classic features that are now gradually adopted by none FP languages. Lambda expressions [1] is one such feature originating from FP languages such as Standard ML (1984)
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by doomjunky 8y ago
"Anecdotal evidence" is now part of my vocabulary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence
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by doomjunky 8y ago
The example code snippet on the website has a synthax error. The '!' in the comment embracement is missing.
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by doomjunky 8y ago
The Probabilistic Method by Noga Alon and Joel H. Spencer. I took a seminar on the probabilistic method and my advisor recommended me to read this book. This book is for scientists. It lays out the foundation of the probabilistic method and
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by doomjunky 8y ago
< 20 Be a good student. < 30 Follow somebody. It's not which company you go, it's which boss you follow. < 40 Work for yourself, if you realy want to be a entrepeneur. < 50 Focus on things you are good at. < 60 Work
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by doomjunky 8y ago
It's not about the subscription, it's about the lead. Giving things away for "free" is a common marketing strategy to generate leads. A lead is a qualified contact of a potential customer. This things could be of a broad
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by doomjunky 8y ago
Pure p2p networks scale by O(log n). This means if the popularity of your video scales with n then your infrastructure just scales with log(n). The idea is that leechers become seeders. So with every new layer of distribution the coverage i
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by doomjunky 8y ago
> I don't understand why you are mentioning peer to peer technology? What does that have to do with anything? The super-seeding / swarming approach developed for the BitTorrent protocol is quite interesting. One original seeder
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by doomjunky 8y ago
I just leave this here in the hope another programmer will pick it up. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
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by doomjunky 8y ago
Congrats! This is a really nice project. I'm amazed that the editor is just 200 lines of code and i like the minimalistic design. Assuming the number in the right side are the spectators. Could you show on the left side how many peers
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by doomjunky 8y ago
On Windows this dependes on the calling convention. The calling convention determines whether function arguments are passed: In order or in reverse order. Who takes care of cleaning the stack: caller or callee? And even if the arguments are
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by doomjunky 8y ago
To me one curious thing about the main() function without arguments is, these arguments are still pushed onto the stack. You can find them by dereferencing a pointer of another stack variable and playing around with the offset. /
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by doomjunky 8y ago
Kind of related: The Lottery Hackers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16494280
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by doomjunky 8y ago
I'm d’accord with that. I think many comments here have a misconception of efficiency versus flexibility. For me it breaks down to: - Big companies are: More efficient but less flexible - Small startups are: Less efficient but more fle
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by doomjunky 8y ago
I have subscript the HackerNews RSS Feed. Using Thunderbird as my RSS client it bothers me to see multiple copies of the same post in my inbox every time the title a post is changed. Adding the <guid> tag containing the post id can he
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by doomjunky 8y ago
KLEE is a symbolic execution engine. You can use it to analyse your program. A symbolic execution considers all possible values for all variables. E.g.: int x = readIntFromIO(); // -2147483648 to 2147483647 On branches con
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by doomjunky 8y ago
http://MikeRoweSoft.com
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by doomjunky 8y ago
A JPG screenshot of Super Mario is bigger than the binary of entire game.
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by doomjunky 8y ago
I'm not an expert in this domain, but my guess is that a flip of the eaths magnetic field is not instantaneous, but it takes over a few bird generations.
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by doomjunky 8y ago
The trackers are necessary for bootstrapping.
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by doomjunky 8y ago
> Unfortunately, I've heard you can talk to customer support and say things like "I think I just typed in random garbage for that" and they'll accept it. I suggest: - "L9Pro840Of9KNI...This.entrophy.is.intentiona
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by doomjunky 9y ago
Peer Name Resolution Protocol (PNRP) - Developed by Microsoft - Open Specification - DHT-based - IPv6 only - Windows support since Windows XP SP 3 - .NET support since .NET Framework 3.5 (System.Net.PeerToPeer) [1]: https://en.wi

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