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It has really good detection of which features you are not using and gives you little (textural, easy to ignore) nudges to use them.
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For those who missed it, the absence of "n" in these loops makes "do something" happen a constant number of times. So as written by the OP the loops are currently O(1) if for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) were instead fo
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8y ago
Looks exciting. Make sure you post it back here when there are a couple of tracks to follow. Good choices for your first tracks.
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This is beautiful. I wanted more content like this, and supporting Kahn Academy made me want to support this also. They have a Patreon page. If you like what's here already and want it to grow - you should donate too! https:/
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8y ago
They did attempt using coats of solid colors with no benefit. This at least is partial testing of your hypothesis.
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The most interesting parts (to me): "By watching and filming the stable’s horses and zebras, the team confirmed that horseflies were much worse at alighting on the latter. The flies had no problem finding the zebras or approaching them
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8y ago
While you raise a good point about evolution being inscrutable - the stripes do effect files... " By watching and filming the stable’s horses and zebras, the team confirmed that horseflies were much worse at alighting on the latter. Th
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8y ago
Unfortunately fake. Also, convincing just one Judge isn't really great success. "Update: It turns out that the judges and test were as artificial as Eugene. The event was organized by a well-known prankster. We regret having been
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8y ago
You're thinking of Crackers. Hackers are people who create things. http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html
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8y ago
I sincerely hope that this public blog entry and protest leads to some labor reform. Good luck bro.
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In the GP's YT link, many people are talking about the color grading. One commenter said: "I disagree when I shoot raw and h.264 my camera has the ability to shoot both at once and spit both files out, and these are exactly how it
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8y ago
Thanks Steve.
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8y ago
Vec<char> or an array for instance - [char; 20] can (automatically) create a "slice" of type &[char]. This is true for all types (not just char). The operator for this is for eg l[1..10]. It can also happen automatically
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8y ago
Possibly a better story... Lex Luthor sends Superman a video threatening the earth. Superman posts that video to YouTube, hoping to garner public support for his upcoming moon mission. Lex Luthor sends a DCMA takedown to YouTube alleging th
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" It is very similar to when I walk on the beach with my daughter and look at the seashells that are swept ashore. Every now and then we find an object of artificial origin. And this could be a message in a bottle, and we should be op
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Because the cheapest chips have very limited code and memory space. And back when this product was released, optimizing compilers were really poor by comparison with a human for these tasks. Today you probably wouldn't bother with asse
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I prefer the approach of putting myself forward as someone who is comfortable moving to a new company. I'm totally confident in my ability to land a new job should I want to.
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Ironic that you are displaying the exact degree of critique of the design that you should! Lack of thoughts like this are the issue. Unfortunately this polymorphic list sort of design is far too common. Much of the code that cares about thi
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The quote you mention is specifically talking about the architecture / design of the optimal program. Once a design such as a linked-list of polymorphic classes being iterated on in a loop is established, it is hard to refactor. Those
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That's a dangerous attitude. Both are important. Back-end is where the state of the application is. Where all the users are served, not just a single user. The back-end is where things are going to melt down with scale. If you make bad
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;) Of course, it's software. We can change anything! Even better, I'm not busy trying to keep your current software working - so I can get right on it.
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> What makes you a "senior" engineer? You've spent enough time designing software that you can take a vague spec, design a solution avoiding common pitfalls and following a very easy path. Then you hand back a prototype fo
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Sounds like trusting fellow users is a major factor " "They are full of cigarettes, lighters, bottles, bags with rubbish. People take drugs in the cars." François, an Autolib employee in Paris told France Info. One Paris resi
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3DFS- Correct electricity in realtime to reduce datacentre use by 20%
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A primer on situations where [Tesla] Autopilot is more likely to fail
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") # There you go Also, nice counterexample.
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Seems like the site needs to memoize the page rendering operation ;)
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Inter-thread communication is hard.
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Most companies would be very happy to screen 100 potential hires with 5 hours of homework each. Very few would be willing to commit internal time to 100 onsite interviews of 8 hours each. So the latter sends a signal to the potential employ
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9y ago
The point of an IQ test is to measure brain damage, by comparing prior results against later results. Any other use is just Pop Sci. So naturally you can change the measured IQ, but you're abusing the test.
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