ikeyany

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by ikeyany 10y ago
I am not who you responded to, but: the registers are always in the same physical location, but internally, they are virtually renamed for efficient reuse and to avoid resource contention. If the CPU knows the stream of assembly instruction
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by ikeyany 10y ago
Maybe not committing a wrong in order to fix a wrong, but it's not always morally wrong to screw over a cheater.
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by ikeyany 10y ago
I completely understand what he means, but his disdain would have a better effect if he compared the trendy "we don't take ourselves too seriously--see? Nerf wars and ping pong!" culture to the drab, grey, cubicle-dominated c
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by ikeyany 10y ago
Being nice and punishing someone else are not mutually exclusive.
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by ikeyany 10y ago
Not always. But sometimes, yes.
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by ikeyany 10y ago
I did not downvote you, but I question why you suppose righting a wrong makes you no longer 'nice'.
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by ikeyany 10y ago
Surely it's possible to be a nice guy while screwing over the cheaters.
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by ikeyany 10y ago
Thank you for a nice dose of reality in this thread. What you say is especially true for those who are gifted, but for whatever reason (whether it's a negative family life, a backwards school system, the natural need to fit it among le
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by ikeyany 10y ago
It does not seem like things will change until the masses (especially those with money and influence) reject such low standards and demand something better. Any ideas? I'm thinking something along the lines of intellectuals and enterta
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by ikeyany 10y ago
I've never seen someone put a scarier spin on "showing your work". Fine-grained analysis? Again, you're not expected to be a master, but it's not asking a lot for you to break down a seemingly complex problem into s
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by ikeyany 10y ago
I don't see the issue. Coding on a whiteboard is more about demonstrating your problem solving ability, not your raw knowledge of programming. If they ask you to implement something like a maze solver, having the exact answer seems les
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by ikeyany 10y ago
> For me, it's coming down to a fundamental difference or distinction: Those who believe in a zero-sum-gain world, and those who believe in a net-sum-gain world. I fall into the latter camp. In other words, I believe that by sharing
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by ikeyany 10y ago
How did you know where to go next? Neither 'leaving a six-figure job' nor 'starting a startup' are trivial moves to make.
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by ikeyany 10y ago
Isn't that how we learn? We interpret odd words as gobbledygook until we look them up or find out how they're used.
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by ikeyany 10y ago
It's more that a source like the NYTimes has biases of its own, that you seem to think doesn't count as 'actual' bias.
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by ikeyany 10y ago
> the curators write the headline, snippet, and choose the top article on the results page according to a standard that insists on an unbiased widely recognized news source An unbiased news source does not exist. The very fact that &#x27