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by jemfinch 16y ago
Despite your clear emotional involvement in this issue, you've written quite a lot to say very little, Mr/s. Schultz. My response will be relatively short, and I feel compelled to explain why. You wrote thirteen paragraphs. The first two a
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by jemfinch 16y ago
If I'm using both as a abstract data types, does predictable structure really help me at all?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
How are these better than balanced binary trees that keep subtree size in the node?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
I loved how Lieberman actually described the issue: "No responsible company – whether American or foreign – should assist Wikileaks in its efforts to disseminate these stolen materials." Stolen materials? Every wrongfully classified docume
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Sauce recipes, really? Everyone knows that Roma makes a better sauce.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> It would be quite a stretch to interpret this as meaning that the questions asked as a part of the interview, or Google's process itself, is "confidential". As far as I've heard from anyone here, that's the interpretation. Question
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by jemfinch 16y ago
I am involved at this level of operations, and your description is 100% accurate.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Arc90's "Readability" to the rescue, it seems. Seriously, who in the world thought that site's color scheme was reasonable?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Sorry, I meant "inference for overloaded literals."
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Is it an int? An int32? An int64? Is it unsigned? Maybe it's actually a float which just happens to be initialized to a valid integer value. In that case is it a float or a double? Literals can map to multiple types, and there hasn't y
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by jemfinch 16y ago
This is one of the worst lists I've yet seen, promoted by the purveyor of the website itself. BASIC Computer Games? The Word Processing Book? Inside the IBM PC? DOS For Dummies ? Are you serious? No, you're just fishing for pageviews.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Has representative King really considered the implication of such a classification? "Terrorism" implies that a group exists to cause fear. Wikileaks releases secret documents produced by the government of United States (et al). If Wikileaks
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by jemfinch 16y ago
If he's actually sending images from Google earth through email, he's guilty of copyright infringement, deserving of both civil and criminal penalties.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Because for most people, marriage and children are the high points of their lives. Even the most successful businesspeople, when they reach the end of their life, rarely lament missed business opportunities, but frequently lament lost time
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by jemfinch 16y ago
I know it's childish, but the ambiguity in the phrase "while I still had some sexual attraction to women" amuses me.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
It's not cruel, it's just reality: some people have a natural aptitude for programming[1][2], while others don't. C is a small enough language and has a simple enough programming model that it would be clear early on whether my kid had the
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by jemfinch 16y ago
C, so I could see early on whether it'd be a productive venture.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> You're the one that said waterfall was DOA. Yes, specifically because it was invented as a strawman to be knocked down. It was defined as a dead and useless development methodology.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Why am I getting downvoted? Someone makes a claim without any support and gets upvoted, and I call him on it and get downvoted? Did reddit change its color to orange?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Android? Mozilla? Chrome? Bullshit. Confirm your examples. I want reports from developers saying, "We used waterfall to produce this software." You're the one making the claim, now produce some real evidence.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> almost all were likely built with waterfall. Stop using weasel words. Find real, confirmed examples or keep mum. "Likely" isn't worth a rebuttal.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Waterfall was DOA. People have just been trying to bring it to life for forty years.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
You may be wondering why you've been downvoted. Everyone knows that hash tables have a linear worst-case. However, hash functions have now advanced to the point that malicious input is the only serious scenario where programmers need to co
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> the instructor should create whatever conditions they want to so that they can exercise the students as they see fit I don't disagree, as long as the instructor is able to defend the pedagogical purpose of the limitations he demands.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Dropbox has native clients, right? There seems to be no technical reason why they don't already have encryption.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
My apologies for mistaking you with the OP. Still, neither one of you has actually answered the question I asked. You offered an analogy for rhetorical effect; surely you can see how that isn't actually an answer.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> Humans produce sounds, lions produce sounds. Humans have mouths, lions have mouths. Where is the substantial difference between the two? I asked you a question regarding your previous claim. You responded with a downvote and a rhetor
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by jemfinch 16y ago
No, they're not. Why do I have to contend with arguments like this every time to this topic comes up? "But," you say, "Hashing a value is O(k), where k is at least log n. Therefore hash tables only support O(log n) access and update, not
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> It needs to prepare a dictionary with offsets, which has to loop over all the keys, perform an O (log n) insert operation on all the keys Surely you've heard of hash tables.
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What does that even mean ?

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