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by jmpeax 14y ago
I think in this case simplicity does reveal the answer. I would put 30 because the sequence becomes a repeating sequences of 31, 30. Answering 28 requires making the assumption that the sequence of numbers represent days of the month, which
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by jmpeax 14y ago
Interesting Java marketing?
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by jmpeax 14y ago
Is it Turing complete?
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by jmpeax 14y ago
> The unused variable thing (particularly with local variables) has caught many bugs quickly for me. I agree, unused variables in any language are great for catching bugs. This isn't an argument for unused as errors instead of warnings.
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by jmpeax 14y ago
Lots of (R)s and TMs in this Intel TBB advertisement.
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by jmpeax 14y ago
The reason this gets programmers upset is because they design shit like this on a weekly basis, I know I do. There is nothing "significant" about this, it just usually day-to-day stuff software dev. No room for a scroll bar? Hide it from vi
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by jmpeax 14y ago
Every time a new Office comes out I have a look to see how far along the long road of functionality Word progressed to come even close to the functionality of LaTeX for Computer Science papers, and laugh. One of my friends even switched to
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by jmpeax 14y ago
Also, if you're planning to work in research, then having a doctorate is a plus in grant applications.
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by jmpeax 14y ago
The moment Retina displays came out was the moment ClearType died. They're thrashing a dead horse.
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by jmpeax 14y ago
"The smallest unit of time is a milli/second" seems a bit silly, as it really depends on your application. Is he expecting programmers to implement time in Planck units?
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by jmpeax 14y ago
People use Windows because it comes installed with the computers they buy.
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by jmpeax 14y ago
As a programmer, I switched from Windows 7 to Mac (Lion) since everyone at my new medical-related job uses Macs. I must say that I much prefer the W7 anti-aliasing, because I care little about how close my characters are to their true glyph
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by jmpeax 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that John covered, in his article, the semantics of the word "idea". He drew the line between an idea and your notion of "brainfart" with a 10 page business plan. I guess he was trying to make the point that if the idea is
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by jmpeax 15y ago
I've been happily doing my postgrad in compsci, using the excellent LaTeX for all my papers and thesis. I got a job in medical research... holy shit... all the publishers require Word documents. Moving from LaTeX to Word is like moving from
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by jmpeax 15y ago
Waiting for a glsl implementation.
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by jmpeax 15y ago
Comparing TSA employees to the people committing war crimes during WWII is a gross overstatement if not logical fallacy. TSA employees are not "just following orders", they are following what they believe to be the morally best course of ac
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by jmpeax 15y ago
I wonder, as a research scientist, how one reconciles the fact that your mostly a consumer of academic literature.