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811.
by ken 7y ago
> Check out the statistics for how many people completed each problem in 2018 I suspect you'd see a dropoff like this regardless of whether the problems get more difficult or not. Going to the gym doesn't get any harder in Feb
812.
by ken 7y ago
I frequently see arguments of the form "X is good; Y doesn't have X; therefore all typeof(Y) are doomed". I don't understand. Didn't you just give a criterion for success? Why can't we make a new Y2 that has
813.
by ken 7y ago
The problem is that everybody agrees on that "universal truism" but nobody can agree on what it means . "Clear, simple, straight forward, plain as day" is up to the reader. They're also a moving target. To some p
814.
by ken 7y ago
Teachers should be paid more, we all agree, but how will that solve this problem? Are they going to spend their extra cash on mathematics lessons? In their copious free time, I presume. Just like these rich software developers spend all t
815.
by ken 7y ago
The mistake is assuming "=" is a statement of fact (as in mathematics), rather than a request for assignment (as in programming). Depending on which programming language you're using, "foo = bar" can mean either &qu
816.
by ken 7y ago
So do Pascal and Ada, but using "the = character with a tiny dot next to it" doesn't sound like it will avoid the fundamental issue here. That's just extra syntax to help remind the programmer whether they're assig
817.
by ken 7y ago
I saw my nephew play this. It’s a great idea but I found the implementation lacking. He got stuck on a level where he had to solve a simple equation, and tried to do it in the “wrong” order. He eliminated an unknown from one side first, an
818.
by ken 7y ago
The big ones, to me: - No support for threads or any other concurrency model. Any I/O and the entire UI freezes, no matter how many cores you have idling. - Even on a single thread, the runtime is generally several times slower than c
819.
by ken 7y ago
Why 'probably'? According to the stats I could find [1], Firefox has around 5% of Mac users, and around 9% of Windows users. Windows is Firefox's biggest platform, both in absolute terms and as a fraction of that platform&#
820.
by ken 7y ago
It's in the FAQ: "How can I create a roof on top of a house? Sweet Home 3D supports the creation of ceilings seen from below, but doesn't manage the creation of roofs yet. Nevertheless, you can use various tricks to cover a
821.
by ken 7y ago
That would explain why the photons don't pass through open doorways! But in other cases, they do. I'm confused.
822.
by ken 7y ago
Nope. I've been to the ER with a head wound that would not stop bleeding, and was never asked for my blood type. Had they asked, I would have given the wrong answer. My blood was typed when I was born. 25 years later when I started
823.
by ken 7y ago
So you have to wait until 2/3 of the way through the video to see the actual software.
824.
by ken 7y ago
Then standardize the interface, too. This still doesn’t sound like a difficult problem.
825.
by ken 7y ago
This is such a strange article. To a lot of the world, physical labor is just what you do every day. There's a reason you call it a "farmer’s carry". I wonder what people will do in 25 or 50 years for recreation that we tod
826.
by ken 7y ago
With running, the scenery constantly changes.
827.
by ken 7y ago
Between ebay, craigslist, goodwill, etc., I rarely pay anywhere near full price for most manufactured goods. As a society, we've built more than enough stuff. We just have to redistribute it properly to the people who want it. And th
828.
by ken 7y ago
And yet to a kid wanting a candy bar, it's measurably worse. In the 1980's you would occasionally find a quarter on the ground. Today you never find a dollar on the ground, or even quarters.
829.
by ken 7y ago
Do you carry a spare table when you go to restaurants? I deal with analogous situations, on a larger scale, all the time. The solution most designers choose is to make the legs adjustable (like via screws) so you get the strong broad suppo
830.
by ken 7y ago
They said they're using LibreOffice because they're running Linux. That tool you're suggesting is Windows-only. If they were using Windows, they could save a couple hundred bucks and just use Excel.
831.
by ken 7y ago
Would this hypothetical fix include a performance suite, and a regression testing system, to ensure this task stays fast forever? IME, systems that don't focus on performance as a primary metric tend to slow down over time as they accu
832.
by ken 7y ago
Other things that professional athletes have: a player's union, an extremely respectable minimum wage, and a team salary cap. You ever wonder why athletes (despite being in a fundamentally competitive business) have excellent facilit
833.
by ken 7y ago
There are a lot of companies that set up shop right next to Boeing, and simply provide services to them. Probably all the other big aerospace companies, too. That sounds like a great way to get your foot in the door.
834.
by ken 7y ago
I'd say closures are one of the fundamental concepts of computer science. They're described in the introduction to chapter 2 of SICP, "Building Abstractions with Data". SOLID sounds nice but I don't think I've
835.
by ken 7y ago
Because the exchange rate isn't 1 release : 1 paper. When I worked as a programmer in academia, my lead professor said he'd had some folks from the computer science department over to look at what we were doing, and they commented
836.
by ken 7y ago
Commercial grade databases have done all these things since the 1980's. We just hadn't invented the name "NoSQL" for them, because we hadn't yet realized we were supposed to hate SQL. We called them Object Databas
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by ken 7y ago
I can't tell what exactly they mean by "strikingly similar". The only concrete similarity I see mentioned is that "tonality is used". This sounds like the Joseph Campbell school of finding similarities. If you squ
838.
by ken 7y ago
> Studies have found that Nobel Prize-winning scientists are about 25 times more likely to sing, dance or act than the average scientist. This is a remarkable claim, so I set out to find out if it's justified, or yet another mis-int
839.
by ken 7y ago
Here's something I'd love for someone to explain about "magicians". I've read that Einstein was a great physicist for his work on relativity. I still don't know what he actually did . Did he have some mounta
840.
by ken 7y ago
I think it'd be more accurate to say that most people haven't yet found something to be obsessively interested in. Although the child prodigy is a popular image, I don't actually know anyone who's ended up doing the same

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