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1. 1231.▲
   by kyllo 13y ago

   I'd venture to guess that they aren't doing that because there's little to no market for it. Although Perl is now a general-purpose programming language, it originated as a scripting language for UNIX systems administration a
2. 1232.▲
   by kyllo 13y ago

   This is true, and I'm sure Guido is fully aware of it, but it's also not entirely relevant to what he was saying. Regardless of inheritance, interfaces, and duck typing, the explicit classes of the objects still do matter. Yes, th
3. 1233.▲
   by kyllo 13y ago

   Example of a typical list: [1,2,3,4,5] Example of some typical tuples: (1,'A') (2,'B') (3,'C') In Python, of course lists can be heterogenous, so you could have a list like [1, 'A', 2, 'B'
4. 1234.▲
   by kyllo 13y ago

   This is pretty bizarre, and seems like it would cause a memory leak if you don't know what you're actually doing. You're allocating a my_dict object on the heap, in a field of the function object, so my_dict never goes out of
5. 1235.▲
   by kyllo 13y ago

   Oh, you're right, m is not a constant but also varies somewhat independently of n, so you can't exclude it from the big O notation. And whether mn or nlogn is the lower order of the two terms depends highly on the value of m, whic
6. 1236.▲
   by kyllo 13y ago

   I actually was working on a hash-based solution first, using group_by, but I switched to using just array after seeing the Python version. I didn't really think about the time complexity of the count operation inside the sort_by operat
7. 1237.▲
   by kyllo 13y ago

   Isn't the difference between O(mn + nlog(n)) vs O(nlog(n)) running time going to get less significant as the value of n gets larger? I thought the whole point of Big O / asymptotic analysis is that you can ignore lower-order ter
8. 1238.▲
   by kyllo 13y ago

   I agree that, at least for a large company, product/vertical structure is better than functional/horizontal structure, and I think that Microsoft is just too big to be one company at all anymore, and that they should have split of
9. 1239.▲
   by kyllo 13y ago

   I think the main purpose of the BI would be to alleviate the need to rely on corporate america as a de facto social welfare provider. Exactly. In America we still have social welfare benefits, we just get them mostly from our employers ra
10. 1240.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    Ooh, this is fun! In Ruby, without imports/requires: def toptenwords(str) words = str.split words.sort_by{|word| words.count(word)}.uniq.reverse.take(10) end or as a one-liner, without any variable declarations in th
11. 1241.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    I'm not convinced that "weak-willed managers claiming that everyone on their team is great" is an actual problem. And what if they really are all doing great, on a given team? Then no sense in punishing someone just because y
12. 1242.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    I think the $10k/year proposal was per person, not per household. Although that begs the question, at what age should the benefit start? $10k/year is $833/month. $500/month rent and $333/month (about $11/day) f
13. 1243.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    the company is too monolithic (they used to be monolithic in multiple silos, now they're becoming monolithic in one giant silo, that's not better) Exactly, they are too big, and this reorg is going to make that worse, not better
14. 1244.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    Perhaps, if you did it in Powershell?
15. 1245.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    So, the line of code in the OP that's missing from the LINQ version of the solution is: Imports System.Linq
16. 1246.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    I've never really heard of anyone proposing a weekly payment from the state, which is enough to live comfortably on I've heard of lots of people proposing a very small guaranteed payment from the state, as in, bare minimum for s
17. 1247.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    How about evaluating each engineer's job performance (based on sane productivity and code quality metrics) without forcing them to a curve, where even if your whole team is high-performing, someone will get a bad review and be marked f
18. 1248.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    No, the TL;DR is that they are currently organized into (almost) self-sufficient business units by product category, but now they are going to switch to being organized into interdependent departments by job function category. This is a hug
19. 1249.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    Yeah, if it's just the culture of the place, then of course there is strong social pressure and guilt-tripping that compels you to stay late like the others do. If you go against an organizational culture of staying late, your coworker
20. 1250.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    See, if working extra hours at your job will actually make you rich and/or influential, or if you just plain enjoy the heck out of your job, then you have a very good reason to do it. But I've also seen people put in 50-60 hours
21. 1251.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    Thanks. The article is deeply misleading. I skimmed it and linked to it on Facebook, but I deleted it because it's so disingenuously written. They start off by describing Elon Musk's hyperloop idea, and posting a photo of Musk, th
22. 1252.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    Exactly. "Pirates" are just under-served customers. And in this case, they are not even "stealing" anything, they are filling a market vacuum by creating a new product for which there is significant demand and no other s
23. 1253.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    My understanding is that the requirements of firing "for cause" get more stringent after 90 days. Before the 90 days they don't really have to prove that you did something wrong, they can just let you go for no-fault lack-of-
24. 1254.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    HipHop was originally just a source code converter. It basically took PHP source code and compiled it to C++ code. It's because they wanted to write in PHP but they needed C++ speed. But I don't think that's how it works anym
25. 1255.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    Ok, but there's a huge difference between the VM being written in C or C++, versus the web application itself being written in C/C++.
26. 1256.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    One thing I'd like to add to that: If you have wealthy/powerful/connected friends and relatives, they can and will shield you from the consequences of your actions. Rich people make bad choices all the time. Drunk driving for
27. 1257.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    Specifically for text-only browsers? Probably not. But there are still people who enjoy the minimalist experience of a text-only browser, particularly for the speed, ease of reading, and keyboard control--not having to move the mouse and cl
28. 1258.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    Speaking of Lynx, I've run across pages that simply tell the user to "Please use a modern browser that supports Javascript." I expect the experience to be the different in a text-only browser, but what I don't expect is
29. 1259.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    The thing about dynamic languages is that they have a type system too, but it's called "inheritance." When literally everything in your language is an object that ultimately inherits from Object, as it is in Ruby or Python or
30. 1260.▲
    by kyllo 13y ago

    It's not a speed optimization. It just allows you to process a much larger dataset than you can fit in main memory. It will be slow because it's hard disk I/O, but you can do a sparse matrix multiplication on terabytes worth