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451.
by leif 16y ago
Google had some simpsons character printers in my building, IIRC.
452.
by leif 16y ago
I'm ashamed to admit that you spelled "Snooki" and "Jwoww" incorrectly.
453.
by leif 16y ago
it's pronounced "urine us"
454.
by leif 16y ago
It also seems he wants to see how different number-picking interfaces change that distribution. Try refreshing.
455.
by leif 16y ago
"Filed under: Hot Topic" heh heh
456.
by leif 16y ago
There's a thin line between constructive criticism and a backhanded compliment, though.
457.
by leif 16y ago
anorwell is right, I'm wrong: Actually, his technique is way faster (1 random generation per element, vs. log(n) or log(u)), but you're absolutely right, you need to take the higher order bits first or your skiplist will be very far fro
458.
by leif 16y ago
no
459.
by leif 16y ago
yeah this is not what I am thinking of, I want some header files or something
460.
by leif 16y ago
Not as a consumer product, no. More abstractly, if you provided a unified API across many platforms which application developers could use to access any such service, it would be a massive hit. When POSIX got to a point where you could assu
461.
by leif 16y ago
I ran freebsd in virtualbox at microsoft, and nobody cared. edit: I should admit it would be nearly impossible to actually work in virtualbox (I was on the windows team, ymmv), but you can run it for whatever crap you want to do that isn't
462.
by leif 16y ago
Nothing against Mark Pilgrim, I just felt like sharing the way reading this made me feel. I can't explain to you why some things do this, it's a rare occurrence.
463.
by leif 16y ago
Every so often, I come across something which makes me feel a certain way. That something is this. That way is best described as follows: Thousands of years from now, historians (in a more enlightened society, one can only hope) will look
464.
by leif 16y ago
Oh man, I used to have the exact same phone line fights with my dad. A friend of mine had two phone lines at his house, and was the object of great and furious envy. I'd all but forgotten the days when an internet connection was a special
465.
by leif 16y ago
Wasn't me, but why make gzip do the work when you can do it once, easily, yourself? Sure it can do it, but their servers can serve the closing tags, and google strips those. The discrepancy is weird is all.
466.
by leif 16y ago
Google uses Arial in the font stack across all of their pages, for consistency. I assume the following rationale is at least mostly correct. In case a computer doesn't have that as the default for some reason, they don't want their page to
467.
by leif 16y ago
No idea, I saw that too and was puzzled.
468.
by leif 16y ago
aview solves a different problem
469.
by leif 16y ago
Google's most frequently accessed pages (most prominently, the homepage itself) are designed by a team of pretty high-level engineers, to reduce latency and bandwidth requirements, by stripping bytes. Every change is reviewed with extreme
470.
by leif 16y ago
auctex does the rendering-inside-text part, but I don't know of one that does it for html img tags can't be hard
471.
by leif 16y ago
yes. these problems wouldn't make sense in the finals
472.
by leif 16y ago
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473.
by leif 16y ago
Nice succinct contest, I like it. Problems are good, graded difficulty (don't want to discourage anyone with the first problem), solutions don't take terribly many lines of code. Low barrier to entry makes for a fun contest. Problem 2 is
474.
by leif 16y ago
> To go from 98% to 99% can cost thousands of dollars. To go from 99% to 99.9% tens of thousands more. Somewhere in there is the pickle problem: You have 1000kg of pickles in your basement. Now, pickles are mostly water. In fact, your
475.
by leif 16y ago
"SQL" is not a classification of a database, it's a query language. Some of the databases which use SQL do not scale well or easily, and some databases which don't use SQL don't scale well either. What Adam means to say is "some of the sem
476.
by leif 16y ago
It very much depends on your hash table implementation, but I'm betting that your hash table is storing pointers to objects stored elsewhere. In this case, an array of elements in contiguous memory will be much faster because of locality.
477.
by leif 16y ago
Heh, way back when RethinkDB was ElegantDB, we had to change the name, and I wanted to change it to ElephantDB but as I remember it, Slava thought it sounded too heavy-weight. :-)
478.
by leif 16y ago
Clearly, you have never been exposed to CLOS, the most powerful object oriented system of our time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_Object_System There is also Arc, the language Paul Graham and Robert Morris wrote for the web. T
479.
by leif 16y ago
I'm saying Javascript should've thought out its exposed number api a bit better. Either give me the bytes, or give me a number object that does infinite precision behind the scenes for me, don't make me do backflips to figure out whether I
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by leif 16y ago
I've always wondered why I only see questions about checking for the exceptional floating point values in a Javascript context, not, for example, a C context, where people probably hit these problems more often. Perhaps C programmers are m

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