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by lurker14 15y ago
Considering that he's built a multi-billion dollar empire off his view of un-privacy, it's not at all obvious that he regrets that comment or has matured past it. He may have grown that youthful apparent-indiscretion into his adult worldvie
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by lurker14 15y ago
Not sure, but for the article's sake, "word splitting" is only relevant as it involves (singly-linked) list concatenation as a performance bottleneck. List concatentation is efficient when the first list is short (ideally length=1), whic
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by lurker14 15y ago
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Neanderthals-were-too-smart-t...
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by lurker14 15y ago
(if the original point is contained within a line that is also known. For example, if the original/desired point is on the x-axis)
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by lurker14 15y ago
Why is it a shame that they haven't retired something cool?
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by lurker14 15y ago
You could, but that's incredibly slow.
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by lurker14 15y ago
What of the magic numbers in this solution? ThousandRange: def child_values @thousands * 1_000_000 + 499500 end def child_sizes NumberWriter.write(@thousands * 1_000).size * 1_000 + 18440 end MillionRange: def child
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by lurker14 15y ago
Ken and Dylan's solution is brilliant, and readable, but has a lot of magic. Don't be surprised if you read (and run!) their solution end-to-end, understanding each piece, but still don't believe that the whole thing works! (Note, the solut
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by lurker14 15y ago
Try using GMP bindings for R: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Arbitrary-precision_integers_%28...
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by lurker14 15y ago
I was so confused when I thought you wrote "doing this all the way to the top", and linking to Semler who inherited a Harvard MBA and a CEO job from his father.
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by lurker14 15y ago
Consistent average brightness across your field of view (both within the monitor and beyond) is far more important to your visual strain than whether monitor is dim or bright. Next time you feel strained looking at your screen, look around
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by lurker14 15y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_Impact
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by lurker14 15y ago
What if you are Adam Sandler or another intelligent, responsible comedian with a base fan base?
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by lurker14 15y ago
Your mistake is in assuming fully rational actors.
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by lurker14 15y ago
Of course, cracking a safe just to screw with someone (and, you know, to remind someone that their safes aren't in fact secure) is perhaps the single most honorable thing to do with a safe. Better that the safe be left around for spies to i
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by lurker14 15y ago
That's not true. Power management (sleep/hibernate) is very flaky in Linux, and when it fails it crashes the machine. You need to pick your PC carefully for compatibility with Linux. Linux is great for workstation/server-class hardware and
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by lurker14 15y ago
There is a distinction between "doable" and "usable". I should switch to Terminal every time I want to toggle hidden file visibility? Or write a service to install on my Finder toolbar. (I did this, because I'm not Joe Sixpack, but it's sti
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by lurker14 15y ago
This happens in most other contries as well.
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by lurker14 15y ago
Is it in a free font? http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/kannada.html suggests maybe not.
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by lurker14 15y ago
The customer is always right. Maybe your emails aren't appreciated in the spirit they are sent. Just because you cajoled someone to check a box to use your site, doesn't mean they appreciate your email campaign.
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by lurker14 15y ago
1. Unless it's efficient to determine where the fat is, it's not efficient to try to cut it. 2. "welfare for the upper middle class" is a perfect description of middle-management.
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by lurker14 15y ago
I assure you that "Don't be evil" was not a VC concession. Google's stated mission is "organize all the world's information", considerably bolder than "a computer on every desk".
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by lurker14 15y ago
How is a + sign so much smarter than a " mark? quotation marks mean that you are making an exact quote, so you want an exact match. Consider: 1. Hey, do you know anything about cars? Yeah, I have a fine automobile. 2. Hey, do you know anyt
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by lurker14 15y ago
all activities, or activities with associated revenue streams?
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by lurker14 15y ago
You seem to be saying that you wish that passion for work, or gobs of money, (or maybe genius, it's ambiguous from your wording) were a way to escape mortality. I'd rather live in a world where everyone has a roughly similar risk of mortali
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by lurker14 15y ago
The traditional and very successful approach to getting past the brittleness of "What would you pay for this?" is to sell vaporware. It's how Micro-Soft (before the S was lowercase and the hyphen was dropped) and many others got started. Yo
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by lurker14 15y ago
You write: "With Calculus, the mapping of math to real-world objects leads to all sorts of messy realities. With group theory, you dodge that mess by simply stating rules upfront." (Prologue: I encountered group theory first by drawing pict
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by lurker14 15y ago
Hmm. (Warning, ascii math is confusing and ambiguous to read. Sorr.) Exponentiation of group "multiplication" does not immediately seem amenable to the reals, sure. But real exponentation does form a group, as shown here: Define x_g(r) = th
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by lurker14 15y ago
Fair question. Perhaps it's more precise to say "Because sometimes it's better not to. Sometimes there is no canonical choice that follows from our definitions, and it doesn't help to assign an arbitrary value that doesn't help solve any re
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by lurker14 15y ago
I refer you to this example of demanding a feature with no regard for feasibility: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...

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