maceurt

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by maceurt 8y ago
I cant wrap my head around how good youtube is keeping, serving, and querying massive amounts of video data so well. I don't know how a site like youtube is even possible.
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by maceurt 8y ago
To be able to compute all the moves in chess and to play perfectly is literally impossible. There are more possible games in chess than atoms, protons, etc. Even the amount of possible games from ELO 2900 and up are still going to a number
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by maceurt 8y ago
Chess is a game where everybody can play it almost anywhere, and there is no physical advantage one has over another. There also is a huge amount of stuff that is possible to learn about the game to become better at it, so there is no real
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by maceurt 8y ago
That is comparing apples to oranges. C and assembly are what most applications and operating systems are built on in one way or another. Classical music is not the root of popular music nor does it carry over to other music genres that much
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by maceurt 8y ago
Well, if you want to teach kids music that they actually enjoy and that will be more applicable to this generation, focus on pop music, rap music, hip hop, any popular music genre. Hip hop and R&B are the most popular genres of music in
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by maceurt 8y ago
Music academia is terrible and riddled with politics and infighting from my experience also. The number of actual livable jobs for classical musicians are very low. It makes me pissed off how public schools will still spend hundred of thous
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by maceurt 8y ago
There is a reason most good justice systems leave a percent of guilty people free, because punishing that last percent of people would mean also punishing a large amount of innocent people too. It is a law of dimishing returns, and I doubt
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by maceurt 8y ago
I mean, the shame of the abuse or the justice of law should be the one that handles punishment of crimes. To try and shame people not to cite or use scholarly work from people with controversy sourrounding them is sinister in its very natur
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by maceurt 8y ago
The touch typing part is not true, at least from my experience. Almost every kid I know in my school can type at least 30wpm touch typing. In fact, we had 2 required typing classes in middle school that both were a semester long. This is no
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by maceurt 8y ago
I don't know why people wouldn't just make and array for monetary values or make two int values for decimal and number place.
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by maceurt 8y ago
Whenever I sit down at the piano and just improvise over chords or just make up stuff, time goes by way faster than when I sit down and practice a piece of music. Though, time also goes way faster when I am sight reading new pieces than whe
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by maceurt 8y ago
Why would you write it in php over django or node?
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The jurisdiction of schools does not end at the school. If you do something outside of school that the school does not like the school will punish you. My school specifically tells us this, and says the if we post something to social media
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by maceurt 8y ago
The ceo of intel was fired because it was one of his employees and it is specifically against compaby policy, not because he was cheating on his wife by comitting the act.
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by maceurt 8y ago
Programming in C, because you can do a lot with the OS, and you can just download documentation before for libraries and stuff. You could also work on web design stuff if you don't need to use external assets. Also, coding simple games
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by maceurt 8y ago
The problem with FIRST is all the rules associated with the competitions. You are limited on how much money you can spend on a robot, you are limited on how much your robot weigh's and its size, and you are limited on the rules of the
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by maceurt 8y ago
I personally created a stackoverflow account this year, and while not being an expert on any programming language or framework, I have still been able to contribute and answer many different people's questions along with asking a few q
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by maceurt 8y ago
Software combating malicious sites routinely set up very easy targets using outdated software. Many exploit kits nowadays that constantly get updated to find new avenues of attack and to avoid obvious targets.
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Coffee and energy drinks.
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by maceurt 8y ago
> A good developer can be productive in any programming language. I agree. I am just more productive in C and Python for most things over JS. However, the tools and language that you use matter. Brainfuck is turing complete, I could prog
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by maceurt 8y ago
No I am not a conservative. I have read that book, and the first time I read it I liked it a lot. I thought it was the definitive book on US history. However, I have heard from many reputable sources about the problems that the book has, an
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Regardless of who the criticism comes from, the point still stands. Also, one of the first results that came up: https://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/december/wineburg-histor... I don't know if that guy i
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by maceurt 8y ago
JS is honestly just plain ugly and a pain to read. The same program I write in JS, I could write in C in 3/4 the time or python in 1/2 the time. Classes, this, functions, function factories, anonymous functions, etc. are counter i
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The problem with that book is so much of its unverifiable and unsourced or a gross exaggeration of the actual facts. It is not an accurate representation of history, and seems to just try and shock the reader.
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Furthermore, most IQ tests are not meant to measure intelligence past a certain point. A person with an IQ of 160 is not inherently smarter than someone who has an IQ of 150 in the same way someone with an IQ of 100 is inherently smarter th
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That is the quote I most remember from the movie, the founder. I did not know Calvin Coolidge was originally the guy who said it.
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You can be the most skilled musician in the world, and still not have a job. Luck and politics matters a lot in music, and the margins between the best musician and everyone else is such a small percent that the king makers (record labels,
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by maceurt 8y ago
I don't know why the author recommended a book on Haskell, ruby, php, and python/django but did not recommend a single book on ux/ui. I would rather he included a couple books on ux/ui like "Dont' make me think
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by maceurt 8y ago
Related article by Joel Spolsky. "The Perils of Javaschool" [1] C really will test you and make you a better programmer than any high level language ever could. Someone who is a good C programmer will right better code in any lan
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I don't if this is just me, but that has always been motivation for myself to work harder. If you have the right mindset seeing other people winning or excluding you will only make it you more motivated. The one thing that the less suc

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