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by marvy 9y ago
Okay, so it does depend on the representation, but most reasonable representations will work. I guess the big exception would be trying to do this on something that is already compressed, like a gzipped bmp, or something.
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by marvy 9y ago
Oh. Then I suppose two days is quite good. I don't think you really need quite that depth, but if you want it, I don't know if doing it much faster is possible. (It might be possible, I just don't know.)
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by marvy 9y ago
Has to? Are you saying that the whole thing would not fall apart if, say, someone used color images instead of greyscale?
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by marvy 9y ago
Two days to understand the ESSENCE?? I understand that there are a lot of details, and those can take a lot of time to master, but the essence should be really quick. To wit: 1. Merge sort. Given two sorted sequences, they can be merged
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by marvy 9y ago
I'm amazed this works at all!
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by marvy 9y ago
Ok, lovely, but why is this useful? Like, is there any problem where this is the simplest way to solve it?
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by marvy 10y ago
Can someone remind me what that's for? I never use it, I keep trying to look it up and then I forget it again. Maybe because I never quite understood it properly.
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by marvy 10y ago
> What haven't we added yet? There's also the @ sign and the backtic `. I think that's it for ASCII.
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by marvy 10y ago
I think what pizlonator meant is that some languages like C have pervasive undefined behavior. (For instance, INT_MAX + 1 is allowed to erase your hard drive.) The claim is that this allows compiler optimizations that would otherwise not
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by marvy 10y ago
Well, then in the babysitting case, the solution is clearly to have school ALSO start later. Might be a bit impractical to coordinate that.
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by marvy 10y ago
I have a possibly dumb question. Wouldn't those students also be better off? They work the same number of hours, but later in the day. Unless it's the kind of thing that can't be one hour later?
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by marvy 10y ago
Funny thing is, this is the Grace Hopper Program, so it would be totally appropriate for them to teach COBOL. After all, they're named after its inventor. (Okay, technically, it was a committee, but still, you don't get nickname
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by marvy 10y ago
I think this answers your earlier question. We don't have tools that implement "C". We only have tools that implement supersets of C. In particular, these tools take code like the above and do "something" with th
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by marvy 10y ago
Couldn't you just manually reduce your screen resolution? Or is that too drastic to be worth it?
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by marvy 10y ago
You want something more than deTeXify?
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by marvy 10y ago
Not seeing it.
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by marvy 10y ago
I remember being surprised when I first saw \frac12, and I was like "that works?". The response I got was "of course". In retrospect, I admit that's the right answer: once you get TeX well enough, it's obviou
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by marvy 10y ago
No one mentions fltk? I never used it, but is there some reason it's unsuitable?
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by marvy 10y ago
You're saying it's possible, but isn't your anecdote saying the opposite? That is, you may have started out as a non-programmer, but by the time things are going well, you have become one. In your own words: you've &qu
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by marvy 10y ago
Someone (Piet Hein) wrote a poem about your strategy: A PSYCHOLOGICAL TIP Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is sim
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by marvy 10y ago
Nitpick: doubling the speed should merely quadruple the energy, 4.5x is too much.
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by marvy 10y ago
> How would a type system protect against unit confusion? That this is a mistake that is possible to make in any language, but nevertheless this is also a problem that could be caught by a sufficiently good type system, if it was put to
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by marvy 10y ago
If politicians think it will help them win elections, it will totally happen.
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by marvy 10y ago
cf. 1st law of cartoon physics http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~karan/courses/csc2529/cartoonlaw...
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by marvy 10y ago
ouch
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by marvy 10y ago
Huh. I think that's a poor design choice on the part of the Windows folks, but they probably know things I don't.
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by marvy 10y ago
I find the corporate environment thing suspicious. I could imagine that if you don't have admin access, you can't install to Program Files, but couldn't you still install to your home directory, and still get those lovely st
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by marvy 10y ago
But why not just use the installer?
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by marvy 10y ago
remove_if is a convenience method; for full generality you can use remove_copy_if. I don't see how any of this allows you to achieve your idea of two independent containers backed by the same storage and thereby eliminate the extra st
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by marvy 10y ago
This thing's been stable for over a decade :)

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