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by mcantor 15y ago
Thank you, this is an illuminating response! Hopefully I'll remember to look back on this thread when I'm enlightened so I can see if I've switched sides on the debate. :-)
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by mcantor 15y ago
> And if not optimized "prematurely" (ie. written efficiently from the start), then after-the-fact optimization, if happens at all, would shave only a fraction out of the "forever" - thus it frequently doesn't happen at all because of
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by mcantor 15y ago
Thank you for such a candid post! I know how you feel. I'm only a little farther along in my journey than you; at 26, I finally feel confident in my abilities, but am still humbled by how much I don't know. Last month I spent hours poring
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by mcantor 15y ago
I upvoted you for the good explanation (and the refreshingly self-aware edit). However, I think it is rather presumptuous to paint the broad strokes of "good" and "bad" without adding so many caveats that it would no longer be germane to t
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by mcantor 15y ago
>I'll worry about the time my code takes once it's notieably slow. the Dunning-Kruger is exactly about ability to notice It seems like you are saying that every programmer ought to go out of his way to become fluent in algorithms, bec
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by mcantor 15y ago
For anyone trying to buy "The Algorithm Design Manual" (or at least add it to their Amazon wish-list with a dreamy sigh), It seems like the "correct" version is here: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena/... I was a
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by mcantor 15y ago
Sorry, I should have been more specific: I understand the rules of Big O complexity, which you aptly summarized; the part I'm really curious about is " From there, you can pretty much combine these rules to analyze many algorithms. " It's
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by mcantor 15y ago
Thank you for the Wikipedia suggestion; I hadn't really considered using it as a learning resource because I've had bad experiences trying that with other fields. (For example, I think Wikipedia is an abhorrent place to learn mathematics,
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by mcantor 15y ago
Thank you, this is a great answer that confirmed some of my suspicions. I'd be interested if anyone could recommend other good resources such as Project Euler. Perhaps the book Data Structures and Algorithms ought to be higher up on my
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by mcantor 15y ago
FTA: You should know these data structures inside and out. What are the insertion/deletion/lookup characteristics? (O(log n) for a balanced binary tree, for example.) How does one achieve this? Not just being familiar with
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by mcantor 15y ago
Wow, how uncannily timely. Just yesterday, I read the part of a speculative fiction near-future novel, "Halting States" by Charles Stross, which includes this as an interesting detail with an eye towards technical imperfection; one of the
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by mcantor 15y ago
You're right! However, it's inefficient for a developer to always be doing that much non-development work. And it is possible to get real work done during the small windows, but only certain types of real work. Occasionally you can f
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by mcantor 15y ago
You have a daily stand-up at 9:30, so even though you get in at 9, you don't bother starting anything because the stand-up will cut it short as soon as you get rolling. The stand-up is supposed to be 10 minutes, tops, but regularly balloon
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by mcantor 15y ago
I don't fault you! Your plan is admirable. I just don't know if I can actually pay that much for a t-shirt. :->
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by mcantor 15y ago
Damn, son! Thirty dollars?! That's a serious chunk of payola.
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by mcantor 15y ago
From the article: " (coders think businesses are just code) " Requesting this on a t-shirt. White text, black background. Nothing else. Maybe a cheeky clip art of a stereotypical neckbeard-sort-of-guy.
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A Message To Women From A Man: You Are Not "Crazy"(thecurrentconscience.com)
5 points by mcantor 15y ago|3 comments
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Murder Incorporated(computerandvideogames.com)
27 points by mcantor 15y ago|8 comments
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by mcantor 15y ago
Honest question: Is that really what you thought? It seems obvious to me that I was implying a defense that the phrase I quoted also appears on the page, directly next to the phrase ekiru quoted, which makes the mixup a little more unders
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by mcantor 15y ago
In my defense, this is what shows up on my screen: What you will learn What you won't learn Java. Weird!
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by mcantor 15y ago
The book opens with "What you'll learn: Java."
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by mcantor 15y ago
I shamelessly clicked away as soon as I realized it was Java. Well, not completely shamelessly. I kind of feel like a "rassa-frackin' whippersnapper" disgustedly changing the radio station when stumbling on classical orchestral music. The
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by mcantor 15y ago
I see "retarded", "Jew" and other terms (when used pejoratively) as in a separate usage class from "fuck", "shit" and their ilk. The former are invectives; that is, they refer to a specific kind of person . Their usage can only be inte
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by mcantor 15y ago
Mom: What does "WTF" mean? You: It's just some internet joke. Mom: Well, all right. Fortunately this is how it goes for me: Mom: What does "WTF" mean? Me: It's an internet thing; it stands for "What The Fuck". Mom: Ha ha
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by mcantor 15y ago
Get over it! They're not disrespecting or hurting anyone. They're not affecting the quality of their product. This is purely a style thing. Calling unconventional behavior "unprofessional" is a cop-out! P.S. - I still upvoted you becaus
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Revenge of the Nerds(paulgraham.com)
1 points by mcantor 15y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 15y ago
Pardon my naivety, but you mention here that you cashed out only 1/3rd because cashing out 100% had "tax ramifications", even though 6 years later the shares you kept were worthless. Could you elaborate on the tax ramifications that made c
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Create more value than you capture(radar.oreilly.com)
6 points by mcantor 15y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 15y ago
Imagine if Facebook made their own browser and offered an extension to “Like” any page on the web through it — same idea... Wouldn't the same idea be Facebook releasing a Chrome extension for their "Like" button...? Just sayin'.
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by mcantor 15y ago
Out of curiosity, how does this violate his privacy?

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