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by meuk 8y ago
Interesting suggestions, thanks!
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by meuk 8y ago
> Xilinx FPGAs offer a wide range of configuration methods with excellent documentation. You can always tell an experienced engineer if he says something like "Doing <X> was not hard, it's described here.", and point
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by meuk 8y ago
I want to buy such a board, but I'm not sure which one to pick. Any recommendations?
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by meuk 8y ago
You probably already know that the Fourier transform can be seen as a polynomial evaluation: The nth coefficient f_n of the Fourier transform of a series (x)_k can be obtained by seeing the series (x)_k as the coefficients of a polynomial,
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by meuk 8y ago
I am amazed that so many people honestly expected a cookbook for meals in the movie 'the matrix'...
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by meuk 8y ago
Hey, maybe it's an idea if everyone who plans to do the exercises in a specific language posts a link to a github repo? Then we could compare the solutions :)
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by meuk 8y ago
I honestly don't know how people can produce something decent while working fulltime. I am usually home at about six. I then cook, do dishes and hurry to get to sports training, am back at 22:00, hit the shower and go straight to bed.
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by meuk 8y ago
You are mistaken, this is not a myth. Synchronous digital chips have a clock with a fixed frequency, and their working is fixed. So if it works, a chip perform exactly the same, regardless of age. If something's slower, it's softw
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by meuk 8y ago
The only way to properly learn git.
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by meuk 8y ago
This. If we'd have a smartphone with a proper USB connection (one that doesn't stop working after a few years), and the possibility to connect it to a keyboard, screen, and mouse, I'd do pretty much everything on my phone. In
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by meuk 8y ago
Well, I can solve most CS problems easily but have a hard time functioning as a developer. Most CS questions are a bunch of concepts that you rarely use in practice. Most development work is implementing your ideas in a way that works with
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by meuk 8y ago
My experience with writing assembler is the same. The run-try-correct sequence encourages trying things until it seems to work. The best code I wrote was in assembly language. I'd divide the code into blocks with comments. Each comme
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by meuk 8y ago
I'm not convinced. Excel is used predominantly used to evaluate formula's that are based on values in other cells. While I'm not a fan of Excel, vim simply does not have this capability and really can't replace Excel for
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by meuk 8y ago
I currently work in an environment where I don't have access to a password manager, yet I am expected to have unique passwords for each service, and rotate passwords every month, and am not allowed to store passwords somewhere. Of cour
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by meuk 8y ago
> "The major algorithmic / coding / intellectual challenges that I faced were of 3 types: - dealing with technical debt of other systems - strictly following a policy or a standard - fighting with the in-house dev
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by meuk 8y ago
> Let me say it plainly: We know how to produce small portions of software using small development teams—up to 10 or so—but we don’t know how to make software any larger except by accident or by rough trial and error.—Because the softwar
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by meuk 8y ago
The article doesn't really distinguish between offering help, and pushing your help . I work in a large team, and I often work on some obscure feature, and it's not always clear who has experience with it. If someone notifies m
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by meuk 8y ago
Interesting. Is the improvement in performance mostly due to improvement in size, number, and speed, did finetuning the cache parameters (number of caches, cache size, cache line size) help, or are there more fundamental architectural impr
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by meuk 8y ago
Yup. Applying Russian multiplication to matrices is surprisingly effective for evaluating recursive relations (it can evaluate the nth Fibonacci number in O(log n)) Karatsuba is also a nice 'proof-of-concept' algorithm (it shows t
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by meuk 8y ago
Euclid's GCD algorithm, and Russian peasant multiplication.
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by meuk 8y ago
You're right from a technical perspective. What I meant that as an abstraction , it serves a double purpose (it represents both a node and an edge in the DAG, and it depends on the command that you use which interpretation is right).
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by meuk 8y ago
I don't think that's true. At least, not if you revert something - it reverts only the changes introduced in that commit. (That there is confusion - or even discussion possible - is exactly my point: the abstraction is leaky at wo
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by meuk 8y ago
People definitely fetishize complexity. I often mention that I like an intellectual challenge at interviews, and the interviewers often mention 'oh, but this project is very complex' like they are saying something naughty. (Once
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by meuk 8y ago
The biggest leaking abstraction of git IMO, are commits: they equate a set of changes with the state of the repo after said changes . So if there are multiple commits, reverting a commit is ambiguous. Does it revert the state of the repo
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by meuk 8y ago
This is exactly the reason why the Saudi-Arabian government will most likely get away with killing and probably torturing an innocent man. This is absolutely unheard of in any developed country. Saudi-Arabia is filthy rich, and apparently
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by meuk 8y ago
Youtube without ads and easy download.
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by meuk 8y ago
> I am proud of my projects, but it takes a lot more than a good looking product to create a financially sustainable startup. I know, that's why I mentioned teaming up with one or more people! > I guess I just need to be more agg
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by meuk 8y ago
I'm in Northern Europe and experience the opposite thing: I spent seven years of studying (I have two undergraduate and two graduate STEM degrees), but it doesn't really help me in the hunt for a job. I have never had an algorithm
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by meuk 8y ago
It's not clear exactly what kind of solution you're looking for. I would recommend either 1. Install Linux Mint with xfce. It is very easy to use, is fast, even on older hardware, and has most things that windows has. 2. Rep
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by meuk 8y ago
I think the problem is that current OSes are too complicated. What does a common user really want? I'd say text editing, making presentations, multimedia, and browsing. While these sound like simple things, text editing usually happens

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