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by meuk 9y ago
Ugh, yeah, this is horrible. Especially if you're at a company which doesn't have any documentation, and the rest of the team is in another country with 3 hours of time difference, so you're on your own after 3PM.
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by meuk 9y ago
Great to see somebody actually acknowledge that he simply doesn't know in a world full of know-it-alls. ;)
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by meuk 9y ago
If you can layer enough of such invisible screens, you could make a nice 3d display, although I'm not sure if it would actually look nice (you could probably see through objects).
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by meuk 9y ago
This is so true! I have found many textbooks very hard to work through. One you somewhat master the subject, the book seems exceedingly clear and you wonder why you ever struggled. One thing that helps enormously in math is to have to hand
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by meuk 9y ago
I think the post you're responding to is sarcastic ;)
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by meuk 9y ago
For my master thesis, I implemented a new and fancy algorithm. The code seemed to be fine and dandy for the usual, simple test cases. After using more elaborate test cases, I found cases that didn't work well. After contacting the auth
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by meuk 9y ago
I'd argue that it's more of a culture problem. I regularly have multiple instances of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code open (together with many windows explorer, notepad, notepad++ and whatever). Visual Studio in itself is jus
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by meuk 9y ago
I really respect that guy. From the linked article: "They signed the documents without looking. They said what usually their borrowers say in court: 'We have not read it',” said Mr Mikhalevich. I am always pissed off a
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by meuk 9y ago
For my current consulting job I signed a contract with a non-compete clause for 1.5 years (and a similar relation clause - which forbids me to work with any relation of my employer for 1.5 years). I did discuss this with both my employer an
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by meuk 9y ago
Personally, I consider code I don't understand after reading it thrice a much worse code smell. Less sarcastically: I think you're being too dogmatic. I don't like the idea of 'code smells', because it encourages yo
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by meuk 9y ago
I can't help but start a rant about Windows upon reading this. One of my major complaints with Windows is that things just 'feel slow'. I have to wait very often. Opening an FTP location? Wait for 5 seconds, (and it also op
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by meuk 9y ago
Related, and slightly more interesting than the linked article (I think), is you can get similar 'almost equal to an integer'-results by using recursive relations. Take, for example, a Fibonacci-like sequence, defined by f(k + 2)
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by meuk 9y ago
The video is an okay discussion of type systems and the pro's and cons, but for me it didn't bring anything new to the table.
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by meuk 9y ago
As pointed out in the video, types can be helpful for bigger projects, where others have to read your code, and sometimes for refactoring.
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by meuk 9y ago
Well, it is extremely naive to think that Facebook does not use all the data they get about you. Then again, most people are very naive about this kind of everyday technology.
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by meuk 9y ago
I'm not trying to start an offtopic discussion, but the not enthusiastic 24-year old looks like the clearest and best option to me. Personally, I would refactor it to three lines.
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by meuk 9y ago
Can you give some examples of how personality traits manifest themselves in code?
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by meuk 9y ago
Inigo Quilez also has an awesome site with very accessible articles: iquilezles.org (I think the articles section is the most interesting part).
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by meuk 9y ago
Ah, true, I didn't pick up on that. Maybe I did take the tone too seriously.
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by meuk 9y ago
But the article is named "you're doing it wrong", not "we're doing it wrong". I know enough people who would not fall in this trap. Maybe I misinterpreted the tone, but I think it has a slight air of arrogance
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by meuk 9y ago
Agreed, an 'I was able to optimize this'-tone would be better suited than the current 'I am the only one who does this right'. The author is misguided if he thinks that an algorithm being called 'optimal' will
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by meuk 9y ago
A common example that is used is when you have a Rectangle.setSize(int width, int height) method. When you make Square a subclass of Rectange, the Liskov substitution principle is violated. I think this (well-known) example is what the auth
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by meuk 9y ago
Very interesting. The accuracy achieved is quite impressive -- I think it would be lower when the technique would be applied in practice, since the assumptions that are made are quite strong. For looser assumptions (no disclosure about the
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by meuk 9y ago
I understand, but the expression is nonsense.
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by meuk 9y ago
I agree. Christopher Wellons AKA skeeto from nullprogram.com (whose articles end up on the HN frontpage somewhat regularly) has mentored a high school student for two years: http://nullprogram.com/blog/2016/09&#x2F
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by meuk 9y ago
Nitpicking: Does "3x faster" mean at 300%, or at 400%? I would say 300%, but when you say 50% faster I would interpret it as 150%. It is a expression with no clearly defined meaning, and really shouldn't be used.
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by meuk 9y ago
So the title is accurate.
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by meuk 9y ago
I consider 2GB acceptable, 4GB normal, and 8GB high-end (maybe even overkill).
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Designing a CPU in VHDL(labs.domipheus.com)
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by meuk 9y ago
Thank you for your answer, I understand now. SAS not being an acronym mostly voids my critique. I am reading your blog post somewhat out of context, since I am not a data scientist. That said, the rest of the article is very accessible for

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