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by mfukar 16y ago
True. I was referring to the cumulative effort since Reid proved that the upper bound of Kociemba's algorithm is 29 moves. I apologize for any misunderstandings, but I cannot edit that post now.
842.
by mfukar 16y ago
Just to answer your query here: integer factorization is still suspected to be outside of P, NP-complete and co-NP-complete (recently some have hinted that it may in fact be NP-complete, I cannot track the link to the email discussion atm).
843.
by mfukar 16y ago
No, because all hashing algorithms suffer from collisions. A perfect hash function for files would require space of at least a number of bits proportional to the size of your problem space. In practice, you can go with SHA-2, for which no c
844.
by mfukar 16y ago
As far as I can tell, this is simply a (or more appropriately, The) re-discovery of the upper bound on Kociemba's algorithm. The authors apparently did not search for optimal solutions (which is not strictly necessary anyway since we have a
845.
by mfukar 16y ago
Don't you mean, 'machines'?
846.
by mfukar 16y ago
You are correct in your points. Blizzard is great at polishing as well as adding features to existing products. This is proven practically (see WoW). However, their communication channels with their communities are broken beyond belief. I r
847.
by mfukar 16y ago
If creation isn't an important form of personal expression, what else is left?
848.
by mfukar 16y ago
If you have 10K sockets open then typically poll/epoll will return a large number of 'active' descriptors, ...<snip> That's half true - it doesn't hold for low ATR traffic (lots of hanging connections, clients that GET something,
849.
by mfukar 16y ago
I keep seeing this...misconception? I don't know what to call it, over most comments. The article doesn't talk about optimizations. It talks about design decisions . Someone actually took the time to sit down, ponder what kind of workloads
850.
by mfukar 16y ago
It's only distracting if you allow it to distract you.
851.
by mfukar 16y ago
I agree it's not ideal profit-wise, and neither do I expect every iPhone user to be interested, let alone technically savvy, enough to jailbreak their iPhone. But I find the fact that the executable won't be free even if my source code is (
852.
by mfukar 16y ago
Man, this is depressing. As are Apple's terms for the iPhone/iPad store. I'd advise anyone who wants to develop for the iPhone/iPad to stop dealing with iTunes, distribute their work themselves (free and open source) and invite people to ja
853.
by mfukar 16y ago
There are also "hybrid" markets, i.e. countries where both models are active. I'm fairly confident this is the case over most European countries.
854.
by mfukar 16y ago
In fact, Nokia has been active in electronics since 1960.
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Screwing up as a motivator(agitakis.blogspot.com)
2 points by mfukar 16y ago|1 comments
856.
by mfukar 16y ago
But, to say it is god-awful development is pretty deeply ill-informed, and insulting to the small handful of dedicated volunteers who currently maintain Squid PHK was obviously referring to a specific issue; Squid's implementation and usa
857.
by mfukar 16y ago
Yes, arithmetic on void * is disallowed. However, gcc accepts it as an extension: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-2.95.3/gcc_4.html#SEC78
858.
by mfukar 16y ago
An explicit cast of the result of malloc() can mask an error when you haven't included its proper definition in stdlib.h.
859.
by mfukar 16y ago
Because he had the same attitude with this guy: http://bugs.php.net/52435
860.
by mfukar 16y ago
Is Korea still alive?
861.
by mfukar 16y ago
This is a common occurrence: http://c-faq.com/decl/recurfuncp.html Enjoy.
862.
by mfukar 16y ago
Not only is it a bad argument, it starts from a completely false hypothesis - the universities I graduated from had excellent programs which assumed no previous knowledge and I know that the best universities in EU have the same, if not h
863.
by mfukar 16y ago
Hey, I might be horribly wrong. It's not like I can put myself in their position. It certainly isn't the first or last thing about ancient times that we come up with half-witted explanations for..
864.
by mfukar 16y ago
That's not practical at all. It could be applied only for an odd number of lines, if they even happened to know in advance how many lines it'd take. Also, it'd be amazingly frustrating: imagine having to "switch" your focus from the start o
865.
by mfukar 16y ago
I can see that being true; most ancient Greek alphabet letters present a certain symmetry. What I've found more interesting is that there are variations of this kind of writing where the first line/verse was written from right to left, wher
866.
by mfukar 16y ago
Well, there's certainly a lot of "bloated" code. I'm using quotation marks because I'm coming from a point of view where 'lean and mean' is golden - I like beautiful code iff the implementation of the pretty abstractions is equally beautifu
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by mfukar 16y ago
That looks like every single bug report I've ever got. Occasionally, I wouldn't even get the error message; the report would be something like " Hey Mike, listen, I ran the regression tests against your new patch and they fail. Please fix i
868.
by mfukar 16y ago
I'm sorry, how is that different from what I wrote? Did I somehow imply that patents are "good" for any one of us? I don't think so, but then again I'm not a native English speaker. If clarification is needed, I'm a firm believer of "inform
869.
by mfukar 16y ago
I know. I read it.
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by mfukar 16y ago
I generally don't agree or like RMS, but if founding the FSF is going to help a single little bit into avoiding charades such as this, I'm backing it up. Thankfully, the situation is not as bad in the EU, but there's a lot of pressure to th

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