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by mquander 14y ago
Does the order of the two terminal conditions matter? / Think about it. Does the order of the two terminal conditions matter? / Try it out! Does the order of the two previous answers matter? / Yes. Think first, then try. - The Little Sche
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by mquander 14y ago
You started off defining intelligence as something limited and not independently useful, and then you concluded that its presence was limited and not independently useful. The answer is that it's not actually obvious that "intelligence and
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by mquander 14y ago
IQ is strongly correlated with job performance, so yeah, providing evidence that you're in the top 2% by IQ is a really valuable indicator. My Dad was in Mensa, and reading their national magazine as a kid I was not exactly ever inclined to
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by mquander 14y ago
That doesn't make sense. People emotionally calibrate themselves against the visible skills of the people in their peer group, not a global distribution of IQ.
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by mquander 14y ago
Flagged as crap. Half of this article is just shouting insults into the void. If the point of the post is "it would be cool to have hacker cohabitation all over the place, so that we could just zip around the world and live here and there
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by mquander 14y ago
"Amount of physical violence" is an unreasonable way to measure proportionality of punishment. Someone who destroys $10 million in economic value has probably done much more harm than someone who drags you to a jail cell for a few nights.
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by mquander 14y ago
What you said deserves four downvotes. A) If your message is "You're learning it the wrong way. You need to actively work to understand and do research on your own." then that is mildly rude and also not really very germane to the discussi
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by mquander 14y ago
No, there's no difference whatsoever. .NET has no concept of "operators" that are different from functions. F# is statically typed, just like C#, and the only reason you can pass + in this case is because the type of the stack is Stack&#60
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by mquander 14y ago
Well, the second version here is better for the following reasons: - 9 less lines of code. - Easier to see that it's correct. Partly because it's less lines, but partly because those lines are more meaningful and less bland. It would be h
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by mquander 14y ago
I never said you shouldn't try implementing division yourself; everyone should try implementing everything themselves someday. I'm saying that anyone can, if they wish, do a lifetime of useful work (including writing "real-time 3D engine
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by mquander 14y ago
I suppose they'll probably start with something the processor doesn't already do for you in hardware.
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Who is people and how do you know they do that? I don't think people do that. I feel like Hanlon's razor applies here.
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Do you think Facebook would be doing as well if its URL were http://www.facebook.horse ? I do.
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Mr. Gupta’s friends adamantly dispute the notion that he was driven by material gain. At the trial, his private banker at JPMorgan Chase pegged his family’s net worth at $130 million, in addition to his home in Westport, Conn., a waterfron
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by mquander 14y ago
This conversation is really boring. I'm downvoting it because I don't want to follow conversations like this.
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by mquander 14y ago
I wasn't doing web development in 2003, so I can't really argue. But it's been 9 years during 2003, and there's been a tremendous amount of light and noise about the dangers of weak hashing strategies during that time. I'm sure that Linke
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by mquander 14y ago
I just googled "PBKDF2 PHP" and the first page was full of free implementations. But maybe it's cheating, since I know what "PBKDF2" is. I tried to simulate what a totally ignorant person would do, and googled "PHP password." The second
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by mquander 14y ago
I think this is an actively bad idea. If I had to reply to a comment, explaining why the comment is bad, then the most likely scenario is that the writer replies, arguing with me, and I reply, and now the thread is full of a bunch of bulls
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by mquander 14y ago
As a semi-casual player -- maybe I played 200 games ever -- I could not possibly play enough to earn many of the champions, so I get to choose between not having them or paying a ton of money (IIRC, many are like five to ten bucks a pop.)
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by mquander 14y ago
I expect that LoL might retain a devoted playerbase, sort of like Runescape, but I definitely predict that Dota 2 will be making a ton of money and getting all the attention. - They seem serious about sponsoring tournaments and making it co
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by mquander 14y ago
It would be pretty tough, although you can replace "Google" with "any roughly Google-quality set of coworkers and projects." But the original question was whether it's really "very difficult to obtain on your own" the sort of perspective a
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by mquander 14y ago
Sorry, I was just using that as a catch-all to describe learning "things which will probably help you be a better programmer in some way."
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by mquander 14y ago
Try the following thought experiment: Person A spends four years getting a BS in CS at a top-tier school, learning about programming at least for a few hours a day on average, with the benefit of a well-considered curriculum and instruction
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by mquander 14y ago
This title is absurd, and really insulting to Harris; I'm flagging it for being insanely rude & misleading, until it's fixed.
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Should I be reading something out of this comment other than a totally ridiculous insult? I would flag it and move on if it wasn't coming from someone whose contributions I normally enjoy. - You seem to be saying that Haskell people are pe
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I disagree. Whatever you have to say about the hacked stuff in Diablo 2, it didn't really make the game much less fun, neither for people hacking it nor for people playing it straight. The problem they're solving isn't a problem that playe
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by mquander 14y ago
Your comment is totally removed from reality. Did you even read the page? Do you think that Scribd is in the business of picking up fruits from grids?
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by mquander 14y ago
I basically agree (although it sounds like in this case, the candidate only Googled for help on some part of the question, so who knows.) But the fault is still with the candidate. It's unethical to get external help in an interview withou
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I'm replying to the parent, who seems to think it's principled in the sense that it is the best way to operate in the real world, therefore he will do it in an interview.
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Hello, I am an employer, please don't tell me what skill I am looking for in an interview. If I wanted to know how good you are at learning new things quickly, I would ask questions like "what's on your list of cool things to pick up in th

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