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by mtoddh 15y ago
Fun tidbit - this equivalence also means you can write it as 1[x]: #include <stdio.h> int main() { int x[5] = {1,2,3,4,5}; printf("%d, %d\n", x[1],1[x]); return 0; }
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by mtoddh 15y ago
So for question 4 it was a matter of realizing that the type for &x is a pointer to an array of 5 ints: int (*y)[5]; y = &x; printf("%p, %p\n", y, y+1);
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by mtoddh 15y ago
Agreed - but I have had code just like this come up as an interview question.
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by mtoddh 15y ago
Kind of ironic considering how much security industry related software is written in C/C++ (snort, dragon, bro, nessus, nmap, ...)
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by mtoddh 15y ago
Cool idea and it looks really useful for printing out online tutorials/guides without all the ads/cruft - saw on your webpage that it's free so what's your revenue model?
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by mtoddh 15y ago
Services like Google's geocoding API ( http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/ ) can help with this; it's pretty good about figuring out the address you mean and returning it in a normalized format: >>> fro
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by mtoddh 15y ago
Bruce Sterling's "The Hacker Crackdown" is a really interesting book that goes into detail about his involvement with the EFF and how it came about in the first place. It's a great read and available online at http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hac
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by mtoddh 15y ago
If contracts and regulations require AAA-rated securities, then AAA-rated securities will appear to match the demand. I believe that this is what is happening, but the argument that demand for AAA securities by overcautious investors is t
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by mtoddh 15y ago
Maybe I misinterpreted the article too, because an "excess of overcaution" sounds a lot like blame shifting to me, in this case from the rating agencies onto the investors who believed the ratings. The argument implies that because investor
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by mtoddh 15y ago
No doubt - even Greenspan's "irrational exuberance" comment was back in 96, well before things peaked.
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by mtoddh 15y ago
Workaholics are (most often) passionate about their work. It's interesting to see how often the word "passion" comes up with regards to worker productivity, especially when written from the company's perspective. The common refrain seems
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by mtoddh 15y ago
From the article, "The vast majority of people I’ve met through my work in open source communities are friendly, warm, and funny...Once in a while, though, I’ve run into assholes." While what you say may be true, in this case, it does not
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by mtoddh 15y ago
Judging from a lot of the responses on this thread, it seems like there's a sort of unwritten assumption that people who act like jerks are technically proficient, while people who are easy to get along with are only "acting nice" to make u
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by mtoddh 15y ago
Awesome. Please tell us the names of these companies where managers refer to their employees as "retards", coworkers show up drunk, and it takes direct confrontation to get any of it resolved. Because I doubt anyone here wants to end up wor
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by mtoddh 15y ago
I have it set up at www.neekanee.com. I generally do scraping runs about once a week. I'm using MySQL's fulltext search on the back-end so it will only let you search for words with 3-chars or more right now (ie, searching for 'c' won't wor
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by mtoddh 15y ago
I had the same annoyance with all of the 'company confidential' jobs ads on Monster, craigslist, etc. as well. My solution was to develop a web crawler that scrapes job adds directly off of the 'careers' pages of company websites. This way
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by mtoddh 16y ago
Yeah, it's still pretty rough right now but I still thought I'd mention it. Put in the state (NY in your case) along with the city and you'll get back the results you were looking for. Or, just hit search with no location specified and you
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by mtoddh 16y ago
My side-project is a job search engine that works by crawling company websites to build up the job database. In addition to letting people do the standard search based on keywords, I've also added the ability to filter job search results wi
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by mtoddh 16y ago
Looking over the jobs pages of some of these companies it's interesting to note how many of them expect you to make your new job there "the primary focus of your life". For instance, go google for "primary focus of your life" intitle:jobs a