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by pacaro 9y ago
Hmmmm I have a degree, but not in a closely related field. My first job out of college was very much an apprenticeship for me, making the transition from having been a kid who could program, to being an employee who could write software tha
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by pacaro 9y ago
Strip planking is popular amongst canoe builders. A 1/4inch thick core of cedar has fiberglass on either side. The glass provides tensile strength and the wood provides both compression strength and a useful offset between the fiber la
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by pacaro 9y ago
Granted, the intersection of precedence and associativity is a great source of confusion (and any number of annoying Facebook memes) I'm not a formally trained mathematician, but one way to rationalize + and - having the same precedenc
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by pacaro 9y ago
The author asks why && and || need different precedence (Unless I misunderstood). This is because `a && (b || c)` has a different truth table than `(a && b) || c`
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It also doesn't work for people who want to interview speculatively. Looking at what else is around once in a while is a pretty decent due-diligence that you can apply to your career. You can even be honest about this with recruiters.
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by pacaro 9y ago
Interesting. I have no definitive source, my understanding came from a conversation with a typographer 10+ years ago. A little digging around suggests that receipt was in use in English (meaning list of ingredients) both in the culinary and
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The ℞ (Rx) symbol used for prescriptions started out as a ligature for Rt — an abbreviation form "receipt", the same root from which we get the modern English word "recipe".
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by pacaro 9y ago
Each problem in the exam is worth some number of points (20), I think that the aim is to ensure that you can't pass by mediocre performance across many problems, that a bare pass indicates that you have retained enough knowledge/a
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by pacaro 9y ago
The university. I looked up details, they can be found at https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/undergrad/course/schedules.pdf My memory is a little off. There is no gamma. And the pass is (in the first year) is 2alpha * be
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If my memory and understanding are correct, the way that Mathematics is graded at Cambridge is interesting here. Questions are scored alpha for a completely correct solution, beta if the examinee demonstrated that they knew what they we
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To make this specific, Fibonacci would be a great example
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Travis Kalanick Resigns as Uber CEO(mobile.nytimes.com)
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I used to work on the Product Security team at Dropbox
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Except that "regular" is left foot leading and "goofy" is right foot leading. In my experience learning to ride "switch" is only a matter of practice, and not much at that. Anyone who juggles, or plays keepy-up
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by pacaro 9y ago
Being British and having done a fair amount of security and crypto work, the word "nonce" still causes a mental double take. In one context, a number used once , in the other, well known British prison slang for a child molester.
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by pacaro 9y ago
A MechEng student I knew at university tried to design a new umbrella mechanism that used strips of spring steel that would form helices around the shaft when furled. IIRC It had two significant drawbacks, a) it had a very high energy barri
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by pacaro 9y ago
To put your mind at rest, it appears to copy a CSS background-image gradient definition, like so: background-image: linear-gradient( 135deg, #FDEB71 0%, #F8D800 100%);
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Which puts me in mind of the "the sandwich" scene from The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson "If the manifest of ingredients on the bottle had been legible, it would have read something like this: "Water, blackstrap molasse
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Historically this is a reversal. In the U.K. after WWII a lot of the people who had worked in aircraft engineering moved to working in Motorsport. This is usually given as one of the main reasons for the concentration of F1 teams in the U.K
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Indeed. I worked for a pharmaceutical company in 1989. The person I car pooled with worked in the "plant health" department. They had either weekly or fortnightly blood draws (memory fails) and any significant amount of nasty shit
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Hmmm $160 on amazon.com and £45 on amazon.co.uk — good job I'll be in the uk this summer Also the best theme tune ever!
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One of the few good things my father did was to record the original radio play broadcasts onto compact cassettes. They're long since overplayed and stretched, and I don't have a player, but I listened to them over and over again i
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Another advantage of these services is that the daycares trust them, so it limits the time you have to keep your kid out of daycare. This can save way more than $100 (depending on what your childcare backup solution is)
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Well, the ELKS[1][2] project has been working on a 16bit port on and off since the late 90s. At one point Alan Cox[3] was an active contributor. [1] http://elks.sourceforge.net/ [2] https://github.com/jbruch
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by pacaro 9y ago
One of my takeaways from TFA was along the lines of… "Hmmm… he's using strtok, that's not how a real shell would work. What would a minimal shell, without scripting, pipes, redirects etc. do? Just correctly parsing legal file
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Thanks for continuing your series. This is a great illustration of how non-trivial a production quality shell is. Parsing input is "tricky" Each builtin needs comprehensive error handling
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Just like with cars, people have gotten accustomed to buying on credit and have forgotten that you can save and buy for cash on the same cycle. One difference being that the "buying on credit" aspect is really well hidden from the
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These topics can be particularly tough to ask about because it isn't an oppressed persons job to be an "oppression explainer". I thought his recognition of this was very respectful. FWIW in other parts of the world an electri
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Implementing this to run on an arbitrary dictionary would be a cute interview question
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Deep-water soloing is its own discipline, with a unique set of hazards. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-water_soloing

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