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by pantaloons 14y ago
The problem isn't a non-profit for-profit one, it's that you can't have a competitive market for what should (ostensibly) be a free and universal service. Broken it may be, but I certainly prefer free and inefficient education to the altern
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by pantaloons 14y ago
Probably the "start at six figures" part, which for most (non-CS) graduates is, at best, impossible.
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by pantaloons 14y ago
"A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It's the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come."
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by pantaloons 14y ago
If you limit n then than the algorithm is actually O(1) time too -- his answer is wrong either way.
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by pantaloons 14y ago
The larger problem is the cult of "Big O" and its use as a form of signalling in interviews. If I wanted to test whether a candidate understood Big O, I'd ask them if there was a difference between O(1) and O(0). What these companies want i
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by pantaloons 14y ago
1. Not constant space. Not linear time. 2. Not constant space. Not linear time. 3. Looks correct.
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by pantaloons 15y ago
So technology companies create new means of distribution, compelling enough that people will pay for music that can, and previously was, being obtained for free -- his complaint is that the tech companies don't take over the role of talent
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by pantaloons 15y ago
Problem D (the only nontrivial problem) was actually in an ICPC regional a few years ago (south american perhaps?) so a lot of people will have seen this one before.
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by pantaloons 15y ago
I think you might be missing the point, all simulation continues while players are offline. Implementing consistent physics in an MMO is (very) hard, but having all players simulated even when they are logged off is something else entirely.
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by pantaloons 15y ago
Well a first person shooter engine only really needs an (x, y, look-at) tuple for each player, certainly putting thousands of players on one map is doable. You're dreaming. Assume for a moment a team of developers spend several months if no
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by pantaloons 15y ago
"We are going to emulate all computers and physics even when players aren't logged in." I built a prototype trying to do something similar, inspired by a text-based RTS/MMO that kept running while you were asleep. For me this was an unreali
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by pantaloons 15y ago
As always SICP has the answers[1], and helped me shift from a "production rule that transforms slow code to be faster" mindset towards a "implementation detail of the compiler that ensures it doesn't create unnecessary state" one. It's no m
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by pantaloons 15y ago
There's a case to be made that detecting and penalizing SEO is making results worse, if, as you suppose, SEO for a sufficiently good search engine is equivalent to producing good content. Obviously Google doesn't think their search is good
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by pantaloons 15y ago
It is claimed in an interview[1] that there were two licensed guns on the premises, neither was used or even unlocked from storage during the raid. Obviously what we have here is a political show of force, although in this case it seems to
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by pantaloons 15y ago
This is complete rubbish. You've managed turn something that has absolutely nothing to do with gender into a gender issue, replete with ad hominem attacks, gross over generalizations, bad faith assumptions, and a vague anecdotal psychoanaly
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by pantaloons 15y ago
That encryption key wouldn't provide proof, but there are many that would. Trivially a sufficiently long key could embed a video of the murder.
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by pantaloons 15y ago
Neither the execution nor source character set (of C) is guaranteed to be ASCII though. This makes the general parsing as well as lines like "if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'F')" non-portable.
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by pantaloons 15y ago
That can't actually be taken for granted, relevant Usenet discussion begins here: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.std.c/browse_thread/thre...
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by pantaloons 15y ago
I'm tempted to suggest that the fixed C/C++ version is still not correct with respect to this issue, namely on architectures where INT_MAX == UINT_MAX. (Or really INT_MAX <= UINT_MAX < 2 * INT_MAX, which is valid in C99 for INT_MAX
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by pantaloons 15y ago
Yes, the distinction between "program that generates images from written instructions called a grammar." and "image file format" is an interesting one too.
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by pantaloons 15y ago
He brings no pedagogical issues to bare, it's simply a facile critique of "style", I don't think that answers the question why not K&R at all. Some may consider the points well taken, not surprisingly K&R had the foresight to respon
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by pantaloons 15y ago
It's a straw man -- overpopulation is not the only reason to be against anti-aging remedies. The so called "sacrifice" of death is necessary for progress -- death is a prime mover of dogma, nepotism, wealth, and many more. Humanity benefits
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by pantaloons 15y ago
It appears to have been removed, although it's available in the history: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:P_versus_NP_p... . Of course the proof is almost surely wrong...
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by pantaloons 15y ago
Do you mind elaborating on the supposed political quibbles that would prevent a pthreads-like API from being adopted? Are you are implying that vendors of competing API's would oppose anything pthread-like making its way into the standard?
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by pantaloons 15y ago
Reminds me of games with lag compensation. It has been observed that players missing their shots due to lag get incredibly frustrated. The best way to deal with this is to use the latency of the shooter to predict what their bullet would of
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by pantaloons 15y ago
More likely the takeaway is that this story is a crop of shit. Hypocrisy is not newsworthy, nor is an article based entirely on an appeal to hypocrisy worth reading.
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by pantaloons 15y ago
You say "iterate" but from what I observed it was mostly used for shotgun debugging -- not necessarily a bad idea when doing graphics programming on a strict time limit.
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by pantaloons 15y ago
Man sells likes, Facebook sues. What this has to do with someone's name or why anybody, Facebook included, should care, is beyond me.
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by pantaloons 15y ago
Surprising indeed. It seems strange that they would take the proposal this far before withdrawing for financial reasons, or fear of losing. Surely there is a more interesting bone of contention here that didn't become evident until late in
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by pantaloons 15y ago
Not everybody using PHP is serving web pages. Zynga use PHP to do server side game simulation, I expect there are a myriad of smaller companies doing CPU intensive tasks in PHP that will welcome these developments.

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