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Dropbox surprise – deleted files magically reappear after several years(badcyber.com)
6 points by petters 10y ago|3 comments
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by petters 10y ago
Just use the typedef. Even if you personally find the other variants readable, chances are that your peer reading your code doesn't.
873.
by petters 10y ago
This is correct. A deletion should be effective/visible immediately, but it can take some time before all backups are guaranteed to be gone.
874.
by petters 10y ago
> ... and laser-based intrusion detection systems Huh? I thought that was exclusive to movies like Entrapment and Mission Impossible.
875.
by petters 10y ago
I saw that quicksort code when I looked at Haskell back in 2002. Why is that still used as an example? I have seen in-place quicksort in Haskell and it is not pretty.
876.
by petters 10y ago
Maybe you are right, but in Poker championships you see many of the same names in the top from one year to the next, right? (I could be wrong about this) That could suggest the variance is manageable. I'd like to see more players becau
877.
by petters 10y ago
"What every coder should know about gamma" may be of interest here. http://blog.johnnovak.net/2016/09/21/what-every-coder-should...
878.
by petters 10y ago
Personally, I think it would be much more interesting to see an AI compete in a multi-player game with, say, ten human pros at the table. Not just heads-up.
879.
by petters 10y ago
You can compute perfect strategies for much simpler variants of Hold’em, e.g. Leduc Hold’em. Then you see that bluffing is absolutely required for optimal play.
880.
by petters 10y ago
Do you mean that they are using a pure strategy? I seriously doubt that. But yes, that would not be a good idea since optimal play is a complicated mixed strategy.
881.
by petters 10y ago
Towards the end: > This doesn’t explain why philosophy is different to physics (and basically all of the other subjects). Why would you want to be like Socrates, and not like Newton? And I don't feel convinced the author has an ans
882.
by petters 10y ago
Not sure most people even use bookmarks to be honest. Maybe my non-technical friends are atypical, though. "Navigational searches" are a thing and they are very optimized by Google. But yes, auto-complete likey handles a lot as we
883.
by petters 10y ago
Yeah, I think it would be too expensive for Dropbox to truly encrypt the data. Because then decuplication would not be possible.
884.
by petters 10y ago
I agree that it will be very, very difficult for Dropbox to become a collaborative platform. They wanted to become a platform for photos earlier (with Carousel), but that failed.
885.
by petters 10y ago
The thing is, you can not use Python in production at Google. YouTube was acquired a long time ago and a rewrite of the inherited Pyton code base has not happened for very good reasons.
886.
by petters 10y ago
This comment made me wonder what you consider to be a complex site.
887.
by petters 10y ago
This made be wary of Julia: http://danluu.com/julialang/
888.
by petters 10y ago
I am certainly no religious follower of TDD, but I do think writing tests before code is useful. The reason is simple: it tests your tests. I have many times found bugs in tests that made them always pass.
889.
by petters 10y ago
https://code.facebook.com/posts/457605107772545/under-the-ho...
890.
by petters 10y ago
But in that case you are in no position to give up on C++ anyway, as your grandparent commenter did.
891.
by petters 10y ago
Great to see even more support for type annotations. Having to specify the type of variables in comments was never a good solution.
892.
by petters 10y ago
Which NP tasks? ("Some" NP tasks are already possible in polynomial time)
893.
by petters 10y ago
Well, I'm sure you know what I meant.
894.
by petters 10y ago
Question from someone who don't know Rust: Why two dots instead of an ellipsis (three)?
895.
by petters 10y ago
Standard CMake 'release' compiler settings. No -march etc. for GCC.
896.
by petters 10y ago
This is very incorrect in my opinion. It is every engineer's responsibility to figure out what the business needs. Perhaps an intern does not need to worry about that, but that's about it.
897.
by petters 10y ago
I completely get that it's hard to make money off Google scholar. But it could do so many more cool things with more effort.
898.
by petters 10y ago
People have lived in an RV in Google's parking lot. Being on the campus all the time, they could save almost all of their salary.
899.
by petters 10y ago
A security key should work.
900.
A blind person rode a Google car alone in 2015(medium.com)
1 points by petters 10y ago|0 comments

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