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by pjscott 13y ago
I tried it with n=1000 and n=10000, and found that using xrange made it slightly faster, as did using itertools.imap, but the difference was pretty small. (Here I'm using the stock Python 2.7.1 on a 2011 MacBook Pro.)
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by pjscott 13y ago
Agreed -- but even if someone is lazy, why would I want them to suffer needlessly?
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by pjscott 13y ago
This board is pretty minimalistic. It has five general-purpose I/O pins that you can use to read and write logic-level signals (either 0V or your supply voltage, usually either 3.3V or 5V). Three of those also have analog-to-digital co
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by pjscott 13y ago
If the goal is to increase the average level of health in the world, an easy way of decreasing obesity would be a godsend. Does this bother you? If so, why?
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by pjscott 13y ago
> I guess I can't understand how this could even be argued. It can be argued because some people got offended, and it's much more socially acceptable to argue than to say "I am offended!" This holds true regardless
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by pjscott 13y ago
In some cities, most notably New York, homeless people can get free transportation out. Usually it's just bus fare, which is admirably cheap by the standards of government social programs.
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by pjscott 13y ago
Is that because you care more about the people nearer to you, or because it's easier to help them? (Personally, I'd answer 'yes' and 'probably not', respectively. If you want to help people in bulk, you can pro
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by pjscott 13y ago
The same criticism applies to wikis and their nonlinear way of presenting information. Despite that, people find wikis tremendously valuable, and a big part of it is the ability to jump around, following your own path through the informatio
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by pjscott 13y ago
You don't know the size of their dataset, or the number of queries per second they need to support, or the latency requirements they have to meet. They do, and found that the obvious solution -- prefix queries on B-trees -- was too slo
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by pjscott 13y ago
In Java, you should almost always use the standard sort, which I believe is Timsort these days. This book is written in Java mostly because that's what CS students know, not because it's uniquely well-suited to the material. (That
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by pjscott 13y ago
I just checked, and it turns out I'm using Vixie Cron -- I just hadn't noticed it because it's never been a problem. That being the case, it would be rude of me not to wish him the best of luck in whatever he does next.
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by pjscott 13y ago
For very good engineering reasons, Redis is limited to what it can keep in memory. Postgres, for equally good reasons, can use disk. That makes a difference if you have a lot of key-value pairs to store, and are willing to accept a few disk
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by pjscott 13y ago
At McDonald's, there's a very obvious causal relationship between paying some money and getting a hamburger, so of course people pay. With nginx, you just apt-get install your hamburger, and you're done. Donating would hardly
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by pjscott 13y ago
Nothing that was open has been closed. Nothing that we had has been lost.
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by pjscott 13y ago
It's totally plausible. Rewriting C++ code in C usually makes it better. Similarly, rewriting C code in C++ usually makes it better.
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by pjscott 13y ago
If it's a parental control thing, then one of its main uses will be increasing the number of computers on which someone has covertly installed Firefox.
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by pjscott 13y ago
Destructuring assignment long predates Coffeescript. According to the Coffeescript docs, they took the syntax from earlier drafts of ES6. Destructuring assignment long predates ES6. Common Lisp had a destructuring-bind macro back in the ear
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by pjscott 13y ago
It's in a big, steel tube. You won't see bus-sized things going at nearly the speed of sound; you'll see a big, steel tube.
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by pjscott 13y ago
Regarding suicide bombers: all pods are equipped with emergency brakes, and wheels as a (slow) backup transportation method. Life support on each pod is powered by redundant batteries. Capsule depressurization can be dealt with airplane-sty
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by pjscott 13y ago
"A guy will say, 'Well, I make my luck.' And the same guy walks down the street and a piano that's been hoisted drops on his head. The truth of the matter is your life is very much out of your control." -Woody Allen
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by pjscott 13y ago
Have you forgotten how annoying the web used to be?
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by pjscott 13y ago
Even so, the experience of having a reasonable-resolution virtual world all around you is viscerally awesome. And when I use that word, I literally mean that it causes awe.
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by pjscott 13y ago
Strangely enough, I feel like this would be more impressive if it rendered more slowly. Does anybody else remember waiting several minutes for a fractal to render? These days, it's so easy to forget how amazing it really is.
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by pjscott 13y ago
Video phones also turned out to be kind of boring, once they stopped being part of the shiny future and started being part of the present.
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by pjscott 13y ago
CoffeeScript is, essentially, an unofficial Javascript 2.0. It's not at all tied to Rails.
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by pjscott 13y ago
If you know Javascript, learning Coffeescript is easy. I became proficient in Coffeescript in a few hours, and I sure don't feel like a genius, so other people can probably do the same. It's just a more convenient way of writing
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by pjscott 13y ago
If you know better than the stock market, you can make some serious money. How confident are you?
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by pjscott 13y ago
I've found that the best way to contribute to most open source projects is to try to use them, and then fix whatever shortcomings become obvious. This only works for things that are fairly new, and have obvious problems, but those can
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by pjscott 13y ago
I don't see the problem here. It sounds like a simple economic proposition -- "Porting this to WP8 isn't worth our time unless we get extra money for it." Maybe Microsoft will take them up on it, and probably they won&#x
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by pjscott 13y ago
Has appending the phrase "Get over yourself" to an argument ever accomplished anything useful?

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