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by powera 16y ago
There's a follow-up already posted: http://dlo.me/flying-on-the-cheap/ That said, I'm not quite sure what he's trying to show. Is it what days are cheapest to travel on, or what days are cheapest to purchase the tickets? And as has been
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by powera 16y ago
Because the page gave it wrong. It should be 1 11 21 1211 111221 before you're asked to give more terms. And seeing this question is a sign that the interviewer is trying to feel smarter than you.
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by powera 16y ago
Wait, both Groupon AND LivingSocial are running Super Bowl ads? Can we declare this a bubble yet? PLEASE?
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by powera 16y ago
I find this "it's up to keep the stock market running" meme completely ridiculous. As far as I'm aware, the entire theory was based on the fact that it was the first website in Egypt people found that was still up, and the exchange had 4 d
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by powera 16y ago
Um, this problem really is that simple. If you're doing something where you really need many factorials, you use a lookup table (and probably don't call a factorial function at all), or you use a closed-form function to give an estimate.
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by powera 16y ago
This is an incredible stretch of what I'd take "The Ends Don't Justify The Means" to be. The whole "killing one person to save ten" thing really isn't related. The way I see it, it's about externalities. I push someone onto a train track
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by powera 16y ago
Specifically, for every write, it will undergo the Paxos mechanism; the writes aren't serialized through a single master.
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by powera 16y ago
If you require a read/write to talk to a majority of the replicas, you don't need to have a specific replica as the master to maintain consistency.
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by powera 16y ago
Well, if you use Google Apps and your own domain, you can point the domain at the new app after copying data over. http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/domain.html Being able to do a migration online and for the same appspot.com domain i
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by powera 16y ago
A reasonable thought, but wrong. The existing datastore has basically the 99.9% of the benefits you describe. Unfortunately, 99.9% availability (especially when a single datastore request may touch 10 things and thus be at 99% availabilit
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by powera 16y ago
While the HR datastore is designed so events like that won't happen (and it was not affected by said outage), there's no correlation between this launch and the datastore unavailability earlier today.
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by powera 16y ago
The basic approach is CP; if there is a sufficient network partition, writes will fail. But as long as a majority of the network is connected together, that portion of the servers will be able to function normally (though there may be some
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by powera 16y ago
Typical worthless purist drivel. Sure, let's throw away 25 years worth of infrastructure and progress and go back to a system where people have to dial in to a centrally controlled system via ham radios or the (corporate-owned) telephone sy
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by powera 16y ago
Sure, Goldman has it, but the sub-investors in their fund probably just get a "Very Good Valuation" assessment.
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by powera 16y ago
I still don't get why anybody would invest in a company at $50 billion with no knowledge of how much money they are making.
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by powera 16y ago
I think the whole approach with print5, print25 is the "correct" solution, but if I were interviewing I would give the best score to the person that gave system("/usr/bin/seq 1000"); as the answer.
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by powera 16y ago
Did somebody say bubble? From later in the article, it's a total of $2 billion, with 1.5 billion being in a special fund designed to make a mockery of SEC regulations: "As part of the deal, Goldman is expected to raise as much as $1.5 billi
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by powera 16y ago
I think this is a good thing. If China had the Amazon one-click patent, the entire system would have been overturned in the US Supreme Court. When you consider what's happened with pharmaceutical patents in other countries, it's not unpre
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by powera 16y ago
From the article, at least some people think it won't work: “It’s illegal, plain and simple,” said Chris Guttman-McCabe, vice president of regulatory affairs for CTIA-The Wireless Association. He cited the Communications Act of 1934, which
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by powera 16y ago
In a sane prison system, they'd probably support having inmates playing Farmville rather than other things they could be doing. Sure, they could theoretically be doing drug deals or other criminal enterprises, but the Gotti-types already
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by powera 16y ago
Another diet article that's very, very long, low on facts, and repetitive on the few facts they have. Are these showing up just because people have New Year's Resolutions?
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by powera 16y ago
This is quite possibly the worst anti-global warming document I have ever read in my life. He's got a lot of really bad arguments. His "Modern Human-Extinction Scares" slide is an ad-hominem at best. The very next slide is a blatant appea
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by powera 16y ago
Unless there is going to be a national plebiscite, whether or not a person plans to vote in some election (he doesn't say which) shouldn't really be relevant here. Congress and regulatory agencies are supposed to represent all the people,
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by powera 16y ago
Rasmussen is more a Republican lobbying organization than a polling firm at this point. Scott Rasmussen, the namesake founder, is very clearly also a Republican activist. Personally, I wouldn't believe him if he put out a poll that said 9
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by powera 16y ago
I have to say, I had no idea what monads were before reading that article, and after reading it, I still don't. It sounds like something to get the benefits of object-oriented programming while using functional programming, but I'm really c
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by powera 16y ago
This seems to have had no activity in 2 years. Since that time, App Engine now has a Java Runtime, which would be useful instead of porting the client library from Python.
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by powera 16y ago
The Daily Howler ( http://dailyhowler.com/ ) has been blogging about the "our schools aren't bad, everyone just likes saying they are" for months and months and months. He's talking about this study today as well, and notes the real caus
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by powera 16y ago
http://www.google.com/coop/subscribedlinks/directory/All_cat... may be what you are thinking of.
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by powera 16y ago
This isn't a hack at all, it's just a standard chain letter-like pyramid scheme. Legal mumbo-jumbo doesn't change it, and copyright protection doesn't make it legal.
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by powera 16y ago
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