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by psuter 13y ago
There is a service that comes close to this for elections in Switzerland [0]: you take a survey on how you stand on many issues (and not just the most polarizing ones) and it shows you how the candidates compare, who is closest to your view
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by psuter 13y ago
Where do you work, if you don't mind me asking? This sounds a lot like the interview process for research/academic positions; if you've made it to the interview day, there is really no reason to doubt your technical skills an
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by psuter 13y ago
You gotta love the irony in that approach :)
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by psuter 13y ago
How much of this would be solved by personalizing the ranking of stories? This is certainly a departure from the current model, and the mere notion of front page could be fatally affected, but, after all and just to name two, Amazon and Spo
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by psuter 13y ago
...which is something people have done [1]. The goal of these extensions is usually to have the best of both worlds. E.g. block selections in an editor you can script with elisp. [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil
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by psuter 13y ago
The weirdest ones are titles that get "translated" into a different one, also in English. E.g. "The In Crowd" becoming "Sex & Manipulations".
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by psuter 13y ago
For some use cases (not necessarily yours), it's worth looking at Scala's concurrent.TrieMap.
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by psuter 13y ago
LLVM and Scala come to mind as PL projects born in academia and enjoying wider adoption. Not all researchers are interested in solving the "real problems out there", but some do, and are successful at it.
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by psuter 13y ago
It's like watching fireworks and thinking "ooh I really think that purple one is different!".
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by psuter 13y ago
It's an avalanche effect. The outcome may not be random as you point out, but it certainly looks so.
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by psuter 13y ago
I sometimes wish that x * y would short circuit on x = 0. Just because you could.