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by qntm 15y ago
> I am trying to do away with material things and spend less money. Point being, these two things are orthogonal to one another.
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by qntm 15y ago
Apparently the solution is (1) correct an error in the question which renders it unsolvable (a_3 should be 9, not 7) (2) guess that the invented term "convolution series" doesn't have anything to do with the mathematical concept of convolut
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by qntm 15y ago
That's a really bad question, and I'm not just saying that because I don't know what the answer is. The first three sequences are very ordinary mathematical series, suggesting that the fourth would be the same. But the sequence 1, 5, 7, 15,
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by qntm 15y ago
Yes, neatly circumventing all of the clever algorithmic complexity optimisation that the interviewer is apparently looking for, and making this an even worse interview question.
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by qntm 15y ago
It's actually quite lucky that the world has a sensible longitude upon which an International Date Line can be dropped. Imagine if there was an unbroken ring of industrialised nations going all the way around the Earth, I can see a situatio
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by qntm 15y ago
To say nothing of that one Where's Wally image consisting entirely of imperfect Wally impersonators, with one real Wally identifiable only because has the correct hat, glasses and chin. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61eiboxUJhL.jpg
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by qntm 15y ago
A coder is somebody who writes code. Engineering is much broader discipline than just writing the code - it means writing it well, writing it to be concise, readable, maintainable, standards-compliant, specification-compliant, reliable, wel
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by qntm 15y ago
The clock in Majora's Mask wasn't there to provide time pressure during the regular Zelda dungeoneering. That's the part of the formula that rarely gets tinkered with, and MM had relatively little of it. The clock was there to provide a Gro
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by qntm 15y ago
What, no leap seconds?
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by qntm 15y ago
Are your father's cab driver peers also working 12-16 hour schedules?
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by qntm 15y ago
Then what is it built for doing 8 hours a day? Running? Swimming?
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by qntm 15y ago
What percentage of that is stream revenue from existing mainframe customers?
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by qntm 15y ago
I'm not sure there's anything there to be solved. If a "function" can return two different answers despite being provided with the exact same input parameters, you simply should not be attempting to memoize it.
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by qntm 15y ago
I think the difference there is that when a 747 engine explodes, there are three other engines and the plane may well still be landable. When a Space Shuttle engine explodes, everybody is almost certainly dead and the Shuttle crashes. I'm s
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by qntm 15y ago
Well, there's a bunch of mitigating circumstances there. You mentioned classroom instruction for yourself. Many languages are similar so you could have picked up one language quite easily because of its similarity to one you knew already. Y
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by qntm 15y ago
This approach might be very useful once you've done some classroom work to give you a running start. But seriously, without knowing any of grammar, word order, pronunciation rules, verb conjugation or vocabulary, you simply cannot learn a
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by qntm 15y ago
Sure, but this raises enormous questions of where, exactly, the spread of personal standards is distributed for the various demographics in one's target audience.
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by qntm 15y ago
> Try/catch is goto wrapped in pretty braces. There's no way to continue where you left off, once the error is handled. ... > But still, nothing is as bad as the common "On Error Resume Next" that so many terrible VB programs start
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by qntm 15y ago
That's not left-recursion.
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by qntm 15y ago
How can this left-recurse? Can you give an example? I thought regular expressions weren't recursive at all.
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by qntm 15y ago
I'm okay with Perl decreasing in popularity. It's okay for a thing to serve its purpose and then bow out.
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by qntm 15y ago
I know more about Perl than I do about Python so I can't comment on Python's execution of its chosen philosophy, but I certainly prefer it as a philosophy of programming language design.
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by qntm 15y ago
You're proving your own point about the subtlety of reference handling and the important of coding standards in Perl. Was that intentional? say @{$ref}->[0]; This raises a deprecation warning for me. say @{$ref}[0]; Th
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by qntm 15y ago
> Another thing that Perl seems to lack is orthogonality, I always get the impression that the language allows you to solve the same problem in 10 different ways. This is a deliberate feature of Perl, whose motto is "There's More Than O
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by qntm 15y ago
It says here[1] "All GPS receivers capable of functioning above 18 kilometres (11 mi) altitude and 515 metres per second (1,001 kn)[56] are classified as munitions (weapons) for which U.S. State Department export licenses are required. Thes
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by qntm 15y ago
I find one of the disproportionately hardest things in fiction is coming up with names for things. Now I'm writing a thing where people cast magic spells and I find myself needing a boatload of original fictional words which read like they
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by qntm 15y ago
> I'm sure Canonical has done plenty of research on usability. Any links? I've found a few results from months ago, but results/feedback there weren't so positive. http://design.canonical.com/2010/11/usability-testing-of-uni... http:
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by qntm 15y ago
JSON is a great data interchange format but I would veto it as an option for configuration files since it doesn't permit comments.
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by qntm 15y ago
I've never seen "photon" spelled with an F before.
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by qntm 15y ago
So what does influence take-up? And does Dart have it?

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