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by radq 14y ago
Regarding why Java has a high startup time, here's Wikipedia's take on the matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_performance#Startup_time
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by radq 14y ago
I am a pretty big fan of http://musicforprogramming.net/ .
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by radq 14y ago
I don't think they are re-bundling the Glyphicons set... a lot of the icons look different. What makes you think so?
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by radq 14y ago
I've also been getting my hands dirty with a bit of Data Visualization lately, and have been going through the following resources: * https://graphics.stanford.edu/wikis/cs448b-12-fall/ * http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-6-009-how-to-pro
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by radq 14y ago
Are you thinking of this? http://inductionapp.com/
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by radq 14y ago
I'm not so sure having _yet another_ PIN for users to remember would be a good idea. And besides, a short PIN would be far easier to deduce by looking over a person's shoulder.
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by radq 14y ago
Interestingly, the field of Computer Programming used to be stereotyped as female just ~50 years ago. http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/researcher-reveals-how-...
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by radq 14y ago
Have you seen these threads? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2147642 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2161855 I found them pretty useful -- have a look! Also have a look at this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407705
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by radq 15y ago
There's also this: http://i.imgur.com/vvKOR.png
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by radq 15y ago
You could use http://ihackernews.com/ .
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by radq 15y ago
Personally I prefer "becomes". "David Gries recalled a time when he was lecturing with Dijkstra in the audience when he read "x=a" as "x equals a". This is of course a short hand for "assign a to x" and not a statement that x really is logi
102.
by radq 15y ago
Looks like you still need to be "over a certain age"... :(
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by radq 15y ago
HFT?
104.
by radq 15y ago
The two links at the end of the engadget article seem to have better coverage: http://www.technologyreview.in/blog/mimssbits/26960/ http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/06/30/2011...
105.
by radq 15y ago
It doesn't, this is true for any digit.
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by radq 15y ago
Large numbers tend to have a large number of digits. Given a number with N digits, the probability that it doesn't have any 9s is (9/10)^N because each digit is equally likely at a position. (9/10)^N becomes very small as N becomes large, s
107.
by radq 15y ago
There is a discussion of this over at /r/math: http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/if4kd/take_the_harmoni...
108.
by radq 15y ago
I think it is because Robert Morris passed away recently. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712469
109.
by radq 15y ago
Another problem is that they aren't allowing people below 18 (who, I am guessing, will be a rather large segment of social networking site users) to register.
110.
by radq 15y ago
Not much. Typically there is a 60 day vesting period (I am not sure if that is the correct length or name) when the domain is still in the control of the registrar and the owner can pay them a fee (it was $100 for my previous registrar) to
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by radq 15y ago
This is the fundamental difference between a fish floating in water and a person jumping up. http://i.imgur.com/nkwVc.png In the second case, gravity acts on you even when you are going up, in fact it is what slows you down and then makes
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by radq 15y ago
I don't think number of clickthroughs is considered because of how easy it would be to game. EDIT: In fact, I recall a guy using MTurk to test this theory. IIRC, He had two similar pages and was having people execute search queries and clic
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by radq 15y ago
> It seems to me that if you know the K'th largest, it's O(N); but otherwise, it's harder. Finding the kth largest element can be done in O(N) time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_algorithm
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by radq 15y ago
I'm digressing a bit here, but with regard to the last paragraph: > we were writing a gender classifier to categorize people as males/females based on first name and last name (this forms an important part of any social media monitor
115.
by radq 15y ago
It represents a new user. (I think it is for accounts having age < 1 day.)
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by radq 15y ago
I think the Ruby equivalent to that would be HotRuby. http://hotruby.yukoba.jp/
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by radq 15y ago
It is milliseconds according to the Racket documentation. http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/time.html?q=time#(def.... )
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by radq 15y ago
> When you think about it, there is no such thing as infinity. It's just a word and concept used to describe an amount bigger than you're able able to imagine or comprehend. You said that there is no such thing as infinity, and then you
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by radq 16y ago
Also in the guidelines, > Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users
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by radq 16y ago
You can download the SPOJ problem set as a PDF or PS file. http://www.spoj.pl/problems/classical.pdf

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