roel_v

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by roel_v 8y ago
The problem, as I've experienced with this, is that it requires cooperation of the other part; more specifically, it requires them to acknowledge these feelings as being pertinent to reality. Take this example from the article: "W
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by roel_v 8y ago
"I don't want to use a P2P alternative to YouTube or Reddit, because 99% of the content is on Reddit/YouTube." Wouldn't the killer feature of these P2P platforms (admittedly, none of which I've ever used) be to
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by roel_v 8y ago
Well that's not what your article is saying - it says (well, not in these words, but it's at least what I got from it) that it's meant to be something practical to understanding algorithmic complexity and how that relates to
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by roel_v 8y ago
Yes exactly.
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by roel_v 8y ago
Yes I know that - was this reply meant for another comment?
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by roel_v 8y ago
Well but (I think) what you're talking about now is the complexity of the 'wrapper' function I posed, not the complexity of the hypothetical algorithm I started out with. Yes you can add an indirection that converts it back i
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by roel_v 8y ago
Yes you're right - let me modify my contrived example and say 'at exactly midnight, the complexity is O(n)'. (the cool part about contrived examples is that you can keep making things up until it fits - now I'm just hopi
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by roel_v 8y ago
Fair enough, when looking at the academic origin and defintions; but googling a bit and looking at articles like https://medium.com/@.RT/total-n00bs-guide-to-big-o-big-%CF%8... (under 'The Big Caveat', third
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by roel_v 8y ago
"I wouldn't use the word clowns" Nah it was just an expression from my part, didn't mean to say that anyone not thinking about algorithmic complexity when writing any piece of software is a hack :)
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by roel_v 8y ago
Sure that's what it is formally, but that's not the applied meaning the article is about. Take an hypothetical search algorithm that is O(1) except when the container you're searching is of length 50, then it's O(n). Tha
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by roel_v 8y ago
Well yes, that's what I said, although I guess I could have used 'n + x operations' to keep it consistent with the article and still in line with the formal definition.
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by roel_v 8y ago
" is I find it fairly rare for developers that I work with that think of Big O considerations when writing their code." Do you mean that as in 'people I work with don't care about this, therefore it's not necessary&
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by roel_v 8y ago
(Warning: nerd sniping incoming) The main problem with this article is that it doesn't stress (or even mention, as far as I can tell) that it's performance characteristics at the margins . Meaning, it's about a generalized o
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by roel_v 8y ago
I want to use a midi controller with jog wheel to step through content fast or frame by frame, and to easily set and jump to bookmarks, for all sorts of tutorial content. I've looked for something like this for years, and every time I
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by roel_v 8y ago
Are modern versions more true to Stoner's original design, like the original rifling etc as indicated in the article? And do today's civilian AR15's generally have the manual bolt closure?
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by roel_v 8y ago
Can this be run in real time in VSCode? How hard would it be to write a vim plugin for this? I haven't done any vim scripting in a while - is it possible nowadays to run a process asynchronously, so that you could essentially run this
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by roel_v 8y ago
Ironically, this page itself is unavailable from AU - or is it just me?
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by roel_v 8y ago
"I would agree that that's not all the story is about. It just happens the be the part that touched a nerve for me." Fair enough, I guess we agree then :)
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by roel_v 8y ago
That's not what this story is about though (admittedly IM sometime not so HO). It's about how seemingly small mistakes end up shaping an entirely made version of history, even at a time when clickbait listicles and Russian troll f
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by roel_v 8y ago
"It's not that software engineers are payed too much, it's that it costs too much to live here. " One follows from the other, doesn't it...
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by roel_v 8y ago
No you can't.
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by roel_v 8y ago
You'd still have to transcribe them, and you'd miss what's on the blackboard.
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by roel_v 8y ago
That's fine amd dandy from a US perspective, but many European universities are different. I don't know about this guy's exact class, but some (many?) undergrad classes are 500 people in a lecture hall with the professor orat
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by roel_v 8y ago
It's been 20 years and it doesn't stop being funny. I'm afraid I'm a 12 year old boy in the body of a 40 year old :(
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by roel_v 8y ago
When laws are very tenant-friendly (impossible to evict, caps on deposits etc), having tenants becomes a liability, which depresses the value of the building, especially if you only want to hold on to it for a few years.
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by roel_v 8y ago
Good marketing too, having made it to the front page here several times in several weeks :)
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by roel_v 8y ago
I should probably have clarified that by 'European' I meant 'continental European'.
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by roel_v 8y ago
Well yes, it is, and that would remove a lot of confusion. But for now, the majority of all continental masters are not 'research oriented' in the way an Anglo-Saxon masters always was. And most people hiring (which lags people gr
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by roel_v 8y ago
Yes there are nurses with PhD's. There are janitors and Uber drivers with PhD's, so what? You probably mean that some people, with nursing degrees, have done PhD research on nursing. That still doesn't mean that nursing is so
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by roel_v 8y ago
Yes, this is an accurate elaboration on the situation. That doesn't take away from my point - that the stresses people are complaining about, in Anglo-Saxon 'graduate level studies', can be compared to continental masters pro

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