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by ruggeri 12y ago
I think this article about Japanese companies' aversion to layoffs was fascinating when I read it a little while back: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/business/global/layoffs-il...
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by ruggeri 12y ago
Hopefully c <= 1 :-)
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by ruggeri 12y ago
Haha, the first thing I thought was that this was Dijkstra. UTexas + "Foolishness" => Dijkstra.
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by ruggeri 12y ago
Even without randomization of pivots expected run time is O(n log n). If the order of the input data is random, I don't believe randomizing pivots changes the distribution of running times. What changes is that one very common permutat
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by ruggeri 12y ago
Strictly speaking, it is not true that shuffling first avoids the worst case. Given a deterministic shuffling function, some permutation of input needs to shuffle to sorted order, which will again trigger the worst case. Of course, shufflin
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by ruggeri 12y ago
Cool article. Dijkstra's algorithm factors into two components: (1) time spent selecting best paths and (2) time spent updating the best currently known paths. In a naive implementation, a best path to every unvisited vertex is kept. S
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by ruggeri 12y ago
> One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. —Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone December 15, 1977, eventually part of Fear and L
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by ruggeri 12y ago
We (App Academy) did a free iOS course in 2013. It was fun and helped kick-start our business. I hope you have the same experience! We broke even because we were able to collect some placement fees from companies that hired students. Even i
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by ruggeri 12y ago
I like how the board continues to take no responsibility for the situation they created. Right or wrong that Eich was fired, this was a foreseeable event; Eich's prior contribution was well-known. This whole thing really doesn't m
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by ruggeri 13y ago
"One for you nineteen for me"
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Ask HN: Why is the Satoshi Story Deleted?
8 points by ruggeri 13y ago|2 comments
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by ruggeri 13y ago
vinkelhake, you seem to be dead (for no discernible reason).
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by ruggeri 13y ago
Like several others, I've had the problem where I need to give directions, despite the driver having a GPS enabled phone. Do we know why they do this? It's by no means a big inconvenience for me, but it's somewhat perplexing,
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by ruggeri 13y ago
Amazing, beautifully done. Wonderful :-)
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by ruggeri 13y ago
Go didn't stick for me either. Go is interesting and I really enjoyed channels, but no generic programming really disappointed me. I guess supporting the generic paradigm is pretty tricky (C++/Java templates/generics aren&#x2
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by ruggeri 13y ago
I remember having this same problem once upon a time. I forget how I solved it... This[0]? [0]: http://serverfault.com/questions/385920/disable-networked-ta...
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by ruggeri 14y ago
This was fascinating. Thanks very much. Others, if you haven't had a chance to read many legal journals, they are frequently filled with insightful, closely-researched discussions of interesting topics. The scope of the law is very broad, a
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by ruggeri 14y ago
This made me smile.
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by ruggeri 14y ago
Holy tortured reasoning (riddled with insults), Batman! Do you actually believe any of this? I like how you ignore where I respond to a prior comment, describe the commenter's arguments as fair, and then address them one by one. Maybe you n
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by ruggeri 14y ago
> Now I must ask, do you list a glaring disinterest in the perspectives of others among your own weaknesses? If not, does that make you lazy and dishonest? This this really bugs me. You needn't ask at all; it was your choice to make an
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by ruggeri 14y ago
Fair points, but we do disagree, I think. The "worst" part of the question is the worst part. I talk to people about "one" weakness. I also ask for how they are trying to improve, which is actually the key part of the question to me. This i
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by ruggeri 14y ago
Why do people hate the greatest weakness question? I have never minded receiving it, and I often ask people the same. Most of us write code; it's a technical occupation, and none of us are great at everything. Are you super amazing and prof
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by ruggeri 14y ago
Like others here, I was touched by the honesty of this. Thanks.
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by ruggeri 14y ago
Love this kind of elitism. Means easy money for those of us who have the patience or imagination to look past the name of a school.
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by ruggeri 14y ago
Is it me, or does Bill the Lizard close every SO thread linked from HN?
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by ruggeri 14y ago
Thanks for the nastiness, Google employee.
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by ruggeri 14y ago
Wow. One web service goes down and you can't even use your browser. Maybe this is a sign that they're too tightly integrated.
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by ruggeri 14y ago
> I've been doing this a long time. Chances are, way longer than you. Stopped reading when I realized the author wasn't going to be reasonable.
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by ruggeri 14y ago
[Instructor at App Academy here] I'm really proud of Hugo; he came in to App Academy as an 18 year old kid with no coding experience, and through sheer force of will, learned enough to land a junior dev job in nine weeks. If you're interest
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by ruggeri 14y ago
I love you.

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