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shasta
16y ago
There may be some difference in accounting. The recursion depth of Blelloch's recursive function you linked to is O(log n), but it uses an operation that cannot be implemented in constant time: partitioning the elements into those greater
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shasta
16y ago
Presumably, you'll have some rules that determine which is the best match and then error if it's ambiguous - just like the static case
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shasta
16y ago
Well it's not impossible . You could run them all and then decide which result to use. :)
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16y ago
Hasn't Microsoft stock paid out a decent amount in dividends since 1999?
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shasta
16y ago
But of course there is someone ready for the next generation of technology: Epic, the ones selling it.
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16y ago
"But the real significance of this is that you cannot write a program that can tell you meaningful facts about the behavior of an arbitrary Turing machine. For any program you write to determine the behavior of HTML + CSS, I can write a pie
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shasta
16y ago
"- Magnifier: zoom in and zoom out." Aw, I was hoping the magnifier did something else.
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shasta
16y ago
You can use them for whatever you want. If you run into any legal trouble, just tell 'em shasta from the internet said you could use them.
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16y ago
The chicken and egg problem would seem to be the obvious problem with something like this. Can you broadly explain what you have in mind? I assume you're only pairing people with other Gobicab users, right? You have the following testimon
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16y ago
Sounds like a great way to stock up on fake accounts submitted by people who just want to know if they got the question right
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16y ago
Sorry, I still don't understand. When you say there were 47 stories, where did you get that list and how do you know it's comprehensive?
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shasta
16y ago
Summary: Measure productivity as the time you spend working minus the time you spend working on stuff that's not useful. This definition of productivity doesn't even have the right units (time belongs in the denominator, not the numerator)
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16y ago
Wait, 65% of the stories you linked to were written by women, while only 45%-50% of stories at large were written by women? Have you tried to examine the roots of your gender bias?
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16y ago
Possibly even the funniest comment in that article of all time.
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16y ago
"You read that entire article and your takeaway is a theory about why Lisp isn't popular?" He said 'take' (not 'takeaway'), which I would interpret to mean his viewpoint on Lisp that might be unrelated or even contrary to the article.
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16y ago
Reminds me of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
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shasta
16y ago
Can you post your contact information? Thanks
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16y ago
I would hex edit my saved games to play around with what you could get in your inventory. You could get all kinds of game items to show up in your inventory that you couldn't normally pick up. For example, I had a bag of fireballs. You
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shasta
16y ago
Why, because Watson gave a bunch of laughably wrong answers? That's not how the mathematician machine would work. It would combine brainstorming (probably via massive parallel statistical search), at which people are currently much better
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16y ago
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shasta
16y ago
Being seen doing the dishes obviously made an impression on at least one employee. Maybe time optimization isn't the only factor?
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16y ago
I think you mean - she didn't have a career path, but she had two things: - a job that made a difference at the company - $10,000,000
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16y ago
> And even if you've built a really secure system all it takes is one user with their daughter's name as their password to make it all moot. If your security design allows anyone to SSH in to obtain significant system access using only
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shasta
16y ago
It looks like downward momentum on that graph has already been mostly stopped by the x axis.
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shasta
16y ago
In most places, you're required to notify an infringing party that they are infringing. I've never heard of a requirement to explain the law to them.
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16y ago
For your second point, what evidence do you have that all click results that point to google redirects aren't simply discarded?
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16y ago
coworker: This code is clearly wrong 6ren: Thank you
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16y ago
> I know there are others out there like me. People who would love to read news exclusively about startups, so I decided to start my own TC alternative. I hope you're going to have an editor :)
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16y ago
I don't think you're reading that quote right. "Trusted" doesn't mean "trustworthy". What the implementors were probably trying to explain to this poor technical writer is that they have proven that their kernel correctly implements the
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