shrughes

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by shrughes 14y ago
The idea is advertising.
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by shrughes 14y ago
He seems pretty successful to me. Unless you define success as being famous to yourself.
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by shrughes 14y ago
> The vast majority of students in my program honestly don't give a flying fuck about the academic opinion that CS shouldn't behave like a vocational school The vast majority of students in your program are unqualified to have an opinio
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by shrughes 14y ago
You mean color insensitive? Or just colorblind. /my pointless comment for the day.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Or it's O(log n). Depends on how collisions are handled.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Stacks can be made to be 4KB or 8KB if you want them to be.
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by shrughes 14y ago
It's also the extremely limited use case. There's not that many I/O requests to a disk that you can do at a time while getting a performance speed-up. Having to use a thread pool ends up not being such a problem -- you don't really hurt y
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by shrughes 14y ago
No, and no.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Why do you think Coinbase is less likely than Paypal to lose your routing / account number?
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by shrughes 14y ago
Can this not be named Oz? Oz is the name of a perfectly fine programming language.
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by shrughes 14y ago
If it makes you feel better, larger 16:9 monitors are much less expensive than 16:10 monitors were previously.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Let's say it's 24" at twice the resolution of 1920x1200 or four times the pixels, with 8 bit grayscale (because this is a fancy e-ink display, after all). USB 3.0 can do 5 Gbps which means 67 Hz would be an upper bound.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Actually I'm hearing its awful from people waiting for Thinkpads to ship too.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Lenovo has had some problems with suppliers in August and September. My order of a custom laptop a year ago was super-quick, and I've only been hearing about it taking multiple weeks to get a laptop shipped since mid-August. I've only hea
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by shrughes 14y ago
Newspapers are a commercial service.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Or win on 1st amendment grounds.
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by shrughes 14y ago
The answer: Money.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Your opinion only makes sense if you think P(your analysis of the source code is correct) > P(you can trust person X) * P(person X's analysis of the source code is correct). Actually the right hand side is much more difficult to defeat
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by shrughes 14y ago
These aren't PhD-level questions.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Consider a program that solves the traveling salesman problem in the following fashion. It searches for an algorithm that solves the traveling salesman problem and proof that such an algorithm runs in polynomial time, and then uses said al
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by shrughes 14y ago
What do you mean, "the founders"? The two house system was a compromise.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Once the window's wide enough to display full lines of text, you only benefit from having more rows.
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by shrughes 14y ago
"I'm just saying" is a trope. It's certainly not as tropey as what you see in the second joke. The humor in the first is in the pure ridiculousness of comparing the height with what it would be on a globe, which is why it's written with t
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by shrughes 14y ago
The golden ratio is a terrible window ratio for editing.
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by shrughes 14y ago
No, these are very obviously jokes, not insults. They include several joke tropes so that they're easily recognized as jokes.
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by shrughes 14y ago
It's called a joke. Lighten up.
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by shrughes 14y ago
It would be very cool if there was a programming contest problem that required efficient disk access.
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by shrughes 14y ago
Right, you need to know certain things. But the point of the question is not that you know what a B-tree is a have memorized a fact about the btree. The point is the followup question, which requires you to understand the consequences of
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by shrughes 14y ago
They're the sort of thing I use on a daily^H^H^H^H^Hfrequent basis. The questions are not asking trivia questions or looking for knowledge, they're asking questions whose answers can be figured out.
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by shrughes 14y ago
I'm so sorry you had to suffer under these postings.

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