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by sireat 10y ago
Are you seriously claiming that you have read both TAOCP and CLRS cover to cover? This is precisely the claim that the original article is talking about. The article is not claiming that TAOCP and CLRS are bad books. The article simply argu
902.
by sireat 10y ago
Is there a good VS Code extension / built in support for function / method list on a separate side bar? Something similar to Structure view in Webstorm or Function List in Notepad++? I learned that Ctrl-Shift-O will show functions
903.
by sireat 10y ago
Are only real names allowed on Quora? Seems like a silly restriction on Quora. I signed up to Quora with a fake name a few years ago. After lurking for a while I have started to answer some questions in my area of expertise and get some A2A
904.
by sireat 10y ago
Great quote but sadly lifting weights were not enough, heavy doses of HGH were used too if you take a look at how Ronnie looks these days.
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by sireat 10y ago
I am actually quite uncomfortable that my stock Android is making suggestions on how long it should take for me to get home or work (when I have never explicitly mentioned that it is my home or work). The problem is that I want to use Googl
906.
by sireat 10y ago
The Dr. Ferris talk to Mr. Reardon is one of those quotes that rings so true when you read Rand's work for the first time as a teenager. Anecdotally I too had this "They Live" sunglasses moment. You are reading Atlas Shrugged
907.
by sireat 10y ago
I too am wary of too much gushing praise onto someone still rather young with a limited track record. The difference from Holmes is that Altman does not have to be particularly brilliant at something specifically, he just has to be the soul
908.
by sireat 10y ago
Depends on your sense of morals, I am sure there are many NSA employees who sleep well at night. Many people follow what I call Godfather's I ethics. Vito Corleone cares about his family and friends and will do rather mean things to th
909.
by sireat 10y ago
This is my problem too, why did SO decide to split the site into so many silos? I have 10+ memberships at Stack Exchange network most of them math/programming related and it seems so silly. Sure, keep the multiple brands if that is wha
910.
by sireat 10y ago
Anecdotally I think flying is not much harder to do badly than drive a car badly. In many ways flying itself is easier than driving because you have less chance of a collision. The really hard parts are takeoff and landing, not sure if one
911.
by sireat 10y ago
Author makes the point that repetition of a solid foundation is a necessary condition to reach unconscious mastery of some craft/skill. I am just not sure it is sufficient. Age/talent/nature do play a big factor. Also I susp
912.
by sireat 10y ago
My anecdotal experience: as much as I despise eBay and Paypal (various reasons going back to 2001) I have had only positive experiences with refunds from eBay. Recently I had a $20 IP camera(that price was too cheap but I was not doing my r
913.
by sireat 10y ago
Are there quality guides to customize Windows 10? The inability to minimize and customize Windows 10 is really starting to grate on me. Win 10 keeps making decisions for me and does not let me choose. I have had to configure Windows 7 and W
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by sireat 10y ago
Your list is inspirational although I could argue that it is flawed because those late starters actually had early practice. Jules Verne is one of my favorite childhood writers thus I knew he had an early start. Wikipedia concurs: By 1847,
915.
by sireat 10y ago
Well this is one delusion I am glad I still have. I can delude myself that I have Free Will by choosing to take a vacation next week. Then I could flip a coin to decide my destination between Singapore and Bangkok. Sure it was all determini
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by sireat 10y ago
The problem in your 40s is that you acutely realize your limitations, you become risk averse, you choose what you are already good at. So that great novel it is not going to happen unless you have written a fair share of good short stories
917.
by sireat 10y ago
I'd love to hear more about great artists/makers/scientists etc who started in their 30s/40s. Only one who comes to mind as far as writing goes is Chandler, but he must have done his own share of writing (oil business in
918.
by sireat 10y ago
We are back to Ecclesiastes without the tacked on Epilogue but with a touch of Blade Runner. I have two problems with this realization(not that it makes it any less true). First, anything truly goes then and we are back to "might is ri
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by sireat 10y ago
From what I understand it is about 20-30% of the customers who are the meddlers. Meddling means being unreasonable about specific features(I want a bathroom here! where it is a really bad idea because of a multitude of reasons) in a buildin
920.
by sireat 10y ago
As I mentioned in another response, I meant to specify that meddling here means asking for specific features in a house in a specific place. Again, if you are a real estate developer of McMansions who knows what people buying McMansions wan
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by sireat 10y ago
I should have been more specific on the definition of meddling. Clients communicating their wishes about their requirements is a normal process of a workflow for programmers and architects alike. What all the architects that I know of are u
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by sireat 10y ago
My SO is an architect, my relatives and friends are also architects. Common complaint of theirs: clients like to meddle Analogy would be asking for <blink> tags to a web developer or for gold incisors to your dentist instead of cerami
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by sireat 10y ago
I'd love to see a similar dissection of WinDBG, how it works and why.
924.
by sireat 10y ago
I can only speak for chess, but one of the unsolved problems in computer chess is how to build a program that plays human chess of appropriate level. It is very hard to dial down a ELO 3000+ program to 1800 level of a club player and not ma
925.
by sireat 10y ago
Inspired by that other Techspot article: http://www.techspot.com/review/1155-affordable-dual-xeon-pc/ I also did a same type of build on the cheap, getting a Dell T5600 case/mb/PS + 2x E5-2670s +64GB RAM
926.
by sireat 10y ago
I keep hoping that some of this massive brain drain trying to shave off the last ms of latency (FPGAwork, microwave towers, etc etc) will somehow translate into some advancement good for the overall society. Also, I hope the rapidly diminis
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by sireat 10y ago
This was a great piece of investigative reporting. If you register an appropriate domain 3 weeks before the news go public, that is very suspicious indeed.
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by sireat 10y ago
I really did not see many people making a case for Microsoft's Nokia acquisition (here and in the business press). It seemed mostly negative.
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by sireat 11y ago
The huge pro Russia bias just became unbearable after a while. Whatever Putin does is consider awesome, whatever Obama does is considered bad. China coverage seemed somewhat more balanced.
930.
by sireat 11y ago
The answers on quora are generally well reasoned, but the questions themselves.. "What is it like to get 1600 on SAT?", "What it is like to make a million trading?","I am making $200k a year, should I buy a Porsche?

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