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by slm_HN 9y ago
I believe that Amazon advertises a job on the HN Who is Hiring that is 30 hours a week. Although I don't know if it is broken down to 6 hours a day five days a week.
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by slm_HN 9y ago
This is an interesting idea, but the authors lose credibility by using Crafty as an opponent. Crafty isn't even among the top 30 current programs. Depending on which rating list you reference Crafty is 300 to 400 points worse than Stoc
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by slm_HN 10y ago
I like it. A couple of little things: You've got both "Objective-C" and "Objective C" It would be nice to separate out the APIs, like Cocoa and QT, or make a different graph for APIs/Frameworks
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by slm_HN 10y ago
>The chance of someone 'stealing' your ideas and turning them into the next Google or Facebook are pretty much non existent. Of the companies you listed fully 50% were founded as the direct result of ripping off someone's
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by slm_HN 10y ago
I've used this site in the past and liked it, but now it seems much slower. I tend to just use the map to do a wide geographic search, like looking at eastern Washington and Idaho. Using the site this way, by just moving around on the
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by slm_HN 10y ago
The ending of the match in puzzle form on Lichess: https://en.lichess.org/training/102787
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by slm_HN 10y ago
The queen sac itself was a mate in two, which is pretty simple even in a rapid game. However he did need to see the mate in 8 before committing to Rc8+. In the end Magnus was much stronger in the rapid games. He was winning in three of the
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by slm_HN 10y ago
I was doing a survey of the beginning programming MOOCs that teach Python. The Udacity course, Programming Foundations with Python - Learn Object Oriented Programming, was by far the worst. I don't see how anyone could think it had &qu
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by slm_HN 10y ago
This is a little different, but I always think about it when someone says bug workarounds. It's literally a bug workaround from an unknown coder back in the days of BASIC... 390 ...some basic code here... 395 GOTO 405 400
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by slm_HN 10y ago
>They could have simply adopted blitz chess rules, where the goal is to capture the opponent king, and leaving your king in check is not illegal, to avoid all this extra computation... Those are not blitz chess rules. The goal of blitz i
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by slm_HN 10y ago
>The threat of a physical altercation is a good check on people who don't seem to get that, yes, you are causing problems for other people. Charming. Let's all try to solve problems by being kindergarten bullies. This is what h
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by slm_HN 11y ago
>powerful analysis engines will be used to reveal fatal weaknesses in favoured openings... Anand isn't really talking about strategy here, he's just talking about choice of opening. Players with narrow opening repertoires, like
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by slm_HN 11y ago
>In chess you can get a long way using a simple evaluation (K=99, Q=9, R=5, B=3, N=3, P=1). I guess it depends on your idea of a "long way". Using only your simple evaluation a program would be rated somewhere around 1000-1200.
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by slm_HN 11y ago
Jumping the shark and jumping the gun are two different things. You want the second one.
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by slm_HN 11y ago
>I'm a writer and editor, and I dislike the idea of this tool quite a bit. You dislike this tool the same way welders dislike computer welding or the same way truck drivers will dislike automated driving. Everyone wants to believe t
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by slm_HN 11y ago
>EDIT: To clarify, I basically feel like in order for this business to work at all, it has to be a much cheaper option than a normal home, because there is an accompanying huge risk in investing in one of these. It's resale value ma
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by slm_HN 11y ago
His experience, that DJI drones are allowed to fly near airports, is the exact opposite of my experience. I was in the San Juan islands doing some aerial photography with a DJI Phantom III. On Orcas island I unknowingly setup next to an air
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by slm_HN 11y ago
Chess move compression was an interesting topic back when the games were stored on 360k floppy disks. Nowadays every master chess game ever played in the history of chess fits easily on one DVD, uncompressed. So it's not clear what the
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by slm_HN 11y ago
The basic problem is that the only realistic thing in the show is the hacking. Everything else is absurd. It's a realistic show about hacking the same way that Fantasy Island was a realistic show about island vacations. Now if they c
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by slm_HN 11y ago
I doubt it. The last version of XCode 6 won't run without Yosemite, so I'm guessing 7 will require Yosemite. Also it's very hard to run with 2gb ram. For example you won't be able to use the iOS emulator because the swap
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by slm_HN 11y ago
I've found a lot of content on Canadian Netflix that wasn't available from the USA so I do the same thing, but in the opposite direction.
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by slm_HN 12y ago
Well, don't forget about exceptions, unless you decide to ban them like many people do. So add: Exceptional C++ by Herb Sutter More Exceptional C++ by Herb Sutter Exceptional C++ Style by Herb Sutter And Templates: C++ Templates: The C
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by slm_HN 12y ago
Having "Bloomberg" in the title already works as a flag for me. I don't think I've ever been pleasantly surprised by any of their articles. Life is just too short to click on Bloomberg links.
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by slm_HN 12y ago
>I guess for the New York Times, regular hard rock climbing and bouldering is just not that exciting. There are some standards for newsworthy topics. Regular rock climbing isn't newsworthy. You can't fault the New York Times fo
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by slm_HN 12y ago
I find that I view camelCase as one word and camel_case as two words. The '_' works as a separator not a joiner. Since we can only keep four or five words in our working memory it's better for me to use camelCase. It's p
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by slm_HN 12y ago
>What they are basically describing is trying to start a cult. Cult is exactly what I thought when viewing the website. All the talk of like minded people, the photograph of people sitting around in a circle... hugely creepy.
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by slm_HN 12y ago
Reminded me of this story from my old stomping ground, the bookstores of Ann Arbor: http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/02/davids_books_own...
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by slm_HN 12y ago
>I was shopping for a house a few months ago, and was simply unable to buy one; those in my price range wouldn't accept my offer because it wasn't an all-cash offer I don't understand this. If you're pre-qualified for
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by slm_HN 12y ago
>Excel destroys any csv file upon saving. This isn't exactly true, although I understand why people think it is. The problem is that when you "open" a csv file in Excel it guesses what type the fields are and sets that dat
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by slm_HN 12y ago
>Excluding 90% of the population from enjoying these areas of the game would be a horrible plan. Welcome to the golden age of Entitlement where everyone thinks they deserve a trophy no matter how badly they perform. This is the attitude

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