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by somethingnew 13y ago
This is really cool! It reminds me of BiDirectional BFS for path finding. In this case searching from both directions cuts down the search space by three orders of magnitude. Genius.
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by somethingnew 13y ago
Was this posted in reaction to the Hyperloop post? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6999556
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by somethingnew 13y ago
Reminds me of http://xkcd.com/538/ except instead of a $5 wrench, it was $10 Million and a few handshakes.
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Edward Snowden's 'open letter to the Brazilian people'(theguardian.com)
14 points by somethingnew 13y ago|2 comments
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NSA spying on allies: Glenn Greenwald weighs in(ac360.blogs.cnn.com)
1 points by somethingnew 13y ago|0 comments
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by somethingnew 13y ago
You posted a duplicate, what's the other link?
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by somethingnew 13y ago
Wow, I just read that entire paper. Thank you for linking, it was super helpful!
68.
by somethingnew 13y ago
That literally made more sense than anything I've learned this semester. :)
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A Kernel Programmer's Singleton(gist.github.com)
5 points by somethingnew 13y ago|0 comments
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by somethingnew 13y ago
The opposite of wrinkly.
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by somethingnew 13y ago
As a funny relevant aside http://vanilla-js.com/
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by somethingnew 13y ago
Also be sure to check out https://gobyexample.com/ It's so helpful!
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by somethingnew 13y ago
Yeah, I am shocked to say the least after he authored SOPA.
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What Will It Take To Actually Build The Hyperloop?(fastcoexist.com)
2 points by somethingnew 13y ago|0 comments
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by somethingnew 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_hashing
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by somethingnew 13y ago
This is similar http://www.popvssoda.com
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by somethingnew 13y ago
Really it was just write code to verify whether it can be done or not (return boolean) based on the N input (integer). Without having to write code it would return true for N >= 4, but I didn't know that. I was just trying to get an i
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by somethingnew 13y ago
I made another comment on this thread [1]. I wish instead of having to prep for interviews like this, I could just present a portfolio of clean code I made myself (non-proprietary of course) or my github. Unfortunately most of the grads t
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by somethingnew 13y ago
For my Facebook interview for an internship, I was given a simple string manipulation problem which I solved quickly. Then I was given the N-Queens problem (a more generalized version of this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_
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Welcoming Parse to Facebook(developers.facebook.com)
1 points by somethingnew 13y ago|1 comments
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by somethingnew 13y ago
Pick Two: Quality, Customer Service, and Price
82.
by somethingnew 13y ago
also you would die.
83.
by somethingnew 14y ago
I thought I was going to be rick rolled, but that's good too.
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Java Puzzle: Square Root - Solution(corner.squareup.com)
1 points by somethingnew 14y ago|0 comments
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Testers Say IE11 Includes 'Like Gecko' in User Agent String(news.slashdot.org)
60 points by somethingnew 14y ago|65 comments
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by somethingnew 14y ago
How about this one? http://xkcd.com/221/
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by somethingnew 14y ago
Someone should just modify the StackSort algorithm that was posted yesterday (made up by xkcd) to search for Square Root functions instead and run them. http://gkoberger.github.com/stacksort/
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Nanoparticles loaded with bee venom kill HIV(news.wustl.edu)
137 points by somethingnew 14y ago|36 comments
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by somethingnew 14y ago
That's not how Facebook does things. Actually if you haven't taken down the site, you'll be warned.
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by somethingnew 14y ago
If you think this is cool, check out http://spandex.io/

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