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841.
by swolchok 17y ago
Would be nice to distinguish "smartphone" from "plain phone". I think this is a fairly unambiguous notion. Also, I already voted for "Other"; I think you're going to need a new poll.
842.
by swolchok 17y ago
"- If the discussion is sorted by something else than the counter, karma for instance, it isn't quite as easy." ORDER BY karma?
843.
by swolchok 17y ago
After reading the headline, I was expecting something about the One True Courses App (federated applications destroyed Courses, since there are too many and no one knew which one to pick). I still miss making new connections with people in
844.
by swolchok 17y ago
Perhaps I misread the article, but isn't it unusually heavy on the snark and light on content for HN?
845.
by swolchok 17y ago
"The chips aren't well-suited to general-purpose servers, but they can work well for server appliances -- machines that perform a specific task, like Super Micro's storage appliance -- and for home media servers, Brookwood said." I feel lik
846.
by swolchok 18y ago
It reminds me of Perl. Perl literally gave me a headache last time I coded in it. (Incidentally, this is why I'm wary of Ruby as well.) Besides, I am totally satisfied with Python.
847.
by swolchok 18y ago
We (self included) need a better way of coping with that associated sense of malaise (well, at least /I/ have one of those).
848.
by swolchok 18y ago
Well, downmodding isn't allowed.
849.
by swolchok 18y ago
Isn't it early for a review? http://www.pragprog.com/titles/shcloj/programming-clojure seems to indicate that the book is still "in beta".
850.
by swolchok 18y ago
Mentioned in some comment thread, but I just fixed LuckyTubes ( http://www-personal.umich.edu/~swolchok/luckytubes/ ), my YouTube search/download/rip tool using youtube-dl and ffmpeg, to correctly rip the audio stream from the downloaded vi
851.
by swolchok 18y ago
Counterpoint: code is to be written by humans and only incidentally executed by machines (paraphrase from SICP). But can we please not rehash this debate here?
852.
by swolchok 18y ago
Two loops: (I'm sure I'll get this wrong.) for (int ii = 0; ii < n-1; ++ii) { // ii+1 largest elements end up in their correct position at the end of this loop. for (int jj = ii; jj < n-1; ++jj) { if (arr[jj] >
853.
by swolchok 18y ago
there's no point in anyone redoing it once they find those implementations, so the skills fall out of use Yes, that's why all general-purpose languages' standard libraries use the same implementation of the same sorting algorithm for the
854.
by swolchok 18y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I thought I had been watching the site go downhill in the past month or so. I have rarely found a submission I really wanted to upmod in that time.
855.
by swolchok 18y ago
It may not be inability to engage with women , but instead with people with interests outside of our field. I'd conjecture that work/life balance within the programmer group is significantly more tilted toward work than average.
856.
by swolchok 18y ago
Article doesn't mention whether sitting down with the groups is in mixed company. Perhaps men in the other occupations are more "inappropriate" with other men , but know how to hold their tongues when women are around. (In other words, may
857.
by swolchok 18y ago
I was under the impression that Wikipedia has this vandalism problem, especially with popular articles.
858.
by swolchok 18y ago
This is news? We've had youtube-dl ( http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/ ) and clive ( http://clive.sourceforge.net/ ) for ages. I even wrote LuckyTubes ( http://www-personal.umich.edu/~swolchok/luckytubes/ ) which downloads videos and
859.
by swolchok 18y ago
"If you don’t know anything about the science, ask someone who does, or check in Wikipedia. (It’s not infallible, but it’s a lot better than the New York Times." This, in an article about the spread of false rumors.
860.
by swolchok 18y ago
Re: typing speed, I hear that argument a lot, and I agree that it makes sense when talking about programming. However, if you can't type fast, you can't use a command line effectively, and you're going to spend a lot of time pointing and cl
861.
by swolchok 18y ago
I'm a first-year Ph.D. student. I attempt to "work" a 40-hour week, but I count classes and classwork as part of that 40 hours and try not to count unproductive hours. Toward this end, instead of taking a full weekend off, I often take Thur
862.
by swolchok 18y ago
Men "won't concede that I could beat them at Halo or CS any day" either. (EDIT: I meant that men won't concede that MEN could beat them either. I think this was clear, but I also think that the post is incorrect as written.) I remember hear
863.
by swolchok 18y ago
Summary: Apologizing is free and it makes things better. Why not? I got the same basic message from How to Win Friends and Influence People -- being nice/smiling/etc. is free, you just have to remember to do it and counteract any natural gr
864.
by swolchok 18y ago
I don't know about that, mightn't inefficient datacenters cost more per query, leading to worse servers, leading to higher latency, which users care about?
865.
by swolchok 18y ago
So there are at least two interpretations of this data (I'll admit I skimmed a bit torward the end). 1) The SAT is measuring things other than academic ability/achievement, particularly non-academic cultural differences between a significan
866.
by swolchok 18y ago
Sure -- minimizing the number of Python statements is a decent optimization heuristic in Python (and, as a bonus, that can help you optimize for human readers as well when not taken to extremes).
867.
by swolchok 18y ago
Same as always -- a grounding in fundamentals, strong experience with a couple choice technologies that aren't too out of date, at least vague familiarity with the new new thing, and the ability to assimilate the new new thing quickly when
868.
by swolchok 18y ago
Well, I would phrase it differently -- the financial incentive to stay is salary + EV[options], (where EV is expected value) which takes into account the odds of the startup paying out.
869.
by swolchok 18y ago
Do you really think that the OSS world is on par with Google's army of (paid, full-time) engineers, and that EC2 is as efficient as (or, conceivably, even in the same ballpark as) Google's datacenter infrastructure? (Amazon's private infras
870.
by swolchok 18y ago
This and its parent are ad hominem attacks (DH1 -- see http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html ) -- it may be in the writer's interest to complain about the Internet, but that does not mean that the writer's points are incorrect.

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