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by theshadow 14y ago
I think county by county results would be enough to do a reasonable prediction but I don't think SOS websites are updated with those results in anything close to real time on election night.
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by theshadow 14y ago
I considered building such a site about a couple of months ago, the problem is getting the streaming results. From my research there is no public api that allows you access to results in real time at the level of granularity you would need
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by theshadow 14y ago
What has this got to do with anything?
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by theshadow 14y ago
I don't understand what's wrong with exploring your options. Why would you assume that the reasoning has something to do with politics rather than trying to find a better technical solution to their problem?
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by theshadow 14y ago
Vim has snippets too. I'm sure there's an Eclipse/Visual Studio plugin that provides the same functionality. There's really nothing revolutionary in here.
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by theshadow 14y ago
Right now I'm using a Dell Inspiron(17R) and am very happy with the Ubuntu support. Everything "just worked", the only thing that I had to tinker was changing a text file to make sure the headphones work, other than that absolutely no probl
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by theshadow 14y ago
This incorrectly assumes that typing speed is a bottleneck on coding. Most of the time is spent thinking therefore typing speed is pretty much irrelevant.
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by theshadow 15y ago
Perl regular expressions probably accept more than just context-free grammars since the language that accepts prime numbers is not Context-Free, you can't build a pushdown automaton for such a language, there is a relatively trivial proof o
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by theshadow 15y ago
There is a significant section of the wikipedia community that thrives on inertia (just try contributing to an article there and see for yourself) for these people even a modicum of change is completely unacceptable. Heck if tomorrow wikipe
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by theshadow 15y ago
So pretty much what's being said here is "M$ sucks!!!! Supporting them is like supporting the murder of babies!".
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by theshadow 15y ago
Reddit is really a horrible medium to do an AMA. Just trying to read through that thread is incredibly inefficient and annoying. I wish better alternatives like AnyAsq would catch on.
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by theshadow 15y ago
I got the co-op job that I'm doing in January after the interviewer quizzed me on interrupts for 20 minutes. I was like you when we were studying interrupts wondering why I need to know about such low level abstraction but lo and behold it
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by theshadow 15y ago
There is something incredibly funny about a post incriminating Firefox for not having enough new features to justify a new version number at the same time declaring Chrome as awesome at the end of the post
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by theshadow 15y ago
"anecdotally most devs I know refer to it as a joke and use Chrome instead." Ahh the world of cargo cult browser fanboyism. All I can say is that the devs you are hanging out with aren't very good, any dev who would write off and "laugh at"
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by theshadow 15y ago
"but thinking Mozilla values privacy because it is a non profit is not a great reason." Mozilla's entire business model isn't based around getting to know you or you habits better. Google has an inherent and fundamental financial interest i
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by theshadow 15y ago
Still. $1000 to live with the parents? In the LA area you can get a place with a roommate between $450 - $700 a month, without all the issues or social stigma of living with the parents. It'd be one thing if you were getting a sweet deal ($
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Computational Finance (Video lectures)(algorithm.cs.sunysb.edu)
1 points by theshadow 15y ago|0 comments
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by theshadow 15y ago
Any chance that they might do a compilers class too? The compilers class at my school got cancelled for the fall term and I don't think I'll have a chance to take it in a future term.
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by theshadow 15y ago
Obviously, every Java project with hundreds of thousands lines of code can be written by 2 developers in Ruby in a weekend ;)
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by theshadow 15y ago
Not all JVM languages are created equal (JRuby and to a lesser extent Clojure) are no way near Java in terms of performance on the JVM
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by theshadow 15y ago
Compared to dynamic language communities? Not even close. Just look at the almost cult like devotion to writing tests in the Ruby community.
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by theshadow 15y ago
Which is why the importance of unit testing is underscored in the communities around dynamic languages.
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by theshadow 15y ago
pfft... All I see in the article are 8 unproductive hours every day. Research has shown that humans really don't need 8hrs sleep to work at their optimal best and 4-5 hrs of sleep should be more than enough. He could use those extra 4 hrs e
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by theshadow 15y ago
Good job. Very simple yet addictive. Any chance you'll open source this?
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by theshadow 15y ago
>>The "bad" qualities are what made them effective. If they didn't have them, you would never have heard of them.<< Please justify the above statement. How could you possibly know that? What is to say that these people would
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by theshadow 15y ago
Doesn't really matter. CS is more theory oriented than SE. But you probably get enough electives in either degree to take courses from the other that interest you. One negative thing about SE is that you are forced to take a whole bunch of
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by theshadow 15y ago
While we're at the topic can anyone explain why pagination seems to be broken on HN?
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by theshadow 15y ago
There is something to be said about a lumpsum payment of $50k that is psychologically more attractive to people than the same about of money amortized over a period of 60 months. Extra 11k a year comes down to an extra $900 a month, which
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by theshadow 15y ago
Does B&N have the marketing infrastructure to compete with Amazon? I don't think so, the Nook reader as a device is on par or better than Kindle, yet it has had only a fraction of success as the Kindle.
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by theshadow 15y ago
Please please please baby jesus let me have a dollar every time someone says 'Language X, not language Y is the java successor'

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