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by tsahyt 14y ago
A pretty impressive effect, especially when considering this is just HTML+CSS! I'm still stunned about what those two can do in combination.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Something I just have to point out after reading through the article and the comments there: O(log_2 n) is the very same as any O(log_a n) where a is an arbitrary base. That is because log_a n = log_b n * c, where c is just a constant fac
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by tsahyt 14y ago
SAT for instance has only been solved with O(2^n) algorithms so far. The tricky thing here is that we don't quite know whether it could be done any quicker (google up P=NP for a more detailed description).
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by tsahyt 14y ago
It's not a terrible article at all. It's a suboptimal solution but the article is pointing out what's wrong with 5-star rating systems. It's labelled as a "response", not as a solution to all our earthly rating problems.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
I've got an autocompletion feature up and running, but I'm usually not dependent from it. However, that wasn't my point. I wasn't complaining about long class names. That's just a bonus. I was complaining about the misuse/overuse of design
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by tsahyt 14y ago
There's just no need for Interfaces when you have duck-typing at your disposal.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
The word "SimpleBeanFactoryAwareAspectInstanceFactory" reflects everything I hate about Java and it's intended approach to OOP.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
I'm probably making an ass out of my self now but: For the love of god, please don't learn Flash! People learning Flash have given birth to the worst parts of the web. There's a reason why everybody wants to get rid of it.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
> [..] I have never in my life had so much smoke blown up my ass in the process of an ostensibly (partially) technical discussion. Very harsh words but I'm afraid I have to agree. That article doesn't really tell you what UX design is
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Well, since Flash seems to crash on me here (and on numerous other occassions) it's time to say that: Can we please , pretty please with sugar on top, finally let Flash die? I've seen panoramic image viewers that didn't rely on Flash, they
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by tsahyt 14y ago
There are a ton of reasons for me not to like Java but on top of it all it's how it clings to "object oriented niceness" in utterly stupid ways. It shoves its paradigm down your throat and there's nothing you can do about it. Starting with
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by tsahyt 14y ago
You're probably right about a couple of things here. First of all, Apple's products are notoriously expensive. I've once got myself a list of hardware in the Mac Pro and looked up the individual prices of the components. It added up to roug
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Do you happen to have the link to that? Must have missed that and I'd like to read it.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
To be more specific I was talking about dying from pot itself, not from extended effects.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
It's the most exciting frontier to the general public though. Thank Sci-Fi ;)
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by tsahyt 14y ago
You're right about the funding thing, but this page is interesting to Non-Americans as well.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Interestingly, his conclusion about why he uses BSD matches exactly with why I use Linux. Personally I haven't used BSD very often or much. In the same way the OP says he's picked the right OS for him, I've picked the right one for myself a
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by tsahyt 14y ago
df/dx is actually completely obvious. It tells you exactly what's going on, since df is the change of f and dx is the change of x, for very small changes. It's a lot more precise than simply writing f'. Newton wrote a dot over f and a lot
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Personally, I find the language to be brilliant.
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> killing yourself with pot would be pretty tough, and expensive As far as I know there's not a single death directly caused by the substance yet.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
I'm pretty sure they do. Justified text looks more "professional" than ragged right one. The problem with it is, that it can create rivers without proper hyphenation. TeX is pretty good at this stuff and that's one reason why text set with
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by tsahyt 14y ago
Reminds me of the Ballmer Peak: http://xkcd.com/323/
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by tsahyt 14y ago
The internet is a great resource but never a replacement for a great teacher. There's so much to learn that most people don't even realize that only a good teacher can show you. During the first years at university I was confronted with so
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by tsahyt 14y ago
As a European I find that the sheer amount of money required to get higher education in the US is absolutely crazy. In most (if not all) of Europe, universities are paid from tax payers money and are basically free for all who have the nece
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by tsahyt 14y ago
There's not really an inside of a black hole anyway. The black hole it self is nothing but a tiny spot yet massive in weight. There's an inside the event horizon though. Commonly people like to refer to the size of the event horizon as the
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by tsahyt 14y ago
I think this is largely a communication issue. I don't think people on here are inherently hostile, except for a few. Personally, I tend to chose rather strong words to get my point across. People who know me realize that I don't mean to in
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by tsahyt 14y ago
It is, you can easily check that yourself. for(;;) compiles to exactly one jmp in GCC (tested with gcc 4.7.0)
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My Little Pony pornography? What the ...? I was referring to knowledge not as in education but as in the corpus of all media. For learning resources universities will almost always be a better bet. That's what they're for after all (and res
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by tsahyt 14y ago
archive.org is one of the most brilliant things I've ever seen on the internet. I'm amazed since I first stumbled over it about 12 years ago or so. Free knowledge to everyone, that's the way to go to make the world a better place.
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by tsahyt 14y ago
> automated compile errors when trying to craft conflicting laws That just made my day :) It's actually a good idea, I think. I'm just not exactly sure whether that would work because laws govern the real world and in the real world, lo

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