tybris

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721.
by tybris 17y ago
Not sure what you mean by storing all possible n. Radix sort is O(nw) and for most use-cases w is smaller than log(n).
722.
by tybris 17y ago
Google has grown less effective in many areas over the past few years. I especially hate that it no longer includes all the words in the query, which was originally one of the reasons for switching to Google. Yahoo and Bing are a little stu
723.
by tybris 17y ago
That's pretty unreadable for someone who doesn't know clojure.
724.
by tybris 17y ago
Some day we will stop writing COBOL.
725.
by tybris 17y ago
People severely underestimate the damage XML does. Example: <number>9012853</number> You just added a data overhead of 500% over using a 4-byte integer, and an even bigger parsing overhead. Let me guess, now you need to "sca
726.
by tybris 17y ago
24 different types of jams is too much. 24 different types of books is too little.
727.
by tybris 17y ago
Why not just offer persistent threads?
728.
by tybris 17y ago
Nope. The future is hierarchical all over the place. Just like the present and the past.
729.
by tybris 17y ago
That's sad, but also a bit black & white. People can be cocky and have expertise.
730.
by tybris 17y ago
What the statement suggests is that online advertisement is not a viable business. Try telling that to Google. Nonetheless, I'm sure there are going to be tons of sites offering paid, relevant services, but that's an easy prediction because
731.
by tybris 17y ago
My father was a North-Sea fisherman and reported on dramatic increases of Roe when fish populations were declining. Since the type of flat fish they were catching had usually lived for many years, our conclusion was that it would have to be
732.
by tybris 17y ago
If you're building a mission-critical service, always make sure you have servers in multiple availability zones (regardless of whether you use EC2). If you're service is too small to rent multiple servers, consider a shared approach like Az
733.
by tybris 17y ago
I'm not sure what they're comparing against. They can't possibly claim that corporate infrastructure has better availability. If a server breaks in your office it takes hours to replace. If a server breaks in EC2 it takes seconds to launch
734.
by tybris 17y ago
Voluntarily? More like instincts & hormones.
735.
by tybris 17y ago
I have a pretty good memory. Also, I have a whiteboard in my bedroom.
736.
by tybris 17y ago
That is amazingly insightful.
737.
by tybris 17y ago
You use a prime to be able to reach all slots in open addressing if you use a linear probe bigger than 1. Can't think of any other reason.
738.
by tybris 17y ago
Another case of lies, damned lies and statistics. When I lived in the U.S. I found the differences to be much bigger than I expected. Obviously, I did not expect or find a god-fearing nation of Darwin haters. Rather, I found a society that
739.
by tybris 17y ago
Now regardless of the lack of meaningful content, I would like to urge writers to learn how to write a proper introduction and conclusion on long articles, which together summarize its contents. See it as a service to your reader.
740.
by tybris 17y ago
Books are not supposed to contribute at all. They are supposed to be an overarching view of the knowledge and ideas that exist in the area of interest. His books were meant to educate the public about evolution through natural selection. Fo
741.
by tybris 17y ago
All young people think their ideas are unique and valuable. As you grow older you learn that other people have the same ideas and what makes them succeed is hard work. In case of science this is called research. Theoretical physicist Albert
742.
by tybris 17y ago
What point in history do you refer to?
743.
by tybris 17y ago
It probably has more to do with the ability of computer scientists to create a paper generator than with CS in particular. There are people who can neither think nor write in every branch of science. The remarkable thing about postmodernism
744.
by tybris 17y ago
Postmodernism is the most embarassing thing we have to show to the archeologists of the future.
745.
by tybris 17y ago
Title reminds me of http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174
746.
by tybris 17y ago
It's easy enough to realise that you're always selling less (computing power) than you pay for. The margins are inevitably small, but there are other reasons to get in the business. For Amazon.com the main reason was probably to build such
747.
by tybris 17y ago
Maybe for the first 3 months, by that time other companies got the message. So Apple started to advertise, advertise and advertise until everyone had a white on pink burned into their eyes.
748.
by tybris 17y ago
Imagine swarms of solar-powered robots collecting garbage out at sea. Imagine them repairing our vessels or space stations. Imagine them transporting all our goods through underground tunnels. Imagine them mining, farming or building. Kids,
749.
by tybris 17y ago
Plenty of people question it, it's just that good. Questioning simplicity is a futile exercise. At best you can question whether it is simple enough (see Minix).
750.
by tybris 17y ago
To summarize, Wave does not kiss.

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