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by user24 16y ago
I don't really know what you mean. You're right. But I don't see how that's relevant. My point was that people have a choice "I trust dropbox not to abuse my personal files" and they draw the line at their twitter account ?!? This I find o
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by user24 16y ago
so you're happy to share your personal files with dropbox, but not your twitter account? Odd priorities. Not saying they're wrong priorities, but just not what I'd expect.
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by user24 16y ago
Would not supporting open URLs for those things which users have chosen to share reconcile these seemingly opposed desiderata?
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by user24 16y ago
also, taking common UI patterns on mobile devices and using their popularity as an argument for using those patterns on the web seems invalid to me. Sure, it works on mobile - but users have a different expectation of how things work on mob
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by user24 16y ago
interesting argument, and it's definitely worth thinking about these kinds of UI assumptions. But I'm still in favour of keeping them. First of all even if they are 'training wheels', the user interface should be understandable by someone w
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by user24 16y ago
mblase's explanation was a very clear way of explaining the problem, with the two parallel lines never quite touching because you can't get a line to zero length by cutting it in half repeatedly, no matter how many times you do it. Thanks f
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by user24 16y ago
> which I why I only considered 2 ants. dammit now you've got me doing it too!
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by user24 16y ago
yeah I was reading up on a solution which sounds pretty much like what you're talking about. Trouble with these things is that if you think you've solved it, there's no way to find out without spoiling it if you haven't. (apart from thinkin
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by user24 16y ago
I see, yes the first instinct is to think that perhaps a lemming could survive forever by constantly bumping into other lemmings. But that's not possible because a lemming traveling in the same direction as the candidate will never bump int
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by user24 16y ago
thanks :)
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by user24 16y ago
Initializing an array in constant time, My sneaky solution: getting and setting seem very simple - if you know the starting memory address and the size of an element (assuming constantly sized elements), you can implement get(i) as "return
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by user24 16y ago
but the ages are expressed as integers so in the domain of the problem, twins are exactly as old as each other.
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by user24 16y ago
quite annoying that there's no answer sheet. Some of them seem incredibly simple, so I'd like to know if I'm missing some subtle edge case or if I have actually solved it. Example: Lemmings on a ledge: My answer: one minute. Seems to me tha
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by user24 16y ago
that was a genuine question. I think I'm right, but I might not be. Judging by the upvotes it looks like I am, but I'd like someone to come forward and say "Yes, that's correct" explicitly.
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by user24 16y ago
that's outside the scope of the problem. (which is why I really dislike these kinds of tests, because you can't win - if you don't consider unicode the interviewer says "ahh, but what about unicode" and if you do the interviewer says "ahh,
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by user24 16y ago
the boolean array indexed by char effectively is a hashtable isn't it? where the hashing algorithm is index = ord(theChar).
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by user24 16y ago
> using "password" as your password is wrong. Only idiots do that and that means they deserve their files being deleted? What if that person was a non-tech savvy biologist working on cancer research? Or a college admin person and those
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by user24 16y ago
worked fine for me with those settings. Fx 3.6.12 OSX 10.6.4
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by user24 16y ago
pretty sad to see this article split onto six pages and surrounded by adverts. In fact the more at look at the site, the more principles it violates - on page 2 Tim's talking about using good URL structures.... unlike http://www.scientific
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by user24 16y ago
yeah, and the thrill of not knowing whether you'll be quietly disappeared when you finish the job, and if not, how cool would it be if your code all worked perfectly and the nuclear reactor did blow up! Really awesome. I think I'll stick wi
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by user24 16y ago
Thanks. I can't make it this month, but definitely interested in coming along another time. Cheers.
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by user24 16y ago
Clicky - http://meetu.ps/421R How often do these things happen?
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by user24 16y ago
Oh.. um.. sorry dude. Well I guess you know by now already. It stops you being able to do anything on HN for an hour and a half.
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by user24 16y ago
define AI.
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by user24 16y ago
these are gamers. They'll want avatars of their favourite characters, and sig lines with the time spent playing, hardware setup, etc.
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by user24 16y ago
why?
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by user24 16y ago
Yeah, I did take a look... I felt that it added nothing to the conversation. What's the problem with dupes? 2 sets of insightful conversations instead of one? So? Obviously if more than a few dupe stories get through then that's something t
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by user24 16y ago
seriously? You want to find someone willing to commit their time and effort to your vision for ten years or more, and you hope to achieve this by offering a free iPad?
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by user24 16y ago
I would think the same - that it doesn't fit into their current offerings and that the offer was made so they can get the talent and use the userbase to feed into a future web-os offering. Did that happen? edit: Just read some of your comm

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