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by wlievens 16y ago
Oddly, there is nothing in Belgian media about this. EDIT: correction! http://standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=DMF2011020...
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by wlievens 16y ago
Actually that's within a stone's throw of the Belgian border.
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by wlievens 16y ago
You need a decent hash of every file anyway (to check for changes etc) so it's pretty trivial to deduplicate. I don't think you'd need to do stuff like check the ID-tag.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Scheme is not in this list?
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by wlievens 16y ago
We started with Scheme, then in the second year C++ and some Common Lisp. Later Smalltalk. You learned Java on your own, which is near trivial if you know C++ and Scheme.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Classic question, classic answer. Buy SICP and learn Scheme. You probably will never build any "production" software with it, but you will learn a solid base for the rest of your carreer.
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by wlievens 16y ago
My hunch is that it's meaningless at the limit.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Our brains aren't exactly wired to handle uniform distributions too, I guess. Nature is full of normal distributions anyway.
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by wlievens 16y ago
It's a funny trick, but it touches on something that I can't help but feel is completely nonsensical: repeatedly picking random numbers from an infinite set. It's basically a longer version of the following trick: 1) Pick a random real numb
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by wlievens 16y ago
Antwerp!
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by wlievens 16y ago
I've read this criticism a lot, so I'm really curious: How would you 'clean up' generics syntax in Java?
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by wlievens 16y ago
It was more than a fringe phenomenon. There was even a movie based on this train of thought, starring a now fairly respectable actor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazes_and_Monsters Like the book on which it is based, the film treats the
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by wlievens 16y ago
They've since shifted their focus to Harry Potter.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Born in '83, so in 2000 I was in high school :-)
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by wlievens 16y ago
What do you mean by "will eventually go to zero"? Decrease monotonously? That seems kind of obvious: knowledge expands and rarely shrinks (barring WW3).
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by wlievens 16y ago
Sometimes yes, sometimes no, but you need a trained brain to spot the difference.
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by wlievens 16y ago
You're obvisouly correct. "3-SAT statements" is pretty meaningless in this context since you want to satisfy one big consistent statement.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Exactly. Not to mention the fact that facebook is near monopoly status. If you were to add every single car manufacturer together, surely you'd get a much high valuation. If the social network space were as diverse (in terms of relative pla
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by wlievens 16y ago
Which is not the case with facebook. (not that I'm disagreeing with you)
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by wlievens 16y ago
Here's how I intuit this: 3-SAT is like "machine language" for other NP problems. Any other NP problem can be "compiled down" to 3-SAT statements. Though it's probably inaccurate, that's how I intuit the matter.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Is any polynomial algorithm parallelizable?
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by wlievens 16y ago
Most of Antwerp's parks are a bit disappointing for such an otherwise marvellous city, I'm afraid.
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by wlievens 16y ago
The most powerful force in the universe, they say. I love that quote.
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by wlievens 16y ago
A 90 litre tank? Do american cars have such big fuel tanks? Odd, I've never driven a car with a tank over 60 litres (all Euro models).
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by wlievens 16y ago
More at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2112128
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by wlievens 16y ago
Discussion at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2112128
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by wlievens 16y ago
I think it's meant as a courtesy and out of respect, rather than as a hedged statement.
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by wlievens 16y ago
I think this is just a frustrated troll making really, really elaborate "yo mamma" jokes.
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by wlievens 16y ago
This is very much true. I live in a country with a high living standard, comfortable work arrangements and many (government-sponsored even) options for taking time off. Yet we have one of the lowest startup rates in Europe (not just in tech
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by wlievens 16y ago
You're completely wrong, sorry. Pass by reference means you change the value of a variable passed from the caller's context. You can't do that in Java.

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