yaks_hairbrush

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by yaks_hairbrush 16y ago
Seems it would, but there might be an issue with having a bouquet of two flowers. Still, I like your answer better... predicating on the empty set is fun.
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by yaks_hairbrush 16y ago
One of my favorite details in Wall-E is how when the ship blasts off from Earth, it scatters a bunch of orbital debris. Any ideas on how to clean up space junk?
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by yaks_hairbrush 16y ago
I interviewed with Epic Systems last week, saw the question about flowers, and answered it correctly. If all but 2 are roses, all but 2 are daisies and all but 2 are tulips, you have three flowers (one of each). Contrary to the article, th
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by yaks_hairbrush 16y ago
There's a problem with this approach: black holes evaporate, which would yield a useful-life ceiling of 10^100 years. I know I'd like my machines to work longer than that.
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by yaks_hairbrush 16y ago
I'm not such a great programmer, but it seems obvious to me that you'd want to write a kernel in the most minimal (as in close to the hardware) but portable language possible. Further, a language as expansive as C++ on a collaborative volun
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by yaks_hairbrush 16y ago
You get a pretty skewed version of the facts when you talk about income tax shares. Payroll taxes hurt quite a bit at lower income levels.
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by yaks_hairbrush 16y ago
Takes a lot of guts for a company to say "Pay us so that you can eventually work here." And it's such a tough time for young folks these days that they essentially need to take the deal or run the risk of not finding employment after colle
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by yaks_hairbrush 16y ago
HP48 is RPN, which sidesteps precedence issues. So, here you explicitly need to decide if you want 2 NEG 2 ^ (i.e. (-2)^2) or 2 2 ^ NEG (i.e. -(2^2)). The traditional order of operations is what the TI series does. In essence, it assumes
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by yaks_hairbrush 16y ago
Reminds me of what TI did with graphing calculators, actually. HP and Casio had graphing calculators a good five years before TI did, but TI gave schools free samples and made deals with textbook authors. And that's how a late-to-market-but
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by yaks_hairbrush 16y ago
I'm in. Will be watching this thread.
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by yaks_hairbrush 17y ago
In response to yequalsx: I see 2 applications of rational expressions off the top of my head: 1) From an abstract viewpoint, the message is "We can do the same stuff with polynomials that we do with integers. The only issue is that factori
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by yaks_hairbrush 17y ago
If someone wants my organs, they can pay for them (that is, pay my kids assuming I'm dead). Why does everyone involved in the organ donation make money (surgeon taking out organ, surgeon transplanting organ, etc.) except the supplier of the