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by yason 13y ago
Despite what people say, I think that any interviewing comes down to your gut feeling if you're any good at interviewing at all. There's no single set of questions that you can use to filter in the best or filter out the worst, ex
902.
by yason 13y ago
I remember when I first learned C. I was 13 and having written assembly for years I finally got a machine that was actually equipped for running a full-blown C compiler. Compiling was slow and the produced code was slow but all I could thin
903.
by yason 13y ago
My smartphone just died and I had to revert back to my trusty old dumb phone that I loved and apparently still do. The first feeling I had was relief: mobile internet is "nice" but the joy of not being able to access anything is g
904.
by yason 13y ago
Functions should be short and sweet, to an extent, because by thinking in terms of functions you're building a new language in which you write your program. If you're writing big functions by habit then you're just laying mor
905.
by yason 13y ago
That's how NSPR was/is used by projects other than Netscape/Mozilla, too. Producing such a library is generally an unavoidable consequence of writing a popular multi-platform application -- unless you reuse someone else'
906.
by yason 13y ago
I'm tired but isn't that just 1.5 times? Tied together, a 1m³ block of limestone and a volume of 1.5m³ of floats displace 2.5m³ of water. Assuming the mass of the floats themselves isn't much then already that would lift 2.5
907.
by yason 13y ago
The feeling of loneliness is one thing. The article gives good advice on how to feel lonely less often. Being alone is another and much more fundamental. For what I've learned, accepting the fact that you're here, in this life, al
908.
by yason 13y ago
I'm wondering which of these came from the card networks and, most importantly, what's the actual rationale for including them? * Virtual currency that can be monetized, re-sold or converted to physical or * digital products or se
909.
by yason 13y ago
Finland is nearly completely fitted with Abloy rotating disk locks for anything worth locking down, and this was a nerdly disappointment when I was a teenager and got interested in how to pick locks. There weren't meaningful, pickable
910.
by yason 13y ago
So, how many levels of indirection are allowed until a "link" becomes legal and not infringing? This is just crazy.
911.
by yason 13y ago
I don't have a goal, I just like to do moderate physical exercise because it feels good and I just can't stay sitting and immobile for days. I go swimming once a week, and twice a week during the winter. I swim for one hour and ho
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by yason 13y ago
Self-promotion, as I would describe it in this context, is simply selling yourself at all. This is highly frowned upon in cultures in the opposite end of the continuum as it comes out phony: "if he's so good then why does he have
913.
by yason 13y ago
If you code and develop in it, you're bound to hit computer science whether officially or informally. Because if you don't, you aren't really coding: you're just staying at your comfort zone and that's no more codin
914.
by yason 13y ago
Funny enough, I prefer to disable any existing notifications so that I can walk about or sit around undisturbed. (SMS and phone calls are ok, but mostly because I get them so rarely and if I do they actually might be important.)
915.
by yason 13y ago
I'm a bit surprised browsers do in-scrolling events: browser performance has been under heavy optimization for years and switching to "panning mode" with no events emitted while scrolling would seem like a splendid candidate
916.
by yason 13y ago
Maybe it isn't entirely a physical disease.
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by yason 13y ago
I've never in my life written as careful and premeditated code as when I was writing C on my Amiga when I was young. One miss and you would tilt the whole system. There was no memory protection and everything was system wide. If stuff
918.
by yason 13y ago
C libraries don't just exit. A C executable could in some circumstances just fprintf() to stderr and exit(1) but usually even that requires sane deinitialization so before exiting you will effectively end up back in main() from the low
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by yason 13y ago
I disagree with being polished. Newer C programs can be robust as well. In fact, I write C programs both for fun and at work and so do a lot of people I know, and these programs still end up being much more robust than I would even expect m
920.
by yason 13y ago
It's just decimal numbers and not written in stone. I guess you could divide it further down to smaller units if needed, probably with some upgrades to the current protocol.
921.
by yason 13y ago
I hope he still has time to shoot photographs, too. :-/
922.
by yason 13y ago
I don't think you should trade stocks but buy companies instead. I think there's a mental shift in between stocks & the market and investing in a company. Owning companies existed before stocks: stock markets grew to add easi
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by yason 13y ago
I didn't know there's a required set of features for raytracer besides tracing rays. If it uses a recursive raytracing algorithm does that not make it a raytracer? It traces rays recursively like all, well, ray tracers .
924.
by yason 13y ago
Of course. Many Finnish people are like that too. If I can't think of a single reason myself why that unknown person might be smiling at me then I must conclude s/he's just pretending to be friendly and probably trying some
925.
by yason 13y ago
I can relate to the behaviour described in the article. A smile is a signal, as is a frown. If you center your origin in the middle of the scale, you can use a smile to signal positive things and a frown to signal negative things. If you sm
926.
by yason 13y ago
Anything that goes up fast will come down fast. That simple is that. The sooner you sell your speculative investment the more likely you'll get your money back (at the expense of other people). I sold some leftover coins of mine after
927.
by yason 13y ago
And does that matter? Most things are like that. The miniscule subset of all things in the universe that we do know scientifically doesn't mean that the things outside that subset don't provide any value. If an economic theory is
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by yason 13y ago
Why does it matter, why is that question such a hot potato?
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by yason 13y ago
I don't know about Ruby but Perl certainly isn't strongly typed. You can run 'print "5.0" + 6' and get 11 as the answer. That's weak typing and types are implicitly converted to whatever. Python is strongl
930.
by yason 13y ago
You're wrong about this. The Bitcoin network would be _much_ worse off (verging on useless) if the global hashrate was throttled. No, it doesn't make a difference because what matters is that the target difficulty is relative to

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