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by zodiac 12y ago
> Someone would have to explain to me in much more detail how this "negative correlation" is established I think it's just a statistical correlation they found in the hiring data.
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by zodiac 12y ago
I'll just like to point out that no selection system, including the puzzle game, is without flaws and bias. IIRC (I might be wrong) the catmit puzzle was released when most people in the US were awake, which meant it was the middle of
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by zodiac 12y ago
You mention that every serious applicant gets a 30-minute "first call" - what percentage of applicants get this call? How do you decide which candidates get this call? Also, what percentage of people who complete the work-sample t
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by zodiac 12y ago
The article does mention that "no Turing machine can list the Busy Beaver numbers".
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by zodiac 12y ago
You're right, it would be hard to contribute to such a codebase. I think the benefits of open sourcing Windows aren't really "developers will start contributing to it" as much as "developers will start reading the s
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by zodiac 12y ago
A quirky language might slow a learner's momentum by making it necessary to explain all the quirks. As a simple example, javascript's rules for casting values to boolean is quirkier than scheme's rule in the sense that scheme
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by zodiac 12y ago
FWIW one of our professors here at uwaterloo taught a first year abstract algebra / number theory class in a very Lockhart-esque way (Math 145; he even quoted Lockhart on one of the assignments). I learned a lot of math and enjoyed mys
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by zodiac 12y ago
I find it odd that it's the same price as the cheapest lumia phone... http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/AT-T---N...
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by zodiac 12y ago
If by "funds towards H1B visas" you include salary paid to the H1B employees, most employers would refuse to do this.
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by zodiac 12y ago
If you do so, you run the risk that in the future the Singapore dollar is no longer pegged to a basket of currencies.
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by zodiac 12y ago
There's no chess rule stating that a human cannot memorize large opening tables.
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by zodiac 12y ago
You could, for example, grant entry to programmers whose sponsors would be willing to pay very high salaries for them. Sure, you end up with false negatives (there are some great programmers who for some reason wouldn't be able to comm
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by zodiac 12y ago
> This is why you have to specify exactly what you mean by the big-O notation you specify. He did specify it, it's O(log N) arithmetic operations. Note: I don't mean "assuming arithmetic operations take constant time, we c
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by zodiac 12y ago
I believe OP is aware of this as he specifically uses the phrase "arithmetic operations" instead of "time", so adding two very large numbers only counts once. It's true that you can't have an O(log N) time algo
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by zodiac 12y ago
@shriramkmurthi may I know what license PLAI and PAPL are released under? I couldn't find it on the linked page.
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by zodiac 12y ago
Author of Interactive SICP here - totally agreed! Anyone on HN happen to know them?
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by zodiac 12y ago
But if you work for a US company, won't you have to pay taxes on the income earned from the US company?
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by zodiac 12y ago
What does "reverse migrate" mean?
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Metaballs and Marching Squares(jamie-wong.com)
109 points by zodiac 12y ago|19 comments
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by zodiac 12y ago
Schools like Harvard, MIT, Princeton (which I assume you're thinking of) are non profits.
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by zodiac 12y ago
It is mentioned in the article - "One possibility is that Minerva will fail because a college degree, for all the high-minded talk of liberal education— of lighting fires and raising thoughtful citizens—is really just a credential, or
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by zodiac 12y ago
The frames per second I quote are all recorded frames per second (eg, for every second of real-life time that passes, how many frames in the final video were taken during that second?). Play-back rate is always 24fps (or some other fixed co
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by zodiac 12y ago
I think what NeilSmithline is trying to say is, the microsoft technology is designed to convert regular 24fps videos to 2.4fps videos (10x time lapse). If you feed it 1 sec timelapse photos (ie, video at 1fps), the output would be 0.1fps.
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by zodiac 12y ago
I see a listing of what the link lacks. It's not the parent's responsibility to provide references without being asked to do so - gathering resources for this kind of post can easily take 2-3x the effort of writing up the original
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by zodiac 12y ago
Lists don't need to be comma-separated in haskell, you can use the colon infix operator to construct lists. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1696751/what-does-the-inf...
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Visualizing Data Structures(stephanboyer.com)
3 points by zodiac 12y ago|0 comments
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by zodiac 12y ago
The OSSI page explains that "If [public domain seeds] were available only in a traditional commons, people could obtain them, breed with them, and restrict their use through patents or licenses", whereas seeds with the OSSI pledge
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by zodiac 12y ago
Actually there's such a thing as inorganic carbon, eg in carbon dioxide.
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by zodiac 12y ago
IT companies makes things other economies want to pay money for too...
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by zodiac 12y ago
What about those without data plans? Wouldn't it let them play 2048 when without Wifi?

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