OmniLarry

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   by OmniLarry 17y ago

   This. I was going to ask "You mean other than R?" It is most certainly the first thing to look at.
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   by OmniLarry 17y ago

   I hope not, or at least that they make things for us keyboard folks. I can type at ~120wpm, and while I don't always think that fast, I can't imagine communicate at a much slower pace..
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   by OmniLarry 17y ago

   Sounds kind of like the public school system (not including university) and taxes.
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   by OmniLarry 17y ago

   So to break even, she will have to make 10 mil$, not doing the math on opportunity cost, taxes, etc. Sounds dubious.
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   by OmniLarry 17y ago

   Well worth the time, but probably shouldn't have started reading it at 1am, right before bed!
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   by OmniLarry 17y ago

   I don't think this is quite a skiplist, but it is amusing that someone's trying..
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   by OmniLarry 17y ago

   Not exactly an insider either - raising money for his hedge fund as a doctor with a blog.
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   by OmniLarry 17y ago

   I think you're being too kind to them: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/congress-mau...
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   by OmniLarry 17y ago

   http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5558/am-i-allowed-to...
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    by OmniLarry 17y ago

    I read that as a stand-in for "Wall St", probably also because my friends usually go for Goldman now, but hedge funds are definitely where all the action is at.
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    by OmniLarry 17y ago

    Sorry, can't find the link, but it was a Topcoder problem at least 5 years ago. Well, it is trivial with two balls, once you get it, but it's tricky with respect to "just binary search".
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    by OmniLarry 17y ago

    For N balls, the other balls can/should be binary searched. It's just a little tricky when it comes to the last two..
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    by OmniLarry 17y ago

    I was actually a charter member at the Union Square Crunch gym (the one on 3rd anyhow). Quitting was easy though, they only asked why (because I hadn't been going) and that was that.
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    by OmniLarry 17y ago

    From Petr Mitrichev, one of the best programming contest programmers in the world, if not the best.
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    by OmniLarry 17y ago

    What do you mean? That's what the tiebreaker is for. Problem writing is hard, especially if you're trying to distinguish between very close competitors.
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    by OmniLarry 17y ago

    At what point do these wide ranges cease to be a choice? ;)
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    by OmniLarry 17y ago

    I'm curious, when people say salary, do they mean compensation? 80-90k starting in NY is almost month to month, but there's a nice pot of bonus..
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    by OmniLarry 17y ago

    A good example given by my friend is perhaps a Dating app used by your wife, or your friend who is married. It's true that you can look it up if you suspect it, but now you don't have to do the digging.
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    by OmniLarry 17y ago

    True enough. I think the easily accessible part is somewhat important though, at least for apps that you would not look for otherwise - it's like checking if a key exists in hash, vs given a list. For the former, you can find it if you kn
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    by OmniLarry 17y ago

    "Welcome to amortized analysis!" Seriously, if the point is to educate people the difference between O(1) and O(1)A, then fine, let people understand the difference. The problem is that he thinks the solution is to scrap it altogether. It'
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    by OmniLarry 17y ago

    Also a highly ranked Topcoder.