gwilliams

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by gwilliams 7y ago
'Stone'? You mean 'brick'.
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by gwilliams 7y ago
Lego's argument always struck me as absurd. Imagine Ford doing the same thing: "Please refer to our vehicles as 'Ford vehicles' or 'cars', and not 'Fords'. By doing so..."
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by gwilliams 7y ago
That could hardly be farther from the truth. The church does have extrabiblical volumes of scripture, which also testify of Christ and go into more depth, but every doctrine of the church is in harmony with the Old and New Testaments. Membe
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by gwilliams 7y ago
They don't get wealthy from it. Those who work for the church full time (with the exception of missionaries) receive a stipend to cover their living expenses and not much else.
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by gwilliams 7y ago
boolean checkExactlyOneBitSet(int num) { return (num & (num - 1)) == 0; } That looks like it'll fail when num == 0. I think it should be: return num && ((num & (num - 1)) == 0);
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by gwilliams 7y ago
This advice ought to be printed on every tube of toothpaste.
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by gwilliams 7y ago
From IMDB: "The computer name WOPR used in the movie was a joke based on a real computer once used to predict war strategies at NORAD which was called "BRGR". The Burger King "Whopper" is a "Burger"."
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by gwilliams 8y ago
The posted solution to fibonacci (in the rss image for this hn article) appears wrong. fib(0) will return 0 instead of 1.
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by gwilliams 8y ago
Yes.
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by gwilliams 8y ago
This reminds me of the effort to enumerate all ways of tying a necktie: http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~tmf20/tieknots.shtml
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by gwilliams 8y ago
icgrep ( http://www.icgrep.com ) has a clever approach to searching text for arbitrary sets of characters in a parallel manner. If 128-bit registers are available and we're processing 8-bit characters (for example), the next
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by gwilliams 8y ago
When I operated a store in Canada, Amex would hold on to the money for an extra 30 days beyond the next monthly reimbursement cycle, unlike Visa/MC.
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by gwilliams 16y ago
I consider how predictable the dividend is.
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by gwilliams 16y ago
This would be a bit more fun with word problems involving the time turner, potions, etc. "Fluffy has three heads, and each head can eat two bowls in a sitting...how many bowls should Hermione fill to satisfy him?"
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by gwilliams 16y ago
How about a game to teach regex? That would be awesome. "Write a regex that will match xxx and yyy but not zzz", for example.
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by gwilliams 16y ago
When I read the headline, I assumed the article would be about a late actor. :/
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by gwilliams 16y ago
Couldn't this problem be simplified by considering the nodes and paths to be a resistor network, and solving for the effective resistance between the source and drain nodes?