mak120

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Branch Prediction Fail(stackoverflow.com)
3 points by mak120 14y ago|0 comments
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by mak120 15y ago
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2800538
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by mak120 15y ago
I don't think the impact that stackexchange has had on the programming community is even well understood or appreciated yet. Still for many of us it is already hard to imagine a world without something like stackoverflow.com. It is a tool t
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by mak120 15y ago
Its a nice project and great effort no doubt. But I am not convinced bundling an IM client into a browser is necessary or even a good idea.
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by mak120 15y ago
That is exactly the way almost every non-tech/nerd I know uses Facebook. Setting up a website is too much work. And I can understand that for them having to remember several logins and unconnected accounts (one for photo sharing, another fo
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by mak120 15y ago
It lists Bangladesh as formerly being a part of India. That is not just an error in a date - it is just factually wrong.
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by mak120 15y ago
Bangladesh got recognition from the UK and several European countries in 1971 AFAIK. By December of 1971, even the armed conflict was over. Actually, being off by one year isn't such a big deal. Most maps from the first half of 1971 would n
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by mak120 15y ago
Bangladesh became independent in 1971 not 1972. And it was not formerly part of India, but was part of Pakistan. Makes me wonder what else is wrong in that chart.
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by mak120 15y ago
Its a nice Dynamic programming problem. The beauty of DP is that simply memorizing one application of it does not guarantee you a solution to an entirely different problem that might have a similar Dynamic Programming solution. Look over th
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by mak120 15y ago
I recently interviewed at Google and got an offer. I live in Bangladesh and I am pretty sure no one involved in the interview process ever heard the name of my university or cared what my CGPA was. So, the part about coming from an elite sc
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by mak120 15y ago
I was recently asked "Why did you learn <language X>, especially when there was no scope for its use in your career at the time?". I found out it was an almost impossible to understand concept for the asker. Most people are so obses
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by mak120 15y ago
Can't help feeling a little sad. The same feeling when the Concorde was retired. Its not sad that these awesome machines are being phased out. Machines/designs become old and obsolete all the time. But in this case, there is simply nothing
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by mak120 15y ago
Agreed. Saying because you can do <insert easy/trivial task here> you are in the top X percent just means that the rest of the (100-X)% are incompetent. Being "above average" isn't really saying much when the average is dismal.
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by mak120 15y ago
I interviewed with them recently (got through phone interviews and am waiting for a visa for my onsite interview), and I never got any trick/puzzle questions that need no programming to solve. I did get questions about simple CS concepts an
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by mak120 15y ago
I come off with the feeling it is actually composed by an Iranian (possibly a team but could be an individual) who is clearly motivated to make "politically correct" (from the POV of the Iranian govt.) speeches. He goes to great lengths to
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by mak120 15y ago
By the same logic, were the Nazi trials at Nuremberg a violation of German sovereignty?
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Interesting but lesser known data structures(stackoverflow.com)
161 points by mak120 15y ago|23 comments
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What is the goal of mathematics?(math.stackexchange.com)
2 points by mak120 15y ago|0 comments
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by mak120 16y ago
There is something heroic about taking a bullet for your friend and not shying away from your duty for your country (even if it is run by evil maniacs). Couldn't help feeling sad.
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by mak120 16y ago
Yes, he could not say the names of all US presidents at age 6. I doubt Einstein ever tried memorizing the names of all US presidents when he was child. He wasn't in the US then. :)
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Was Einstein really a poor student?(skeptics.stackexchange.com)
87 points by mak120 16y ago|39 comments
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Difference between C++'s STL and "Standard Library"(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by mak120 16y ago|0 comments
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by mak120 16y ago
Python Paradox was written quite some time ago. Back then there were far fewer jobs for Python. python has become a lot more mainstream since then, hence your story of learning Python just for the sake of getting a job. IMHO, the idea of th
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by mak120 16y ago
Most of the other comments already voice my reaction to this post. I will only add that a "heads will roll" attitude towards motivating devs on the part of management would prompt me to switch to some other place very fast. Simply saying "y
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by mak120 16y ago
This post does raise some real issues about ubuntu (namely support for multiple screens). But its a shame it quickly regresses into the same old "I'm not used to it and so it is bad" sort of rant. I found it annoying that the author assumes
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by mak120 16y ago
So, I guess you could just pick up an illiterate guy with good people skills to run a large corporation or be the president?
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by mak120 16y ago
I live in a country where cheating is rampant (although it has gotten a little better in recent years). Most of the best students (in terms of grades) at my university were outright cheaters, or employed other indirect means of academic dis
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by mak120 16y ago
One of my all time favourite CS books. I especially liked the Alan J. Perlis quote at the start.
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by mak120 16y ago
Perhaps you are implying the Dragon Book is not needed for people who will use tools like lex and yacc to generate it. While that is true, the Dragon Book gives real insight into how a compiler really works and how to code one from scratch.
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by mak120 16y ago
I think the author at least has a point, but I totally disagree with his use of the word 'ponzi' here. It looks like yet another cheap attempt to make something look horribly bad by just tacking on a term that is hated/disliked widely.

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