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by meuk 7y ago
That was an oversight from my side ;)
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by meuk 7y ago
Suggestion: leave (verb) 1. To go away 2. To keep in place
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by meuk 7y ago
Vim is quite nice, but also quite... old-fashioned? I use vanilla vim as my main editor. Today I had to search for some text verbatim, and I don't think there's a way to do this in vim: It treats everything as a regex. I'll a
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by meuk 7y ago
> When I say that it was a bedroom, I don’t just mean that it would be identified as a bedroom on the condo’s floor plan, I mean that this room had a fully made up bed crammed into it next to the conference table and video conferencing u
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by meuk 7y ago
It didn't strike me as one, and I'm not sure what it would be a metaphor for.
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by meuk 7y ago
I've had the same experience. After two on-site interviews, an assessment, and a series of tests. I got offered 2k/month for a full-time job (despite my current job making about 25% more at the time). I declined on the spot, then
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by meuk 7y ago
Not a place I'd want to work, I think. Two red flags are: 1. They signal from the first point that all your time belongs to the company. Taking a test of 6 hours is not something I'd have time for. 2. Their company value "Giv
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Casanova(en.wikipedia.org)
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by meuk 7y ago
While we're talking about thing we don't understand: I never understand the need to scoff at people who make such a small mistake. If you have a need to call people unbelievably stupid, there are lots of better alternatives. Looki
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by meuk 7y ago
Is the point of free software to create as much variations of a program as possible? I'd rather see that useful changes are merged upstream, or projects are forked. If this had happened, you wouldn't even need to patch, and this w
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by meuk 7y ago
I'm always a proponent of simplicity. Some criticism about the site: What a horrible layout. I zoomed out to 25% (the furthest you can go) and the text is still to big.
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by meuk 7y ago
I think that distributions patching software is especially problematic -- whether you consider it a symptom or a cause of fragmentation.
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by meuk 7y ago
I have no doubt writing fiction isn't easy. I'm just saying that in general, a math book like I mentioned takes more time and expertise to write than fiction. Not in the first place because it requires that you have at least the
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by meuk 7y ago
Yup, 32 hours/week (on paper) and slightly less than 2k/month before taxes.
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by meuk 7y ago
This seems to be very relevant. I have double BSc and MSc degrees in STEM fields and am still struggling to find a proper job. On my first job I made less than 2k (for 4 days a week, but still). I've had offers which were even lower as
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by meuk 7y ago
My bank allows arbitrary length, but enforces certain special characters while disallowing others. Which means I can't use the (long and secure) password and have to write it down. Not sure what they hope to accomplish.
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by meuk 7y ago
You make a good point: There surely is a difference between someone like Donald Knuth writing a book that is relatively niche, and a best-seller. For one, I can imagine that a page of mathematics requires more expertise and time to write th
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by meuk 7y ago
> very little of the cost of making a book is tied up in the physical format Either that's bullshit, or the costs are entirely artificial. I really, really want "Concrete mathematics" by Donald Knuth. I really, really don&
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by meuk 7y ago
You should approximate it with an exponential function. Actually, the nth Fibonacci can be obtained exactly by rounding an exponential function: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Computation_b...
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by meuk 7y ago
Ah, it makes total sense now! Thanks for taking the time to explain your thought process to a random stranger on the internet ;) I'd say that the exposition in your post is very fitting for the purpose of proving it. The most elegant p
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by meuk 7y ago
Thanks. I just don't understand how you arrived at k <= ceil cr (c(m-1) + r(n-1)) The rest is clear.
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by meuk 7y ago
I like to think that I'm good at these combinatorics-kind of questions, but I can't wrap my head around this one. I can follow the construction of the matrix, but I don't understand how you came up with the formula.
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by meuk 7y ago
To put this in perspective: The cost of calculating a 10k character hash is negligible compared to serving a modestly sized image. Still, you have a point that allowing arbitrary sized passwords to denial-of-service attacks. Still, a more r
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by meuk 7y ago
How's it coming along? Will there be an English translation available? Actually, I just tried to translate part of the book (the whole book is 'too big to translate') with Google translate, and the translation looks of remark
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by meuk 7y ago
I understand that you follow some misguided security guidelines that state that a password must contain special characters and have a length of at least X. What I don't understand is why sites use a maximum password length. They sh
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by meuk 7y ago
This is cool. I wanted to comment on the necessity of knowing the approximate size of N a priori, but this is very clearly stated on the github page. Interesting alternatives that also support insertion, deletion, and lookup (is there a nam
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by meuk 7y ago
Thanks for the comment! I am probably in a different position; I work in Europe and am not as wealthy as most of the US-based developers, so if I take time off it probably won't be in the near future anyway. I'll send you a mail!
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by meuk 7y ago
Thanks for your reply, I really appreciate it! I'll send you a mail.
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by meuk 7y ago
I found that companies always pretend to be all about learning, but in practice I haven't learned a damn thing after leaving uni, except the idiosyncrasies of their code. Maybe it gets better in senior positions (I spent 7 years in uni
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by meuk 7y ago
I think 8 subjects is too much too make any meaningful progress. I have 2x 30 minutes when I'm on the train, and that's just too little to study anything worthwhile. I mean, I can read a novel in three days, but anything involving

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