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by mqsiuser 12y ago
Software hackers will come up with a single right solution. This solution is cemented in theory. Transforming one (message) tree into another must be done in the following way: http://www.usethetree.com Don't just downvot
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
Hoare writes in his (famous) paper on quicksort (in 1962): "We'd implement our own recursion schema for perf reasons" Recursion is just a tree. Calling a function/procedure is expensive (in memory and run-time). Create a
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
Related TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_chen_a_warm_embrace_that_save...
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
I liked his comment (don't shoot me for that), made me smile. 4000 isn't that much either & whats memchached? A hashmap? He maybe means 300 lines of relevant code (+ ~3700 sugar)
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
1. No, there are a lot of sources, that report the same. SPON (Spiegel Online) turned from being a good source for news into click-bait (~beginning 2014). The editorial staff changed: Didn't the editor in chief come from Germany's
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
A German here, I probably read Spiegel for >10 years (from ~2000 to beginning of 2014): They are kind of "left" which reflects in their articles "raises a second narrative about inequality". They'd support basic
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
I am from Germany. Today I am perfectly fluent in english including idioms, puns (somewhat) and understanding american/english culture. To me Twitter feels like making sense to (native) english speakers (only). 140 characters and the
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
You are underpinning my statement: It's that experience (a lot of exposure in the area) is very important. It doesn't invalidate that when you are young you are mentally fitter.
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
You study 6 years CS, then start your first job, how do they treat you? - like a beginner,... which has to learn,... "like everything". "It's product-know-how that counts", but also "a good theoretical foundati
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
It is well known that you can't (should not) rely on bugs (or internal APIs )
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
> the fallacy of the "be liberal in what you accept, strict in what you issue" principal The market (players) (can) manipulate it to create an (perceived) competitive advantage. It's also a source where "evil" i
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
knowledge management In context: "... the knowledge management community ..." (I guess mainly acadamic)
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
The company of my professor went bankrupt in 2012 (Ontoprise). Not sure if they dissolved totally by now. AI failed (again). I never understood where "Intelligence" lies if the only thing you can do is infer: If A --> B & B
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
The URL is valid (copy and paste or type it in). BUT: If you go there from HN he dispays just the gif Wow, ... he seems to protect his article from the HN-crowd :-D
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
Europe is very conservative: Standing out might be even a downer. But generally good public (e.g. on github) standing should justifiy you a job (maybe even a highly paid one) EDIT: Wow, thanks for the downvotes: Just to let you know: I LI
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
On "the ethics of unpaid labor": YOU haven't been to a good university ? And on "Why github is not your CV": Your animated gif is not advancing the discussion AND nobody said that github=yourCV. You can bend reality
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
No! - You likely won't, because of Spolsky [1] And... your parent commenter is right: "When it comes to hiring, I'll take a Github commit log over a resume any day.", jeresig [2] [1] The development abstraction layer ( h
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
> not that we have secretaries anymore Saving on them, or are they managers now ?
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
Should be "based on the citations by members of OTHER faculties "... Or... doesn't that happen nowadays ? (everything else will just blow the system ... apparently)
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
no clue why you got downvoted, thanks for the advice
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
wow... was already on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4838206
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
> With my lack of coding skills would this even be possible? NO! (it is only possible WITH the required skills!)
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
Facebook made me rich and now I can do anything If you were made rich by some (recent) lucky coincidence, then you can also do whatever you want. Great message, a bit hidden. Unveiled by hacker news, thank you!
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
> Quicksort cannot be implemented to be stable without an auxiliary array Okay, you need an additional array (I am using a separate array, the "result array") [1]: But that doesn't matter, since the additional array can ju
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
> Among complex algorithms Mergesort is stable > Among non-stable algorithms [...] quicksort [...] QuickSort can be implemented so that it is stable: http://www.mqseries.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=273722&highl
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
They are, but with a price: The price is that they can't show up again at their former company, but now are at their next with ALL the benefits. I usually chose that. Noone gives it to you (on the silver plate). You have to demand it.
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
You are right, BUT sorry, this is unpopular on hacker news Try to show that there is no difference between woman and men and you may get upvotes. Edit: And hey: Life for femals is much better between 16 and 35 (and deteriorates quickly afte
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
Microsoft OneNote
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
It's not cushy (to be an engineer). IT in it's current form is demanding (I like the "intense 24/7 activity" phrase). We are paid well for a reason and ofc it MAY feel cushy when you are on top of things. But this r
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
I don't know any. Do you? The woman working in IT that I know are: Scrum Master, (Project/Assistant-)Manager, Team- & Department-Leads, QA and Testing. Could just pls one of the hacking moms reply with their experience? Prefer

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