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by pents90 5y ago
It’s not. The inner loop operates only from i+1 to n in exchange sort and the resulting swaps are very different.
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by pents90 6y ago
Ok, so it’s more of a legal framework than a technological one.
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by pents90 6y ago
How do you grant a company access to your data but prevent them from storing it? And how does it apply to data a company generates about me? For example, if I listen to songs on Spotify, are they supposed to somehow not store it, but still
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by pents90 6y ago
If you plan to be a professional software engineer, then I recommend just paying for the best tools. The price of one hour of an engineer's salary (give or take) can pay for the entire IntelliJ suite for a year.
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by pents90 6y ago
I started learning Java in 1996 and it was a real revelation back then. Coming from very platform-specific C, everything felt comparatively easy. And Javadocs were amazing. Just a few months ago I dusted off an old project from 1997, loaded
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by pents90 6y ago
It's long past time to retire Lena as the canonical test image in CG.
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by pents90 6y ago
> A frozen language means that either those modifications are harder I don't agree that it's harder. What is definitely harder is not being able to ship bug-fixes or modifications without ripping everything up because the langu
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by pents90 9y ago
While I submitted this, I would like to voice my opinion that I am against "var" in Java. People may ask, "Why should I have to enter in the type if the compiler can infer it for me?" My answer is twofold: 1) You or some
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Representing the Impractical and Impossible with JDK 10 “var”(benjiweber.co.uk)
105 points by pents90 9y ago|128 comments
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by pents90 9y ago
I would argue that the opposite of a bloom filter doesn't really exist, at least not in a satisfying way. A bloom filter's size is dependent only on the desired false positive rate, whereas its opposite must be dependent on the si
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by pents90 9y ago
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I don't want Java to move forward faster. I don't really want it to move forward much at all unless there is a huge, tangible benefit from the new feature(s). I am of the belief that programmi
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by pents90 9y ago
Not sure how everybody else feels about it, but I find that optional typing is the enemy of readable code.
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Show HN: CryptoPunks, an experiment in digital collectibles on Ethereum(github.com)
2 points by pents90 9y ago|1 comments
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by pents90 9y ago
As a long-time Java developer, I really hope they won't implement JEP 286. I think type inference by the compiler is a bad idea, as it results in less readable code, more bugs, and an unnecessary burden on the compiler. I think all the
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by pents90 10y ago
A few years ago I wrote a Minesweeper clone in Google Spreadsheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1367o4BYYNynmMan_1I5x...
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by pents90 10y ago
Scala appeals to those who love programming languages. Java and a few other languages appeal to those who love making software, something that Scala is terrible at.
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by pents90 10y ago
Some of the worst data presentation offenses are being committed in this talk, including graphs with misleading axes, trend lines derived from too few data points, and no acknowledgement of exponential trends, such as solar energy's ad
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Billboard company to begin tracking viewers via their smartphones(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by pents90 11y ago|0 comments
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A critique of text auto-correction in Android vs. iOS(medium.com)
1 points by pents90 12y ago|0 comments
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by pents90 13y ago
> (FWIW, I do know JS) Assumption confirmed!
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Google releases mini-games for Google Glass(developers.google.com)
5 points by pents90 13y ago|0 comments
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by pents90 13y ago
(Author here) The apps are just really thin native WebView/UIWebView layers, included in the source. No frameworks were used.
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Show HN: An open-source mobile RPG engine in CoffeeScript(pents90.github.io)
53 points by pents90 13y ago|11 comments
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by pents90 13y ago
"Oliphant Immortal" from Gurk III: http://pix.pe?Q_____A4_YEAHDDYcDbYacDbA4_H_______wGuAA_H4__H...
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It's not metadata, it's a social graph
10 points by pents90 13y ago|1 comments
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How Bitcoin Works - Explained as Simply as Possible(plus.google.com)
4 points by pents90 13y ago|0 comments
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by pents90 14y ago
Potential prior art here in a patent from the early 1990s: http://www.google.com/patents/US5337652
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by pents90 14y ago
In our Play app, we isolate the real tricky stuff from our controllers and then write unit tests for it there. The controllers themselves end up being fairly lean and simple, so we test them (along with the front-end) with Selenium. We're n
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by pents90 14y ago
[I work at Docracy] C'mon, I wouldn't say "loads"! We are still working on a few lingering encoding problems, and we usually filter them out when we spot them. Other spurious changes are from the sites themselves. For example, every couple
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by pents90 14y ago
[I work at Docracy] What is unique is how we handle diffing within a hierarchical HTML structure and how our algorithm is tuned to display sensible diffs for written language text, which requires some more nuance than what is typically used

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