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Thank you for mentioning those! I saw both Robotech and Macross Plus (in French) when I was a teenager. I still think about the SDF more often I would admit and the soundtrack is a…

The secretary problem is a bad way to formalise the problem of dating and the stopping rule doesn't work in that context, for a very simple reason. The secretary problem is a solut…

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> I don’t know really how ppl that solve it fast accomplish getting to that level Just like everything else in life, they do it really slow and with lots and lots and lots of error…

On your CV ? Has any recruiter or hiring manager ever commented on it, or said the mention gave you an advantage ?

You can definitively play like that if you want to. At day 2n (n > 0) you do the puzzle of day n.

JavaScript code and Haskell code ultimately both get turned into instructions for a microprocessor, so there really isn't much of a difference between both.

Yep, another developer enthusiastically proposing mmap as an "easy win" for database design, when in reality it often causes hard-to-debug correctness and performance problems.

Yes, pictures of the user interface will help a lot. Thanks!

The situation is not going to improve as long as business stakeholders and engineering managers (some closer to MBAs than actual engineers) think of software engineers as construct…

No they can't. Myself, and quite a few other people, need it for work.

I would imagine that the alien civilisations would also make that kind of studies, and pre-emptively prevent the extinction scenario from happening.

That's correct. It's (and they are) French.

> like chores by the 10th problem or so and I drop out That they get so involved is the reason I participate (despite also working at the same time). I love the fact that the diffi…

Set of related trades.

Hi thaumasiotes, Mathematician here, and somewhow interested in this discussion. I am curious of your definition of full_sqrt, what would be the value of full_sqrt(-3) ?

It's a completely factual statement, and relevant in the context of the article. It doesn't claim that the same cannot be observed, or doesn't happen, somewhere else.

As somebody currently learning Rust, I totally echo this sentiment.

Have an electronic version of it (the main version) 1. Update it every year or so, and 2. Everytime you update it you print a copy version and distribute that as needed.

Oh yes, they do :)

BitTorrent is 20 years old, IPFS only 6. So, might just come down to familiarity. Definitively many more people, even outside tech crowd, have heard of BitTorrent whereas IPFS is s…

There always is a simple explanation: Resulting from (1) removing irrelevant details (details crucial for an implementation, but irrelevant for an initial mental model) and (2) mak…

Somebody is using a database (sqlite in this case) to store JSON objects. There is nothing strange or unusual here. When doing this, though, the problem is that it's more difficult…

It's stack based. Written like RPN (Reverse Polish Notation).