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A 'lazier programmer' who actually checked the optimization of various factorial methods? There's a joke in there somewhere...

When reading his comment it was apparent to me that he was speaking in context to the matter at hand (delving into hnsearch.)

I've often found that one is better served by saying "please take this in the helping way" outright as opposed to relying on over-cliche phrases like "I don't mean to be X." Being …

For the non-blackbox version where you install the extension, I'm assuming if you were paranoid you could just use Firefox's incognito mode.

Is there a chance you could elaborate on this some? What would some example "bells and whistles" be with regards to SSL certs?

I adblock YouTube comments, personally. I suppose this is a cute modification of that same idea, but I'd rather not have to get another extension when ones I have already suit that…

Teaching: 1. There are no safe assumptions. 2. Relate.

Are both fundamentally not the same thing? I understand that company A may have made you a bit uncomfortable, but perhaps their intent was the same as company B's? That is, to see …

Thankfully there's the good old "javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0" trick.

It would be interesting to see if you could use a system like this to automagically derive background colors for image display, picking muted complimentary colors to make the domin…

If he doesn't exist, there's an awful lot of gatherings with him as a guest speaker at universities hitting on Google over the past four years from 07 to 2010, and he was (if Googl…

Doing /r would be eminently more handy, ftr.