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    Comment #31566884

    My take : let M be the maximum amount of money that a envelope can contain (at worst it can be the total amount of money in the world). You don't know the value of this upper bound…

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    Comment #31132448

    Not a good heuristic for me as it would make me skip most of the science stuff. For example the Webb space telescope. It certainly won't have any impact of my life.

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    Comment #30383622

    Yes, when possible it is better to give people time to figure out things by themselves. That's how you learn. The question is why pointing out something wrong would have automatica…

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    Comment #30382937

    I can't agree with that. If there is something wrong, it must be dealt with as soon as possible. We engineers must learn to be professional and not let our ego get in the way. Mayb…

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    Comment #30235243

    Considering that even futur users of crud applications cannot come up with decent requirements for these applications, I am not sure AI will help.

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    Comment #30209933

    React health has already taken a hit with the introduction of hooks.

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    Comment #30136521

    I remember seeing one occurence of bubblesort in the source code of Crafty chess engine with a comment explaining that this was unexpectingly the fastest sort in that particular ca…

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    Comment #30097330

    Thank you for your answer. I got instantly buried below the "bad perf per watt" comments and thought nobody would see my question.

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    Comment #30097011

    This is a 10nm processor, right ? So a 10mn processor can be as fast as a 5mn processor but at more than double the voltage ? Not so bad. What would be the perf of this processor w…

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    Comment #29959849

    Some context: https://dawnproject.com/full-self-driving-cars-software-at-i...

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    Comment #27814217

    That would be the median, not the average (but then it sounds less funny somehow...)

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    Comment #27558917

    First They Ignore You, Then They Laugh at You, Then They Attack You, Then You Win. "The statement evolved from a large family of sayings that originated in the nineteenth century. …

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    Comment #26752737

    It is still alive and very active but is now called MyBatis. https://blog.mybatis.org/p/about.html

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    Comment #26659401

    You can't easily create a instance of the generic type in java. for example : return new T(); is possible in C#, not in java.

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    Comment #25790059

    Even hardworking developers will sometimes don't care about the user experience. For example, Linus could have spent a few hours polishing the git CLI. Instead we have had millions…

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    Comment #25511123

    On the other hand on my android phone I use firefox+uBlock and see no ad at all even on youtube...

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    Comment #25480468

    Took me a few minutes to figure it out. chipotle_coyote comment make sens if the tax is 800k. 50m*0.04 = 2m = 800k+600k+600k The tax is not 800k but 80k though. So it should be 80k…

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    Comment #25414681

    Should be 125% though (or is it already obvious for everyone and just me being pedant ?)

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    Comment #25303262

    Or the medium link : https://medium.com/@maartenvandoorn/the-complete-guide-to-ef...

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    Comment #25302539

    On the other hand these people can sometimes lead you to some more serious material if they share their sources. Seems to be the case here with this link in the post : https://maar…

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    Comment #24898691

    Maybe the article means that PHP interprets the OPCodes as opposed to java that uses a JIT compiler that produces machine code for part of the bytecodes. Anyway JIT is coming with …