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anuragbiyani

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    The good thing about Algorithm Design & Analysis as a topic is that there is no lack of great resources to learn from! And even better, a large portion of them are freely available…

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    Comment #26910360

    I was referring to the claim made in the README's section: "Every file that could possibly exist?" , which is written as if it's a proven statement: > That's right! Every file you'…

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    Comment #26908217

    It's a commonly held misconception that Pi is proven to be normal - it is NOT (it is a conjecture as of now) [1] [2]. Proving normality of number is a very hard problem, and hardly…

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    Comment #17831528

    It all depends. Instagram was ~13 employees when bought at $1B. WhatsApp was like ~30-40 employees and bought at $19B.

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    Comment #17666965

    Talk about living in a bubble. +everything drdaeman@ said above. There are more people using WhatsApp in India (thanks to popularity of image/video/voice-messages) than who can act…

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    Comment #17666258

    You are completely mistaken if you think adding a subscription-only would not reduce usage of WhatsApp by 10x at least. I am an Indian (WhatsApp's biggest market by far), and know …

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    Comment #14345468

    Not to take anything away from this project, but you can filter on size, permission, etc easily and robustly using just `find` (try -perm, -size, -{c,m}time, etc flags): https://li…

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    Comment #12578208

    "The C++ Programming Language" has been updated in 2013, and includes C++11 changes: http://www.stroustrup.com/4th.html "A Tour of C++" (also by Bjarne) is a quick overview of the …

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    Comment #11294713

    You are missing headings in Row 2 & 3. I think you are talking about Column E (Privacy-> Logging ->Activity->"DNS Requests") ? Since it falls under "Logging", you want it to be Red…

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    Comment #11090682

    Why doesn't Google Photos work for you ? It does provide all the features you mention (depending on definition of "Nice gallery feature" of course), and on top of it really awesome…

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    Comment #11000961

    https://xkcd.com/1138/

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    Comment #10740430

    A quasi-polynomial time algorithm is one which has a worst case running time of 2^[O((log n)^c)], for some fixed constant 'c'. Polynomial time (PTIME) algorithms are a special case…

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    Comment #9696447

    https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/

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    Comment #9221517

    "$44 to get $40" => $4 in fees for using another bank's ATM. This is very much within the ballpark range for USA at least. Sidenote: Usually such fees are O(1), i.e., independent o…

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    Comment #9220831

    "The total for both of us was $55, so you owe me $27.5." "OK, here is some random bank's ATM which charged me $44 to get $40 (2 x $20) out, and now you say you don't have $12.5 in …