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denniskubes

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About denniskubes

I like search engines, algorithms, file structures, and data science. You can connect with me on twitter @denniskubes.

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    Prebiotics like Akkermansia help improve the mucin layer in the colon. Lower amounts of these beneficial bacteria actually contribute to gut health. The weird part is Akkermansia a…

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    https://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Metabolic-Disease-Management-P... This is Seyfried’s book describing the pulse strategy.

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    Comment #32966333

    I think you may be interested in file structures. There are relatively few books published and they are all 20+ years old but they describe the kind of on disk data structures that…

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    CrossFit gym membership

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    Comment #11353739

    The Asus Zenbook UX501. Great screen and specs. Runs Linux out of the box.

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    We use a fork model where each developer has their own fork of the "main" repository and the developer fork is cloned to the local dev machine. Using this model I do work in progre…

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    Plano, Texas. It is a great place to raise a family. Excellent schools. Diverse city. Affordable real estate. About 20 minutes north of Dallas. Low crime. Voted safest city in the …

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    Comment #9941652

    One of the things you can do is get a pair of yellow tinted glasses. Gundar makes a specific one for gamers but I prefer the ones from Oakley. They make staring at computer screens…

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    Comment #8176168

    You're correct. I wasn't trying to say this was the way to code. In fact I pointed out that we were ignoring warnings on purpose. The interesting part, at least to me, is that the …

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    Comment #8065854

    In looking for specific strategies to overcome procrastination this one jumped out. A more detailed description of the simple technique can be found in a paper by gollwitzer, http:…

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    Comment #7648700

    I just got a Asus UX31a-DH71. It has an 256SSD, i7 processor with 4M cache. Long battery life. Great screen, 1920x1080. Keyboard stays cool. Suspend/resume work great. Got touchpad…

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    I'll just put this right here. http://denniskubes.com/2013/07/18/why-you-should-be-nice-to-...

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    Comment #6064891

    Funny. I was thinking exactly the same thing today after seeing one more "here is what I do to punish recruiters" posts. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6063951

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    Thank you.

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    Comment #5598684

    After rereading it a couple times I think you and others were right. I was trying to say something that in the end muddied issue. I have removed the section on r-value and l-values…

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    Comment #5598638

    > Yes I am being simplistic and yes certain data types have certain syntactic sugar but I have found this to be a good mental model As stated in the post.

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    Comment #5598613

    That is nice. I have seem different pointer diagrams but none that linked it to a memory list as that does. I like.

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    Comment #5598489

    I can agree on that. The point I was trying to make is that &x would return a number not an assignable memory location. The reason it isn't an lvalue is because it doesn't return a…

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    I was trying to describe a simple mental model that has been helpful to me. While I agree assembly details would have been interesting putting that in would have lost more than hal…

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    What other mental models do people use to think about variables and memory? I would like to hear about them.

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