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I have seen a great parking lot lately: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3NZ6J8Fg6c

B-Trees actually have superior cache performance compared to other types of trees (such as T-Trees or BST Trees). In part, this is because B-Trees have a higher density of actual d…

Obvious point, yet horribly argued. It is clear to everybody that iMessage is not a platform-independent to send messages today. Thus, there is still a need for BBM, SMS, and all. …

You've probably seen this already, but have you considered the Harvard Extension School? I don't know the details, but I do know the extension school offers some classes taught by …

His actual name is Harold (Hal) Abelson.

Another question is to what extent AshleyMadison needs to rely on traditional advertisement versus, say, word of mouth. I don't particularly remember ever seeing an ad for Facebook…

It is sad to see some areas where people on average are doing significantly worse than the richest parts of the United States. However, I find the choice of the term 'Third World A…

I wouldn't call it to 'tweak' the data collection. He is simply normalizing the results to ignore the differences in language distribution. This is normal and has nothing to do wit…

The link is not working for me; going to http://twitter.com/NokiaPlanB/ only shows the following quote: "there are no 'nine young investors', just one very bored engineer who reall…

I do see reasons. They have fixed costs (independent from the number of tickets bought) in the form of payments for search results to ITA plus whatever company overhead (maintenanc…

The point raised in the presentation is that as Hipmunk is better able to achieve price parity (say, via the ITA deal which will make better search results available to them), the …

Why is this being downvoted? The question is pretty legit; the long application asks a number of questions like how much you use desktop apps (Anything from MATLAB to Citrix), and …

Of course the complexity will increase as a function of the number of features. However, I'd make the following claims: (1) Some of the functions are simply not that used. You can …

I got a message from BankSimple telling me that I was going to get an invite soon and asking me for feedback. I got really excited and responded with an e-mail, but never heard bac…

To further this. I think this is a great idea, but having worked on benchmarking database structures in the past, I'd be weary of using them for any type of real benchmark. For one…

I second this. I just graduated and as I was looking for a job and I interviewed for a bunch of companies. One of them asked that I solve some programming challenges. Sure, I like …

Playing the devil's advocate here. I have bought more than a couple of CDs from CD Baby and thanks to them I've been able to connect with more than a couple of wonderful artists. H…

I wouldn't first argue that Dvorak spits out 'ignorant bullshit' while claiming that all design preferences are equally valid. I personally prefer the older Google Images. For one,…

I don't think that would explain why the result varied depending on the type of images displayed.

I don't think so, The task you are splitting has to be sizeable enough that the setup costs of parallelization (in this case, going to every cashier to put your stuff and then goin…

Even though Telmex (his landline company) was acquired from the state, and therefore was a monopoly from the start, Slim faced a monopoly by Iusacell on the wireless phone industry…

(1) I have an iPhone, but I'd really love this type of functionality. I agree I'd probably feel weird saying this to the cell phone. However, when I'm using my earphones with micro…

At the very least it helps me build intuition for how a brain actually looks. I haven't had the opportunity to look at a brain layer by layer, so it's hard to imagine how to constr…

I disagree. As an international student in the US, I personally would enormously benefit from a cell phone that can do video conversations well. My family lives thousands of miles …

100% agree. I usually found the problem sets were usually really hard. Much harder than the actual exams. Most study groups that I had seen simply consisted of one person that foun…