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Software hackers will come up with a single right solution. This solution is cemented in theory. Transforming one (message) tree into another must be done in the following way: htt…

Hoare writes in his (famous) paper on quicksort (in 1962): "We'd implement our own recursion schema for perf reasons" Recursion is just a tree. Calling a function/procedure is expe…

Related TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_chen_a_warm_embrace_that_save...

I liked his comment (don't shoot me for that), made me smile. 4000 isn't that much either & whats memchached? A hashmap? He maybe means 300 lines of relevant code (+ ~3700 sugar)

1. No, there are a lot of sources, that report the same. SPON (Spiegel Online) turned from being a good source for news into click-bait (~beginning 2014). The editorial staff chang…

A German here, I probably read Spiegel for >10 years (from ~2000 to beginning of 2014): They are kind of "left" which reflects in their articles "raises a second narrative about in…

I am from Germany. Today I am perfectly fluent in english including idioms, puns (somewhat) and understanding american/english culture. To me Twitter feels like making sense to (na…

You are underpinning my statement: It's that experience (a lot of exposure in the area) is very important. It doesn't invalidate that when you are young you are mentally fitter.

You study 6 years CS, then start your first job, how do they treat you? - like a beginner,... which has to learn,... "like everything". "It's product-know-how that counts", but als…

It is well known that you can't (should not) rely on bugs (or internal APIs )

> the fallacy of the "be liberal in what you accept, strict in what you issue" principal The market (players) (can) manipulate it to create an (perceived) competitive advantage. It…

knowledge management In context: "... the knowledge management community ..." (I guess mainly acadamic)

The company of my professor went bankrupt in 2012 (Ontoprise). Not sure if they dissolved totally by now. AI failed (again). I never understood where "Intelligence" lies if the onl…

The URL is valid (copy and paste or type it in). BUT: If you go there from HN he dispays just the gif Wow, ... he seems to protect his article from the HN-crowd :-D

Europe is very conservative: Standing out might be even a downer. But generally good public (e.g. on github) standing should justifiy you a job (maybe even a highly paid one) EDIT:…

On "the ethics of unpaid labor": YOU haven't been to a good university ? And on "Why github is not your CV": Your animated gif is not advancing the discussion AND nobody said that …

No! - You likely won't, because of Spolsky [1] And... your parent commenter is right: "When it comes to hiring, I'll take a Github commit log over a resume any day.", jeresig [2] […

I am so disappointed that "Ranking of CS Departments" was flagged to death! (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8492371) This can't be it! CS departments DO rank by "number of pu…