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From the article: > We will be dealing with arbitrary precision integers (bignums) in the problem, so let us also make a few assumptions: > Addition or subtraction of an m-bit inte…

Here is the fun bit hidden away in the comments page of this post: > Randal L. Schwartz said: > 27 Apr 2008 02:30 AM GMT (#1 of 1 comment) > Glad you enjoyed that bit. That was Tom…

I do not belong to USA or UK. I am a software engineer with a Bachelor's degree in computer science. But I would like to do a distance learning program to earn an additional bachel…

Like other sibling comments, I would also like to know how you have used Anki to transform your career. I like Anki but I have never been able to figure out how to capture complex …

Which university, if you don't mind me asking? Can you share the names of the textbooks?

Shared a similar thought here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22401420 Yes, it is really important to learn math with study-mates. Just like in code, we do reviews, in math t…

The book looks lovely. Did you write it using latex? What is your tooling to author a book like this?

I am going to suggest something that might go against this idea of self-studying math. Do not do it alone. I mean, it is okay to self-learn mathematics as much as possible but don'…

Can you provide detailed steps to reproduce? What strings did you search? Two examples of repos that appeared in the results? What is the link to your repo that did not appear in t…

If you do, which web frameworks do you use? If not, why not?

Why does Go need web framework? What's wrong with net/http?

> Even if you do hand your pod over to some company, it'll be like letting them host your domain name or manage your cell phone number. If you don't like what they're doing, you ca…

Google has a reputation of shutting their services down. What if they shut their fonts CDN down or change their URLs without redirects?

> For example, most people don't consider that the W and the M in your font must look distinctly different, and not just vertical mirrors of each other. Why isn't relying on defaul…

I have a regular five-day workweek but to be honest, I work productively only 4 days a week. I find it hard to work productively all 5 days. On the day's I am not working productiv…

Actual quote from the article for context: > Modeless: Computer scientists when writing code typically worked in different modes; you might have an insert mode, a delete mode, or a…

VSCode has a plug-in for Vim keybindings. Does not emulate Vim entirely but good enough to feel at home. Gives you best of both worlds: IDE-like features of VSCode and ergonomic ma…

Does this require the user to make any changes? I run a simple static website served with Nginx. I would like to know if this change has any impact on me.

> If you share a development branch with someone, then you should prefer merging over rebasing Your parent comment is suggesting rebase only for pulling latest changes in master in…

Yes. And now this whole code-of-conduct business would probably have these perfectly reasonable greybeards banned from their own projects. Gone are the good old days of open source…

Can you elaborate this more? I know about continental drifts and I know they occur at a scale much larger than a tiny box. Does it have any effect on the small scale a tiny box wou…

Came here to say the same thing. Certainly haven't seen such depiction of infinity earlier. But this is a nice way. I am going to use it myself.