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What are the issues with applying this to a video camera instead? That seems like a more interesting use case.

I had this in an interview (back '96). Came up with a linear time constant space solution: create a new node, push it on the front, reverse the list, check if the 1st node is the s…

This is a far better 'culture' document then the Airbnb don't fuck up the culture memo. It speaks to an important and specific norm for programmers. Plus, it doesn't read like the …

6.002 midterm at MIT in 91 had a problem trivial to solve with a Laplace transform ... Actually it had a couple. Of course Laplace transforms would be taught in the second half. Th…

I use the mailbox iPhone app. The killer feature for me is that I can snooze an email. It's close to ideal for me. This ability to show multiple inboxes on the desktop might be an …

That specific premise is false. An alternate use case does not provide a -meaningful- floor for any store of value. Tulips still have an alternate use case. I'd claim Krugman is ar…

Ack ... I'm largely ignorant of the details of go other than its original positioning. Do the semantics of go constrain gc implementation in such a way that it precludes low latenc…

It is a systems language. The competitors are c, c++, go, and D. Within Microsoft it's just c and c++. Competition with Java is irrelevant, c# already occupies that space. Microsof…

If I understand correctly the independent third party is only needed in a dispute. If the buyer and seller are happy then completing the transaction does not require action by anyo…

"She builds it as tall as the legal height limit for that zone too."

The top dev ladder rung is Technical Fellow (promotion from distinguished engineer.) Except for Dave Cutler, who is a 'senior technical fellow' ... which is the exact same level wi…

Antonio Damasio is a neuroscientist. He has a theory of consciousness explained in a book called the feeling of what happens. The somatic marker hypothesis is a bit more than 'it e…

https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotdep12/collaborative-ene... shows a research app that may help you debug your problem.

Love avacado. A coworker pointed it out just before valentines day, and now it's the default way my wife and I text each other.

Ambiguity is something a programmer needs to deal with at work. Riddles are not. Open ended questions are exactly what you want to use to evaluate someone. Riddles fail because the…

I'd love to read the piece on Douglas Hofstadter.

It is 'passive' from google's point of view. You are neither producing marketing signals, nor frequent marketing opportunities. It is all utility to the user and lost opportunity t…

Does xbmc stream to an Xbox? Or is the name unrelated to the game device? It doesn't really say. The article seems to argue i should switch from my current windows media center the…

While these 'regular expressions' are unreadable, on the plus side they don't ensure O(n) runtime. There should be an anti-Turing award for their creation.

In the long run, different people reap the benefits. I don't see his proposed solution as practical, but denying the problem won't make it disappear. My understanding of the thesis…

This guy in ms research studies code defects in the context of ms software. http://research.microsoft.com/apps/mobile/showpage.aspx?page...