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Comment #19440582
Thats also true for multiple choice tests as opposed to real-world programming.
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Comment #19440230
Or if you are like me (and a bit stupid): 1000 = all possible combinations from 000 to 999. less 10 combinations with all numbers identical is 990. now there are three patterns for…
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Comment #19133017
I think he was wrong about the Apple watch market size, but I like his argument.
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Comment #16969731
So many charts and such a boring conclusion. Why is the male attractiveness axis flipped in that big blue box? Why is it not mentioned that the turquoise area stretches only on one…
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Comment #16890861
Thats how it should be I suppose, but can't be taken for granted everywhere.
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Ask HN: Whats the most boring form that you had to fill? Why did you hate it?
Hi, I am looking for terrible forms that can be simplified for consumers. Online or Offline doesn't matter to start with. I have done a few in Europe already, but desperately looki…
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Comment #16544501
Thanks, very helpful. I am just looking at it and will have a bit of a think about this later :)
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Comment #16543721
How is a graph database built under the hood? I know that a decent RDBMS (simplified) will consist of the following: - data in blocks organised with a block-size that the underlyin…
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Comment #16522505
As a twilio shareholder I would like to please encourage everybody to implement 2FA via SMS!
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Comment #16490779
> how selling TODO lists to businesses is like taking candy from a baby What does this mean?
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Comment #15275130
"productivity chat market" <-- whats that?
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Comment #15219617
I had to CTRL+F through the article to learn that PWA == "Progressive Web App". Am I missing a trend?
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Comment #15168658
Hi, TUM has a lecture for this in which the students build a database in C and learning fundamentals along the way. I attended a few years back and learnt an awful lot, this is the…
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Comment #15044690
Are Barcelona and Madrid meant to be overvalued? I live in London and am considering to buy a house in Spain in 5 years time or so and the prices look pretty good in the countrysid…
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Comment #14945895
Could you elaborate on news & NLP in regards to stocks? We tried sentiment analysis in uni a few years ago and had no good results: The idea was essentially: news says: 'stock A is…
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Comment #14662675
> Rolling our own dependency-management tooling took a small team of engineers (including me) more than a year of very hard work, and there were problems. I am amazed what is done …
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Comment #14163776
This is the best thing I read for ages. I work with legacy systems all the time, lately mostly CRUD web apps, but I have debugged myself through pages of Excel macros, database dri…
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Comment #13866309
Pardon my ignorance, but I don't even understand his point. I wouldn't even have bothered with a class at that level of abstraction. If I find repeating if statements throughout my…
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Comment #12907618
I won £20 with a £5 stake at my local bookies. Wouldn't really count that as 'making money' though.
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Comment #12890586
> I'll bet they even ban hobbyist driving - like those who 'still have old cars' and want to drive on those 'old car roads'. Absolutely not. That will never ever happen. F1, DTM, M…
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Comment #11855178
mob as in gangsters.
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Comment #11149980
I came to England in my 20s and am now often complimented on my pronunciation: Try to over exaggerate the way natives speak your target language, almost as if you were mocking them…
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Comment #10881590
I always love it when people use git & github for more than code in the way you just demonstrated. I only just started organising some of my non-technical writings in a repository …
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Comment #10587092
That part struck me as well, but I guess hindsight is 20/20 and they learned their lesson. When I did my very first project when I was 18 I spent money on a lawyer and incorporatio…
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Comment #10477368
Fantastic puzzle. Took me ages to realise the twist though, because I was somehow set on making them oscillate further on every iteration and couldn't understand how I was to remem…