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Computer Science 'Ninja Arts'

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Re: Computer Science 'Ninja Arts'

#11
Sorry to interrupt the bitching about the UI of the website, but...

I would nominate a working familiarity with:

Non-trivial graph algorithms

Serious distributed systems design (ie. building something where anything and everything can fail at any time, possibly in nasty or even byzantine fashion)

Formal methods

Optimization methods (ILP and so on)

Binary decision diagrams

as some other "ninja arts" if we're going to have to use the term "ninja".

Re: Computer Science 'Ninja Arts'

#12
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Text here http://pastebin.com/vjyHG1aH I don't really like to take traffic away from a site but that is horribly designed. I could only scroll with PGUP/DN due to the stupid control bar to the right.

This sucky design is further-reaching - it's part of all Blogger sites. There's no way to drop to a sensible version either IIRC.

Is that the Google offering? I'm surprised that Google of all people would make something with such a poor concept.
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