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I no longer need the Internet. My hamster chewed through a CAT cable last week; it took me three days to notice, so complete was my Zen immersion in creating a period-accurate replica of the first Galilean telescope, using only Haskell lenses. When it finally dawned on me I had attained a sophistication that transcended the internet, I felt the inessentials fall away from my craft in an instant, and I was left in an…
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I often find I spend 20 minutes trying to formulate a good SO question, only to discover the solution just before pressing submit. Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
I often find I spend 20 minutes trying to formulate a good SO question, only to discover the solution just before pressing submit. Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
It's not always that however. Most recently I spent 4 hours debugging socket.io disconnecting before I remembered nefarious DPI/crawling done by the house ISP https://nodpi.org/2010/08/07/talktalk-becomes-stalkstalk/
I no longer need the Internet. My hamster chewed through a CAT cable last week; it took me three days to notice, so complete was my Zen immersion in creating a period-accurate replica of the first Galilean telescope, using only Haskell lenses. When it finally dawned on me I had attained a sophistication that transcended the internet, I felt the inessentials fall away from my craft in an instant, and I was left in an…
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The guy hardly ever contributed to StackOverflow anyway - he's linking to his SO profile on his website. He only asked 8 questions and answered 5, in 4 years. Kinda like me and my mother-in-law. So it's a bit like a bloke who hardly ever has a drink blogging how he "no longer needs alcohol" because he went through a whole weekend without sipping a beer : ) I know that you can use SO passively - only by searching - bu…
Every time I have had an original problem, much of SO's value was similar to a stuffed animal that I could explain my problem to, with an occasional tip of something I should look into.
I personally get much more value out of SO by passively reading other peoples' questions/answers. I think that is the real power of the service.
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This is exactly the rent-or-buy problem! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_rental_problem You just described the best deterministic algorithm, but it turns out there are even better randomized algorithms, where you "flip a coin" when deciding to look up StackOverflow or keep learning (of course, that may or may not be practical :p).
Thanks for the link! Hmm... given that you stated that the best randomized algorithms we have beat our best deterministic ones, isn't there a place for even better deterministic algorithm?