Monster Truck

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Hello world,

My name is not Monster Truck II and I was not born in 1920. But here is something about me that I feel comfortable sharing. I studied physics and computer science at college and enjoy reading (history, politics, and economics) and listening to music.

Here is my bookshelf:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/20250758-monster?page=1&shelf=read

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Dec 8	comment	Design backward and forward button operations of a browser Interview? Assignment?
Dec 4	comment	NoSQL as file meta database Is a real file system out of the question? You can index it anywhere --just make sure the thing remains in sync with the index.
Nov 28	comment	Does async/await makes simple thing unnecessary complicated? From Microsoft's perspective, it is their product that would be eventually blamed --the developer will probably be too but they clearly have more at stake.
Nov 28	comment	Am I considered “technical”? I would say, yes.
Nov 28	comment	How can I “bulk paste” a clipboard string of multi-line text into a readable ordered list? :%s/\n+/.\n/g (or any other regular expression)
Nov 28	comment	Why do developers learn to code by developing todo lists, yet all the todo lists that are available still suck? Who stole Hello World?
Nov 26	comment	Is the ternary operator evil? I am surprised why such questions keep coming up. The answer is always "whatever works and is readable." --the last one being equally important.
Nov 24	comment	My father is a doctor. He is insisting on writing a database to store non-critical patient information, with no programming background By the way, I am reasonably certain that in most countries storing patient information (critical/non-critical) is subject to heavy regulation. Make sure he understands the legal risk.
Nov 24	comment	Is Resharper still a significant improvement for Visual Studio 2012 Version 5 was a significant improvement over version 4.x. The memory usage came down significantly.
Nov 19	comment	need explanation on amortization in algorithm Also it matters what the clear function does. If one dumbly codes clear() to set all references to null then one will have to iterate once even when the array is all null. Once again, need to see code to give more concrete explanation.
Nov 19	comment	need explanation on amortization in algorithm Hey. I understand what you are saying but you don't write O(9). You write just 9. P.S.:- I did not down vote.
Nov 19	comment	need explanation on amortization in algorithm Can you post the code snippet or pseudo code so that we can see the full function? It is not clear what the author is writing about. Also, that is not how one interprets big O --O(5) does not mean cost to execute for 5 elements. Please read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation for more details on what this function means as the comment box is too small. I will need
Nov 18	answered	need explanation on amortization in algorithm
Nov 16	comment	When would someone use MongoDB (or similar) over traditional RDMS? It has to be remembered that sharding is heavily dependent on the architecture of your data centre. If you have a server rack its performance is awesome. On distributed DCs, not so much. Agreed on what you say about the general ease of partioning on NoSql DBs --but reliability is a key concern.
Nov 16	comment	When would someone use MongoDB (or similar) over traditional RDMS? If you write a lot of data won't global write locks negatively affect you?
Nov 3	comment	Is experience very important when hiring/being hired in your country? Chapter 2, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
Oct 27	comment	Can a recursive function have iterations/loops? You can use anything that works Omega. Very rarely do software specifications specify what style of programming to use --unless you are in school and your assignment says so.
Oct 24	comment	Protobuf design patterns I agree it is fast and we use it elsewhere for small objects. But for the specific case of my project where we will end up reading/sending millions of results per day protobuf's savings add up significantly.
Oct 22	comment	Protobuf design patterns Where I come from (huge message wonderland) default Java serialisation created severe performance problems and XML created a huge mem. footprint. Protobuf scores on both fronts and makes the code dirty.
Oct 21	comment	Best approach for saving highlighted areas on geographical map +1. This is better than my answer because it provides a complete solution with minimal coding. Internally the library seems to be doing the same thing as what I had outlined though.