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| bio | website | payjunction.com |
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| location | Santa Barbara, CA | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years |
| seen | Jul 18 '12 at 17:08 | |
| stats | profile views | 38 |
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awarded | Yearling |
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May 25 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Apr 18 |
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Do real-world algorithms that greatly outperform in the class below exist? I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Simplex algorithm for solving LP. It has an exponential worst-case with a linear expected run-time. In practice, it is quite fast. It's trivial to construct a problem that exhibits the worst-case run-time as well. Also, it's heavily used. |
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Apr 16 |
answered | What are the best resources for learning about concurrency and multi-threaded applications? |
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Apr 15 |
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How can I find ideas for small projects? Particularly interesting is the list of topics that come up in the "Related" sidebar. (programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/36467/…, programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/49518/…). But I am always amazed that people run out of project ideas. How is that possible? |
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Mar 26 |
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Algorithm for determining grid based on variably sized “blocks”? It's also worth pointing out that subset sum is not strongly NP-complete, so if the input domain is small, dynamic programming will solve instances of Subset Sum quickly. |
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Mar 26 |
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Algorithm for determining grid based on variably sized “blocks”? When looking at fixed widths of {25%, 33%, 50%, 66%, 75%}, the problem is not NP complete. |
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Mar 23 |
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Why is verbosity bad for a programming language? @Marcin: Yeah, but they make writing a parser/analyzer for the language easier. I'm fairly convinced that such syntax exists for the benefit of the language implementer, not the programmer using the language. |
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Mar 23 |
awarded | Great Answer |
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Mar 23 |
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Why is verbosity bad for a programming language? Didn't you want to return the 0 when you typed that? AppleScript is the only language I know that allows keyword-griefing you opponents... I mean co-workers. |
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Mar 22 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Mar 22 |
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how to choose a web framework and javascript library? +1: "You don't always need to use a framework"... particularly in python, where wsgi means that you can trivially build a framework, piecemeal, by combining the support libraries you like the most. It's sometimes amazing to me how nicely things play together (WebOb, Chameleon, Beaker, etc). That said, I don't think Trylks' default choice of django+jquery is wrong in any way. I happen to prefer pyramid+jquery. |
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Mar 22 |
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Why was Tanenbaum wrong in the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debates? @CraigStuntz: Thank you. Yes, and I think that as long as OS vendors have a decent value proposition for people, we won't all switch to free GNU OSs. I don't think Tan- could foresee the advent of non-free OSs using many GNU and other Open Source technologies. OS X would be nowhere without BSD and GNU tools. I doubt Android would exist without similar Open Source tech available. |
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Mar 22 |
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Why was Tanenbaum wrong in the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debates? @CraigStuntz Bummer. You teased me with your "Seems relevant to the question at hand." I thought you were implying larger implications than what was discussed in the link, and I just didn't know which way you were going. |
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Mar 22 |
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Why was Tanenbaum wrong in the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debates? @CraigStuntz - elaborate on GPLv3 specifically? Are you saying that the adoption of v3 slowed the adoption of GNU tech, something that T- didn't foresee? Or do you mean "GPL weakens the value proposition due to concerns over IP leakage?" Because I think that was more relevant before the debate than after (empirically, businesses seem much more likely to use GPL software today than then, and I speculate that some of that has to do with reduced fears over IP leakage, founded or otherwise). |
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Mar 22 |
awarded | Guru |
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Mar 22 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Mar 22 |
awarded | Mortarboard |
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Mar 22 |
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Why was Tanenbaum wrong in the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debates? @KonradRudolph recreating citation for total sales via google: 3 billion ARM chips shipped in 2009 (vanshardware.com/2010/08/mirror-the-coming-war-arm-versus-x86) while an estimated 400 million x86 chips sold in 2011 (4 times quarterly number reported here: computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3345299/…). The embedded market is huge and largely non-Intel. |
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Mar 22 |
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Why was Tanenbaum wrong in the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debates? @KonradRudolph The claim that apple would outsell all x86 sources was by a semiconductor market analyst around the time of the new iPad announcement also based on rumors of many current intel channels jumping ship (related, but different analyst prediction via google: itproportal.com/2012/03/21/…). The total chips in use and sales was from an academic presentation. |
