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The problem is: I don't do thinking by writing code. I do thinking by thinking. Often away from the computer (and even farther away from whiteboards).
Suppose there is a unique 15-clue solution. Then add another clue by adding any number from the unique solution. The solution must still be unique (because it contains the 15 clues), so we now have a unique 16-clue solution, which is impossible.

So isn't this article missing the obvious?
Ah, yes. My unusual advantage here is that SharedCount doesn't use the datastore, which I now realize is likely not the case with ThatHigh.

(In fact, when I had to migrate my app from MS to HRD, it kept failing because I didn't have any datastore entities. The workaround was to just create a single entity)
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In a word, yes!

I'm assuming you've never actually tried to do this. But even so, you could try this experiment for yourself - try and organise an evening out for you and six of your friends. Not any six mind, but start out with a group of six and say "I need all these six and only these six, no-one else will do". Now have a look at how far you have to plan ahead to get all six to be available. If your friends are anything like my friends, you are looking at needing about 2 months warning.

Job interviews are even worse. They last longer. They happen during office hours, when most good candidates already have a job, so candidates are going to need to negotiate time off. Candidates will have holidays planned, for some certain days of the week will just be impossible due to family constraints, or sport constraints, or whatever.
What? C# has closures but the CLR doesn't. For the CLR, it's just yet another object of some class, where the class has a relatively funky name.

True about the new patterns, btw. I guess you'd need to port a jQuery to .NET first in order to be productive.
i hate when my internet experience is "localized" with shit like "g'day mate".

the internet is a place in and of itself.
I don't know where I read it but that seems to be exactly the goal. So much of American labour has been offshored now. A vast majority of it is outsourced and the US provides less and less manufacturing each year.

The result is quickly becoming that US's chief export is entertainment or IP product. But when the rest of the world is simply stealing that export it isn't very financially lucrative is it?

All these laws are simply the US trying to protect its export that is obviously in a failing state.
In the UK it is commonly said "you don't vote people in, you vote them out".

It would be nice if we could be more pro active and avoid some of this nonsense.
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This problem used to exist for a Google optimizer of some kind, a long time ago (6-8 years ago I think).

Do you remember its name?
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Inertia; I initially built the API in PHP, but switched it to AppEngine when ProgrammableWeb listed it and people actually started using it. The front end uses the API though, and doesn't get enough traffic to justify worrying about scale.
It's a backend web service, so I think I'll pass. :)
Just to let you know, I agree with you in substance. If it makes a difference to someone whether you have your code on github or sourceforge, then they're obviously pushing a dogmatic view. But like you say, that's not github's fault, so conflating them and a subset of their users in an argument doesn't seem productive.
I think a lot of people here are missing the point that this is only one interview question, not the entire interview. You still need to ask icebreaker questions about the candidates experience to get them comfortable before breaking out a whiteboard question, and you should still follow up a "stock" question like this with a more specific question taken from your domain (if they make it that far).

I'd also add that you need to have several of these "stock" whiteboard questions on hand. If the interviewee seems to get the solution too easily, they may have heard the question before. Everyone knows FizzBuzz by now, and I gave three answers to "compute the nth Fibonacci number" at my last interview. These questions are no good anymore if you're trying to see how a candidate thinks on their feet.
Coincidently, I'm currently creating a similar project: https://github.com/chrisdunelm/Cil2Js

This is absolutely not yet ready for real use, but can convert a sub-set of CIL to JavaScript and is fully open source :)

Update:

il2js and Cil2Js work significantly differently. il2js interprets the .NET IL in a JavaScript virtual machine, whereas Cil2Js directly converts the .NET IL into JavaScript.

Having now looked at this il2js project in more detail, it appears to have some subtle (and some not-so-subtle) differences between running on .NET and running in JS. For example, integer division will return a double in JS; Stack<T>.Last() returns wrong end of stack on JS; no/little support for non-primitive value types; etc... Hopefully these will be sorted out soon, as it's these sorts of inconsistencies that can lead to extreme frustration.

I am unconvinced that a JS VM is a good technique, as I suspect it will be an order of magnitude slower that the same IL converted to JS (although I have no test data to prove this).

However, these aside, it's an impressive project.
Yes, I agree. I think 5b is very poorly framed, and doesn't show what it is puported to show in the linked article.

I also agree that the reasoning changes a lot if this is a one-time event vs. a regular occurance.
My site, Correlated (http://www.correlated.org) has gotten >100K hits from StumbleUpon (all organic), and in my experience, it's crappy traffic.

I've looked at my site stats, and only a tiny fraction of those hits -- less than 1 percent -- results in any sort of action on the site.

Compared with traffic from practically every other referrer, that's markedly less engagement.

There are some sites, for instances, whose referral traffic results in engagement in up to 50 percent of cases, and those aren't all necessarily highly targeted audiences.

What can I infer from this?

My guess is that a lot of this StumbleUpon traffic is coming from people who are only passively using the service, as opposed to actively using it.

I would describe an active user of the service as someone who says, "Hey, I'm bored. I'll go to StumbleUpon and look for some interesting websites."

I would describe a passive user of the service as someone who, say, has it set as their homepage, so it opens up whenever they open their browser, whether or not they're actually in the mood to check out new websites.

Whatever the reason, StumbleUpon referrals are traffic that I have largely written off.
I find those stats pretty suspicious and probably highly country-specific. Opera in number one place? Not in any developed country I know.
Nikhil Kothari's Script# ( https://github.com/nikhilk/scriptsharp ) "enables developers to author C# source code and subsequently compile it into regular script that works across all modern browsers".

Uptake was hampered in the past by the author's unwillingness to open-source the compiler; I'm not sure what the community is like at this time. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1579192/should-i-use-scri...
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yeah I read that and thought "gosh how patronising would that be".

also geolocation fails for my IP, says I'm 35 miles away from where I am, which in UK terms is quite far.
Just because there is no binary data type in JavaScript, doesn't mean that I need to encode all my binary data fields using BASE64 over the wire.

Please add binary data type with the exception, that JavaScript clients will get it as BASE64 string.
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This looks like a lot of fun, but my main concern is with the pricing model. I can recreate much of this functionality for myself, without rate limiting, in a couple of hours with standard open source libs.

The value-add they offer is good, but I'm never gonna find out about it first hand because I'm not gonna pay to try it (even with a 30 day money-back guarantee)

I predict they would have far more luck if they open-sourced the basic library (so we could use it to get say 80% of the functionality ourselves BUT would need to self-host it etc. etc.) and then offered a hosted version for $$ per month.

Good luck!
As far as I can tell, the edge cache doesn't work predictably; it relies solely on standard caching at the Google infrastructure lebel. The Cloudflare caching appears to be more centralized and covers a higher percentage of hits. But, I haven't looked into the effect of relying solely on the edge cache and getting rid of Cloudflare. Can't think of any reason to try, though, since Cloudflare is free.
I mean both a push to centralize things that really should be left to the countries and a lack of democratic transparency. In Sweden, the debate since back before the referendum in 1994 has been between a "it's better to be on the inside to have influence" on the one side and "it doesn't matter because you have no influence on the inside anyway" on the other. And in the meantime, the lack of democratic transparency has just grown, not become less.

This lack of democracy was generally sold as "don't worry, the EU is just for boring things you the people don't care about anyway, an in either case we have a veto". But now the veto is gone and centralization spreads its tentacles deeper and deeper into national affairs, so that's been a highly disingenuous argument.
The implication (not entirely clearly stated in the article) is that if a puzzle with n clues is solvable, a puzzle with n+1 clues is also solvable.

Conversely, if a puzzle with n clues is unsolvable, any puzzle with n-1 clues is similarly unsolvable.
I think they addressed this in the edit they made:

>Correction: this post was edited on the 6 January to reflect the argument that if an n-clue grid is uniquely solvable then adding a digit to make an n+1-clue grid must also be uniquely solvable. So if there are no uniquely solvable 16-clue grids, there cannot be any grids with fewer clues that are uniquely solvable. Thanks to RealMurph and abooij.
agreed. You get huge, brief spikes of largely useless traffic.

I'm not convinced there is an 'active' user of SU; I think people get into a click-the-stumble-button cycle and burn through 10s of pages a minute, meaning that most of the SU traffic is just bounces because they'll click for the next page in a matter of seconds.
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... or toys with less lead in them... ;-)

http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/16/toys-product-safety-biz-com...
I've got a very similar setup to Matt. No Macbook Air though, best get shopping :)
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The design goal isn't usually to maximize time at altitude. If you do that, your balloon lands 10,000km away and is difficult to retrieve.
I haven't used it personally, but one useful tool might be http://codereview.stackexchange.com/
It is like deja vu:

- Belarus March 2011 - national currency drops by more than 50% to USD due government failure.

- Since you can not get together more than 3 persons in public places (it will be illegal meeting/petitioning), people used social networks (twitter, vkontakte.ru) to get together every Wednesday's evening at some announced location and just stay there (no talking, no doing anything illegal, not causing any trouble for anybody). Occasionally - clap in hands. So it is like flashmob, just scheduled :)

- After second such event - access to twitter.com, facebook.com, vkontakte.ru, etc sites was blocked nationally each Wednesday. Organizer's account in vkontakte.ru was hacked somehow by Belarus police/KGB (probably, not hacked, but "enforced" - it is easier for them just to call to organization and request information instead)

- After 3 months our government tried to pass updates to a law about public meetings trying to make "public not-doing" illegal (this is what these people were "doing" each Wednesday). Thanks god, this did not pass through 'cos it is insane.

- Next - the law discussed there - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3415897 - was introduced and quickly after that was approved :)

Belarus currency to USD exchange rate, January 2011 - 3200 brb for 1 USD
Belarus currency to USD exchange rate, December 2011 - 8500 brb for 1 USD
As Kahneman says in the book - every experienced gambler and trader knows that "you win some, you lose some". Although we may not get multiple chances to repeat the same exact gamble, our intuition tends to lead us to minimize risk when the risk is negligible,and to maximize certainty when things are already pretty certain. This is clearly not the optimal approach. By relaxing our personal constraints a little and adjusting our strategy, over the course of a lifetime and the many gambles we take (e.g., starting that web business) they may pay greater dividends than taking our "default" human strategy.
I've felt the same way, but it's worth pointing out that this would be possible with low-tech, uncomplicated paper books.

A large school district could surely save a bundle, and improve the quality of its education besides, by paying a qualified individual to write a textbook just for them, then having it printed just for them. And they could give away the text to other interested districts if they wanted, saving the other districts even more money.

This has been true for decades. No internet, no computers or e-readers, and no fancy newfangled CC licenses would be required for such a plan.

Yet it mostly has not happened.

So there must be a reason. This infamous story by Richard Feynman suggests that it's a matter of an entrenched culture of laziness, lobbying, bribery, and in effect regulatory capture:

http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm
Hi g2orge. This is something I've always wanted to ask folk who just use vim for writing Java code (assuming it is Java):

- How do you refactor code?

- How do you navigate code (e.g. Eclipse will let you click on a class and it'll find the appropriate source file if available)?

- Do you have a sense of whether using vim vs. an IDE affects your efficiency or correctness?

- Do you have an equivalent for things like autocomplete, intellisense, organise imports etc.?

- What are IDE users missing out by not using vim?

- What kind of code do you write e.g. is it a small number of heavily optimised classes or a large number of, say, feature driven classes?
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Not sure if that approach is useful. Wouldn't it be better to build something and note where you struggle the most along the way?

I currently face a similar problem, as I want to pick up playing the guitar again. How to get into deliberate practice mode? I consider just going through a book step by step. On the other hand, as my real goal is songwriting, perhaps it would be better to just start writing songs and try to learn what I need along the way (presumably by copying elements from music I like, that is, trying to figure out how to achieve certain effects).

I have also considered to just check out random guitar lesson videos on you tube. Perhaps that way I could pick up new techniques and then see what I can create by employing them.
wasn't this submitted yesterday or the day before yesterday, yet in a different form?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3427762
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As someone who just turned 43, this article makes me very sad.

Wait, what was the article about again?
7.100.000 hours on a 640 hexcore Xeon cluster is only 1.848 hours. That is ~6 hours a day for January-December.

I always had a suspicion that all these super powerful grids are only used to play Sudoku..
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Link to study: http://www.ams.org/staff/jackson/fea-mertz.pdf
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That's because he/she was replying to the post above that said you can't learn any transferable skills from GAE. They were just mentioning some more abstract/general things they learned from GAE.
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I've played with their streetview transition in GL... really nice.
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That's pretty good in my book. I live in Cornwall, and there are lovely girls in Cheltenham just dying to speak to me...
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IMO, its a step in the right direction to build threaded concurrency into the foundation of a Ruby web server. Events can be layered within those threads. Then you can even have a nice mix of sync / async code on a single web server running harmoniously. Also, if running just a single thread, we're in the same place as most other Ruby web server, but for those VMs that can take advantage of it, and for those stacks that can benefit, its awesome.

I hear you guys in the comments saying events is the way to go for concurrency in Ruby, especially with MRI. As many also know, GIL-less threads are available in modern Ruby VMs like Rubinius and JRuby.

I haven't tried puma yet, but I do believe in evanphx's work.

Also, for those interested in concurrency with Ruby, also check out: https://github.com/tarcieri/celluloid and https://github.com/tarcieri/nio4r .. looks like Tony even has a fork of puma in there too.
Um, the US does not "have control over billions of dollars of [Iraqi] oil resources" now. Why would you think it did?
I think in Kahneman's book (unless I'm recalling incorrectly), the situation wasn't "90% chance of $1000 or 100% chance of $900).

It was more like "90% chance of $1000, or 100% chance of $850" (i.e., something a little less than P(X)*X). That was the whole point), people are willing to pay a premium for certainty - and the contrary (are willing to pay a premium to turn a 0.01% chance into a 0% chance)
What are you on about? Think about what you're saying. Of the 5 billion or so connections to the internet, how many of those can possibly be from developed countries? Africa alone has ~800m Internet users, the majority of which use Opera as their primary browser. It's extremely popular in India and Indonesia too.
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I'm surprised that you feel you were able to measure something accurately with that list. I feel like it's very vague, and I don't have a clue how good I actually am for many of the important things like "problem decomposition", "systems decomposition", "communication", "code readability", et al. I'm sure there are probably people who would consider themselves "level 3" that I would scoff at, and there are probably people who would consider themselves "level 3" who would scoff at me. Basically, "level 3" seems to span everything from Norvig and djb to someone who got a BS and just read Code Complete.

Anyway, it looks like you're good enough at stuff to be a good generalist, so you should probably just study and work on whatever you're interested in and improve naturally.
This isn't an Onion story?
Neko.io adds a splash of real privacy to Facebook and elsewhere around the web
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The Java ME nonsense story
I agree, a lot of the useful stuff comes from the navigator object - browser, language, plugins etc.

The window object provides screen height, width and colour depth.

Modern browsers have geolocation as a JS API, but if you want it to be less accurate/less intrusive then an ajax request to a script that does a geo lookup on the IP would supply that.

The time on site and visits can be done by storing information in localStorage, or whatever the IE equivalent is called.

There are a few harder bits, but replicating most of the low hanging fruit is trivial for any web developer.
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Dang. I hate these boys vs girls articles that cite testing at 8th grade. How about after puberty? That's when the boys start to really shine in math.
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In my case, it thinks I'm 470 miles away from where I am. It got the country right though (NZ).
As someone who was a university student recently, I can tell you that the standard stumbleupon usage pattern goes like this:

1) Click stumble button
2) Look at page for 0.5-2 seconds
3) Stay on page if it's the kind of thing you're looking for (usually novel flash
games or funny videos,) otherwise go back to 1.

The mouse pointer typically never leaves the stumble button during this process, we used to flick through dozens and dozens of pages like we were doing a psychoanalytic free association excercise until we found something we liked.

So yeah, not exactly high quality traffic.
Nothing new here... more of the same since many decades. Check http://www.amazon.com/Overthrow-Americas-Century-Regime-Chan... and now Libya and Syria while ignoring the most likely more oppressive US ally Saudi Arabia.
Pricing scheme aside (honestly I would pay for such a service if it comes with a nice little dashboard and some decent stats), What I really wonder is if it would have a load of backlash from customers coming to my.

Personally whenever any site does the "you are from Lexington!" I get a little freaked out. What else is it tracking about me? is it going to use this info for anything? I know all sites have the capability to track me, but it makes me uneasy when they are showing me they are actively doing so.

Still I feel like they nailed a key service which is "If they googled "free" offer them a discount". This kind of thing would be very, very good for buisness. This is probably the future of web advertising and marketing.
Ben Bagdikian called. He wants his truth back. http://www.amazon.com/New-Media-Monopoly-Completely-Chapters...
This has been done. Real World Haskell [1] comes to mind.

[1] http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/types-and-functions.ht...