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I'll take this chance to recommend Blogtrottr as a perfect alternative to Google Reader, if used along with Gmail Reader.

>According to Wikipedia, they still pipe your searches through Bing

So does DDG.

The problem is not modern c++, it's only when c++ tries to be a functional language that it becomes unreadable.

As I see it, there are multiple "sub languages" in c++:

-Macros: use as little as possible.

-Classic C: use only when interacting with C libraries, or in the few cases where it's more convenient (printf over cout).

-Classic C++ (classes, etc): use it all the time.

-Template meta programming: use only for simple things, eg containers.

-Functional C++: try to avoid.

This seems to be exactly what I was looking for a couple of months ago. I gave up when all the alternatives were either bad or too slow.

You sound like the kid in school that always asked "are we ever going to use any of this in real life?" in math class. Truth is I never needed to derive a function outside of school or college. Was learning about derivatives in high school a waste of time? I can't explain why, but I want to say no, it wasn't.

Also, many times this puzzles are useful in tech interviews to see if the candidate has good analytical skills, which is what is needed.

Blogtrottr + Gmail filters = reader

This is very similar to the sunrise problem. Laplace said the probability of the sun rising tomorrow is (k+1)/(k+2), where k is the number of days we know the sun has risen consecutively, if we always saw it rise, and if we don't have any other information.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_problem

>the two have the same upper bound on their probability? Using only that information, yes. Replace the names of the two events with "event A" and "event B" and it doesn't sound so weird.

Essentially it's Bing for the web results. The other 399 sources seem to be for non web things.

A newspaper creates the content, they are not curators.

Why wouldn't patron have the same problem as YouTube?

It's very slow. Some filters are broken for me now. And some of the fonts used are ugly, but that's the least important thing.

Until 2015 my phone was A Motorola Razr i, which used an Intel cpu with x86 architecture, so it's not that uncommon. Also the PS4 uses today x86 for its main cpu. It's not mobile, but comparing it to Z80 is exaggerating a bit.

What about your average call to malloc() / new?

I searched "js unique array" and got pretty much similar results in Google and DDG. I think a lot of times when Google skips a word is simply because there is no webpage with the literal query.

>this article strikes me as a diatribe against capitalism rather than business school Exactly the same reaction I got.

Planet money had a podcast on this subject. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis...

I recommend blogtrottr for sending rss to your email. If you set a Gmail filter you get pretty much the same experience you had with Google Reader.

For anyone without any idea how to do this, Ray Tracing in a Weekend is a good introduction. It teaches you to do the image in the cover in a pretty short time. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01B5AODD8

There's also Vimium for Chrome. Not sure how similar they are, but the only feature that matters about Vimium is pressing the F key, which allows you to open links without using the mouse. It's the greatest idea I've seen and it should be a native feature of major browsers.

Top 3 Sheldons that will blow your mind!

Those animations are seriously burning my CPU on chrome.

amazing

It seems that using montecarlo in excel is apparently pretty commonm, but I'm not sure if it can be done without addons.

A microcontroller seems like an overkill for a NES controller...

It's true what it says about the purpose of advertising, and how it needs to be expensive to work; and the cost of advertising online keeps getting lower and lower. However I'm not sure stopping targeted ads will magically solve everything and make online ads as profitable as traditional ads; I'm sure most people block ads because they don't want to see them, not because they are targeted. Maybe online ads should be like traditional ones: ads being more expensive the more traffic the website gets; so having a banner in a very popular website should be the equivalent of having a billboard in an important avenue. So cost should be per view, and not per click. After all most of the most expensive ads in traditional media are there to establish a brand, not for you to buy something right now.

I can't imagine using Chrome without Vimium anymore. Even if it's just for the f key, to open links without using the mouse. That's the only key binding that matters

Was this made in one day?

Do I have to believe the reddit-like story in the title? Looking at the website it looks way too professional to be something suddenly made out of the blue one day after your wife got hacked.

Using VS professional 2013. Is this better?