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ithinkso··on Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory
One can be new to git but familiar with i.e. SVN or with VCS theory in general. Sometimes I really do hate it when I'm trying to learn how to use a new tool and every beginner's tutorial starts with explaining how computers work or with some story that is somewhat relevant.
ithinkso··on A startup is betting $10K your marriage fails
More than 50%
ithinkso··on TorFlow
I'm wondering the same thing, would be interesting to hear if there is some reason behind this.
ithinkso··on First Timers Only
Well, what about RAM, PC and so on? They might be an extreme example but if you are in the 'field' not using abbreviations may actually bug you more. Targeting audience is not an easy task.
ithinkso··on The State of LTE
Seeing Kazakhstan with 80% LTE coverage I was close to laugh but then found:

> The proportion of time users have an LTE signal, or LTE 'Time Coverage', is our proprietary metric for looking at coverage holistically, instead of just as a measurement of geographical reach.

Not sure that's the best way though.

ithinkso··on Hack: A typeface designed for source code
I hate that 'i' glyph but otherwise looks nice. I'm more interested in editor's colorscheme in example though. Really nice, anyone has some information?
ithinkso··on How I came to find Linux
I've started about 9 years ago, we have only one computer in home used also by my brother and father (diehard EE engineer that started with punched card programming and still writes, albeit great, software for embedded in notepad++(syntax coloring) and copy-paste into IAR IDE) and I was craving for linux but no one would allow me to install some strange OS. In 2006 I finally got mine first PC and I've installed ubuntu. I was enlightened so to speak, ubuntu worked for me for quite a while until gnome3 and unity, then I've switched to Arch and am using it ever since.
ithinkso··on The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Same here, I've been doing 'online judge' type of contests quite a lot in high school and college and one of the first thing to try was basically solve for small numbers by hand and then try oeis. Love this site, still have it bookmarked.
ithinkso··on Can all books be found somewhere within the number Pi?
Nope, normality is necessary.

>>All that is needed for every work to appear is that each digit occur at least once.

Counter example would be a=0,123456789010011000111000011110000011111....

ithinkso··on Google balloons, “cell towers in the sky,” can serve 4G to a whole state
But lte's base stations has actually very limited capacity, thats why in cities there are a lot of micro cells for capacity and much less 'full range' cells for coverage.
ithinkso··on Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken
None of this is true.

>fibonacci growth is strictly faster than exponential

There is even an explicit formula for F(n) that shows fibonacci growth is exactly exponential[1]

>In fact, this is why nlog(n) is the lower bound on the number of comparisons a comparison-based sorting algorithm

It's true that lower bound for comparison-based sorting is nlog(n) but it has nothing to do with fibonacci

>n! is approximately nlog(n)

Stirling's formula[2] says otherwise (that n! is exponential)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Closed-form_ex...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%27s_approximation

ithinkso··on Remote code execution in Asus router firmware
What's the alternative?
ithinkso··on Checkboxes that kill your product
Personally I hate when they hide or turn off entirely every possible option. They are there for a reason if someone wants to use them - if not - simply don't use them. After such options have disappeared peoples that were using it are pissed and those who have not - don't even notice.
ithinkso··on Decision to drop ext support from ChromeOS Files.app reversed due to outcry
No actually, most people stated that theirs external storages - sd cards, usb, disk are all ext4.
ithinkso··on Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution
Funny thing is, when we(native speakers of Slavic languages) read such english text with omitted articles we do understand it as intended and often we do not even realize that it's missing something.
ithinkso··on Ask HN: Young developer looking for some guidance
Cormen's Introduction to Algorithms. It is almost biblical book about algorithms. And solve online judge type of tasks. A lot.
ithinkso··on Sprint Will Sell a $12 Wireless Plan that Only Connects to Facebook or Twitter
Maybe not so drastically as in US but I think it may also happen. If I recall correctly some T-Mobile plan in Poland has something like 'free Facebook'.
ithinkso··on How PGP Works Under the Hood
Nitpick: there is an obvious way but the idea is that it is very hard to do so.
ithinkso··on 🌉
Firefox 29 on Arch here, seeing square.
ithinkso··on Math Intuition Cheatsheet
I like the idea but I personally really enjoy and prefer 'math english'. At first it may seems odd but after a while you get used to it and it's actually easier, you just scan through epsilons, deltas knowing exactly what they mean. Intuition has edge-case scenarios, double-meanings and almost-truths. I don't know why, but I think intuition (pseudocode math as someone had named it) gives a little bit of a 'illusion' of knowledge. You think you got it but are you really?
ithinkso··on Is TDD dead?
Do not generalize here, what if he is working alone?
ithinkso··on How Can Yahoo Be Worth Less Than Zero?
On the not so unrelated topic: does anyone know where you could learn 'basic business'? Something like programming languages first-steps tutorials to be able to understand what they actually are talking about.
ithinkso··on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: the cloud platform of choice
Hope dies last but please, let systemd die before.
ithinkso··on Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when
I wonder how one should proceed (if not working for any of this big tech companies) when one discover as critical bug as heartbleed?
ithinkso··on The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (2011)
With NULL terminated strings it also was simpler to serialize it. If str+len was a standard now we would have 13 more serialization standards.
ithinkso··on Abstract Ideas Don’t Deserve Patents
Has someone already patented earning money by patenting everything and then suing everyone else?
ithinkso··on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released
Same here, I was using 10.04 LTS till the end of support and then move to Arch, best decision ever.
ithinkso··on Google I/O 2014
How you are you guys, not from US, make it to these kind of events? Isn't obtaining visas and so on a problem?
ithinkso··on Ask HN: How much do you spend on SaaS a month?
How are you guys managing tens of SaaS? Isn't it a problem to remember, configure, update etc?
ithinkso··on Fleep
Little bit offtopic: recently every startup website I've seen here looks almost exactly the same, especially those with .io domain. Is there some kind of a template or technology that is being used to fastly develop those or is this just a trend?If it is could someone link to some resources about how to create those? Thanks.
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