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But, if you're using a modern IDE, removing impl or going from "collections" to "collect" isn't saving anyone any time. Or, at least, it shouldn't be.

It's pretty easy to tell when a candidate has the answer memorized, and it is pretty easy to push them to explain their answer beyond what sites like this give. If they can't tell you things about how their answer would scale, what the tradeoffs are, why they used data structures they did, and what they'd do with slight modifications to the question, they probably won't just skate through the interview.

Eliezer, please explain this to me.

I stumbled upon this technique when doing P90X, I would tell myself I would just do the warmup. By the time the warmup was done, was ready to continue the exercise. Worked wonders!

I have definitely had similar experiences and can remember fiction and non-fiction I read from when I was in jr high school like I'd just read it yesterday (24 now). I can recall the plots and what I took away from each.

This article and most of this thread is just bizarre to me.

Whether or not they give updates is completely irrelevant to when they ship. Many customers asked for more regular updates, they are responding. Chill out.

I'm with you. In college - being in Seattle - it would frequently pour down rain while I was walking between classes. At first, I would run and find cover like everyone else, but after awhile I gave up and started walking, head uncovered, treating the falling raindrops as thousands of gentle reminders that I'm alive. Once or twice, I couldn't help but just bursting out laughing.

...and you completely ignore his call to let it go. That wasn't an invitation to rant more, he was telling you it is old, let it go.

Gem from the Discussion page:

"1., If P not equal NP, then God cannot exist.

(P=!NP would allow easily creating a problem which God himself cannot solve, making omnipotence impossible. Science is not allowed to prove/disprove the exitance of God per definition, thus P must be equal to NP, where even a non-constructive proof would allow for a God.)"

I wonder what kind of education leads to statements like this.

Why is this here?

At least now they are giving us concrete details about the state of the different moving pieces. This much transparency would have been awesome back in november 09.

It is large, but it really doesn't feel like it. I still have to pat my pocket to make sure it is in there, probably because it is so thin. The only time I think of how big it is, is when I am pleasantly surprised at how much fits on the screen, or when I'm trying to operate it with a thumb, holding it in my palm.

Thanks for the reply! Glad you guys are more prescient than I. Very excited to get in bed with your product.

I am very, very curious about this as well. It is something I hadn't thought about until you mentioned this, so I wouldn't be terribly surprised if they haven't though of it either. At the very least, giving early adopters a free upgrade to the washable version when it is available would be good.

Luckily, there probably won't be a significant amount of summer left once we get the thing.

The comments on the blog post are just as... well thought out.

You aren't listening. He said to, "deride the language" and "praise the approach" to those you give the book to.

i.e. When you hand it to them, say, "the language is overly simple and patronizing, but his approach is a good way to learn." Then your (apparently) big-ego friends can mantain their air of superiority while reading the book, without being insulted.

Not that I agree that his language needs to be changed; on the contrary I think is is great. I would have loved such a gentle introduction, at any age.

That's... not exactly a quote, now is it?

I completely fail to see how this is any kind of demonstration that it is an intuitive interface. The cat is pawing at something that is moving and changing, the pawing also happens to generate actions through touch sensors. You could have the most horrendously unintuitive UI possible and this could still be true.

Thanks for saying this.

I don't know firsthand, but I can imagine that the gunner seat in a chopper like this is pretty high anxiety. Your life could depend on shooting the right people at the right time. Not only your life, but the lives of all your buddies flying with you, not to mention the fact that you're protecting a piece of machinery that cost your country millions.

All I was saying before was that gunners like this are used to facing insurgent tactics. When they see vans like this, they aren't looking to give them the benefit of the doubt. They have been trained that, if they do, they may be putting their lives and the mission at risk. This guy is probably scared out of his mind. He has a huge responsibility, and screwing up - as we've seen today - has enormous consequences.

To me, the laughing and joking isn't making light of slaughtering the enemy, it's nervous laughs and desperate attempts to bring everyone out of it. We're human, we don't deal with this shit well. The comments here are good proof of that.

None of this excuses slaughtering innocent unarmed civilians, it's just my attempt at bringing some perspective.

How does this sound to you as a former marine?

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/bmooi/wikileaks_video_j...

It seems plausible to me that these guys are seeing this situation all the time: they fire on a group of people, some are left wounded, and vans show up to collect weapons, but also grab wounded/bodies to try and look legit from the sky. Being used to tactics like these, I can understand how anxious they were to get clearance to fire on the van; who knows if they are going to fire on the helicopter or speed off. It wasn't clearly marked as a medical vehicle, and it sounds like everyone over there knows that you will be fired on if you do something like this.

Two spaces before a line of code does the trick:

  var default_settings = { brightness: 2.7, saturation: 1.4, lamps: 5, block_size: 40, update_interval: 500, fade_time: 400 };

"post-9/11"

VirtualBox is so great. I found it by accident and now can't imagine developing without it. So simple, so many nice options.

Has it become any less bloated over the years? I tried it some 5 years ago and it devastated my computer's performance. Was very surprising for a google app, too.

Immediately profitable <> successful. They're pushing console gaming to the next level, and you can bet that their next iteration will be wildly popular. Turning a huge profit at the expense of not providing significant value is how to remove yourself from future competition.

I see genetic programming as an interesting solution to lots of different problems, but I don't think debugging is one of them.

Bugs in my code usually reflect errors in my thinking (or typos). The genetic program would likely come up with the quickest hack that will get the code working, not the correct redesign that will be easiest to read and maintain for humans.

I think I will probably avoid Hacker News tomorrow. At least one story every day has been ridiculous, I can't imagine what it will be like after the announcement.

This has been around for years, through RSSpect (http://www.rsspect.com/) by the wonderful Ryan North.