awesomepantsm
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8 years ago
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on: The Icewind Dale Problem
I don't really get why you wouldn't approach it as a dynamic programming question. The size of the table would only be about ~38 rows, according to the description, and ~38 columns. If you were given the probabilities of each sum (of which I'm sure is available) you could do it by hand, likely in an excel sheet.
awesomepantsm
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8 years ago
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on: 99.99 + 0.02 = 100.00999999999999
If I was clippy, I'd say "Are you trying to ask a question on StackOverflow?" Please don't post things even a 1st year student already knows.
awesomepantsm
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8 years ago
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on: Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
You watch too many movies. FBI doesn't recruit people by kidnapping them.
awesomepantsm
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8 years ago
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on: Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
>If no one knows where he is, it's more likely that it's what Marcus wants at the moment rather than what the FBI wants.
Oh come on...
awesomepantsm
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9 years ago
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on: Graph Data Structure Interview Questions
To be fair, almost all the problems after 6 are just variations on BFS and DFS, just different ways to ask the question.
For example, (11. Check if an undirected graph contains cycle or not) can easily be solved by just performing a DFS with some exit conditions.
awesomepantsm
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9 years ago
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on: Graph Data Structure Interview Questions
You didn't miss anything. This is why these are good interview questions, because it weeds out the people who are asleep.
awesomepantsm
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9 years ago
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on: When ‘he’ll be kept on payroll, somewhere’ is where you are
The implication of the article is that Dan has had more than 12 weeks to make his side of the story known, and has chosen not to.
What's Dan's side of the story going to be that would change your mind about raising pitchforks? That actually Jacob wasn't fired for sexual harassment from a previous job?
awesomepantsm
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9 years ago
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on: How I got my dream job in the tech industry without a CS degree
>when better instruction is available for free online?
Have you watched khan academy videos? Or online lectures in general?
90% of it is complete garbage. You can listen to Sal repeat every sentence 5 times if you really want to, but are you actually learning?
awesomepantsm
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9 years ago
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on: Algorithms
Talked to someone who wanted to work at one of the big megacorps as a software engineer, asked for advice to pass the interview. I asked them if they could implement quicksort. They said maybe, but they didn't really want to study algorithms. I guess they really didn't want the job after all.
awesomepantsm
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9 years ago
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on: (2013) George W. Bush is smarter than you
for what it's worth, this article was posted about a week ago, already.
awesomepantsm
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9 years ago
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on: Beating Kaggle the easy way [pdf]
The title should be Losing At Kaggle The Easy Way. They never even broke top 10.
awesomepantsm
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9 years ago
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on: The No More Ransom Project
Exactly, but it will never be zero. There will always be scammers trying to get rich quick on the trust users have placed in the (more) honest scammers. All organized crime has to deal with some amount of posers trying to cash in on their reputation.
Sometimes the way they keep the dishonest guys in line is by attacking others who try to get in on the scheme. Traditionally this would be breaking people's knees, and I imagine well-organized cyber crime boils down to the same thing in the end.
awesomepantsm
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9 years ago
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on: Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Stealing Your Mobile Traffic”
Visiting non-AMP sites on mobile is masochistic (e.g. try searching news results). You get basically all the same problems, but also pop-unders, late loading ads, greedy javascript, autoplaying videos, and other bad behavior.
The AMP is really quite solid for the news use case, in my experience.
awesomepantsm
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9 years ago
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on: Robots Can’t Dance – Why the singularity is greatly exaggerated (2015)
awesomepantsm
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9 years ago
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on: Video Games Aren't Art, We're Better
Yes, you can have an opinion on which art is better. You can also argue about which religion is better. If you've never done either, I recommend it some time. Having opinions and forming arguments can be very fulfilling.
awesomepantsm
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9 years ago
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on: Hijacking YouTube to transmit your data
This makes no sense. If you have the ability to run software to decode the youtube video, then let's be honest, what is actually stopping you from just using Tor browser, or a proxy site to get to your content? Or just a USB stick with whatever data that you downloaded elsewhere?
awesomepantsm
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9 years ago
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on: Gary Johnson's plan to save the internet
tl;dr, He's against the PRISM program.
Yawn, as if stopping one state sponsored surveillance program would "save the internet".
awesomepantsm
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9 years ago
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on: Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work
>Don't just torch everything on some suspicion of something going wrong.
You can rest assured, if it was child porn, they'd be obligued to keep backups as proof for law enforcement. I doubt the material is actually deleted, just hidden until they sort it out with the feds.
awesomepantsm
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9 years ago
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on: Google Unfairly Curbs Web Ads and Skews Search, EU Alleges
And Windows defaults to IE and Bing search. I don't see any antitrust case against Microsoft for essentially the same thing you are describing.
Or Apple and Safari.
awesomepantsm
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9 years ago
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on: Google Unfairly Curbs Web Ads and Skews Search, EU Alleges
>It rejected Google’s argument that its chief shopping search rivals are Amazon.com Inc. and EBay Inc.
Really EU?
