polyphonicist
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> Randal L. Schwartz said:
> 27 Apr 2008 02:30 AM GMT (#1 of 1 comment)
> Glad you enjoyed that bit. That was Tom's humor on that one. I could never have been that clever. :)
It is heartwarming to see the author of a popular Perl book providing credit for a joke to his co-author in the comments of an early 2000 blog post by an independent blogger.
I like Anki but I have never been able to figure out how to capture complex and often long business related information in tiny cards.
Can you share the names of the textbooks?
Yes, it is really important to learn math with study-mates. Just like in code, we do reviews, in math too, we need someone else who can review our proofs. It is even easier to make an error in a proof and believe that something is proven when it isn't. A study-mate helps to prevent us from fooling ourselves.
Do not do it alone. I mean, it is okay to self-learn mathematics as much as possible but don't let that be the only way to learn. Find a self-study group where you can discuss what you are learning with others.
I think the social-effect can be profound in learning. I realized this when I used to learn calculus on my own. My progress was slow. But when I found a few other people who were also studying calculus, my knowledge and retention grew remarkably. I think the constant discussion and feedback-loop helps.
With round the clock internet connectivity, it is easier to find a self-study group now than ever.
Details like this would help the OP to track down the exact cause of why it has indexed the forks but not the original repo.
The domain name analogy scares me rather than reassures me. Sure, DNS was created in good faith to be as distributed as possible, but is it? There are recent stories that show that individuals do not have as much control on domain names as one would ideally like. See these stories -
- Sinkholed: https://susam.in/blog/sinkholed/ (domain name hijack by German authority by accident)
- The duck tape holding the internet together: https://medium.com/thisiscala/the-duct-tape-holding-the-inte... (loss of control on domain name due to registrar error)
While the idea behind Solid sounds solid but the moment they talk about outsourcing pod hosting to third-party pod hosting providers, I get worried. Would it lead to walled gardens of pods? (Example GMail for emails) Would they add non-standard convenience features to create vendor lock-ins (Example GitHub for Git)? Would they abuse their power due to vendor lock-in (Example Sourceforge for SVN)?
> We will be dealing with arbitrary precision integers (bignums) in the problem, so let us also make a few assumptions:
> Addition or subtraction of an m-bit integer and an n-bit integer (m <= n) takes O(n) time.
> Counting the number of 1-bits in an n-bit integer takes O(n) time.