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Comment · 6 years ago
From the article:

> 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.

Comment · 6 years ago
Here is the fun bit hidden away in the comments page of this post:

> 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.

Comment · 6 years ago
Like other sibling comments, I would also like to know how you have used Anki to transform your career.

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.

Comment · 6 years ago
Which university, if you don't mind me asking?

Can you share the names of the textbooks?

Comment · 6 years ago
Shared a similar thought here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22401420

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.

Comment · 6 years ago
The book looks lovely. Did you write it using latex? What is your tooling to author a book like this?
Comment · 6 years ago
I am going to suggest something that might go against this idea of self-studying math.

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.

Comment · 6 years ago
Can you provide detailed steps to reproduce? What strings did you search? Two examples of repos that appeared in the results? What is the link to your repo that did not appear in the results?

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.

Comment · 6 years ago
Why does Go need web framework? What's wrong with net/http?
Comment · 6 years ago
> Even if you do hand your pod over to some company, it'll be like letting them host your domain name or manage your cell phone number. If you don't like what they're doing, you can always move your pod -- just like you can take your cell phone number and move to a different carrier. This will give users a lot more power.

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)?

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