Some sweet soldier/demo hiding spots on Gravelpit

MriLevi · 2 days

hurtme -10000

tpk1024 · 4 days

Hey, if it were a few blocks from where you live, you'd probably go too. And IHOP is delicious.

tpk1024 · 4 days

It is, it premieres June 14 at the International House of Philadelphia. I will definitely be in attendance.

Poita_ · 10 days

I've actually read most of Concrete Mathematics, and I really like it. But it's not widely used (most schools just use their own custom discrete math courses with no textbooks), and as a consequence I suspect most students today would find Sedgewick's approach to analysis of algorithms hard to digest.

So I suppose you are spoiled :)

Poita_ · 10 days

It was published two years after you got your bachelor's. It stands for Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein. It's this book, and it's the algorithms book today.

Poita_ · 11 days

I'm not referring to understanding data structures and algorithms -- I'm referring to this particular brand of analysis (as opposed to asymptotic analysis). Any good CS program will teach you what you'd need to know for a Google interview today and would have taught you whatever subset of that that was known 20 years ago in 1988.

Poita_ · 11 days

Don't feel bad, this isn't in the mainstream of CS (assuming you were referring to the "analytic combinatorics" section). Algorithms courses are widely taught according to books like CLRS (which you're probably familiar with), and I doubt that if I showed this to my professors many would follow entirely.

stormqueen · 19 days

Yes.

Tf2canadia · 25 days

Be really mature, do as much you can with your mic settings to make your voice sound deeper/less annoying, don't tell everyone you're 13.

Also, be good. There are several rather young people on good teams because they're really good and people are willing to overlook their objections.

coder316 · 26 days

I stopped reading when he cited stats from 2009. Clearly the author doesn't spend much time around universities, otherwise he'd know that, at a lot of places, enrollment is at an all time high.

A lot has changed in the past few years.

amila · 27 days

This is really quite stupid. Non-trivial programs get faster because of better algorithms, multithreading and the like, not micro-optimizations like this.

DeltaEks · 29 days

blaze is easily one of the best pyros out there. boomer, probably not so much though. The reason the push failed is because both of their soldiers went off-class, which doesn't leave you good damage at anything other than the short range. This definitely could've worked with one pyro, though (I know enigma used to push gully last as a pyro on coL a little while back, offclassing from scout).

hyde_ · 1 month

Do you have an example of an implementation that won't close the file on GC?

samikc · 1 month

No, it's irreversible.

samikc · 1 month

Not programming

joelthelion · 2 months

Stack Overflow is not a discussion site, or a polling site, or a site to express one's opinions. It's a site to ask discrete, answerable questions and get correct answers.

Unanswerable questions like this lead to flame wars, which are not constructive. SO is a community built on asking and answering questions, nothing more. Sites like Slashdot, Reddit, and Hacker News let people field opinions and voice them.

I'd also caution you to point at question/answer upvotes as an indication of quality, particularly when they have been posted on Reddit. Any time something from SO gets posted here, the number of votes is completely distorted by mindless Redditors who upvote because of "win."

ichthyos · 2 months

From wikipedia, and ad hominem attick is:

is an attempt to negate the truth of a claim by pointing out a negative characteristic or belief of the person supporting it

Calling someone autistic when you're disagreeing with them rather than addressing the substance of their argument would qualify.

ichthyos · 2 months

Congrats women, your approach to working towards being accepted in the computer science is to run in and shrilly yell at everyone for leaving the seat up. This is why people don't take you seriously. I'm sorry that some rockstar dickheads made a "Perform like a Pornstar" presentation, but it wasn't any more or less offensive because you had a vagina when you saw it. Learn to live with people. Either way, get this stupid shit out of here. Not programming. edit: I couldn't help but laugh at loud at this: The pride some people take in being the “cool programmers” and in partying with naked women (yes… really) Hahahaha. I'm sensing some Aspergers or something similar here. Damn, I wish my programming got me parties with naked women. Her whole blog is just one face palm after another. Complaining about the "coding" definition of hacking (ironically, mostly used by brogrammers for meetups and the like) being co-opted to mean something the media stuck it with for decades is hilarious and delightfully ironic. The inability to understand the context when someone "asks if she hacks" is another mildly austistic touch. Bookmarking this blog for the laughs. She complains in another post that there weren't enough photos of women at a hackathon. This woman is hilarious and has one hell of an axe to grind.

At what point do you demonstrate that this is, in fact, "shrill whining?" I see a lot of ad hominem, but no substance (if we're calling people out on logical fallacies). On the other hand, I can pick out at least three completely unnecessary, patently offensive statements in that post.

ichthyos · 2 months

Yeah, no... they're being sexist because they are attributing women being offended at something to the fact that they are women (who, by (sexist) stereotype, are considered to be irritable and oversensitive), rejecting the notion that there might be any validity in their complaint. It's dismissive and works against free discourse.

ichthyos · 2 months

I know the author; I was involved in this. It's more deep than you think.

I agree completely that I think the brogrammer complex is definitely just fun. But real sexism came out when people came to defend the t-shirt despite the fact that it made some women uncomfortable. Whether or not I agree with them is irrelevant; the very fact that they felt uncomfortable was enough to tell me we should've ditched the shirts.

Back to the issue of sexism; the real sexism in the issue came out when people dismissed complaints from women as, for lack of a better word, bitching and oversensitivity. This is something we would never say of member of the majority. But it's a common tactic of dismissal against women who are not happy with how they are treated in the workplace. It's this tactic that you employed in dismissing what Tess said. These attitudes make us not really take women seriously -- no doubt that, with the Sqoot incident, plenty of people thought this was just another instance of women not being able to take a joke. As tempting as these ideas are for me as a member of the majority, I've come to realize that I need to stand by the women in our field, and call people on their bullshit when they dismiss complaints of sexism.

We have to draw a line somewhere as to what is acceptable to be upset about and what is not; I err on the side of caution and draw the line conservatively.

ichthyos · 2 months

You, sir, are everything wrong with this industry. Women don't get to stand up for themselves when they have valid concerns about discrimination and are promptly labeled as "bitches on the rag." Yet we idolize stereotypical "angry programmers" like Linus Torvalds.

As a male in the industry, I am not offended by any of this. But, when people I respect and care about are offended, things need to change. And when misogynists like you dismiss valid discourse, I will push back.

thesystemx · 2 months

Yes, these are dumb questions. But I see no issue in asking them -- they basically assess, "do you know how to and and have you programmed in Java before?" I imagine that they only wanted to hire people that already knew Java, and someone who doesn't know these things doesn't know Java (these aren't trivialities, you'd pick these things up with any use of Java).

So, yes, when you're only looking for people who already know Java, you may weed out some smart people, but those people don't meet your requirements.

Ich_bin_surreal · 2 months

Good to know people in China are just as ignorant about what goes on here as we are about what goes on there.

nthitz · 2 months

Not any more expensive than getting all of the keys in a hashmap.

Fun_Crusher · 3 months

I feel like any time I play stabby, I dominate him. I usually play scout and soldier, though. He's not that hard to shut down if you're aware -- he's still really productive even though he dies more than twice as much as the rest of his team.

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