I can't help but see parallels between dark matter and the (al)chemist's Phlogiston theory. Phlogiston was used to account for quantitative errors in chemical reactions. Funny thing was, every (al)chemist had his own measurements for its properties, until our understanding of chemistry improved. I wouldn't be surprised if the dark matter theory were eventually tossed out the window because our understanding of gravity improved.
(You go up in steps (eg 10 floors at a time) until the first marble breaks, then go back a step and go up one floor at a time until the second marble breaks - the "hard" bit is knowing what size steps to use for the first part to be most efficient)
Well, I think the first question you must ask the interviewer is: How do you define efficiency?
If they want the fastest solution, use a binary search. Start at the 50th floor, then go to either the 25th or 75th, etc.
If speed is not an issue (e.g. they want to minimize the number of broken marbles, but are willing to sacrifice five for testing), then another approach can be taken.
Obviously, for the third question, if no phone number appears more than once, then you can use a simple array of bits, and turn the bits on when the corresponding phone numbers are encountered. Then just loop through the array and send the index of each set bit.
I twitched every time I heard "woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoo" in those incessant commercials. Very annoying. A hint to people in the marketing industry: if your advertisements are annoying, I'm not going to buy your product or service.
But some people, upon encountering a dollar bill stampted with "wheresgeorge.com", will start stamping their own bills thus, until they get tired of it, thus simulating the infection of more than one person.
1 kilowatt ought to be enough for anybody.
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Seriously, it's only a matter of time before a CPU manufacturer releases a super-hot chip that will dissipate that much power as heat.
We could probably create a variation on Moore's law that would predict heat dissipation of CPUs.
the QWERTY layout was never intended to slow down typists - a common accusation from Dvorak supporters
I use the Dvorak layout, but speed was never an issue for me.
I switched because I was experiencing intermittent pain in my finger joints, and I knew the Dvorak layout would reduce the travel distance of my fingers. The result? The severity of my finger pains nearly went away. Is this subjective? Yes. But Dvorak is obviously so much more comfortable to type on, that I never regret my decision.
This move will likely bring Seagate more exposure to the budget PC market. However, I've personally witnessed a disproportionately high number of Maxtor drives fail (while working in the PC support department of a five-campus technical college, and drives owned by friends), so I've long had a policy of never buying from them.
If you send mail to youraccount@googlemail.com, you'll receive it at youraccount@gmail.com. There is no need to "reserve" an address under the new domain, it's the same system.
The concept of property tax is just as bad as eminent domain (perhaps worse), inasmuch as it prevents people from truly owning their own homes and land. Instead, "owners" are actually renting from the government.
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Unless you're a Dr. Who fan, in which case it would be:
Ex-ter-min-ate! Ex-ter-min-ate!
What's worse is that 2.9% + 30 cents bit on PayPal transactions, whether or not it was actually funded through a credit card.
In the US, it's illegal to charge different prices depending on method of payment.
However, it would be nice if they charged everyone 1.5% or whatever the weighted average happens to be.
Now we can send our intrepid space explorers there to protect the planet from King Zarkon.
I can't help but see parallels between dark matter and the (al)chemist's Phlogiston theory. Phlogiston was used to account for quantitative errors in chemical reactions. Funny thing was, every (al)chemist had his own measurements for its properties, until our understanding of chemistry improved. I wouldn't be surprised if the dark matter theory were eventually tossed out the window because our understanding of gravity improved.
(You go up in steps (eg 10 floors at a time) until the first marble breaks, then go back a step and go up one floor at a time until the second marble breaks - the "hard" bit is knowing what size steps to use for the first part to be most efficient)
Well, I think the first question you must ask the interviewer is: How do you define efficiency?
If they want the fastest solution, use a binary search. Start at the 50th floor, then go to either the 25th or 75th, etc.
If speed is not an issue (e.g. they want to minimize the number of broken marbles, but are willing to sacrifice five for testing), then another approach can be taken.
Obviously, for the third question, if no phone number appears more than once, then you can use a simple array of bits, and turn the bits on when the corresponding phone numbers are encountered. Then just loop through the array and send the index of each set bit.
I twitched every time I heard "woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoo" in those incessant commercials. Very annoying. A hint to people in the marketing industry: if your advertisements are annoying, I'm not going to buy your product or service.
Why not 1 googol dollars?
You should be multiplying by 1000, not 1024. The number 1024 doesn't factor into clock speed, only memory size.
This may sound nitpicky, but the headline would be a lot easier to parse if it read like this:
Mozilla Announces 'Extend Firefox' Contest Winners
As it is, I had to read it a few times. I kept stopping at the word "Extend" and wondering how to parse two consecutive verbs (Announces Extend).
I wish newspapers would get a clue and use quotation marks properly as well, but I digress.
If I were to wear an analog watch, I would definitely consider this one:
Swatch analog watch with visible gears (zoom in to see detail)
There's something about watching moving parts that inspires the engineer in me.
But some people, upon encountering a dollar bill stampted with "wheresgeorge.com", will start stamping their own bills thus, until they get tired of it, thus simulating the infection of more than one person.
Seriously, it's only a matter of time before a CPU manufacturer releases a super-hot chip that will dissipate that much power as heat.
We could probably create a variation on Moore's law that would predict heat dissipation of CPUs.
the QWERTY layout was never intended to slow down typists - a common accusation from Dvorak supporters
I use the Dvorak layout, but speed was never an issue for me.
I switched because I was experiencing intermittent pain in my finger joints, and I knew the Dvorak layout would reduce the travel distance of my fingers. The result? The severity of my finger pains nearly went away. Is this subjective? Yes. But Dvorak is obviously so much more comfortable to type on, that I never regret my decision.
This move will likely bring Seagate more exposure to the budget PC market. However, I've personally witnessed a disproportionately high number of Maxtor drives fail (while working in the PC support department of a five-campus technical college, and drives owned by friends), so I've long had a policy of never buying from them.
*.reg files are also blocked, which is really annoying.
Microsoft Threatens To Withdraw Windows in S.Korea
If we ask nicely, do you think we can get them to threaten to withdraw Windows from the United States?
"Velociraptor Considered Harmless"
If you send mail to youraccount@googlemail.com, you'll receive it at youraccount@gmail.com. There is no need to "reserve" an address under the new domain, it's the same system.
The concept of property tax is just as bad as eminent domain (perhaps worse), inasmuch as it prevents people from truly owning their own homes and land. Instead, "owners" are actually renting from the government.
There are exactly 42,935,718 letter sized sheets in a square mile.
Not "exactly". Assuming partial sheets can be used along two edges, your figure is high by about 3/8 of a sheet.
(Santa is cigar-shaped, rotates end-over-end every four hours, and has a 60-mile-diameter moon)
Ack! It's the cheesy alien probe from Star Trek IV!
The zip code is an anachronism (introduced 1963).
I wonder if one must pay property tax on lunar land. It would be difficult for the tax assessor to make a visit, though.
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Assuming a 1-meter wire, I think you'd be constrained to about 40 bits of information due to the size of the Plank length unit.