OmniLarry

This. I was going to ask "You mean other than R?" It is most certainly the first thing to look at.

I hope not, or at least that they make things for us keyboard folks. I can type at ~120wpm, and while I don't always think that fast, I can't imagine communicate at a much slower pace..

Sounds kind of like the public school system (not including university) and taxes.

So to break even, she will have to make 10 mil$, not doing the math on opportunity cost, taxes, etc. Sounds dubious.

Well worth the time, but probably shouldn't have started reading it at 1am, right before bed!

I don't think this is quite a skiplist, but it is amusing that someone's trying..

Not exactly an insider either - raising money for his hedge fund as a doctor with a blog.

I think you're being too kind to them:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/congress-mau...

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5558/am-i-allowed-to...

I read that as a stand-in for "Wall St", probably also because my friends usually go for Goldman now, but hedge funds are definitely where all the action is at.

Sorry, can't find the link, but it was a Topcoder problem at least 5 years ago.

Well, it is trivial with two balls, once you get it, but it's tricky with respect to "just binary search".

For N balls, the other balls can/should be binary searched. It's just a little tricky when it comes to the last two..

I was actually a charter member at the Union Square Crunch gym (the one on 3rd anyhow). Quitting was easy though, they only asked why (because I hadn't been going) and that was that.

From Petr Mitrichev, one of the best programming contest programmers in the world, if not the best.

What do you mean? That's what the tiebreaker is for. Problem writing is hard, especially if you're trying to distinguish between very close competitors.

At what point do these wide ranges cease to be a choice? ;)

I'm curious, when people say salary, do they mean compensation? 80-90k starting in NY is almost month to month, but there's a nice pot of bonus..

A good example given by my friend is perhaps a Dating app used by your wife, or your friend who is married.

It's true that you can look it up if you suspect it, but now you don't have to do the digging.

True enough. I think the easily accessible part is somewhat important though, at least for apps that you would not look for otherwise - it's like checking if a key exists in hash, vs given a list. For the former, you can find it if you know what to look for, the latter it gives you a free look.

"Welcome to amortized analysis!"

Seriously, if the point is to educate people the difference between O(1) and O(1)A, then fine, let people understand the difference. The problem is that he thinks the solution is to scrap it altogether.

It's almost like, hey guys, Quicksort isn't really O(n log n), it only is on average! (Of course, the STD uses introsort.. ;))

Also a highly ranked Topcoder.