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Comment Re:nope (Score 1) 260

Don't you think a programmer who can churn out working code in a short span can do "properly engineered code" when the need arises? In coding contests, speed is important, it is the "goal" hence there is no need to "engineer" it properly. It just needs to work. A guy who actually "engineers" it for sake of robustness, readability, etc in a coding contest has lost track of the goals of the contest and would be more of an idealist than a practical man. The sort of people who rank high in coding contests are generally very good programmers, very strong in algorithms, pragmatic and fast. I would take them any day.

Comment Re:My theory (Score 1) 1010

I don't know why people upgrade to 8gb RAM. I've a 4gb ram and my os hardly used 50% of it. I've a swap of 8gb which is never used. I don't know what kind of applications you run to need 8gb of ram; video editing, big games?

Comment Re:Bad headline (Score 1) 412

Everything approaching a black hole is being compressed; you'd be exposed to the burning energy of a hundred thousand million thermonuclear explosions before reaching the event horizon.

The high temperatures is produced not by things getting compressed, but because breaking bonds between a pair of entangled particles is highly exothermic. Also Polchinski says things get burned at event horizon, not compressed.

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