Gods behave in many ways. Some are jealous and quick to anger, and others are inhumanly patient. Some forbid alcohol to their followers, and others get drunk and beat up giants. Some descent to earth in the form of a bull to conduct illicit sexual liaisons with mortals, and others lack reproductive organs altogether. However, without exception, one thing they all have in common is that they never conduct polite discussions of bitwise arithmetic tricks. And yet that is exactly what I see here.

Next time you decide to #include <linus/stdflame.h>, please check to make sure it actually applies to the situation.

What is annoying about this comment is that it compels me to go back and read every other comment you've written. Please write less gracefully next time.

Nice illustration of the problems associated with naive Bayesian classifiers.

I am aware that Linus has that reputation, but glancing over the post and comments, it seemed like a good, factual discussion in this case. Did I miss something?

So in which verse in the bible they talk about bitwise tricks?

Mathew 5:37

Why? I'd say we find optimisation tricks quiet interesting here. I barely saw any sucking up or worshipping in the thread, it was mostly on topic.

But no one can deny that c++ is the most fascinating programming language in this world. You can either spend or waste as long time as you want to __LEARN__ this language and never can say I understand ALL.

I deny it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)

C++ occupies an interesting point on the curve of fascination vs. utility, but to call it the most fascinating language (by your own definition especially) is just hyperbole.

DAYS ago, I remember the other hacker showed his program about HN recommendation written in Ruby.

Same here. When I saw the post, I was wondering if it is the same person, because the other hacker also used the same algorithmic implementation for the recommendation engine.

@apgowz That's the link I was talking about.

Problem there is that I'm far too lazy to label a bunch of data, this one lets you label data with a simple click. :D

And you are a sanctimonious twat.

as a regular long run runner and coder, I totally agree with you. For training, not only building base is important, if you wanna achieve a good pace during marathon, running fast like a blast is part of it. More detailed, we basically have 4 phases for training. 1)acclimatizing phase, 2)building-up phase, 3)overall preparation phase, and 4)special preparation phase. Hacktons are more like phase 4, not so accurate analogy,but the spirit is the same. Digging deep, changing the routine, a big improvement is coming.

Hackathons are more like fartleks, no?

yeah, right. usually I call it interval. But you are right. this is the right term.

Directors, Managers, Employee, they want to proof they were doing something.......so this is the only way... :)

As for today, in my opinion, windows 1's logo is such a fashion.

Totally agree with you. cool enough.also _cool_ in Finland