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The 50 best films of the decade so far, part 2 / The Dissolve. 10+ Places To Watch Fun Educational Videos Online. The Internet is full of great videos, some of which can be quite educational.

10+ Places To Watch Fun Educational Videos Online

A while back, we rounded up a few choice websites with informative videos to expand your mind. There have been plenty of other great options since then, not to mention talented video-makers on YouTube. So here’s a second round of fun and educational videos from the best corners of the web. Specifically, these aren’t sites for a university-level education or places that collect lectures, like Academic Earth.

No, the focus here is a video that is informative, but won’t put you to sleep like a lecture. Curiosity If there is a finer collector of infotainment videos than Curiosity, please show yourself. The breadth of topics goes all the way from a biography of Walt Disney to finding out the purpose of armpits. The Kid Should See This A mother, worried about the trash on the web, decides to take it upon herself to round up videos that are both educational and fun. Brain Pump Science Hack EduTube Physics Girl Crash Course.

Making It Easier to Share With Who You Want. IT - העתיד על פי אינטל: סיפור מד"ב על יום העבודה האחרון בעולם. Programmer Competency Matrix. Suffix Trees. A Suffix Tree is a data-structure that allows many problems on strings (sequences of characters) to be solved quickly.

Suffix Trees

If txt=t1t2...ti...tn is a string, then Ti=titi+1...tn is the suffix of txt that starts at position i, e.g. T1 = mississippi = txt T2 = ississippi T3 = ssissippi T4 = sissippi T5 = issippi T6 = ssippi T7 = sippi T8 = ippi T9 = ppi T10 = pi T11 = i T12 = (empty) The suffix tree for `txt' is a Trie-like or PATRICIA-like data structure that represents the suffixes of txt. A given suffix tree can be used to search for a substring, pat[1..m] in O(m) time. There are n(n+1)/2 substrings in txt[1..n] so it is rather surprising that a suffix tree can be built in O(n) time. If the non-empty suffixes are sorted: Blog Archive » Work 2.0 – the interruptible programmer. I’m 37, and I’ve been a (professional) developer for 16 years.

Blog Archive » Work 2.0 – the interruptible programmer

You would have thought that in that time, I’d have figured out an effective work style which delivered the desired outcomes (code cut, products shipped etc) without causing detrimental knock-on effects – but, sadly, you’d be wrong. I think the style in which I practiced my craft for the first 15 years of my career was much the same as every other enthusiastic developer: you put a ton of hours in. 12-16+ hour days, evening and weekend coding marathons, pizza in the keyboard, crunch times, 3am debugging sessions where you just can’t go to bed because you can feel the source of that bug just beyond your fingertips, dammit, desperate last-minute sprints to deadlines where you manage to slot that last piece in, Jack Bauer-like, just before the world goes to hell. If you’re in the demographic I’m talking about, you’re nodding sagely, and probably grinning a little too, reminiscing on past trials and glories.

Information technology in transition: The end of Wintel. Empirical Software Engineering. As researchers investigate how software gets made, a new empire for empirical research opens up Greg Wilson, Jorge Aranda Software engineering has long considered itself one of the hard sciences.

Empirical Software Engineering

After all, what could be “harder” than ones and zeroes? In reality, though, the rigorous examination of cause and effect that characterizes science has been much less common in this field than in supposedly soft disciplines like marketing, which long ago traded in the gut-based gambles of “Mad Men” for quantitative, analytic approaches. A growing number of researchers believe software engineering is now at a turning point comparable to the dawn of evidence-based medicine, when the health-care community began examining its practices and sorting out which interventions actually worked and which were just-so stories. The stakes couldn’t be higher. Broadly speaking, people who study programming empirically come at the problem from one of two angles. These results can even influence hardware design. Flix Video - דודו גבע. Live Webcast And Concert Downloads From The Sasquatch Music Festival At The Gorge In Washington. Link Latte 137. Link Latte 137 "Dark Roasted Blend" - All Kinds of Weird and Wonderful Things, Discovered Daily!

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