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Mike Dunlavey
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BS Mechanical Engr.
PhD CS(AI)
CS Prof (4yr)
Numerous consulting jobs.
15 yr at http://www.pharsight.com
Published book on CS & several articles
4 kids, 2 grand
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P.S. The picture is a Beta-prime distribution. It shows the program speedup factors you can get if you see a problem twice in 2, 3, 4, and 5 samples.

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Is micro-optimisation important when coding?
Aug 8, 2011
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75
Why isn't functional programming more popular in the industry? Does it catch on now?
Sep 25, 2010
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69
What kind of bugs do "goto" statements lead to? Are there any historically significant examples?
Oct 23, 2016
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60
Clean readable code vs fast hard to read code. When to cross the line?
Jul 5, 2011
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50
How has an increase in the complexity of systems affected successive generations of programmers?
Jan 14, 2014
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47
What is the meaning of the sentence "we wanted it to be compiled so it’s not burning CPU doing the wrong stuff."
Jun 12, 2012
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34
Why are structs/arrays zero based?
Apr 23, 2011
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Have you dealt with space hardening?
Mar 25, 2009
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What do you use string reversal for?
Dec 8, 2010
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Is C++ not suitable for OOP?
Feb 16, 2011
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How does differential execution work?
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Stack and Queue, Why?
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Why do beams of light (from torches or other directed sources) not extend to infinity?

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