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12:11 AM
To anybody who had an SO Careers profile: beware of your privacy! Your Careers profile has been changed into a “Developer Story” (which sucks and may have bad data), and employers may now see a link to your SO profile even if they formerly didn't. To unlink, go to the “Developer Story” tag in your SO profile, hover over your avatar, click on the “Edit” button that appears and untick all the network sites. Then hover over the tags below, click “Edit”, and untick all the tags.
Way to pull a Facebook, SO!
 
 
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8:45 AM
@Gilles How is a link to your SO profile a breach of privacy comparable to what Facebook does?
FWIW, I quite like the "Developer Story". It needs some polishing, obviously, but it's nicer than the old thing.
 
9:07 AM
Oh dear. Wikipedia can not even get basic algorithms right.
In computer science, the Edmonds–Karp algorithm is an implementation of the Ford–Fulkerson method for computing the maximum flow in a flow network in O(V E2) time. The algorithm was first published by Yefim (Chaim) Dinic in 1970 and independently published by Jack Edmonds and Richard Karp in 1972. Dinic's algorithm includes additional techniques that reduce the running time to O(V2E). == Algorithm == The algorithm is identical to the Ford–Fulkerson algorithm, except that the search order when finding the augmenting path is defined. The path found must be a shortest path that has available capacity...
How embarrassing.
 
9:36 AM
@Raphael it isn't Facebook scale (they linked private DS under my full name → public SO profile under a nickname, not public nickname profile to full name), but it's still a breach of privacy
And they assure me that I requested it by clicking some setting. And removing the information took a lot of digging in seemingly-unrelated areas of the interface. So it isn't FB-scale but it's FB-type.
 
I see. It didn't occur to me that people would use an alias on SO but their true name on SO/jobs (and want to keep them separated).
 
@Raphael it has some advantages... especially if you use non-work related sites within the SE Network...
 
9:57 AM
hello fam. Terah from Ghana
 
@bilbo_pingouin True. If my employer were to snoop around, they could find my posts Worldbuilding or such.
@TerahAntwi Welcome!
 
10:28 AM
@Raphael yep, or even worse, they might see on the Workplace, that you are considering leaving...
 
11:01 AM
Is anyone online ?
I want help in this question
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Q: Calculation of the average memory access time based on the following data?

WillturnerConsider the following information Assume the cache is physically addressed TLB hit rate is 95%, with access time = 1 cycle Cache hit rate is 90%, with access time of again = 1 cycle Page fault is 1% and occurs when miss occurs in both TLB and Cache The TLB access and cache access are sequent...

Is my method right or does it needs correction ?
 
 
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12:11 PM
@bilbo_pingouin Okay, Workplace might get interesting. Regarding any other site, I don't think I care too much.
@Willturner Is there a particular reason you are being asked to perform middle-grade calculations?
 
@bilbo_pingouin Huh. I don't know; I'm in Germany where most companies that are not too small have a "Betriebsrat", anyway. We have a right to be represented and fight for our rights over here, so not hiring people because of some account on a website that discusses workplaces seems ... silly. Not to say it can't happen, but I'd like to think that it's less of a problem here.
(I most definitely list my moderator position as volunteer work on my CV.)
 
browing SE during working hours is probably not a good idea, then ;)
 
 
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2:43 PM
@bilbo_pingouin why not?
 
@Evil your employer might not be particularly pleased with you doing some moderation on SE during your working hours
but of course, YMMV :)
 
@bilbo_pingouin The alternative being actually working? my god...
 
yeah... we wouldn't want that...
 
Hello by the way, I'm rather new to the chat system
 
@bilbo_pingouin it depends, if you fail to explain, you might be in trouble, but if you look for solutions...
 
2:45 PM
@Ariel hello and... welcome (though I'm pretty new on THIS chat as well)
 
@Ariel Hello.
 
@Evil visiting SO or similar for a solution would probably be fine... doing moderation work, much less
 
@bilbo_pingouin Hello.
 
and going to SFF.SE if you work in Web dev...
 
It is an art which requires perfection. First you just roam the site, but in time you can actually answer questions and everyone would think you're working.
 
2:49 PM
as long as you don't link your professional profile (CV) with your SE profile... otherwise you give them proof of your procastination...
 
@bilbo_pingouin it depends, there are various methods to concentrate, be awake, cool down from work. You really need to change context every two hours. Every hour if it is sharp focus job. Oh, and even more often at particular jobs, but I hope they do not chat during work ;)
 
on that note, I'm going home
 
So if you moderate to work more effectively ;)
The next level is to ask boss for help with answer and another one to make him participate...
 
Yea, this is some next level stuff.
 
 
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4:56 PM
 
5:10 PM
@bilbo_pingouin It's probably forbidden, usually, unless related to your work. It may be tolerated, but well.
@Evil I don't think doing CS stuff in the browser is good enough a context switch. Take a walk or play some foosball -- that'll work.
 
5:29 PM
@Raphael Fussball in work? Anyway it is a valid context switch, if you have to write something it is a pressure, if you want it is a pleasure. And yeah, it depends on task you do.
 
5:59 PM
Walk, play etc. would be awesome, but I do not think that everybody can do it in work.
 
 
3 hours later…
8:39 PM
@Evil Then they need to educate their bosses on the advantages. At least for us backoffice people, regular breaks with some fresh air and stretching should be very possible.
 
 
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10:25 PM
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Q: Subset sum with wider constraint

MaartenThe classical 0,1 knapsack problem with weights $w$ and unit value for all items $x$: $ max \displaystyle\sum_{i} x_i, x_i \in \{0,1\} $ subject to $ \displaystyle\sum_{i} w_ix_i \leq W $ for a maximum weight $W$. Recall that the weights in this version can be negative: we will simply select...

 

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