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    DiegoVicente avatar DiegoVicente 23 days ago | link | on: Dynamic Programming for Brute-Forcers

    Hey @pek, in today’s issue of Morning Cup of Coding you mention that:

    When I first heard the term Dynamic Programming, my mind went straight to compiler tricks. It was introduced to me in one of our AI courses, and given how magic AI looked to me at the time, I imagined we would go one step higher and instead of writing algorithms the language itself will produce said magic. And then we started coding. And I was looking, and looking, and looking, but nowhere did I get the sense of any… “dynamic” programming. “What’s so special? We are just writing a lookup table.”

    I imagine you already found out, but the story of how Richard Bellman chose the name is actually quite funny – tl;dr: it sounds cool

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      pek avatar pek 23 days ago | link

      Yeah, I read that. I was gonna mention it but it didn’t fit the flow. Anyway, even knowing the story behind it, I still feel that it is inappropriate. Just my opinion.

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        pek avatar pek 23 days ago | link

        Also, thanks for subscribing :)

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          DiegoVicente avatar DiegoVicente 23 days ago | link

          Thank you for feeding me cool posts every day! About the name, yes, absolutely misleading; but I was lucky enough to be warned by my professor when we studied it, so no one would get super-hyped about what was going about to happen hahaha

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      pek avatar pek 2 months ago | link | on: How we implemented consistent hashing efficiently

      Why is this flagged as spam? Am I missing something?

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        Sietsebb avatar Sietsebb 1 month ago | link

        You’re right, that’s an odd choice by the 6(!) flaggers. The article seems fine to me, too. Unless I, too, am missing something.

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        friendlysock avatar friendlysock 2 months ago | link | on: Fountain codes, segmentation faults, improving CSS, oh my! Monday Cup of Coding Issue #4

        Please prefer posting specific stories instead of digests and collectuins–this helps keep tags useful and helps prevent getting overrun with spammy link farms.

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          pek avatar pek 2 months ago | link

          Understood

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            apy avatar apy 2 months ago | link

            Much of what shows up in this newsletter is also already on lobste.rs, which makes posting the newsletter mostly redundant.

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            pek avatar pek 2 months ago | link | on: What are you working on this week?

            As mentioned last week, today I published my first timed-exclusive article in collaboration with Jonathan Boccara of Fluent C++.

            I’m still trying to figure out how best to handle such content. Keep the paywall? Run it for one day or one week? Should it be totally exclusive? Time, and feedback, will tell.

            The growth has been slowing down significantly though. I noticed that every day I don’t share (read: advertise) the newsletter, I lose subscribers. If I do share (read: advertise), I’m “breaking even” or adding a few more. The hope, I guess, is that one day I get lucky and get thousands of subscribers (like what happened with Hacker News a few weeks ago).

            The problem is that I do not like spamming. And I have a feeling that’s NOT a good thing for growth :/ I started doing Monday Editions exactly because I didn’t want to spam every single issue.

            But nothing beats publishing the newsletter at 4AM because the weekend was crazy and wake up to emails like this:

            “Hi Pek!

            This is the first mailing list I have religiously read every morning, and you’re doing awesome!”

            <3

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              pek avatar pek 3 months ago | link | on: What are you working on this week?

              Continuing to work hard every day on my newsletter Morning Cup of Coding. I thought that a newsletter would only be reading and curating articles, but it’s almost a full day job what with replying to emails, fixing and automating workflows, taking action on feedback, etc, etc. The very positive reviews make it worth it though <3

              Plus, I’m very happy that I am in talks with three authors who’s work I really admire to collaborate with me. If anybody knows someone that would be interested in a collaboration I would love to get in contact with them.

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                kzisme avatar kzisme 3 months ago | link

                Thanks for posting Morning Cup of Coding looks awesome - I just subscribed.

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                  pek avatar pek 2 months ago | link

                  Thank you for subscribing!

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                JKowalsky avatar JKowalsky 3 months ago | link | on: Morning Cup of Coding - A curated daily newsletter of recent technical articles

                This is really enjoyable and interesting! Subscribed. Thanks for all the curating work, pek!

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                  pek avatar pek 3 months ago | link

                  Thank you! I’m glad you enjoy it :)

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                  bezdomni avatar bezdomni 3 months ago | link | on: Morning Cup of Coding - A curated daily newsletter of recent technical articles

                  Here’s the RSS feed: https://us18.campaign-archive.com/feed?u=ab0f46cf302c0ed836e0bf0ad&id=56b5f64c5f

                  I still find this the best way for consuming periodical content. I can read it when I want, and not have it clutter my mailbox.

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                    pek avatar pek 3 months ago | link

                    While this will work, just keep in mind that there are plans for exclusive content that will not be available via RSS due to its limiting nature.

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                      azdle avatar azdle 3 months ago | link

                      Out of curiosity, what is more limiting about RSS than email? The only thing I’ve come up with so far is that I guess you could customize what is sent to each email address, but that doesn’t seem to apply to a newsletter anyway.

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                        pek avatar pek 3 months ago | link

                        Customization is precisely my issue. The RSS feed will only render the issue as an anonymous reader, which removes any personalized messages I include as well as any exclusive content paying readers (will) have access to. Another issue on my end is that RSS subscriber numbers are not precise.

                        To be clear though, I am in no way against RSS. In fact, the whole newsletter is based on my ability to read tons and tons of feeds. Just that Morning Cup of Coding is not (and will not be) designed for RSS, and thus I will not be actively promoting its use.

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                          calvin avatar calvin 3 months ago | link

                          You could require that RSS readers append a “token” to the URL; which would identify the reader and thus give them said personalized content.

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                            pek avatar pek 3 months ago | link

                            That could definitely work. Not sure how I can integrate that with MailChimp. I’ll give it a look this weekend. Thanks.

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                              vhodges avatar vhodges 3 months ago | link

                              You could always roll your own so you have more control:

                              you’d still need something like SendGrid for delivery, but that’s not too hard either.

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                                pek avatar pek 3 months ago | link

                                Tbh, I don’t trust myself to build a software that sends emails to 3,5k readers :) But it’s definitely in the back of my mind because I still do a lot of things manually. I know about SendGrid and MailTrain, thanks for pointing out paperboy.