Plogging Dev

What is Disqus?

It’s a platform which lets you copy paste a javascript snippet into any webpage to add a comments section.

Some noteworthy features of Disqus:

• If you have a Disqus account, you can comment on any website that uses Disqus.

• Email notifications with the ability to reply to a comment directly from your email client.

• Analytics and moderation tools.

• Spam filters

• User profiles and ability to follow users

• Social network login

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A few days ago I came across a talk by Maciej Ceglowski titled Notes from an Emergency. If you have not watched the talk, stop reading this and go watch it. In the talk, he makes a suggestion that the Government should regulate ads to target content, not users. There was a discussion about the talk on Hacker News where Maciej, in response to a comment that implied ads that target content will be worse than ads that target users, said that’s why he feels it’s a regulatory argument and not a business argument. [Read More]

Merge sort is a divide and conquer algorithm. It is a fast, general purpose sorting algorithm.

Time complexity:

Average case : O(n log n)

Best case : O(n log n)

Worst case : O(n log n)

Worst case space complexity : O(n)

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Insertion sort is an in-place sorting algorithm which builds the sorted list one item at a time.

Time complexity :

Average case : O(n²)

Best case : O(n)

Worst case : O(n²)

Worst case space complexity : O(n)

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Selection sort is an in-place sorting algorithm.

Time complexity :

Average case : O(n²)

Best case : O(n²)

Worst case : O(n²)

Worst case space complexity : O(n)

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