BruceIV

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by BruceIV 13y ago
I'm in the same boat - I'm in a city of a half million, and I own a car, but it's a decade old, and I only use it 1) evenings and weekends when the bus doesn't run as often, 2) when I want to move heavy and/or large items, or 3) when I trav
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by BruceIV 13y ago
These requirements do tend to differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Yours is likely rather permissive.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
It's a lot harder to learn how to drive once you move out of your parents' and can't borrow their car (and their presence as a licenced tutor), and in rural areas (I grew up in one too), you need a car to get anywhere . That said, city dwe
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Well, it's early days yet (I'm just finishing up my coursework, and haven't gotten far into my research yet), but my proposal is to build generic collections data structures for general-purpose GPU programming (and related architectures). S
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by BruceIV 13y ago
University of Waterloo. They've got some great research groups, the funding's good, and you get to keep any IP you develop over the course of your studies.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I'm not precisely sure myself - in CS, though, a lot of the research is digitized, and much of it is available for free online (if you know where to look - Google Scholar really helps), but as far as making useful research contributions goe
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by BruceIV 13y ago
It may be difficult/expensive to get to research conferences without institutional support.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Interesting to hear the other side of this. I'm a PhD student in Computer Science right now, and a lot of the appeal of the job is the ability to get paid for working on projects that interest me . That said, I have a nice government fello
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by BruceIV 14y ago
I keep my personal repos in Dropbox (then my working directory elsewhere) - I still have to push and pull when switching computers (and make sure Dropbox syncs), but it's worked out fairly well for me. You can share the Dropbox folder as a
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Hope it works out for you - this is purely anecdotal, but anyone I know who's owned an Acer laptop (n = ~6) has had it break on them within a year and a half or so.
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by BruceIV 14y ago
C# programmer? I think this is one of the nicer little features in that language.
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Although, at least back when I was choosing my Internet handle, Wikipedia recommended usernames that resembled your real name.
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Well, you can make it other colors too (mine is green, Gmail's spam filter hit a 10% false positive rate for me, so I switched)
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Agreed. I do most of my commuting by bus, and mostly drive my car nights and weekends, when the bus doesn't run as often, or my few trips out of town - most months I only fill up once. That said, I wouldn't get rid of my car: I live in one
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by BruceIV 14y ago
This. I've been marking undergrad assignments, and you would not believe how many sets and sorted sets I've seen implemented by linear scan over an unsorted array (or linear scan over a sorted array with linear time insert, and a few other,
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by BruceIV 14y ago
This is seriously neat. For all that C++ has everything and the kitchen sink in terms of features, lack of reflection is a major drag sometimes.
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Looks interesting. Do you have an Android app?
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Current Ubuntu Phone is built on top of SurfaceFlinger, the aim with Mir is to replace it.
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by BruceIV 14y ago
On the one hand, this looks like one good way to get rid of the massive bag of hurt that is X; on the other, seriously Canonical? Re-inventing another huge chunk of the stack just because? NIH syndrome much?
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Counter-example: A few years back, I was looking for a way to do user authentication for HTTP web services; I decided that HTTP Basic/Digest weren't sufficiently cryptologically strong - OAuth was the new hotness, so we were going to use th
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Fringe languages are fine. Just remember the downsides when you're thinking about using them in production.
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by BruceIV 14y ago
A good reminder of the engineering virtue of using tech which is commonly used and thus well-supported (by the creator, by third parties, by Stack Overflow, etc.)
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Don't Be Distracted by Superior Technology(prog21.dadgum.com)
90 points by BruceIV 14y ago|66 comments
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Yes, this. You have to learn all the abstractions in a language, and the advantage of "batteries included" languages are that the abstractions are (largely) the same in everyone's code, aiding maintainability and re-use. On the other hand,
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Agreed, to a point. What kind of abstractions are sufficient, or useful? What happens when they leak? What happens when you build the wrong abstraction, and have to go back and build something slightly different from the ground up? What abo
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by BruceIV 14y ago
This G+ one fills the entire screen, and you have to find and click the "no thank you get out of my face please" button to get to the social feed; if you want to check that multiple times a day (like is typical Facebook usage), it gets to b
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Yeah ... speaking of "social spam" does anyone else get a "make new friends on Google+" page about 10% of the times you try to go to plus.google.com ? The persistent annoyance of that page was a major reason I went back to Facebook from G+,
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Isn't the point of search engines to find sites you don't already know exist (or, more prosaically, have forgotten the URL for)?
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by BruceIV 14y ago
In southern Ontario, I pay 6.5 cents/kWh (off-peak, say the "charge at night" scenario I mentioned as a hypothetical.) and $4.50/gallon for gas. (the exchange rate between Canadian and American dollars is even right now). -- That's 0.15 $/m
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Thanks.

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