Dilpil

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by Dilpil 16y ago
Keep a pencil and paper on your desk, and use them to guide your thinking. This eliminates any ambiguity as to what you are doing, while at the same time actually helping your thought process along.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Whenever you claim no algorithm can do something that a human can, you must ask yourself: what does the computer lack that a human might posses? In this case, there are indeed machine learning algorithms that can do this task. http://ieeex
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by Dilpil 16y ago
A very similar, much longer exploration of the problems with high school (and, honestly, most undergraduate) math education: http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
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by Dilpil 16y ago
The real estate is part of the business. A large part of the value of the business comes from customers knowing that those businesses were where they were. By stealing the land, Columbia is stealing the business as well.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
I think most AIDS patients would gladly take that 10% chance.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
From what I understand, no one at Google is making under market rates. Most likely they could get away with that, but from the salary information posted it seems they pay what most companies trying to hire good software developers pay.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
The real trick is finding a company and industry where it always makes sense to go deep.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Might I add: on uninteresting problems under terrible working conditions.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Took and passed the two hardest math and CS courses offered at my university: advanced calculus and algorithms. Learned OpenGL. Placed highly in the regional ACM coding competition. Landed exactly the job I wanted out of college. Most impor
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Your not the only that does that, I think most people who tinker with computers professionally do that. Its kind of funny: computer programmers browse the internet the way an operating system does IO.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
It is the opposite. Interviewers are coming to realize credentials, be they Microsoft certs or computer science degrees, are not great indicators of software engineering aptitude. The more you believe in the accuracy of credentials, the les
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by Dilpil 16y ago
This is humor understandable only by programmers, specifically, programmers who have some understanding of Haskell- I would hardly call that thought free humor.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Wow, this has an utterly horrible interface. The way it bobs up and down as a I scroll is quite appalling. I'd rather have frames than this.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
In many cases people simply don't understand or think about what data is collected and out there. One of my friends at work was shocked when I informed him that our IT department might theoretically be able to check what websites we visite
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by Dilpil 16y ago
It seems that if lowering your "production values" makes your product more appealing to consumers, you were using the wrong production values to begin with.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
One mistake many recent college graduates make is looking for openings in the wrong places. Its understandable- no one ever tells you how to get an entry level job. To clarify, craigslist and monster.com are absolutely the wrong places for
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Is working on embedded systems really this fun? I might have to change careers...
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Hiring 4 people at the same time to work on the same project is a questionable idea- 40 is just absurd. I hope we eventually hear about the aftermath of this.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
What about Neuroscience or Materials Science?
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Call me cynical, but it perhaps the equity owners want to cash out before the company kills itself with subscription services.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
The real question is, at what price would you buy their stock. Surely if it was $.01 for 1% of facebook we would all buy. Is there a place we can get financial data for facebook?
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Its not that developers want to deal with central marketing and distribution. They don't. But customers do.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
On the topic of the Flash Crash: Arguing that HFT is bad because people sometimes stop doing it abruptly kind of suggests that HFT is good when people are doing it.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Certain trades are obvious winners- index funds available for less than the sum of their component parts for example. Everyone on the street knows they are obvious winners, so usually the trade isn't available for long. Firms have compute
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by Dilpil 16y ago
The engineering courses I've taken have actually been pretty crucial at my current gig. If I had majored in liberal arts, I'm not sure where I would learn them.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Mentally accept that bugs with your code are your fault. You'll end up fixing them faster.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
"In-game tutorials are both hugely important and difficult to pull off, and today's game-designers have gotten pretty clever about putting them together." Disagree heavily. Many of the most complicated games from the past had no tutorials,
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by Dilpil 16y ago
It's a pretty interesting story to put on a resume or cover letter- I'd imagine he will at least be able to get some interviews.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Keep a spreadsheet of everything you eat. Include the total calories. Pick a max calories per day. This will make you start to think in terms of good taste per calorie- "that snickers bar looks nice, but I'd rather have an entire meal".
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Hard to say, depends on many factors: Am I writing new code, or adding to old code? If I am adding to old code, is it my code which I already understand fully, or someone else's code which I have never seen before? Is it a 10 file project

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