Goladus

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by Goladus 15y ago
> Can any one person really be worth 10 million dollars, or 100 million dollars? In sports and entertainment it's not even that hard to measure. Put Matt Damon in your movie and a lot of people are going to go see it, just because he's
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by Goladus 15y ago
This isn't a recommendation, as I am not a customer, but System76 offers a "Lemur Ultrathin" model: http://www.system76.com/product_info.php?cPath=28&produc... Here's a review: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1610568
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by Goladus 15y ago
> I think it is useful to distinguish work from difficulty. IMO, on current hardware, writing a compiler is easy and, for most languages, not too much work. I disagree, writing a compiler is a lot of work, it's just easy work for peopl
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by Goladus 15y ago
I haven't read it, but from skimming it looks like the tactic is to follow consistent rules for the entire course. The system being built is entirely self-contained, just complete. This makes it a lot easier to build on what you've alread
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by Goladus 15y ago
Just a note for anyone reading the Crenshaw book, in chapter 9 he notes: The C language is quite another matter, as you'll see. Texts on C rarely include a BNF definition of the language. Probably that's because the la
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by Goladus 15y ago
> Not surprisingly, the opaqueness of these books has led to the myth that compilers are hard to write. Opaqueness of the books is not what makes everyone think compilers are hard to write. What makes compilers hard to write, for someo
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by Goladus 15y ago
You can always try to negotiate the sticker price if you want. Even if there's no sales staff there's someone who should have the authority to offer you a discount, though in a market like shared hosting that's probably not going to happen
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by Goladus 15y ago
The college is expensive mentality is certainly real. "US-centric" just isn't an especially accurate characterization. The mentality comes from a few places: 1. Discussion of US Private Universities like Harvard, Yale, MIT, Cornell, and S
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by Goladus 15y ago
I don't really know. I just picked it because I'm from New York and it was the first good school that popped into my head. You could compare with UC Berkeley instead, which costs about $10,000 to California residents and I hear has a pret
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by Goladus 15y ago
> Compare this to Stanford Why compare it to Stanford? Stanford is an international private university. University of Toronto is a public university, like SUNY at Binghamton. SUNY Binghamton is cheaper.
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by Goladus 15y ago
> - "College is expensive": Pretty US-centric point. It's very affordable in Canada and most other countries. Browsing some Canadian universities, they don't seem all that much cheaper than US State Schools. They might be cheaper on av
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by Goladus 15y ago
All I would change about my graphing calculator is speed and perhaps a brighter, higher-resolution screen.
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by Goladus 15y ago
> maybe in applications where minor parsing/text validation tasks are more peripheral then regexs are more appropriate? Definitely. There's a 3-line regex-based tokenizer in one of my side projects (in python). Today, for kicks, I tri
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by Goladus 15y ago
> effort, smarts, a great idea, luck, good design, Also End-to-end, top-to-bottom knowledge of the technology and knowledge of the problems you're trying to solve with the technology (aka 'Domain Expertise').
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by Goladus 15y ago
Honestly, when I was a newbie, the simplistic examples drove me crazy because I didn't get the point. I can solve the toy problem effectively with concepts already introduced (functions) why am I burdening my code and my brain with all thi
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by Goladus 15y ago
Part of the issue is that whereas unit testing is a good idea to use where possible, test-driven-development is a religion.
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by Goladus 15y ago
The cool thing about a good text editor is that you can use it for ALL of those things. I'm an emacs guy not a vim guy but this fundamental point is similar. Being good at vi means you're good at editing arbitrary text whether it's VB6, SQ
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by Goladus 15y ago
It's a 4 paragraph blog entry meant to be funny and make you think a little bit. It's not trying to be anything more than that. "Intellectually dishonest" is an unfair charge.
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by Goladus 15y ago
If the author had even pretended like he was making a rigorous, logical case for why some particular budget should not be cut then you would have a very good point. Yes, a specific instance of a science budget being cut is mentioned, bar
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by Goladus 15y ago
Science writers should have some understanding of the field they're writing about, though. If they don't understand the scientific details and none of their domain expert contacts are able to help, they should at least able to recognize th
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by Goladus 15y ago
I'm not sure there are any true "dollar stores" any more in the sense that "Everything is one dollar." However the stores evolved from the original gimmick are still called dollar stores even if the strict definition no longer applies.
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by Goladus 15y ago
I don't really see that statistic as a problem. It seems to me that shipping slightly more content than most players are expected to finish is actually a good thing, especially in traditional game development where you are selling a more-o
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by Goladus 15y ago
That's a reason why there are more and better online games available now, but that isn't a very satisfying explanation for the initial statistic. There are still plenty of non-multiplayer games and 10 years ago the game completion rate was
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by Goladus 15y ago
Some of the criteria are biased towards older papers. Influence is extremely biased-- it's rare for a paper to change the world immediately. Future influential papers written today may not actually earn the label for another 10-20 years.
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by Goladus 15y ago
> So in effect the main problem with the Soviet system was that the wrong managers were in charge? Just one of the problems. The other problem is that managers did not have knowledge that is available in a free market, because of what
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by Goladus 15y ago
> What benefit do I get from +1'ing something? The link shows up on your Google profile, in the "+1" section. It's would be fairly convenient way of sharing bookmarks, if anyone used Google profiles.
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by Goladus 15y ago
I don't think it's the buttons so much as the lack of context. Google profiles aren't used in the same way facebook or twitter accounts are. Once I looked at my google profile, saw the +1 section, I understood immediately. But I still don
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by Goladus 15y ago
Pretty sure that study was mentioned in Peopleware, but didn't include a citation reference.
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by Goladus 15y ago
I've used earplugs but haven't so much since I got a pair of Bose QC 15 noise-cancelling headphones. They work wonders for blocking out background conversation. For moderate levels and when I am in a relaxed state to begin with, I can leav
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by Goladus 15y ago
That notice saying registration is closed, I assume that is for the 2010 bootcamp?

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