Ologn

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by Ologn 12y ago
It's a discussion similar in some ways to Richard P. Gabriel's "Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big". It's similar to Eric Ries's ideas about a minimally viable product. Lisp Machines running Lisp progra
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by Ologn 12y ago
> There are few app developers pulling that $100K or so salary. The article and report (which admittedly are not very clear) says there are very few app developers pulling in over $100k per app . Someone with an app making $250k a year
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by Ologn 12y ago
They analyze the data on a per app basis, which may not be the best way to do it. Let's take the Facebook developers on Android. The Android Facebook app has been downloaded over 500 million times. Facebook's Android Slingshot
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by Ologn 12y ago
>The material in a CS degree is pretty accessible for self study Whether or not it is, I have yet to meet anyone who has done self study who has studied theory of computation, mutual exclusion, and that sort of stuff, month on end, like
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by Ologn 12y ago
How much is an in-state CS degree from schools like UIUC, Berkeley, or any of the public universities from which so many successful programmers have come from? Factor in Pell grants and such, and it is not so bad. I did IT work during the
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by Ologn 12y ago
> with the boom in startups lately, a degree is seldom necessary This is true. What do you do when the boom ends though? Companies went through layoffs in 2008, in 2000-2001, in the early 1990s etc. What will you do once you're m
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by Ologn 12y ago
Yes. If you have RHEL installed on hundreds (or thousands) of HP/Dell servers at a Fortune 1000 company, you'll have someone to call if the kernel on some production machine keeps dumping. I can see a bootstrapped company using C
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by Ologn 12y ago
There is a required C++ course and then a required Java course. Later classes use one or the other language, these were the main two languages used in CS. There was a course on logic gates etc. where we learned MIPS assembly. The database
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by Ologn 12y ago
Yes. The title is "I can't afford a Bachelor's degree" and he talks about $12k and $17k a year programs, but if he did not take a full schedule on and cut it in half, it would be $6k to $8.5k a year (or perhaps $7-9k wi
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by Ologn 12y ago
> YOU contacted me, not the other way around. You have the burden of proof of attracting me to your company. You should be the one jumping through hoops, not me. Yes. I get contacted by a headhunter that says they know of a company looki
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by Ologn 12y ago
They say engineers receive a lot of these emails, but one of the main differentiators is unmentioned - they are coming from Stripe, not an outside recruiter. I get lots of headhunter emails, but only a few from recruiters working at the co
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by Ologn 12y ago
This guy should help people who listened to the charlatans and then bought Bitcoins and Bitcoin ASICs.
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by Ologn 12y ago
What's falsifiable is the theory of value. With my theory of value, Bitcoin has to collapse. Keynes talked about how markets could remain irrational longer than he was able to remain solvent, but that said, with my theory of value it
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by Ologn 12y ago
A century ago to the year, the second biggest economy in the world, Germany, had people saying the exact same thing about the Papiermark as you're saying. Anyone curious can go to the Wikipedia entry on Papiermark to see how that all
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by Ologn 12y ago
> no conception of how to value the underlying asset They have no conception of how to value the underlying asset because the underlying asset has absolutely no value. Bitcoin is one of the purest scams that has ever been conceived. Ev
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by Ologn 12y ago
> people still think it's a scam when huge companies with massive legal departments are accepting it. Sub-prime real estate was a scam. Huge companies with massive legal departments protected themselves from the illegal part of the
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by Ologn 12y ago
Bitcoins are absolutely worthless. If there is any sign of a tech bubble, it is these worthless hashes that people pay hundreds of dollars for. One of the genius aspects of the Bitcoin scam is the limited output and increasing difficulty a
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by Ologn 12y ago
"I'm not talking about OpenGL and using the ndk but creating Android activities" I'm not really sure what you mean. Any program for Android which is 100% C code is going to be using the NDK in most cases. Including one
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by Ologn 12y ago
Yes. You get liquidity, meaning more investment is available for some companies - people who would have not invested now will invest. The spread is lower, benefiting buyers and sellers. Work is automated meaning market makers do not have
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by Ologn 12y ago
Linode, Rackspace, Namecheap, plus some legacy Dreamhost and Bluehost stuff.
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by Ologn 12y ago
While the main poppler developers, who IIRC are three guys from Spain, have made a heroic effort, poppler is really not that good. Poppler was created by ripping out code from Xpdf and making it into a library. If you look at the code, it
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by Ologn 12y ago
My desktop has been Linux since I installed Slackware off of downloaded 3.5 inch disks in the early/mid 1990s. He is correct about the availability of the development environment - back then the home user had to use Linux (or BSD) to g
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by Ologn 12y ago
Some people here are talking about you studying CS topics on your own. So let's say in August you start spending nine hours a week studying some topic - say, theory of computation. You spend nine hours a week studying it from August t
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by Ologn 12y ago
Can you tell me of any currencies or commodities, from antiquity to 1971, that had any price or value associated with them due to "value as a remittance network"? Bitcoin's market cap was $13.9 billion four months ago. Now i
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by Ologn 12y ago
But people are paying $1290 an ounce for fillings. You might find it pricey, but plenty of people are getting gold fillings. Of course, not every filling needs a full ounce. You can also go to an electronics store and find audio equipment
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by Ologn 12y ago
> The other way to get enough buy pressure would be if many people started deciding they want to hold bitcoin as a hedge or a speculation. This spurs occasional bubbles, but we haven’t yet seen it work long term. Bitcoin is doomed becau
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by Ologn 13y ago
> Bitcoin is easy to understand - it's like gold, which derives its function as money from its scarcity, transferability, fungability, and verifiability. Most of the same holds true for bitcoin. Not exactly. Gold is a commodity tha
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by Ologn 13y ago
Point #1 is the most important one and the answer given is bogus. "Bitcoin is still used as a medium of exchange". So were Confederate dollars, so were Weimar Reichmarks, or Iraqi Dinars. Currencies stop being currencies when p
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by Ologn 13y ago
Most of the tech examples I know of in the US are small, boutique, often ephemeral consulting companies started among a few friends. Often the formal structure is a standard partnership or corporation with shares evenly divided. If the pa
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by Ologn 13y ago
I took an AI class and also a computer graphics class at a CUNY school in the fall of 2013. Among CS-major seniors who are in the top half of the class, none that I talked to knew what software version control was, what git or Perforce or c

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