Ologn

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by Ologn 13y ago
> Never been to NYC...Caltrain takes you to south I live in New York City. On a weekday, the last Caltrain train out of San Francisco leaves around midnight. The next one does not leave until 5 AM. In NYC you have several trains going o
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by Ologn 13y ago
I have gone from Unix shell script to Perl to PHP to C to C++ to Java to Python. Most of them are a lot of the same Algol-descendant syntax: if/else, for loops, while loops, variable assignment etc. Racket Lisp is a little more of a l
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by Ologn 13y ago
> I wonder if Google made a mistake by not choosing native code for Android apps. We have heard forever about Java (and other run-times) getting close to C in performance, but outside of specific test cases native code still runs circles
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by Ologn 13y ago
> “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow” – Eric Raymond > only obvious problems are easily caught. An issue that manifests itself only under very specific conditions or not in a way that is obvious to the end-user, can go undet
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by Ologn 13y ago
Not that different from how paper currencies like the US dollar work in terms of money supply though. Of course, Bitcoin is not issued by a QUANGO whose chair appointing government has 10 aircraft carriers, over 5000 nuclear missiles and so
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by Ologn 13y ago
I see the bagholders and snake oil peddlers have downvoted me into oblivion (Edit: Actually my parent post is ping-ponging but in negative territory at the time of this edit) Here is a post I made 143 days ago, at a time when Bitcoin was se
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by Ologn 13y ago
> Gold only has value because people believe it has value. It's also somewhat volatile and not immune to bubbles. Gold and silver don't really have bubbles, they are kind of anti-bubbles. When it seems the music is about to st
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by Ologn 13y ago
> gold and the paper currency is printed on is only worth something because people think they are worth something Gold has value. It can be used by dentists. It can be used in electronics. It has been inherently valuable for millennia.
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by Ologn 13y ago
I think people who have amassed a quantity of these are going to learn a real lesson in the meaning of value. There's a reason precious metals like gold and silver have retained value for millennia, and schemes like this have not. The
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by Ologn 13y ago
> At the undergraduate level you'll get out what you put in. If you confirm computer science as what you want to do and pursue it with rigor, name schools will be an option at the graduate level. One thing about academia is that per
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by Ologn 13y ago
> It is also why so many mobile websites are broken. Many mobile websites are broken. On a mobile phone, both websites and "mobile websites" are broken. If anyone is looking for a money-making idea, here's a website I u
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by Ologn 13y ago
> Just take a look at today 's "Who is hiring?" and you'll notice very few list degree requirements. Most are looking for a combination of experience and knowledge. Key word is today . Yes, today, with the DJUSSV u
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by Ologn 13y ago
I don't disagree that companies are often looking for people who have resumes and skills far exceeding the simple, minor needs of particular jobs. On the other hand, I have met many CS majors at local New York colleges, and even among
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by Ologn 13y ago
Right. I could even see someone spending months to learn Java in a structured fashion. But how many people are going to sit down and spend months studying in a rigorous fashion things like the theory of computation, or complexity theory,
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by Ologn 13y ago
I have probably been writing and porting more C++ code on Android lately than Java code. I haven't done much with QT. Some of the apps used the SDL library. Some of the apps have been OpenGL 1.x code ported to OpenGL ES. I guess it a
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by Ologn 13y ago
Eclipse (or Android Studio) is good for when you are getting your feet wet with Android. If you don't like using it there are alternatives. I usually use Emacs or vi. The only thing I miss when not using Eclipse with the ADT plugin i
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by Ologn 13y ago
Cool. I monetize most of my Android apps with ads. I found it hard to do this with games. I have not figured out game monetization yet. I guess in-app purchases are what a lot of people do. I ported an open source game to Android which
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by Ologn 13y ago
> an idea that sounds stupid on its face It still sounds stupid on its face. As I recall, Ricardo said England produced textiles, and Portugal produced wine, and both countries were each economically better off for their own specializat
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by Ologn 13y ago
> Massive profitability allows you to get away with just about anything. > [...] > For every Valve and Github, there is a Microsoft or an Oracle. You are absolutely correct that a company that has stumbled on a gold mine can surviv
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by Ologn 13y ago
Which with the framework, compiles to more than 7 megs of code. Which is a lot to download for a mobile phone on an overloaded 3g network in many parts of the world. It is better than a cross-platform framework like regal though, which is
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by Ologn 13y ago
I see only one quality separating good and bad managers - their confidence in their own competence. Bad managers seem to feel they lucked out in getting their job. Like it might be "found out" that they are not really qualified.
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by Ologn 13y ago
Alexa lists Wikipedia as the 6th most popular site in the world ( http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org ). Its web server logs are more open than the five sites in front of it, AFAIK. The January 2014 web browse
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by Ologn 13y ago
> Preventing apps from interacting with each other cuts down on complexity, but it also means that it is difficult or sometimes even impossible to use multiple apps in conjunction on the same task. Which is why Android has a full-range s
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by Ologn 13y ago
I'm using neither Eclipse, nor Studio for Android programming, but Emacs, believe it or not. With Java Development Environment for Emacs, I even have that Eclipse-like (semi-)automatic import of Android packages, like TextView. I wish
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by Ologn 13y ago
Having interviewed many people over the years (not for an accelerator though), you can easily tell within ten minutes if someone can not pass muster. I have never had anyone who stumbled over the first three questions I asked them, recover
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by Ologn 13y ago
Microsoft had a Unix distro for a long time - Xenix. It was built as Microsoft's next generation OS, originally Microsoft thought they were going to migrate to it as their dominant platform as computers got faster. It was the most wi
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by Ologn 13y ago
He only had a BSCS from Stanford and had been a VP of Engineering at Yahoo leading over 300 engineers. Facebook turned him away, and as someone else mentioned here, Twitter. It kind of puts in perspective that blog post from yesterday that
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by Ologn 13y ago
> you don't need to go to college to get a job as a software developer... However you'll probably be limited to smallish startups. You don't need to go to college to get a job as a software developer - in 2014. What about
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by Ologn 13y ago
Why $50,000 in loans? How about a state school? You can always get an MS at a private school later. Getting a job may be easy now, but how about when it is like it was in 2001 or 2008? You will be competing for each job with several othe
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by Ologn 13y ago
Exactly what I thought :). Life imitates art.

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