ThePawnBreak

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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
Universities, especially French ones, are far worse for teaching programmming, for several reasons: - they are highly theoretical and biased against people who are not good at math; I studied CS, and I had to take more electrical engineerin
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
ChromeOS is obviously unsuitable for most developers. So then, does Google guarantee that I will have no problems using my favourite Linux distro (or at least Ubuntu), including trackpad drivers, good battery life, functioning sleep mode, w
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
No, they just don't consider the millions they receive in stock. Given that an intern at Facebook earns $8000 a month plus free luxury rent, do you honestly think a director makes only 70% more in a tech company? New grads at Google ge
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
> You might be able to fill your positions by paying more, but not all of the positions in the entire country. Not without immigration or higher graduation rates. There is not set number of "positions", the number depends on th
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by ThePawnBreak 10y ago
Interns at Facebook make about $100k, and they get free luxury housing. I know people at Google at Facebook. New grads make about 170k per year (total compensation), next level is about 220k, and the next (which is Senior) about 300k. One l
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by ThePawnBreak 11y ago
The salaries discussed in these comments are only valid for San Francisco / Seattle / New York. London has incredibly bad compensation for programmers, relative to the cost of living.
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Stanford European Entrepreneurship: Vector Watch(youtube.com)
1 points by ThePawnBreak 11y ago|0 comments
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by ThePawnBreak 11y ago
JetBrains is a company that seems to be doing this quite well from an outsider perspective.
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by ThePawnBreak 11y ago
I know I've mentioned it before in this thread, but you should really check out the Vector Watch. I think you're their target market. It's a smartwatch that tries to save time for you, instead of waste it. It only shows you n
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Vector Watch(vectorwatch.com)
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by ThePawnBreak 11y ago
No, but I've seen one live worn by the main investor, Radu Georgescu. It looks really good from a distance, but from a close distance the lines are not very smooth, because of the low resolution (probably the main reason why the batter
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by ThePawnBreak 11y ago
Another alternative would be a Vector Watch. It's very similar to a Pebble, but has longer battery life (about a month) and looks a lot better. It's more expensive, though.
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by ThePawnBreak 12y ago
You probably mean to put the probably false condition first, since if the first condition is false, the others are not tested anymore.
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by ThePawnBreak 13y ago
In Romania, you don't choose your classes, the classes choose you. The way it works is that you are admitted directly at a faculty, not at a university, and just take the classes they decide you should. So if you're a CS major and
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by ThePawnBreak 13y ago
I'm at ACS Bucharest, in my second year. It's pretty bad here as well. I suggest you finish your degree (nevermind the grades, just get a 5), and spend your free time learning what you're interested in. The good thing is that
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by ThePawnBreak 13y ago
Hey! I'am also from Romania. Where do you study?
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by ThePawnBreak 13y ago
VLC player has a plugin that can do this for you. It's called Vlsub. It doesn't check for synchronization, but you can try out about 3-4 subtitles in less than a minute, so it works very well in practice.
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by ThePawnBreak 13y ago
I suggest learning Emacs because of the extensibility and the huge amount of plugins available. I don't think it would take more than a few hours to get accustomed to basic editing in Emacs (moving with C-n C-p C-f C-f, and searching a
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by ThePawnBreak 13y ago
"Of course, I also cheated. I realised that my code spent a huge amount of time counting the set bits on a byte. I could implement that on my side, or get a CPU that implements that as a single instruction." Why not use a lookup t
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by ThePawnBreak 13y ago
First of all, I'd like to say that you should not view Google as the end all be all of software companies. I was also very interested in interning there, but was a bit dissapointed when I finally managed to get an offer. How I did it:
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by ThePawnBreak 13y ago
I'm a Romanian student in Bucharest and tudorconstantin's claims seem on target. The average wage for an intern is 400 euros (based on what I hear from other students) and the starting salary after graduation is about 700 euros. Here are so
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by ThePawnBreak 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell
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by ThePawnBreak 14y ago
Sorry to be pedantic, but "advise" is a verb; the correct form would be "advice", which is a noun.
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by ThePawnBreak 14y ago
> Here's something I learned: It takes years--several years--to come close to mastering anything of sufficient complexity to be worth mastering. That is just not possible when you're young. We've all had to deal with that. Magnus Carlse
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by ThePawnBreak 14y ago
Short stories, screenplays and novels are definitely not tools, since you don't build stuff with them, they are finished works, and if you want to make another one, you have to start from scratch. I'd argue there are more similar to framewo
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by ThePawnBreak 14y ago
If sequences could be gappy, wouldn't the solution be just mapping fizz to 3, buzz to 5 and fizbuzz to 15? ( or multiples of those numbers, if duplicates aren't allowed )
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by ThePawnBreak 14y ago
This question is a bit funny, given that it's posted on a site with frequent arguing over which programming language is better for certain purposes. You can think in French just like you think in C++ or Python, but I think that what is diff
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by ThePawnBreak 15y ago
I think it's because when one of them figures out he can win almost every game by simply moving very fast, the game won't be enjoyable any more. And that is bound to happen sooner or later.
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by ThePawnBreak 15y ago
I don't think that they assumed that all the attendees will be male, they only assumed that most of them will. Similarly, they didn't assume that everybody likes house music ( or whatever genre of music "Live DJ - Let great beats get you in
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by ThePawnBreak 15y ago
I'd love to take up that offer, if it's still available. I already know some programming, but I would like to have somebody as a mentor. Send me an email at mocanu_c at yahoo.com if your offer is still available.

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