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by ZephyrP 15y ago
As a (very) young person, I hope that all of you who have the opportunity to (and feel it is appropriate) to instill programming into your children at a young age do so. The beauty of adopting a craft paradigm like programming lies in how i
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
I just turned 20 and I've been programming for 8 years. The biggest thing I learned is that Gates was wrong -- skill continues to increase well after your first 3 years. Outside of that, programming has proven to be one of the most rewardin
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
I spent a considerable portion of my teenage years wasting away in front of books like Windows Internals in the hopes that I would be slightly better at writing rootkits and exploits than the next guy. It's a pretty fulfilling skill and mee
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Ask HN: Would you pay for static analysis as a service?
2 points by ZephyrP 15y ago|1 comments
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
If a clause contains only a single unassigned literal you can only satisfy by assigning the value that yields this literal as true. Therefore it isn't necessary to make a choice in this case even though unitprop checks. You can avoid a cons
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
"For over a decade prophets have voiced the contention that the organization of a single computer has reached its limits and that truly significant advances can be made only by interconnection of a multiplicity of computers in such a manner
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
I'm still rocking Plan9.
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
Doesn't this strike anyone as, I don't know, maybe a little bit melodramatic? Not trying to discount or in any way disrespect the author or the people that read him, but I think these kind of posts, as much of a guilty pleasure as it may be
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
This is like asking for SQL databases to have a SQL-Injection escaping function. You 'escape' format string attacks by using the C language in a correct fashion.
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
Mathematics: 1. Everything you thought you knew about the fundamental structure of the universe before will only make you ashamed. 2. It's all just vanity
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
Axiom of Choice has been on shaky ground for the past 50 years and really only continues it's existence through inertia. The second one has some deep wisdom in it though :)
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
(BIAS ALERT: I'm down the hall from the Curebit guys) I've heard PG's scathing email comments towards them and I've read some comments with moderate amounts of interest and frankly I think the HN crowd needs to chill out. If I was a more br
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
In all seriousness, I think if anyone took a large, systematic look at the nature of productivity gains in the Valley, they would see that the same patterns underlie their gains just like everyone else's -- Very smart people in an extremely
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
This vulnerability is reassuringly difficult to exploit under normal conditions. On this dreary morning in San Francisco, against my better judgement I've taken a crack at it (On most systems, due to a combination of old compiler AST-optimi
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
Wow, that's embarrassing.
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
I disagree, the period in which Dr. Amdahl lived experienced an even longer 'slump' in development than we have been today. But I'll get down to brass tacks - an i7 is about twice as fast as a Core 2 Duo.
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
"For over a decade prophets have voiced the contention that the organization of a single computer has reached its limits and that truly significant advances can be made only by interconnection of a multiplicity of computers in such a manner
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
I used jekyll to build zv.github.com and I also hate Liquid. Markdown is the ticket. The source is of course available on github.
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
No mention of Category Theory. :(
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
My initial intuition is that such an egregious oversight can't possibly be real for a YC11 company, can anyone validate this? Does Parse really provide no way to set document fields writable, readable and so on?
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
I'm not sure, I have never asked anyone else about their compensation or explained mine, I've always heard that is impolite to do at a company. However, I do always enjoy talking about technology, if you have any questions you'd like to run
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
I'm really passionate about the idea and the technology (that could be behind this), and apparently I'm young and dumb. Basically.
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It is done my good sir!
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Deep model is progressing much more rapidly than the statistical card-trick algorithms, Boltzmann machines, and in specific Restricted Boltzmann machines already vastly outperform SVM (By which I mean to say both Structured and Support vect
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
Fabulous introduction to Ruby on Rails, especially if you've already got some prior Ruby experience.
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That sums it up.
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
Thank you for your frankness Yuri, I'll take this into consideration.
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Ask HN: How do I leave a startup on philosophical grounds?
13 points by ZephyrP 15y ago|22 comments
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
I think its fair to say that if you're a designer and you can't code and your work doesn't look like this http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Rembrandt... , It's likely you're just a untalented designer who also can't code.
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by ZephyrP 15y ago
It can be as much bullshit as you would like it to be. I won't work for a company that makes me write designer's HTML. I'll do manual labor, I'll take out the trash, I'll do the dishes, I'll help move, I'll clean, I'll do the system adminis

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