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by akurilin 14y ago
Agreed. You can do a lot in programming without much knowledge, but a lot of the really good opportunities and interesting work are reserved to those who have superior domain expertise.
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by akurilin 14y ago
I think it's getting progressively easier. I think that back in the day before the Internet, perhaps in the mainframe days, you had to be a true wizard and know your domain extremely well to make anything happen. Think K&R kind of attit
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by akurilin 14y ago
We already have cars that drive themselves and are getting sci-fi glasses with really primitive Augmented Reality. We're getting there, I just don't think we'll ever consciously realize it as we experience it.
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by akurilin 14y ago
Each one of those points could lead to at least a couple of pages of in-depth analysis and recount of personal experiences. You could turn all the 90 points into a book (or into a blog, if so inclined) if you were to expand on each. Thanks
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by akurilin 14y ago
Very interesting read. It's fascinating to see the functional paradigm being applicable towards individual services and components rather than just functions. It's somewhat unfortunate that most of us will never have to deal with this kind
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by akurilin 14y ago
If your team is small enough then BitBucket is a great option for closed-source projects. The only difference is the lack of GitHub's interface and neat features like graphs. I wasn't too impressed with the code-review features for pull req
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by akurilin 14y ago
5 years is unrealistic unless you have a graduate degree and do not come from India or China.
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by akurilin 14y ago
Aren't there restrictions on switching companies once your GC application has been filed?
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by akurilin 14y ago
I wonder at what kind of resolution we will no longer need anti-aliasing. Did they provide any Retina screenshots with AA off? You'd think that with small enough of a pixel it would no longer be necessary.
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by akurilin 14y ago
N.2 on your list does already exist in the real world, albeit as a graduate program. CMU offers Software Engineering (with very minimal CS involved) at both the main and SV campuses, perhaps even at others as well.
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by akurilin 14y ago
I believe Clojure has something similar to what the OP is talking about thanks to Hiccup's macros: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup
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by akurilin 14y ago
What exactly is Intel trying to achieve with these integrated GPUs? It seems that performance-wise they're quite far below discrete graphics cards, so I'd guess that they're not really meant for gaming. Are they intended for everyday comput
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by akurilin 14y ago
I just recently got hold of an older MacBook pro after years of Windows/Linux laptops and I got to say that I've been really impressed by the both the hardware and the user experience that's created through the amazing touchpad. I feel that
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by akurilin 14y ago
I want to make sure I got this right. Can I take a trip to a foreign country with a US-purchased and US-registered MacBook and still expect to be able to purchase apps and update existing applications (e.g. XCode) while abroad?
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by akurilin 14y ago
Any desktop apps out there that will let you add folders for backup to Glacier and have them be automatically synced up to the cloud as they change? That would be quite useful.
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by akurilin 14y ago
Glad more folks are posting up-to-date tutorials for these core basics! The more, the merrier. Any thoughts on using vim for slime/swank-like development? I hear Nailgun can be quite rough to get working.
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by akurilin 14y ago
It's good to be a patent attorney these days.
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by akurilin 14y ago
More free publicity for Dalton, he's not going to mind.
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by akurilin 14y ago
Haven't tried Slackware, but I thought Arch was a great intro! Still remember my first "Wait, it's fully installed now? Where's the UI??". We did have the setup menu at the time. Haven't gotten around doing Linux From Scratch yet, but I hea
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by akurilin 14y ago
We arrived to a similar conclusion as part of our work on this problem at PolarMeter. I do however think that the digitization of an old-school analog meter is a very smart move that will bridge the gap until everybody has a PG&E-style
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by akurilin 14y ago
Power law at work?
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by akurilin 14y ago
nReduce has been invaluable for us at PolarMeter. We especially benefited from the weekly kick-in-the-butt to show what you've accomplished, the honest no-bs feedback from other founders and the chance to meet and build relationships with o
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by akurilin 14y ago
Pirating these shows in the US often leads to nasty threatening letters from the content owners, and that's the best case scenario. You learn pretty fast not to do that again. Maybe I'm just an awful pirate. I have been willing to pay HBO a
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by akurilin 14y ago
I've been reading through the brand new Practical Vim by Pragmatic Bookshelf, it goes pretty in depth in this and much much more: http://pragprog.com/book/dnvim/practical-vim
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by akurilin 15y ago
Awesome, thanks!
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by akurilin 15y ago
Purchased and read back to back the first edition of the book. Very glad to see an updated edition, it hasn't been that long, but a lot has changed in the meantime! Michael, I was looking through the online version of the book and I couldn'
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by akurilin 15y ago
On a slightly unrelated note, is there anything like Codecademy for musical instruments / music theory?
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by akurilin 15y ago
That is absolutely mind-blowing. I had to double-check online that it wasn't a concept mock-up or a joke, but it turned out to be a real product. I have no idea how well that screen looks in RL, but if it's half as good as in those promotio
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by akurilin 15y ago
I'd love to know what people think the current "state of the art" stack is for rich and highly scalable web applications, something that has been proven to work great in production by big projects. Is it nginx + Rails + Backbone? When I thi
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by akurilin 15y ago
Audacity is a great free tool in the arsenal of a budding musician and transcriber. You can slow down tracks without changing pitch to try to understand what notes are being played. Coupled with Reaper, also free if you're a big cheapo, som

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