alexgartrell

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by alexgartrell 17y ago
Let me tell you something about labs. Challenging labs a) are REALLY hard to make and b) ALWAYS suck on the first iteration, ALWAYS. This guy has set back the whole course to the very beginning, because now everything needs to be rewritte
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by alexgartrell 17y ago
Well that wouldn't be very nice. Let's call it a "realignment".
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by alexgartrell 17y ago
This won't be a wide spread thing. In most corporations, people won't want to piss off the boss-man by voting his answer down. Reputation is ego and ego in the work place gets ugly.
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I'm told our pedestals are in the mail
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by alexgartrell 17y ago
I go to a "name brand" college (Carnegie Mellon, you can disagree if you'd like) and there are LOTS of CS majors who don't know anything. Likewise I've worked with people from state schools who know exactly what they're doing. Anyone who
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by alexgartrell 17y ago
This isn't a problem of the ivy leagues (or any college, the one I attend included). The problem is that society makes everyone think that they're the best at everything. Thinking "I couldn't possibly have anything to talk about with this
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by alexgartrell 17y ago
Football can and would exist without subsidies" Yeah, but it'd exist in a different city. City's have to compete for the franchise. It's a supply and demand thing (LOTS more cities than franchises).
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by alexgartrell 17y ago
From the point of view of the average taxpayer, deliverables on space missions are too few and far between. When you build an arena (even for non mainstream sport), you make money off of taxing the Franchise, but more substantially off of t
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by alexgartrell 17y ago
Too much leg room if they do that
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by alexgartrell 17y ago
The best reply I've ever seen on HN. Redundancy is good, always. Especially when the cost is negligible compared to the lifetime operating expense of the machine and the costs from any misinformation regarding the last moments of a doomed
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by alexgartrell 17y ago
I would NOT trust a website with my private data if they wrote their app in C. Buffer overflow -> execute your own code -> write a function that pipes an entire database out to you. It really is a trivial problem given the buffe
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by alexgartrell 17y ago
False. You only have to write ONE application, you have to buy N servers. It doesn't take very large N to overcome the price of a good programmer. Hardware is expensive when you have to buy _lots_ of it.
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by alexgartrell 17y ago
On the plus side, robots stop our friends and family from getting killed. On the negative side, the lack of consequence makes military and political leaders think it's cool to start blowing stuff up wherever they please (and not just the Re
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by alexgartrell 17y ago
All you need to do is look for the other persons interest to perk up at specific topics and ask questions in that direction. Keep them talking about things that interest them, tell them how cool what they like is, etc. Make sure to have y
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by alexgartrell 17y ago
Two TA tricks to make people not use malloc: 1) Have them write it 2) Force them to check the return value of all system calls. Static arrays aplenty will arise Also) punish them for excessively large static arrays
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by alexgartrell 17y ago
We do too http://www.tartanracing.org/ And for the serious enthusiast: http://www.rec.ri.cmu.edu/projects/crusher/
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Ask HN: Shipping a Computer Cross Country
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by alexgartrell 17y ago
javascript. Everyone has a text editor and browser. Plus young kids can use it to screw around in school.
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by alexgartrell 17y ago
As a representative of kids and kid-ettes, that stuff is actually still taught. In addition to writing malloc and a proxy, we (I'm a TA) have labs that are designed to force students to disassemble and reverse engineer compiled code. Furt
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by alexgartrell 17y ago
What about CS grad school? Don't research labs take the pressure off of PHD candidates to find tenured positions? (Disclaimer: This is an actual question, not 'fightin words')