andreyf

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by andreyf 16y ago
I certainly depends on the school, but at least as important as Algorithms, course-wise, are Architecture, Operating Systems, Networking, and in some fields, Numerical Analysis. I'd say a BA with those first three is just as good most BS'es
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by andreyf 16y ago
Absent a massive technological shift --- which may be coming and which AT&T and Verizon are powerless to stop ... What are you thinking of?
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by andreyf 16y ago
In the prototype example [1], could someone explain the point or at least the effect of setting Bar.prototype.constructor = Bar? 1. http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/#prototype
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by andreyf 16y ago
Have you tried learning Scheme? My first language was C, which I learned very much as if were BASIC (plus pointer arithmetic), and I related very much to Dijkstra's observation when a couple of math major friends and I started learning abou
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by andreyf 16y ago
Maybe you hang out in the wrong circles, but even my non-engineering friends (art and history majors) know about Linux, free software, and the basics of copyleft. Maybe that's at least in part due to my interests in explaining it, but these
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Friction in Human-Computer Symbiosis: Kasparov on Chess(blog.palantirtech.com)
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by andreyf 16y ago
The difference is that in '96, Apple was building an identity that was distancing itself from the anti-Microsoft theme which had dominated the discussion of the early 90's. The Think Different campaign was meant to define the soul of the co
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by andreyf 16y ago
I think the "power" category is best, but obviously a sensitive topic. What we need is a layered democracy, where the smart people who understand a field and have power to influence laws there (with the advice of experts in whatever fields
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by andreyf 16y ago
Word of mouth? If a product is good, people will talk about it (there's certainly no shortage of avenues to publish your thoughts nowadays).
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by andreyf 16y ago
I thought the music on pinkberry's website was pretty cool: http://www.pinkberry.com/
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by andreyf 16y ago
I enjoy consulting too, but it leaves me with the feeling of not building or being part of something for the future... if that makes sense. Here's how I'd fix that: start building a set of reusable components which you own the property to
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by andreyf 16y ago
While we're on the topic of great JavaScript references for people learning the language, this one is worth considering: http://eloquentjavascript.net/ The author's open source projects are quite pedagogical, as well: https://github.com/
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Softserv Serves Requests(sigusr2.net)
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by andreyf 16y ago
Well, that's pretty obvious. If it involves an infinite sum, but you only have n people, you don't quite get to that infinity-th guy ;)
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by andreyf 16y ago
Uh, in OpenGL too, if you wish.
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by andreyf 16y ago
No. Haskell has type safety which was never intended to be included in Lisp. On the other hand, Lisp has the s-expression syntax which allows for usable compile-time macros. Neither language is a subset of the other. How useful type checkin
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by andreyf 16y ago
Although I will say that a small part of me wants to see it transformed into a real-life version of Ironforge. One would hope that labor laws would prevent you from building something of the sort via manual labor, but what about robots of
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by andreyf 16y ago
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-store-in-china-shuts-do...
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by andreyf 16y ago
Shouldn't that be a bar graph?
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by andreyf 16y ago
Not sure why you're getting down voted, as we seem to be of the same mind re: Apple's value. When it comes to my day-to-day utility of the device, I still find my iPhone 3GS unsurpassed (although I carry around an EVO for tethering & a
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by andreyf 16y ago
$500k still isn't anything to sneeze at...
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by andreyf 16y ago
That sounds like a good implementation. I imagine the Chrome team would agree, and suggest users install the extension which does just that, if they like it: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhn... Actually, just a
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by andreyf 16y ago
Could this be done in a 3D environment, with pinch to zoom in/out to see a view without the details of the AST?
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by andreyf 16y ago
I never said it did, but was responding to: Let web-browsers remain good at what they're good at, and what they were meant for: Browsing the web. Web browsers make great hypermedia navigation / browsing tools... but they're really not so g
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by andreyf 16y ago
I'm not sure if there's anything to call Gruber on. Microsoft spent a pretty penny on the Win95 launch, as does Apple for their launches. Google and the hardware manufacturers who produce Android devices simply haven't run their launches th
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by andreyf 16y ago
Yeah, that whole applications on the web thing is totally just a fad. I'll right get on rewriting Google Maps using a Java front-end.
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by andreyf 16y ago
How about this one, instead? http://piumarta.com/software/cola/
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by andreyf 16y ago
Having spent most of my schooled life riding one of these busses (with safety belts), I can assure you that no children will wear them.
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by andreyf 16y ago
Considering this is probably stretching the design limits of docs in both dataset size and number of people accessing it, here's a dropbox-hosted copy: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/404957/4chansurvey/survey.html
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by andreyf 16y ago
Relevant? http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

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