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by apathy 19y ago
programming.reddit is not bad. But, yeah, if you're a hacker, hacker news is better yet.
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by apathy 19y ago
pg: But all it would have taken in the beginning would have been for two Google employees to focus on the wrong things for six months, and the company could have died. Actually, it's even more interesting than that. Prior to AdWords (and
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by apathy 19y ago
> If you want to be in a research type position, you'll need a PhD in CS with a dissertation on ML. Comp Bio works fine too. Same difference.
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by apathy 19y ago
Yes it will, if you break it up onto multiple shared memcached servers. Or re-think how you're serializing it. Or why. Or use a distributed hash table (although if you own all the machines, memcached is easier and faster to ramp up). Ba
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by apathy 19y ago
> they built their software so that it could grow to 2 servers This is somewhat debatable -- all software can be grown to multiple nodes, it's more a question of how much work is involved. They built their software to meet needs. The
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by apathy 19y ago
> the 2008 Subaru STI is an overall dream machine that allows you to mod the hell out of it so that you can beat a Ferrari in a quarter mile competition, but which one will get you laid more often? It's not the Ferrari that gets the own
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by apathy 19y ago
vim, screen, svn... Don't use lisp(s) enough to enjoy Emacs anymore.
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by apathy 19y ago
Where's my down button? This article would be better titled 'Top 10 skills that troglodytic dying coroporations think they want'. Run as fast as you can in the opposite direction!
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by apathy 19y ago
You end your article with 'Bayesian filters will not outperform a human in hiring'. But that's not the point. A classifier, and especially a supervised classifier, is really just a tool for intelligence amplification. Make a dumb man perf
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by apathy 19y ago
> there's probably a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes which is proprietary. There really shouldn't be, though. I set up a CA for a large company way back in 1998 and while it was a pain in the ass, it wasn't something that a nov
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by apathy 19y ago
A fluidics station is not cheap, and neither is the rest of the typical Affy rig (and Illumina is worse), but having set up more than a few, I have to tell you, the cost of the components isn't actually very great. (As in, the parts and la
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by apathy 19y ago
> Yeah but DNS management ain't being a certificate authority. Indeed, it's harder in most respects. Having a certified secure location is actually less good than having a dispersed and challenged base. This is a solved problem for eg.
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by apathy 19y ago
Seconded -- there are plenty of godawful Java jobs out there, none of which you likely want. (Unless it's just another tool used for certain libraries in certain applications) PHP isn't nearly as bad as it's made out to be, especially PHP5
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by apathy 19y ago
> Non-programmers cannot think logically enough. Or choose not to program, perhaps because there are logically more optimal uses of their time. Be careful how far you tread down this path of discourse.
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by apathy 19y ago
Does anyone remember IBM Data Explorer, which became OpenDX? The program was based on the notion of mapping flows as topological bundles, thus it could (and would) attempt to automatically parallelize whatever independent operations it coul
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by apathy 19y ago
> Programmers are good at this - business users are not. It might be more accurate to say that programmers are less bad at this than business users (and other less analytically minded individuals).
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by apathy 19y ago
There are some fantastic libraries in Java. Your approach to it seems reasonable, although I find myself writing extension modules (for R, PHP, Python, Perl even) in regular old C... not because I particularly dislike C++ or Java, but becau
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by apathy 19y ago
The best ''Java'' theme I have ever seen was the old Perl Journal issue with 'Special Java edition!' on the cover. It a cup of coffee in which damp cigarette butts bobbed about. God I miss TPJ. Say what you like about the language, there h
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by apathy 19y ago
Francis Crick and Richard Feynman didn't mind it either, and I dare say their chosen careers might have required an even clearer perspective. I've never really understood why LSD gets a bad rap -- you have to try really, really hard to fuc
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by apathy 19y ago
My wife's iPhone has free unlimited data, not-free text and mobile-to-land-phone minutes. Guess how she harasses me to pick up our daughter or buy specific groceries? FWIW, I've rarely seen such a brilliantly executed electronic device in
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by apathy 19y ago
The iPhone is driving the change he writes about -- the mobile Web, instead of mobile-specific Java apps (for example). It strikes me as a colossal ''duh''. Would any of us be here reading this site if Paul Graham hadn't had a similar insi
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by apathy 19y ago
> with Google, the advantage of having a CPAN is neutralized. I could not disagree more strongly. Perl has CPAN, R has CRAN, Ruby has Gems... why does this pattern recur, over and over, in successful languages? Probably because it wo
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by apathy 19y ago
It's not about websites -- raw text is what Perl was made to handle. It really is the Swiss Army Chainsaw, the Duct Tape of the Internet -- I try never to use Perl anymore, but when I need it, it's there, along with CPAN, calmly biding its
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by apathy 19y ago
> When I control the gear, Does Boeing outsource anything? Discuss. Obviously if you can run everything in-house for cheaper than an organization can do it elsewhere, you should. Large numbers of businesses are discovering that's not
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by apathy 19y ago
They would be awesome, however they're backwards. 9 out of 10 are likely to fail, averaged across industries. Perhaps more.
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by apathy 19y ago
> The flaw I see in that argument is that you have no guarantee of service. Oh god, not this shit again. Look at any typical SLA and tell me you don't see a zillion loopholes for lawyers to wriggle around. There's never any real guaran
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by apathy 19y ago
nb. The article covers Postini, which is like SpamAssassin/DSPAM (or Zimbra for that matter), only it costs money. There are some details that I am eliding, but fundamentally, that's what we're talking about. Postini likely adds a great d
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by apathy 19y ago
The real problem is inertia. 'Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM', remember? It'll take a generation to get rid of the crap, but it will happen. The CIO at USC arranged a campus-wide rollout; more will follow. Once students (who then e
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by apathy 19y ago
He also wouldn't fit into my Gmail window, I don't think.
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by apathy 19y ago
What, you ditched class that day?

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