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by apu 16y ago
Mostly about C programming, but many of the comments apply equally well when you're writing a library in a higher-level language or a web API. Still, I'm glad not to have to worry about malloc fails, pointer craziness and array overflows an
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by apu 16y ago
Great post, but there were a few typos (e.g., under George Bell, "thousand time that" -> "thousand times that") and the use of "I" was very confusing -- was that Jason, or the speaker? One example is under Alexis' section, there was the
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by apu 16y ago
FYI: "Leaving a missed-call" is a very common thing in India (and perhaps other countries too).
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by apu 16y ago
HN is no longer just Startup News, as it used to be. Topics which are of intellectual merit appeal both to startup founders as well as to PhD students. Hence the large number of PhD HNers and generally rosy picture of PhDs. But I agree with
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by apu 16y ago
I think the OPs comment was about computer science in particular, but even there things are changing somewhat. Partially it's because of the weak economy and scarcity of faculty jobs, but getting into the top-tier places almost requires a
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Oursql - a better mysql binding for python(packages.python.org)
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by apu 16y ago
Hah! tptacek: are you adding this to your list of data points? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1639443
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by apu 16y ago
I don't know if this is so specific to India. In a lot of the US (maybe even most of it?) you get called a traitor or unAmerican or whatever for not agreeing with the government or the Republicans or whoever is in power and control of the m
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by apu 16y ago
And making custom binaries for Apple products only is better?
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by apu 16y ago
I wouldn't really call it trolling. There's no intention of malice, he doesn't feign seriousness when making a controversial point, he is very self-deprecating, and everything is said interspersed with jokes (that of course are sometimes hi
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by apu 16y ago
Not to get sucked into a debate about TDD stuff, but to me the following blog post said all that needs to be about at least the TDD business and "gurus" (if not the whole methodology): http://ravimohan.blogspot.com/2007/04/learning-from-su
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by apu 16y ago
Yeah this is completely backwards to me -- do you want the illusion of progress? Or progress? Often they are mutually incompatible.
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by apu 16y ago
I think these guys might be the best trolls I've ever seen on the web. First the NY Sucks article, and now this. Everything from the title, to the giant fuck you to "wage slaves" in the 2nd paragraph, to the fuck you to investors in the 4th
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by apu 16y ago
Much more concisely explained in PG's "A Unified Theory of VC Suckage": http://www.paulgraham.com/venturecapital.html PG's is also far more entertaining to read.
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by apu 16y ago
FYI: a 'this' comment is better done by simply upvoting and not commenting at all.
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by apu 16y ago
Coming from a family of entrepreneurs (in India), this seems empirically false to me, regardless of whether you count tech startups or regular 'small businesses'. Almost without exception, we've needed significant capital to start a busines
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by apu 16y ago
Kind of disappointing that trolling works so well.
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by apu 16y ago
Eh, my thought about the article was, "obvious troll is obvious."
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by apu 16y ago
I think jerf means that for the vast majority of PhD students, the most motivation you're going to have is at the beginning. It only gets worse from there. So if you have serious doubts before diving in, you're almost certainly going to hav
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by apu 16y ago
I think you might have it a little bit backwards. You need a fair amount of focus and self-motivation to complete a PhD. If you already are having issues with this, starting a PhD would be like giving a crack addict access to a large, cheap
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by apu 16y ago
MSR is one of the top computer science academic-research labs in the world -- their output, especially in my field of computer vision/graphics, rivals any university at all of the top conferences. As other comments have stated, they have an
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by apu 16y ago
Argh misleading stupid 3d graphs!
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by apu 16y ago
So in the spirit of the article, what would you say are negative things about running a startup for you? Or is it all roses?
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by apu 16y ago
Wrong Korea.
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by apu 16y ago
Debunked here: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/ctm81/autistic_girl...
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by apu 16y ago
It's interesting that Europe, with its (in-)famously stricter labor laws, has a higher robot ratio than the US. I would have thought that companies in the US would be able to fire workers much more easily to replace them with robots, and ye
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by apu 16y ago
Heh, I know these polls are far from scientific, but saying "I'd like to confirm..." is like asking for poll results to be skewed...
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by apu 16y ago
I generally "print to pdf" if I want a pdf of a page, or use the firefox screengrab plugin to make png images of full page-length (super-awesome!): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146/
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by apu 16y ago
Perhaps they were going for James Earl Jones' "This...is CNN"-style emphasis.
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by apu 16y ago
Actually this is a huge problem that regularly deters me (and my parents) from donating more. 95% of organizations view a single donation as an all-access pass to send junk mail, emails, and in many cases even phone calls with "updates" and

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