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by arebop 15y ago
http://videos.edufire.com/2009/entrepreneurship/how-to-rock-... Look at search as well as sorting algorithms. Know basic data structures and associated algorithms. Practice at a whiteboard. Don't worry about getting it right the first tim
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by arebop 15y ago
So the point is, "don't ask me to solve extremely common and easy-to-explain problems, because someone else has already written good solutions?" What are the alternatives? Questions about things nobody uses? Questions that are hard or lengt
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by arebop 15y ago
From a privacy perspective, how is choosing ads different from doing syntax highlighting and blame? These things all require the service provider to have access to the data you give them. Maybe it is because when ad-picking is done well, it
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by arebop 15y ago
They had Motoblur on some devices, and they had "pure" Android on others. Pure is scare-quoted because of course Motorola still had proprietary drivers and carriers who distributed Droids still added their bundled apps and disabled objectio
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by arebop 15y ago
Go to Berkeley. For a "decent" job, it doesn't matter; for the best jobs (or cofounders!), it will be helpful to start off at an elite institution. The most important qualification for getting a job at a place where you can be happy as a so
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by arebop 15y ago
C# is a nice language, too bad about its owner. PHP is a pretty ugly, but it's widely used. Are you just looking for a way to make money, or do you think that software might be your calling? Dice is giving you an accurate view of a large se
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by arebop 15y ago
Would the hash scheme you have in mind be vulnerable to rainbow tables?
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by arebop 15y ago
My understanding is that you have a non-trivial software project, you can count on infringing many patents; it's best to assume that Microsoft (among many other wealthy companies with large patent portfolios) can indeed sue you and win. You
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by arebop 15y ago
graph of parties to patent litigation: http://news.designlanguage.com/post/1473307539
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by arebop 15y ago
"Let me emphasize again that cost-free float is /not/ an outcome to be expected in the [property-casualty] industry as a whole: In most years, industry premiums have been inadequate to cover claims plus expenses" [buffet]. So another thing
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by arebop 15y ago
I didn't remember that, so I looked it up. Maybe you are thinking of a different passage, but here's what I found: "... cul-de-sacs are very bad from a social standpoint --- they force interaction and they feel claustrophobic, because there
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by arebop 15y ago
Maybe you think Null Object Pattern or Maybe Monad are better ways to deal with the article's motivating example problem. What about dealing with network errors by exponential backoff and retry? What about the ask-the-user-what-to-do policy
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by arebop 16y ago
Company size and the interesting-ness of the work are probably orthogonal, unless you are strictly interested in entrepreneurial activities. So pick the interesting project, and later on if the startup goes bust you'll still be able to get
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by arebop 16y ago
CACM was reformed a couple of years ago. In one issue, it became vastly better and it has sustained its quality since that time pretty well. There are always two journal articles with nice introductions for those of us who don't follow thei
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by arebop 16y ago
I think the SLOC count will not hurt, although it's less important for open source projects were I can quickly check things out for myself if I'm so inclined. Having done something, even if it never got traction for some reason, is better t
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by arebop 16y ago
LinkedIn seems a bit spammy to me, with all the mediocre programmers I've ever encountered professionally wanting to link with me. So I don't use it, and if you use LinkedIn instead of a resume, then I will not be able to consider you for j
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by arebop 16y ago
You are right, and the fear & distrust go both ways. The .NET "community" is almost entirely Microsoft fans and a good number of shills. The shills are rabidly anti-FOSS, the Microsoft employees are about evenly divided between FOSS-hos
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by arebop 16y ago
Yes, because when you don't play by the standard rules, it's hard to find others to play with you. Cache servers are just one example. Another example: web browsers. Note that web browsers are still useful against REST services, even if the
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by arebop 16y ago
> Google has taken away freedom from it's users to do as they want with their data (i.e. transfer it unidirectionally to Facebook). This is a fact. OK, but when you say "its users" you seem to be talking about the millions who have stor
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by arebop 16y ago
There are a few variations on CSV, but a great many variations on HTML. You could try to hack together some sort of quick and dirty regular expression based extractor, but if I were you I'd use http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
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by arebop 16y ago
There are some timeless classics such as http://openlibrary.org/works/OL5267912W/Vitruvius_on_Archite... and http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1417305W/On_painting_and_On_s... but some really good contemporary advice about data displays ca
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by arebop 16y ago
See also http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
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by arebop 16y ago
I did something similar for my capstone, and my recommendation is that you start a project. I also started by reading lots of papers from the ACM DL, reading books from my school library, etc. If I could do it over again, I'd start programm
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by arebop 16y ago
http://fitnesse.org/
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by arebop 16y ago
Anti-competitive doesn't just mean "not good for competitors." It's about things that are harmful for the marketplace. For example, it excludes the ordinary enjoyment of copyright exclusivity. You might think monopolies are harmful for mark
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by arebop 16y ago
This case seems to be about whether Google can insist that devices carrying the Google trademark actually include particular Google programs. Specifically, can Google require Motorola to ship Google Maps as a condition of Motorola's use of
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by arebop 16y ago
Yeah, if anything techcrunch's new context supplies a suggestion that the reader think about the creepiness of personalization. The intended meaning of the phrase seems clear enough without the rest of the paragraph. There's nothing unfair
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by arebop 16y ago
Yes, I do buy other things. As for time savings and convenience, even having used the iPad for a few minutes one day, I don't think it would save me any time at all compared to using my laptop. iPad is less convenient for carrying around th
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by arebop 16y ago
> Haven't they used a digital picture frame and though "Gosh, wouldn't it be cool if this could show the weather...and had a web browser...and let me play movies from my server..." Yes, I have had those thoughts. I also thought "I'd be
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by arebop 16y ago
If I wanted typed data, I would be more inclined to use RelaxNG than XML Schema. In some situations, XML might not be so advantageous. JSON is quite convenient for JavaScript applications. Protocol Buffers have an efficient wire representat

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