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by arohner 17y ago
So you're saying they deserve it? Most programmers I've worked with act like professionals, yet are still treated like children. It's bad managers that have the stereotype, so programmers continuing to be professional doesn't fix the proble
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by arohner 17y ago
"In reality there is only a handful of true programming geniuses in the field who are either independent contractors or are employed by computer hardware/software firms . There are few, if any, true programming geniuses in the average cor
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by arohner 17y ago
But that's just Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeons_Law
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by arohner 17y ago
One side-effect I really hope to see from the sprouting of YC and YC-like firms is a break in this stereotypes of programmers being autistic children that need handlers. Though, I suspect it will suffer from selection bias. Any technical fo
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by arohner 17y ago
Key Observations: 1. Managers exhibit an average intelligence level, no greater than any other professional with a college degree. They exhibit an average imagination. 2. Perhaps more than any other profession, managers try to impress and i
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by arohner 17y ago
More information on the code added: http://incanter-blog.org/2009/12/03/flightcaster/#comment-13...
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by arohner 17y ago
> the alternative is not coming here at all That is one alternative. Another is coming up with a program that doesn't allow MegaCorp to abuse its H1B employees and depress market wages for US citizens at the same time.
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by arohner 17y ago
You're right, assuming the H1B employer is honest. However, the defacto primary use-case of an H1B is to depress the wages that MegaCorp pays its employees. The current advocates of the Startup Visa probably have honest intentions, but I gu
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by arohner 17y ago
Let's treat this as an interview question: First, I'll assume alpha works similar to a compiler. It parses the text, and generates an AST for the input expression. Your goal is to replace the tree with the 'best' possible equivalent AST. Be
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by arohner 17y ago
The reverse is often true as well. Anywhere you see rationing and price fixing, you can find black markets nearby, assuming the distortion is high enough.
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by arohner 17y ago
A better solution would be to just fix immigration. Adopt something similar to the Commonwealth point system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_Skilled_Migrant_Programm... , where you get points for being young, educated, in a useful prof
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by arohner 17y ago
Another problem with the idea is that the investor approving your founder visa has additional leverage over you. This extra leverage will take the form of lower valuations, lower investments, and (even more) investor friendly terms. For pro
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by arohner 17y ago
I think that's a good argument against using character count as a measure of program length. i.e. translating 印 to print does not improve the program in any way, so it shouldn't score better in any measure of complexity.
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by arohner 17y ago
Really interesting, but where / how is the user's session data stored? client side or server side? A small amount of additional detail on the Clojure Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/... The author
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by arohner 17y ago
Get into a habit that you only do while doing "serious work". For me, it was listening to music, on headphones . When I start doing "serious work" I put the headphones on. When I'm distracted, I take the headphones off. Repeat. Now, a few
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by arohner 17y ago
I love these contracts that talk about viewing content on a TV. What's the difference between a 30" iMac and an LCD TV? I claim the essential difference is whether or not you're sitting on a couch when you watch it. Good luck writing a cont
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by arohner 17y ago
Anyone have benchmarks on implementations of this in other languages? It seems sufficiently non-trivial to be an effective benchmark.
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by arohner 17y ago
True, but not everyone is Shakespeare.
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by arohner 17y ago
That'll teach me to scoff at Bond. The first thing I thought of was Bond driving his car in Tomorrow Never Dies (10ish years ago), with a device that looks suspiciously like an iPhone.
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by arohner 17y ago
This article seems a little misplaced. They talk as if it was the technology alone that allowed Madoff to scam, but the human factors were at least as important. http://finances.unanimocracy.com/money/2009/01/07/harry-mark... Markopolous,
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by arohner 17y ago
Should be "How to write untestable code in Java". Makes me glad I'm not writing Java, fewer than half of these are problems for me.
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by arohner 17y ago
And firing him obviously confirmed that notion. AA just got Streisand'd
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by arohner 17y ago
> Note that timezones aren't just geographical. In London, you'll be in timezone GMT (+0000) for half the year and timezone BST (+0100) for half the year. You're comparing apples and oranges. There are two different concepts here: 1) th
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by arohner 17y ago
With every passing year, I'm more and more convinced a language approaching Haskell's pedantic-ness is A Good Thing. A language where Joda is the most convenient option, where all numerical quantities have units, and you have to make an exp
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by arohner 17y ago
Wait, you're telling me that "the best new protocol" and "the future of the internet" is being held back by the telcos, the most hated, slow moving, bureaucratic companies on earth? Sounds like we need push email.
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by arohner 17y ago
I agree this is a key point. Software bug rates are not comparable to scurvy incidence rates, and developer productivity is not similar to the number of bricks a laborer can move in an hour.
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by arohner 17y ago
"When was the last time you heard about a software engineer employee making over $1m, let alone $10m?" Exactly. employees don't make make over $1m, but plenty of founders who sold startups have.
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by arohner 17y ago
Since this book is so math heavy, can anyone recommend a free pdf book that can be used as a math intro for this? I like the book, but I get a little over my head with the math in some sections.
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by arohner 17y ago
I'm mainly interested in Machine Learning algorithms. I've read the first 75 pages of this book, and skimmed most of Mackay, and I prefer this one. It goes into a lot more detail on the performance of different algorithms, how the handle sp
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by arohner 17y ago
Depends on the situation. Often, you aren't aware of the flaws until the teacher points them out, and sometimes insight comes very quickly.

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