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by brooksbp 18y ago
This is awesome. My Theory of Computation professor put his 150+ pg book online for free. Great stuff... go academia!
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by brooksbp 18y ago
Great point. Did not consider the competitiveness aspect. There are ~50 students majoring in CS in my graduating class, ~40 class below, <30 below that... dear god, our field is already challenging enough, though we could use some comp
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by brooksbp 18y ago
So true. I can relate pretty close, doing an internship and seeing these exact traits.
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Generation Y the least engaged(management-issues.com)
3 points by brooksbp 18y ago|4 comments
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by brooksbp 18y ago
bliss: http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1683/picture1te5.png
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by brooksbp 18y ago
I wrote a prototype in Perl ~300 lines within a few days. The C implementation is just taking forever and involving too much pure software engineering overhead that I can't stand. It's driving me away. I can't get motivated. Too boring,
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by brooksbp 18y ago
EDIT: The only really thing I've been trying to do that will keep me focused is trying to learn C better. Writing more elegant code, reading books like "Expert C Programming", etc... but at times, I feel like this might be counter producti
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Ask YC: "Get things done" Motivation?
3 points by brooksbp 18y ago|6 comments
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Partial vectorisation of Haskell programs(research.microsoft.com)
3 points by brooksbp 18y ago|0 comments
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by brooksbp 18y ago
I agree with this point of view, but I think it could be taken the wrong way and I don't think that it should apply to all wannabe entrepreneurs. There's a fine line between a good product or driving force of a startup, and just creating s
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by brooksbp 18y ago
This basically marks the transition from software engineering transforming into hardware engineering. No longer is it about sequential algorithms, it's not about linearity. It's about destroying sequential algorithms; breaking down large
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by brooksbp 18y ago
Can't stand crap like this. People who reinvent the wheel (poorly), or try to, make the world a worse place... something related to 'visualization' -- psychological stuff. People who fail to visualize and truely, intimately understand thi
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Polyphonic C#(research.microsoft.com)
3 points by brooksbp 18y ago|1 comments
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by brooksbp 18y ago
Sad, but true. It's horrible coming in as a naive freshman and figuring out that you've exhausted most profs, funding, opportunities, etc... within a field that your university isn't familiar with
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by brooksbp 18y ago
True. The author does not draw the line between using getters/setters and other methods to access data. I guess this is the motivation for ideas such as "leaky abstractions."
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by brooksbp 18y ago
The only reason why they're a fashion statement is because they were born into a fashion-aware community. Check out my comment about the Boulder Country Club above. Other than that, yes they are extremely light and comfortable...
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by brooksbp 18y ago
I worked at the Boulder Country Club, where most of the cofounders of Crocs were members. Those shoes blew up at the club; before I knew it, I was receiving all sorts of pairs in different colors as 'bonuses' or gifts from the members. It n
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by brooksbp 18y ago
+1 for the awesome comment EDIT: Misleading title--nothing to do with neurons or 'unreality'...
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GLAT - Google Labs Aptitude Test(cruftbox.com)
1 points by brooksbp 18y ago|0 comments
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by brooksbp 18y ago
1) Hacker News, Google Reader, Lambda the Ultimate 2) Computer books, Steve Yegge, Paul Graham, Knuth 3) Digg, Google Reader, Facebook 4) Google, Official Docs/Specs (for projects/languages), irc.freenode.net
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by brooksbp 18y ago
Nope, not at all. The reason why I am slightly offended is that people are treating "virtual interviews" with the same seriousness as traditional, face-to-face interviews. There will be no substitute for real human, spoken, face-to-face i
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by brooksbp 18y ago
To be completely honest... that lost a ton of integrity as soon as I read "I showed up at the Amazon.com’s booth, with my well-dressed and custom-skinned avatar which, as a bonus, has my same name, Simone Brunozzi (don’t ask me how I got it
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by brooksbp 18y ago
Been using SCP... it's a great tool for copying files between machines... but it's a shitty tool for prod deployment... capistrano ftw!
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by brooksbp 18y ago
This is great from a beginner's stand-point, but might seem to realize that all web frameworks are basically code generators with a bunch of glue. Which, for 90% of the useless crap out there on the internet, is fine.
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by brooksbp 18y ago
+1 Obviously haven't read much Yegge when making statements like that. Ontop of the above defense, there's a video on Youtube... http://youtube.com/watch?v=1QD9XQm_Jd4
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by brooksbp 18y ago
emacs (...or vi... sigh ). hands down.
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by brooksbp 18y ago
Generally, it is. Just wording / thinking of it the wrong way. New languages and tools arise because of need. Therefore, if you feel forced or uncomfortable with your current tools & languages, use different ones. People who feel forc
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by brooksbp 18y ago
You simply cannot argue that caching doesn't work if the data is different for everyone. I understand that. It's aggregation. But the metadata lives within a database and it is imperative for that to be glossed over with a RAM based cach
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by brooksbp 18y ago
Database scaling isn't their problem. Sure they push lots of data around, but great programmers should be able to architect an optimal caching layer between the app and the database. So now that metadata caching is out of scope here, we tu
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How to Hire Insanely Great Employees(folklore.org)
6 points by brooksbp 18y ago|2 comments

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