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601.
by caffeine 17y ago
If you're an American living abroad, 6 months is the minimum, and you should really stay at least 9 months. Why? Language is everything. Seriously - in most places sufficiently different from the US to be interesting, language will be you
602.
by caffeine 17y ago
These questions are interesting with regards to the Goldman Sachs proprietary code that was stolen recently. It seems likely (dare I say inevitable) that some part of GS's infrastructure (just like everybody else's) links GPL'd libraries.
603.
by caffeine 17y ago
Doh ... "the newer breed of languages". Like Lisp?
604.
by caffeine 17y ago
I spent the first four years of this millennium doing eighty-hour weeks at a [...] division internally famous for producing more revenue per employee than the IRS. Man ... how do I get a job like that?! I really want that job!
605.
by caffeine 17y ago
Sometimes it's good, and sometimes it's not. I find that the language has a lot to do with it. At some point I was doing some modifications to Rails 2.0 internals (the public APIs to these sorts of things never expose the needed functional
606.
by caffeine 17y ago
I think Wolfram put up their crazy interface in order to avoid just giving away free online Mathematica. Also to allow Stephen's ego to further blossom. If you could use WA as a Mathematica console BUT with access to great built-in (craw
607.
by caffeine 17y ago
Yes, but : you rarely put up your house as collateral on starting a job.
608.
by caffeine 17y ago
I'm just wondering if the U.S. government will ever be Ramen-profitable... 'cause I'm sick of them always taking my Ramen.
609.
by caffeine 17y ago
It's good to hear this argument once in a while - and I think it deserves to be extended to most things that are not formal figments of human thought. In other words - can someone please forward this to the humanities department? Tell them
610.
by caffeine 17y ago
Sorry - I meant that it makes me use lambdas in Python (you're right, I don't use many lambdas in Haskell either). I find myself using them in Python everywhere as a substitute for currying and/or laziness, e.g.: def f(a,b): ...
611.
by caffeine 17y ago
You should've called this "Yay-me!" instead of Karminator. The about page makes sense. The front page doesn't, really.
612.
by caffeine 17y ago
Notes about Haskell: It's strange, but Haskell is more difficult to read than write. This is because most code on e.g. Hackage uses some very complicated gymnastics involving Applicative, Arrows, or whatever. So it's hard to learn from ot
613.
by caffeine 17y ago
such a paradigm shift from the rest, and perhaps even from typical human-thought patterns For me, this is Haskell. Trying to write any decently large program (say, a Super Mario clone) causes brain hemorrhage. I've also met people who le
614.
by caffeine 17y ago
Let's imagine that God's Book contains not only proofs but also the other good Ideas of the Universe (QED, Enlightenment, Mozart's Requiem, etc..) For one of these Ideas to become known to us, a human's brain must at some point "think" it
615.
by caffeine 17y ago
This hilarious German saying from Judith (in the article's comments) deserved to be reposted here: “Karohemd und Samenstau - der Mann studiert Maschinenbau.” “Checkered shirt and lack of sex - the man is studying engineering.” (The German
616.
by caffeine 17y ago
It's not really an attempt to ostracize oneself from the general public by referring to them with degrading inhuman terms. It's just a handy word to refer to stuff that's not online.
617.
by caffeine 17y ago
I don't get it - why is this cool? Isn't "mail" one of those outdated meatspace idioms we can finally allow to die?
618.
by caffeine 17y ago
It has more spit and polish than you think - just not flashy. (Think 'Shibumi'.)
619.
by caffeine 17y ago
I'm not convinced that's true, as the depth and quality of rubygems are inferior to the depth and quality of eggs available in python. Find me e.g. a "gem install scipy" equivalent for Ruby. However - "easy_ un install scipy" REALLY nee
620.
by caffeine 17y ago
Sometimes it seems that Singapore is a single great company that was founded in Singapore. To address your point though - I'm surprised that you lump creativity and critical thought into the same bag? Also, judging from the admissions be
621.
by caffeine 17y ago
Other suggestions: - All SBA loans should come with free lifetime supplies of Provigil - We should send our kids to Singapore to learn math and physics - Earlier specialization
622.
by caffeine 17y ago
Mohammed Yunus, the Dalai Lama .. (& Barack?)
623.
by caffeine 17y ago
Book from the Sivers list's question: "How to create maximum profit with minimal effort" (Mark Joyner, the Great Formula) Book from TriinT's list's question: "What is the nature of reality, and how does it work?" (Feynman lectures of physi
624.
by caffeine 17y ago
Sweat. Sweat is worth 80 IQ points. Hard, disciplined labor. Yeah, maybe the guy with the big swinging "g." has it easier. Mommy & daddy gave him his 80 free extra IQ points. My extra 80 points came from severe intellectual self-flag
625.
by caffeine 17y ago
Indeed, among the physicists we might also find those who are moved to tears by Baudelaire, and among the critics of French literature those unafraid of contour integrals. For every Terence Tao there are a thousand Nameless Toilers. So int
626.
by caffeine 17y ago
The statistics is completely wrong - and the conclusion is (probably) completely right...
627.
by caffeine 17y ago
"Google: we brute-force stuff."
628.
by caffeine 17y ago
I'm pretty sure they sell "e-mail typewriters" for this - a typewriter that you hook up to an e-mail account, and you can see emails come in on it and you can type them back out - and that's it. If not, it can't be hard to customize a linux
629.
by caffeine 17y ago
Your "about us" page is full of lorem ipsum. Doesn't inspire much confidence in the company...
630.
by caffeine 17y ago
I think there may be other forums where you can get more feedback. Check the XKCD forums ( http://echochamber.me ) maybe? In general, though, your education is essentially irrelevant compared to the fact that you've been building websites.

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