carucez

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by carucez 11y ago
One way to rephrase this is... why commit to a one-time decision when you might be able to run away and never look back? -- reinvent oneself in a new land. Few legal constructs cannot be run from. Few legal arrangements cannot be undone. Fo
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by carucez 12y ago
Welcome to the future of CS. As technical fields cross into the phase of commonly understood knowledge, the ability to exploit imbalances rises. Opportunity exists everywhere, but we as insiders with our vast technical knowledge are distrac
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by carucez 12y ago
San Diego County, California. M-F: 06:30 stock market alarm rings. I sleep in. 06:30-07:15 twitter alerts inform me of stocks to trade. 07:30 I get out of bed 08:00 showered, i head downstairs to read more twitter 08:30 leave for work 09:30
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by carucez 12y ago
self doubt will destroy you.
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by carucez 12y ago
having read through a good majority of the peanut gallery, i'm compelled to say that your contract is your duty. having said that, ... get a good lawyer. the original contract might be vague enough that the lawyer has had experience wi
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by carucez 12y ago
damn near everybody is intrigued by that guy that's got one foot out the door. say you're a double-agent. the only thing that matters is if you're working against the common good. if you're totally on another level, you
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by carucez 12y ago
no ad-block unless in low bandwidth situation. always block plugins by default.
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by carucez 12y ago
take a block of text, sentence, or paragraph. build 2 classifiers: #1 that classifies a sentence that contains the information you want, and #2 that classifies the actual data within that subset. NLP
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by carucez 12y ago
12 years at one company. work was interesting. then we took on a project that just wouldn't quit. the work was remote and exotic. then it was repetitive and mindless. then it was copying data. now i sit waiting for the day to be over b
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by carucez 12y ago
Funny how that was one of the first few things I had to teach myself, as distributed systems was something that only the biggest businesses had when I started school, and so, the curriculum didn't exist yet. Hadoop is not exactly the b
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by carucez 12y ago
Yes. There's no denying that. I would not have studied finite automata, nor subjected myself to the horrors of compiler design, or even still, hardware languages such as vhdl or verilog, had it not been for spending 100k+ on some forma
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by carucez 12y ago
business decisions. a broadly supported and internally consistent scripting language. a compiled language that's dominant in the broader fields that you happen to share an interest in.
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by carucez 15y ago
If Google shut off only it's search in protest of SOPA, wouldn't they run into anti-trust issues? I know technically, there's still Bing, but since they command the majority of the market, isn't this essentially the same as Rockefeller's g
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by carucez 15y ago
Let's make the headlines read: "Hundreds of the largest web sites went black today in protest of SOPA" The more black sites, the more powerful the message. It really needs to be pervasive, and it can't be limited to just tech companies.
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by carucez 15y ago
Your book selection is among the best.
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by carucez 15y ago
Occasionally, I take 2-4wk coding breaks to re-evaluate something that's been nagging me each time I code. Is OO working for me? Do I like functional languages (I don't)? How's that PHP treating you (unstable buggy broken)? I've discovere
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by carucez 15y ago
Developer here. I check back with the competency matrix semi-annually to re-evaluate where I'm at. Anything that I'm unfamiliar/unskilled with is fare game for the next 6 months. If I were focused solely on global supremacy, I would check
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by carucez 15y ago
Yes, but only with highly competitive markets, like the 4-function calculator. cough Think harder...
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by carucez 15y ago
I implemented a lot of statistics functions to learn how to program in a language. Some of the things I've learned on include: * moving averages * linear regression * matrix operations * matrix lu factorization * polynomial int
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by carucez 15y ago
In 11th grade (1999), I learned how to program in Javascript from http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/jsp . I went through every single one of those documents / primers. As zedshaw says, do every exercise, type every bit of code, etc. Aft
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by carucez 16y ago
win7 not by choice
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by carucez 16y ago
It boils down to the relationship you have with your money. For me, bigger bankroll = higher score. For my wife, a bigger bankroll = more shopping. The trick is to break your money up into several purpose-driven accounts and automa
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by carucez 16y ago
I got to thinking, how would America's universities compare? It's an interesting thought: The best universities should have the most advanced reading level. I've published my findings, a complete ranking, and source code: http://log.largev
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by carucez 16y ago
I got to thinking, how would America's universities compare? It's an interesting thought: The best universities should have the most advanced reading level. I've published my findings, a complete ranking, and source code: http://log.large
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by carucez 16y ago
I've done a lot of scraping and parsing. Your best option is to fetch the SEC's RSS, then fetch the hard-to-parse XML/Free-form and parse it. XBRL is great in its own regard, but it's very difficult to relate XBRL fields with non-XBRL fil
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by carucez 16y ago
* VB.Net + Pros: Concise, MVC, easy to teach, useful macro maker. - Cons: Costly microsoft royalties, single platform, imperative, single-framework, all-around slow. * Python + Pros: Concise, extensible, object oriented, package/class/meth
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by carucez 16y ago
I use PHP as my scripting language. A lot of my server-side processing is done in PHP, including sockets and statistical analysis. I know it best, and am most effective with it. Python is a bit more robust for all things higher-level, and
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by carucez 16y ago
Starting next month, regular files will need to be stored in Google Docs in order to be accessible -- inconvenient, but better organized. "Starting in November 2010, Groups will no longer allow the creation or editing of files and pages; t