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Fareed Zakaria's Harvard commencement address(news.harvard.edu)
1 points by cgopalan 14y ago|0 comments
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Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques(graphics.cs.williams.edu)
4 points by cgopalan 14y ago|0 comments
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by cgopalan 14y ago
"If you need a paycheck to not starve, then your job should be pretty darn important to you whether you like it or not." This is what I suspected you meant by "importance". Something that you are forced to make important, not important by c
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by cgopalan 14y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with your family's attitude towards your work (although I do agree if they put their interests before your priorities they shouldn't be given more importance). Family/friends could be more important than
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by cgopalan 14y ago
Even at the cost of family and friends? I dont see work as sacrosanct. Its a section of your life devoted to help you sustain a living. Some people love it, some people dont. There are other parts of your life that need the same, if not mor
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by cgopalan 14y ago
"The entire US is geared towards spending money, and you will be encouraged to do so many times per day. Your friends, family, colleagues, dentist and the guy at the gym are all going to encourage you to spend money - it's just how the soci
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Peter Norvig to teach 'Design of Computer Programs' at Udacity(udacity.com)
194 points by cgopalan 15y ago|51 comments
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by cgopalan 15y ago
Pyramid framework at current job. The website is up but not yet completely open to public. Goes live in April.
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Stanford algorithms class signup active(coursera.org)
5 points by cgopalan 15y ago|2 comments
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by cgopalan 15y ago
There are many people that are not comfortable with negotiation. They see it as a game, and want to avoid it. They would rather just produce something and get paid for it for a living, and cut all the bullshit. For those people, maybe the t
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by cgopalan 15y ago
In reality, it is better not to depend on impromptu discussions (meaning not grabbing people to discuss something with as soon as an idea hits you). When a person comes up with an idea and wants to discuss, you are almost always better off
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by cgopalan 15y ago
There are a lot of famous people in programming that produce world-class output without using typed functional languages. Therefore I am going to interpret this as : typed functional languages are cool to work with, but not necessary to pro
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by cgopalan 15y ago
I am an employee of a company based in Virginia but work from home in Rochester NY. Been only doing this since last December, but I am loving it and will have a hard time going back to commuting. Lots of people with prior telecommuting expe
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by cgopalan 15y ago
Seconded. For someone who is being newly introduced to ML concepts, applying them right away can be daunting. The exercises do just enough hand-holding to make sure they don't get lost, but give enough leeway so that they know what kind of
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(An ((Even Better) Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))(norvig.com)
140 points by cgopalan 15y ago|17 comments
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by cgopalan 15y ago
Fail often, fail quickly mostly applies to the failures you will have along the way during those 3 years. I am not sure it will take 3 years to break even, but the business taking a few years time to break even is definitely not in contradi
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by cgopalan 15y ago
I have always been surprised as to why people think its offensive to talk ill of someone just because the person is dead. Death does not change character. If a person could be criticized for something when he was alive, he should not be imm
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by cgopalan 15y ago
I feel the same way about my cat. I love her and would rather spend a bigger percentage of time with her than what I spend now. Question though is, why is this on hacker news?
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by cgopalan 15y ago
Like Christopher McCandless (upon whom the book and movie "Into the Wild" is based) rightly said: "Careers are a 20th century invention". Not saying everybody should do what he did, but I have come to increasingly believe that everything sh
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by cgopalan 15y ago
This is just unfortunate. First David writes a post thats not befitting of a person that promotes a language. I am not doubting his competency with Scala - his display of his contributions prove that. But I have found that there is somewhat
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by cgopalan 15y ago
I hope not. I have worked quite a bit on Python/Django but I am considering diving into C++ due my recent exposure of the wonderful world of graphics programming (not game development but simulation and visualization).
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The philosophy of PyPy - roughly(guttingpython.blogspot.com)
2 points by cgopalan 15y ago|0 comments
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by cgopalan 15y ago
Exactly what I was going to point out also. Maybe the OP was throwing in some humor? The only reason I say this is that it seems like all other criteria are also not very concrete. For eg, following so and so on twitter, lunch-time discussi
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by cgopalan 15y ago
First of all, thanks for taking the time to write up the detailed answer to my question. While reading it, I realized that the OP was talking about fear of not fitting in DURING the process of achieving success, not after. That makes more s
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by cgopalan 15y ago
I also hope the patent pledge site will progress towards discouraging companies like that of Like.com by including instances of how they shamelessly killed Modista. Like PG, I am still ambivalent about patents (though mostly believing they
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by cgopalan 15y ago
The call to action on this post seems to be stop worrying about the fact that you will not be understood and go ahead with your plans. I am curious. Does the fear of not fitting in outweigh the benefits of financial freedom? I dont know the
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by cgopalan 15y ago
This is something that's crying out to be said. In this world where there's a constant input of information all day every day, its very easy to just receive it and not have enough time to process it. There are countless times when after I r
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by cgopalan 15y ago
I usually dont laud a comment here since it doesnt contribute much, but this is one (of the many) where I cant but make an exception. Great stuff!
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by cgopalan 15y ago
This might be going off the main topic here, but I'll address it: For someone who has the ability to pay outright, I agree that paying a monthly amount might give some flexibility. If someone is making a monthly payment because thats all th
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by cgopalan 15y ago
Wrong argument. Firstly, rented homes are not only from homeowners. Second and more importantly, for people that already have a home through say inheritance, or ability to pay outright cash, it makes sense for them to use it as a source of

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