cmagahern

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by cmagahern 14y ago
The last few paragraphs of the article really brought an interesting light onto the subject. Most of the people I know who left college to start a business or to work somewhere in Silicon Valley had a remarkably privileged upbringing. They
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Traveling Salesman Art(johndcook.com)
2 points by cmagahern 14y ago|0 comments
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by cmagahern 14y ago
Can you name a specific example?
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by cmagahern 14y ago
If anything, this article supports the claim that C++ is a good language. The fact that C++ templates are Turing-complete and allow for this kind of thing is pretty darn cool in my opinion.
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by cmagahern 14y ago
I think a much better way to do this would be to send a confirmation email first. After the user accepts the confirmation email then it continues with the submission. This would prevent potentially evil stuff from happening.
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by cmagahern 14y ago
Personally, I've never found Github's interface to be overwhelming at all. Sure they have a lot of content on every page, but I think it's well-designed enough where I can easily find what I'm looking for very quickly. For example, when I w
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by cmagahern 14y ago
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger Dijkstra The name of the field misleads a lot of people into thinking that CS is only about programming, but it's way more than that. Personally, I t
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by cmagahern 15y ago
The differing mouse "feel" that you're describing is most likely a result of the different mouse acceleration curve that OS X uses. (Mentioned in the article) I've noticed this too but I was able to resolve it by changing the mouse accelera
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Goosh: Google Interactive Shell(goosh.org)
4 points by cmagahern 15y ago|2 comments
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by cmagahern 15y ago
Interesting that doctoral degrees do not pay more on average than professional ones! Perhaps it is because most PhD's enter the field of research as opposed to industry? I haven't met that many PhD's in industry but there are a few.
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by cmagahern 15y ago
I don't think he was trying to be insulting. From what I gather, he was trying to justify the negativity theme in the comments for this post, which was the subject of the original comment. I agree that the blog post was not detailed enough,
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by cmagahern 15y ago
I'd really like to create a start-up, and my partner and I have many ideas, but I feel like most start-ups out there today are playing the role of the third-party instead of creating truly revolutionary things. Companies like Apple, Google,