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by codewhisperer 19y ago
Completely fascinating rant. Somewhere there's a counter argument in favor of non-critical systems achieving planned obsolence through joint failure and the economic benefit of consumers purchasing replacements. I'm not about to make it mys
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by codewhisperer 19y ago
Bit of an ego blow to those styling themselves as "influentials."
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by codewhisperer 19y ago
The linked article should be taken in context -- it was published almost a year ago, when the public attitude about lending practices was quite different (and the nytimes does tend to reflect and follow public attitudes). For a sense of the
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by codewhisperer 19y ago
A CMU Robotics masters is totally sexy.
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by codewhisperer 19y ago
M.S. Computer Science, CIMS NYU. Actively programming when not wrangling departmental politics.
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by codewhisperer 19y ago
Interestingly, the female genius stay fairly consistent across their life spans. It does not exhibit the sharp peak in the of their male counterparts. Unfortunately, the paper does not address the impact of marriage on women's productivity,
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by codewhisperer 19y ago
I've only poked at it, but some pals are knee deep into it. They produce truly beautiful interactions with it. Check out http://www.processingblogs.org/ . It's a blogblender of active work on processing.
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by codewhisperer 19y ago
I liked Clive Thompson's summary of the paper: http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2008/01/this_m...
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by codewhisperer 19y ago
The linked article refers to the board game version rather than the gliders version.
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by codewhisperer 19y ago
I've skimmed, not read, the article, but it's good enough that I'll be causing some tree-death to read it slowly on the train home tonight. I might have to rebalance my algorithms v. compilers heuristic.
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by codewhisperer 19y ago
My favorite part is that they applied for inclusion in the Guinness Book of World Records. That is crazy smart marketing.
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by codewhisperer 19y ago
It's worth noting that the professional engineer or doctor is as much an ideal as the professional computer programmer. Doctors actually don't wash their hands as often as they know they should ( http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/magazine/2
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by codewhisperer 19y ago
Adding in some practical pointers too. If you're not in a position to enroll in an accredited CompSci program, look at MIT's free online courses: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm#Elec... * Start with 6.001 * Make su
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by codewhisperer 19y ago
Consider the Dewar & Schonberg article which has been causing so much stir this week: http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/CrossTalk/2008/01/0801DewarSchon... They argue that a good theoretical grounding is indispensable for writing good code
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by codewhisperer 19y ago
Speaking as a member of the homogametic sex, I've been lurking on news.ycomb for a few months now. About the time I was considering speaking up on an algorithms topic, this appeared as a leading link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99