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by cowmoo 18y ago
Yes and no. Specialization is good for productivity on paper - but it breaks down horribly in practice. In programming, you may need to extend or re-write your framework or even web server's logic to scale your websites. In real-time tradin
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Given that someone before had offered a compelling Christian perspective, I shall give the existentialist perspective on the same matter. "The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the st
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Thank you for posting such helpful advice. I think the last part of your advice is the most helpful - that you need to really do wet lab benchwork, something I've tried to avoid during my undergrad, thinking that computers are the way of fu
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Coming from someone who's considering going back to school (grad school) for Bioinformatics/Comp Bio, I have always thought that Bioinformatics wasn't like "traditional" academia because so much of it is "Run n' Gun" programming/statistical
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by cowmoo 18y ago
If you graduated college, consult with your college librarian. The chance is, most journals have online subscription deals and they are accessible via VPN/proxy through your school's subscriptions. If this doesn't apply, go to a local Unive
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by cowmoo 18y ago
FYI, for those of you guys who are located in the greater Boston area, check out the South End Technology Center ( http://www.tech-center-enlightentcity.tv/ ). Like the NYC outfit, they have a Fab Lab with laser cutters/drill bits/circuit m
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by cowmoo 18y ago
So what's this going to mean for scribd? Are they going to go way of the YC startup web 2.0 calendar that ebayed themselves off, after Google Calendar came out?
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by cowmoo 18y ago
There are currently problems that is pushing the envelope of computational power, i.e., MD simulation (see D.E Shaw Research), engineering simulation on jet engines (see Pratt & Whitney) - even state of art of Infiniband clusters and cu
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Yes. That's about right but I am afraid that the lazy's are gonna miss out on the intricate command & control hierarchy of a botnet and how the researchers injected their machines within the command & control channel to effectively
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by cowmoo 18y ago
What's more interesting is that the man started writing (finished and published) several full-length novels while he was still in med school to "make a quick buck." He also was suppose to declare English during his undergrad, but decided ag
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Once a hacker, always a hacker. For anyone who has read J.M. Coetzee knows, he is no F. Scott Fitzgerald, the stereotypical glamorous and superfluous writer; his prose and temperament matches that of a mathematician, rational and precise bu
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Like a true hacker, hack the system. I agree, the company HR and recruiting are totally arbitrary and incompetent - most recruiters don't come from a technical background, and will only match up the buzzwords from their position requirement
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Explain to me how this is different from RoR, other than the vague buzzwords of "speed," "lightweight" and "powerful" listed under the homepage.
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by cowmoo 18y ago
No, Harvey Mudd (or Harvard Med if you say it really fast and jumble it) is not bad at all. It has in fact, one point, the highest national merit scholar semi-finalists by class percentage in the country. It's basically the school for Cal
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Hmm.. I have to say I have had a very different experience being a fresh college grad (class of 2008). I applied for jobs at various different places, big companies and small startup's, in all different types of industries defense, finance,
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Coming from someone who has been involved in Biochemistry research and software development - I prefer software development. Here's why: in both fields, you get to explore and break new grounds, but you move much faster in software developm
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Sorry to hijack the thread - but I think that this is pretty appropriate nonetheless. I just recently moved to Cambridge/Boston, MA as well. Would someone enlighten me, as to what might be some great software/web companies in the area that
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by cowmoo 18y ago
bugmenot.com
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Just wanted to say that I really liked the link that you have posted in your reply, about the correspondences between Feynman and Wolfram.
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by cowmoo 18y ago
I may be a CS nerd, but hey I can roll with the cool kids, too ... you know. I could do RoR and I am pretty good with Photoshop that I could too design websites with rounded corners. But seriously, I am pretty interested with design and wil
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by cowmoo 18y ago
I'll respond in kind, with my favorite koan: One day, the apprentice startup wanabe asked the master hacker, "does a dog have true hacker-nature or not?" The master hacker replied, "woof!"
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Thank you for your kind words. It gives me a lot of perspective from someone who has "been there, done that"; Also, btw, it takes a lot of guts to admit that you used to too write "Catcher in the Rye" stuff that I just wrote now, ;-).
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Thank you menloparkbum for pointing out the true core of my problem.
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Well put; I enjoyed your rhetorical question and will ponder on them in my free time.
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Hmm, it's good to hear the two cents from the founder of the Feel Good Initiatives. I am a big fan of your project. I am also staying in Boston (near Beacon Hill) for the summer, and slightly off topic but not really, what are the cool stuf
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Yes, I have got the "bipolar" part, no so much the "rhythm" part though. But seriously, I see what you are saying. I have always been a all-or-nothing kind of person, but maybe I should actually try this work-life balance thing that I have
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Hey, thanks for your comment. I could understand where you are coming from - it's reassuring to have someone tell me that "the twenties are kinda a professional wasteland anyway," when I am on the cusp of graduating. Can I quote you at my h
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Ask YC: In the hack of life, is it the people or the code?
47 points by cowmoo 18y ago|59 comments
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by cowmoo 18y ago
Hey, I understand where you are coming from. Good luck!
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by cowmoo 18y ago
We were also among the group that were invited for a interview - but received at the end a rejection e-mail. As graduating college seniors, we had banked a lot on pursuing our startup idea. I spurned a offer to work at a blue chip company t

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