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by cyrus_ 16y ago
1. You learn how to think rigorously about complex ideas in graduate school. Believe it or not, that is valuable in any career. 2. You are free to work on projects that are ridiculously ambitious in graduate school. Show me a VC willing to
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
If you think Microsoft will voluntarily give a leg up to both Android and Mono, don't hold your breath.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Spidermonkey (or whatever they are calling it nowadays) supports this using the "let" keyword, fwiw.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
If you didn't catch it, 'beta' means 'son' in Hindi.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
In fact, Delaware makes so much from these taxes that it doesn't even have a sales tax. Other taxes for Delaware residents are also very low compared to its neighboring states.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Worth noting that the NYT already had a registration wall for articles. It seems that all they needed to do was add a couple of database columns and a bit of simple logic to make sure the user had paid after 20 articles were served. Only sl
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Its not about who is a better musician, its about who can sell more albums, concert tickets, etc. In that respect, Lady Gaga knows how to work pop culture like few others.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
The cultural movement is sometimes called "new age" and is associated with portions of the hippy movement of the 60s, particularly those that fetishized or otherwise adopted Hindu and Buddhist mysticism. The energy she speaks of is somewher
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Thanks for the info -- but my point stands, performance is important when you care about energy usage (mobile, laptop, server). Really the only place its not important is GUI programming and high-level application logic.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Ever wonder why your laptop fan turns on and you lose a half hour of battery life when you load up a tiny, blocky online video? It can't be because the video decoder is written in a language like Actionscript because everyone says performan
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Don't dismiss this so quickly. There are a lot of people from the culture that she is coming from who take her claims about "good energy" and so on at face value, and she can definitely speak to that market in a way that none of the suit-an
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Came here to say that. The iPhone seemed to be okay at using AGPS indoors but my Droid X fails miserably if I'm not outside. Good luck figuring out where I am, Color.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
An athlete's or musician's salary is linked to their performance on the playing field or in the market. The people writing their paychecks are not themselves musicians or athletes. Executives, on the other hand, often make huge amounts of m
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
The flip side of course being that libertarians generally oppose the kind of government regulation that could stop this heinous merger from further destroying an already non-classical market.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
The point is that implementations are copyrightable and because Google did not strip out macros and inline functions, it has not simply reimplemented an interface but instead created a derived work.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Dropbox is version control without commit messages or merging. That was fine before people started using it to collaborate, but if its going to be a collaborative platform its going to have to grow those features. Which would be wonderful.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
You're describing a type system.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Writing an LLVM pass isn't too bad. Debugging one, on the other hand...
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Pittsburgh can be a bit of a shock for the San Francisco set though. There are comparatively few of what I'll call "post-hippie" establishments here. They're around, don't get me wrong, but not like in the liberal bastions of the West coast
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
The airport is about an hour away so nothing is an hour away flying unless you just count fly-time!
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
This is a copout. If you are in a competitive space with one of these major players you're basically going to be forced into a buyout on their terms or a lawsuit. That's not bargaining.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
The idea of "programs as propositions" espoused here is in apparent conflict with the more widely known Curry-Howard correspondence [1], which states that programs can be interpretted as proofs and _types_ are propositions. [1] https://sec
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
We are entering dark times for innovation.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Computing needs to coalesce around a new big project like this. The web could be a distributed programming environment if we wanted it to be.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Watson is not general AI. Watson is a clever data mining algorithm running on a supercomputer.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
There are many architectural differences between CPUs and GPUs that make it difficult to draw the kinds of conclusions suggested by these graphs. Data parallel algorithms with high computation-to-communication ratios, good data locality and
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
This is an utter minefield for any startup. While the big companies find themselves in a state of mutually assured destruction, new companies can be attacked by a billion dollars worth of lawyers if they start to compete.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Google has had a small office in Pittsburgh for a few years. They moved into a much bigger space recently and are hiring pretty ferociously out of CMU.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
80-hour weeks amount to less than 12 hours per day if you work every day. That leaves you 4 hours to do whatever else you need/want to do, and you can still get a nice 8 hours of sleep per night. You'd be surprised how manageable that is, e
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Programming languages are like Pokemon. Only a few of them are strictly notable in isolation (Pikachu). But there are hundreds of others that small communities are interested in, and the metavalue of having all of them described on Wikipedi

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