dkarl

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   by dkarl 16y ago

   Would that stop them from working for the CIA? Corporations are about as patriotic as the money they're paid with.
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   by dkarl 16y ago

   Being poor is having to live with choices you didn’t know you made when you were 14 years old. Plus knowing that your kids are likely to ignore your guidance and follow your example, making the same mistakes you did, no matter how much th
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   by dkarl 16y ago

   If that's true, then the story boils down to what Lawrence Lessig and others have warned about for years: you can't depend on the inherent nature of the internet or any other technology to nullify bad laws.
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   by dkarl 16y ago

   Unfortunately, my fair use claim was denied without explanation by the copyright holder. Denied by the copyright holder? Now we see that the system does not exist to uphold the law, but rather to serve copyright holders whether they have
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   by dkarl 16y ago

   So you think it's a good idea for Microsoft to continually break crappy internal web applications that misuse outdated Microsoft technologies? Crappy internal applications that misuse outdated Microsoft technologies are the life-blood of b
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   by dkarl 16y ago

   While no man wants to limit his options in women, being in a relationship probably doesn't define his sense of self-worth the way it does with women. I don't know if that's true, or if that's an incorrect assumption based on how often we
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   by dkarl 16y ago

   That's an idea that I explicitly learned from computing, coming from a mathematical background where that pattern doesn't really have an analogue. I really never thought that way until I conceived of it as an adult and immediately connecte
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   by dkarl 16y ago

   Paris Hilton did a clever job turning what she was given (which didn't include talent or beauty), multiplying it manifold, and making a crapload of money out of it. From a purely economic point of view, she did much better than the vast ma
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   by dkarl 16y ago

   This also happened during a period of doggedly overblown optimism about the opposition in Iran and its chances against the government. We were all rooting for them, of course, and the optimistic coverage may have helped them a little bit,
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    I'm not surprised that giving criticism is harder, since women are socialized to give feedback indirectly, through body language and other social signs, and even when speaking about a problem not to do so plainly. Simply saying what you th
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    I remember a few days before the start of my freshman year of high school, I was at the college library making copies of math competition tests so I could start practicing for the upcoming season of competition. While I was there, I saw a
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    People list all the programs they've used. Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, Firefox, Internet Explorer, [no, not a web programmer] Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, emacs, Visual Studio, gcc, g++, ssh, Putty, xterm, armed robbery, and emacs.
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    That comment was about the NoSQL community's hostile reaction to his criticisms of MapReduce, and it does indeed show that they're not interested in knowing about databases, because they read his criticism in the context of an imaginary (or
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    I think the preference for lighter-colored skin in China dates back to when they thought westerners were ugly, smelly barbarians. That isn't to say that modern perceptions of whites as modern and superior isn't a factor now, but it is a re
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    My resume includes separate lists for technologies/languages I am "advanced" or "proficient" in and technologies/languages I have done some work with. To give an example, I can slowly and painfully write PL/SQL when it's necessary, but I w
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    The question must be precisely worded. "Write a function to shuffle a deck of cards" is woefully ambiguous. Provide the function header and avoid misunderstandings, which are all too common. Nah... you need to know if the candidate can sp
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    This reminds me of the recent story about the Korean woman who passed the driver's examination on the 960th try: "Knocked down four times, rising up five." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1663474
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    Does it fall on Programmer's Day in leap years?
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    Sequel, Postgres, MySequel
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    John McCarthy is an interesting person to try to slot into your scheme, since he qualifies for 2 but deserves a higher place than Matz and Guido. You have a theorist at 0 and people who established tools and practices at 1, so maybe McCart
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    But they are all beneath Verilog, which is slightly below VHDL :-)
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    Not knowing something, and not needing to know it, is progress. Not knowing something despite needing to know it is not progress. People will always need to know things. (Otherwise we could have instant "progress" by lobotomizing the us
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    I bet Android has a lot of room to improve not just by improving garbage collection but by decreasing garbage creation. The compiler can do a lot of optimizations to reuse objects instead of allocating new ones. I don't know what the stat
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    Visualization for C++ code metrics, specialized for C++, would be interesting. The C++ code metric visualizations I've seen have hooked into visualization front-ends designed for Java code. P.S. This probably isn't a weekend project, but
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    Starting in industry after a PhD doesn't put you any higher on the ladder than a fresh BSc graduate. Where you enter the industrial career ladder depends mostly on the kind of experience you would get in industry, but you can get that kin
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    Ruggedness depends on what you're asking the car to withstand. I'm hoping mine will withstand 150k-200k miles without unplanned maintenance :-) But right now I'm in the embarrassing position of trying to borrow a car from my mother to dri
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    I completely agree and am thankful for the professors who take their teaching job seriously. To look at it from the opposite perspective, I dropped out of (a very good, top five in my field) grad school because I realized I wasn't brillian
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    Seeing "super rugged" and "money pit" separated by a single word is amusing to me. By my standards, my Toyota Prius is more rugged than most cars. It doesn't take me everywhere I want to go, though.
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    It would be better if rotating the screen adjusted everything except the orientation of the board, so you could turn the screen around to look at the board from another angle.
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    by dkarl 16y ago

    Never underestimate the power of savant-level intelligence combined with a complete lack of taste.