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by dlo 15y ago
Are there any NLP guys here? Can we improve this situation with modern technology?
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by dlo 15y ago
Maybe different lists can be prepared for different career tracks. The items enumerated in the main article obviously has a Web development feel to it. For perhaps another track, I feel that the following tasks, actually performed by someon
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by dlo 15y ago
Here you go! http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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by dlo 15y ago
I will quickly point to some other topics: data mining, machine learning, databases, programming languages, computational biology, etc. Also, application security, which you might get started with via war games, is huge right now. [1] [1]
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by dlo 15y ago
If you are unfamiliar with the tale of the nine blind men and the elephant, be sure to look it up. [1] While I don't disagree with most of the advice already given, I don't think the advice given thus far paints a complete picture. For exam
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Reflections on Trusting Trust (Ken Thompson's Turing Award speech)(cm.bell-labs.com)
147 points by dlo 15y ago|34 comments
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by dlo 15y ago
IMO, Scala is a tasteful collection of the best features from a bunch of different languages, including ML, Haskell, Smalltalk, and Clojure. [1] If I taught a survey course of programming language features, such as Stanford's CS 242, Scala
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by dlo 15y ago
> I picked Go because, seriously, I don't have time to read 145 pages just to get started. You don't need to read 145 pages to get started. Most people I've talked to only know 20-30% of Scala. But they feel that they already know enoug
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by dlo 15y ago
A compiler has both a front-end and a back-end. Both the book that is linked to by the OP and CS 652, the course you refer to, have a heavy emphasis on the front-end. Personally, I am very partial to the back-end, which involves very, very
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by dlo 15y ago
And here's another resource. http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx In particular, check out CS 106A.
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by dlo 15y ago
The below three essays are absolutely invaluable. Peter Norvig: http://norvig.com/21-days.html Eric Raymond: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/pfaq.html
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by dlo 16y ago
"Notice that none of the deans said stay in school because of the things you'll learn in the classroom." The second-to-last paragraph of Jim Plummer's response seems to say so. Example: "A university education gives the large majority the t
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by dlo 16y ago
What I often find to be the case is that a course in college only loosely follows the assigned book. Professors like to navigate through the subject material in a very personal way, which will often not be the way that it is covered in the
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by dlo 16y ago
> ... seen studies about less sleep improving lifespan... Sleeping less than your own individual sleep need probably does not improve life span. The participants in the studies you're referring to who slept vastly more than others were
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3D Game Demos Along with Technical Commentary(youtube.com)
1 points by dlo 16y ago|0 comments
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by dlo 16y ago
The Tour of Scala is very succinct. It is basically a list of language features and how they manifest in Scala. http://www.scala-lang.org/node/104 Each feature has both a description and an example. I became productive very quickly using
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by dlo 16y ago
According to her bio on the Alphonso Labs team page, she graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Princeton University. Perhaps she meant that her education at Princeton overall had a liberal arts flavor? http://www.alph
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by dlo 16y ago
Do you hack on a programming language after work? Do you read Lambda the Ultimate religiously? This job opening will appeal to the many programming languages enthusiasts here on Hacker News, particularly to the subset that has an accompanyi
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by dlo 16y ago
A shot in the dark will sometimes hit something. This doesn't make shooting in the dark a viable strategy.
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by dlo 16y ago
Another one: "Y Combinator--a computer term for a program that runs other programs." Heh, sure.
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by dlo 16y ago
Must I choose? May I choose the smarter, faster thinker with domain knowledge? :P I do not think domain expertise should be marginalized, especially when the domain is deep. Someone who is smart and fast but who has only ever thought in Spr
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by dlo 16y ago
I think another way to impress an interviewer is to come to your interview prepared to discuss (with technical detail) past exploits in which you were able to do just what you described. Most people just flow with the interview rather than
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by dlo 16y ago
Rather than simply speaking broadly, here's a very simple example of when I would expect someone who is sophisticated on the topic of programming languages to excel over applicants who are merely practitioners. (In practice, I actually do s
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by dlo 16y ago
2. I mostly agree. However, if you are applying for a position at a company that specializes in program languages or program analysis, then I disagree. These applicants should be sophisticated enough on the topic of programming languages
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by dlo 16y ago
Someone once brought in his laptop. He showed me a running program and gave me a tour of his code. It was very impressive.
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by dlo 16y ago
Isn't thinking that others have little to offer to you a form of elitism as well? It seems neither option is particularly humble.
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by dlo 16y ago
Paul, you mention that you weren't motivated to make the business succeed: "[O]ur motivation to make a successful company got destroyed by all of the above." But you also mention that you were working 100-hour weeks. Do you think you had su
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by dlo 16y ago
Reminds me of property management: When screening possible tenants, merely saying that you will conduct background and credit checks will deter some people from even applying, most of them being people you wouldn't want to rent out to anywa
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by dlo 16y ago
In asserting that Zuckerburg's fears are unfounded, the author states, "Google co-founder Sergey Brin also echoed Zuckerberg’s “hell no we won’t IPO” sentiments soon before Google, yes, went public." The quoted text is a link to an article
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by dlo 16y ago
You make a good point; it does spend a lot of time on the front-end. As pointed out elsewhere, Muchnick is more thorough on back-end topics, which it appears we both agree are far more interesting. I've definitely heard of those other books

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