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by eqdw 16y ago
Scott Adam's original post is consistent with my life experience
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by eqdw 16y ago
Once it's on the internet, it's there forever. Someone of Adams' level of technical expertise should know that.
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by eqdw 16y ago
I agree. It's easy enough to criticize when you don't actually have to come up with one
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by eqdw 16y ago
Scott Adams' comments are consistent with my life experience. That is all
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by eqdw 16y ago
Waffles? DON'T YOU MEAN CARROTS? AHAHAHAHAHA
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by eqdw 16y ago
http://fuckyeahnouns.com/hacker%20news
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by eqdw 16y ago
IIRC, it was sub-second speed when he was done optimizing. I wrote a non-optimized version of this in Ruby, ran in ~10sec. Then I rewrote it in C, and it was <1ms runtime for 20-100 digit inputs. Yay algorithms!
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by eqdw 16y ago
Programming Pearls K & R C Programming Guide
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by eqdw 16y ago
He's too young to get tenure. So, unfortunately for him, he is SOL in that regard
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by eqdw 16y ago
My friend is preparing to enter a mathematics masters (actually the suspended prof was going to be his advisor), and he's already stressing out. He tells me that at that level of study (in mathematics), it's not uncommon for over half the g
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by eqdw 16y ago
WRT the student with exam anxiety: I can sympathize, as I have some pretty crippling anxiety (albiet in other areas). However what I have to wonder is this. If you've got exam anxiety, what happens when you get your PhD, and your university
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by eqdw 16y ago
I think what you say is very true. I know one fellow from Electrical Engineering, who was very much like Gabi. Insanely smart (did the 5-year degree in 4 years, with an A+ in every course except two), utter balls at tact and diplomacy. He a
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by eqdw 16y ago
I agree it sounds awful, but I agree that you are correct. Not everyone who wants a PhD can just get one. It is damn hard work. You devote your ENTIRE CAREER and in some cases life, to your Ph.D. It's not fair to the others who are working
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by eqdw 16y ago
To everyone, from someone who has dealt with this man personally: I don't know the specifics of the situation. I generally assume I'm only getting part of the story when I read these sorts of articles. However, knowing Dr. Lukacs, he is mos
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by eqdw 16y ago
I use base six, with one hand being 6s and one hand being 1s. It's a tradeoff between counting capacity and ease of calculation.
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by eqdw 16y ago
I've used resource allocation and scheduling quite a bit. It's amazing how much of Operating Systems bleeds over into the real world
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by eqdw 16y ago
GDB. God's gift to programmers
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by eqdw 16y ago
My university loves Java. C is taught in a few low-level courses but it's not typical. Hell, within 10 years I bet they stop even teaching pointers. I really like C. Sure it's not as sleek and sexy as Ruby (My uni uses ruby over python), bu
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by eqdw 16y ago
"...great reading on dystopian robotics include Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's Dune prequel trilogy on the Butlerian Jihad" Clearly you didn't read the same books I did? "Great"? REALLY?
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by eqdw 16y ago
In reality it is so difficult to identify honest-to-goodness plagarism in comp sci. For instance, in my algorithms courses, wikipedia was super useful. Most significant algorithms (e.g. quicksort) have a pseudo-code implementation, and when
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by eqdw 16y ago
The questions in my first (And even some second year) comp sci classes were so trivial, and java so verbose, that it would be impossible NOT to have the same code as someone else. Granted, if those percentages are obtained by, say, diffing
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by eqdw 16y ago
After doing the obvious brute force algorithm, the correct answer is not a real word. So you'll have a tough time getting it on your own
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by eqdw 16y ago
Um, no answer on the phone. I let it ring for over a minute.