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by ewjordan 18y ago
You may _think_ that no "real" programmer would ever want to work for a bank when they could instead work for a software company, but that does not make the people working at banks any less talented or competent. It just means they have dif
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by ewjordan 18y ago
Yet when it comes to coding, you generally want to follow exactly the opposite advice - "lazy" programmers tend to be the best, because they figure out how to get the most work done in the fewest lines of code/hours of work. The difference
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by ewjordan 18y ago
Damn...make sure you don't miss the breakup letter he sent to his ex-gf: http://www.gicleelife.com/email.php My summary: You're kind of a pain in my ass and I can't waste time on your Emotions if I want to be a Success. Let's be friends,
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by ewjordan 18y ago
Unless and until you're bringing in real money for Google, make no mistake: you're in a consumer relationship with them, not a commercial one. A merchant that's sold a few hundred dollars worth of stuff is never going to be important enough
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by ewjordan 18y ago
That's not assured: phds are almost always paid significantly more and tend to be more involved in R&D projects than day-to-day code grinds, and depending on how short sighted the company is, R&D is often the first group to see cutb
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by ewjordan 18y ago
I would suggest Shiller's Financial Markets lectures, I'm checking them out right now and they seem extremely interesting. Shiller's a good lecturer and clearly knows his stuff. Also, if you're at the intro to physics level, you should rea
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by ewjordan 18y ago
With all the talk of advertising "crashing" (I've heard a lot of these claims lately), I'd really like to see some numbers to back it all up and prove the point. Are advertising revenues down significantly more than, say, the Dow average?
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by ewjordan 18y ago
Just a heads up, the http://news.ycombinator.com/apply page still lists the old deadline, you may want to update that as well.
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by ewjordan 18y ago
If the background noise is loud enough, turning your iPod's volume dial to 100% won't change the fact that you can't hear the damn music. The problem wasn't your iPod in the first place, so no amount of tinkering with it is going to help t
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by ewjordan 18y ago
Agreed - I only have minor gripes with the list, but given that only a handful of the algos have implementations, this thing would really need to be a wiki for it to have any hope of getting completed. Frankly, I'm not going to bother sendi
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by ewjordan 18y ago
You know, I'm really not usually too picky about this stuff, but I have to say, this is an extreme example (for me, at least) of presentation overwhelming content - I started to read that page, and the combination of the font size, the layo
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by ewjordan 18y ago
Related to that, I think one of the major problems is to motivate kids to do their damn homework, as one of the biggest hindrances to motivation is lack of comprehension. That sets in very quickly if kids only think about the material duri