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by gabriel 14y ago
This is pretty amazing. I regularly have conversations with other programmers where we talk about needing this sort of tool. Question: For every language, are you writing a full-blown language parser to get the semantic information you need
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by gabriel 14y ago
Only the good ones will. But this has nothing to do with age. I believe it has to do more with drive. Or possibly intrigue. Whatever the word you use, it is a problem of the mind. The biggest thing I look in with my peers is their capabil
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by gabriel 14y ago
You know I was also thinking in Perl yesterday when I read this and this is definitely a Perl idiom. I really believe you get a lot better at seeing the benefits of patterns when you try to apply them in different languages and different
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by gabriel 14y ago
There was a link: http://www.norvig.com/design-patterns/ I think you are looking for an exact quote but the link is to slides of a talk :( I also agree with the sentiment, but you Architecture Astronaut will no doubt disagree. You really
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by gabriel 14y ago
Big-O is a foundation for all of those things you mentioned as a true foundation. Don't know the former, you are likely to get tripped up by the later. I get the feeling from your post that you get this though. Because at some point you hav
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by gabriel 14y ago
I'm also one to use logging and error management to help my way through a program. I don't understand how anyone else does it any other way. But surely the debugger helps a lot when no other way to reason about your code exists. I have a lo
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by gabriel 14y ago
Dragon CFO Ellen Chamberlain was from Seagate.
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by gabriel 14y ago
I have to use Lotus notes at my work. As a result my team doesn't use email. We pretty much don't communicate in any reliable way and insert all of these strange rules on our tracking system so things don't get lost. Ridiculous.
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by gabriel 15y ago
Some don't maintain their packages. If you re-install every few months you keep you system up-to-date. If this sounds strange to you, then realize that most LFSers are accustomed to running new builds frequently. Personally, I tracked file/
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by gabriel 17y ago
The state schools in Wisconsin have a rental system. It worked great. I didn't have to purchase a single text book. Some classes had several text books, which the book store would only rent the first or second primary book, but this wasn't
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by gabriel 17y ago
I've always loved the Perl idea of "If you want to treat everything as objects in Perl 6, Perl will help you do that. If you don't want to treat everything as objects, Perl will help you with that viewpoint as well." (from http://svn.pugsc
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by gabriel 17y ago
Yes! I've also seen the similarities between all of these things and LLVM. Part of LLVM is an interest in correctness. I've seen more of an interest in these areas in research as well. For example, there was even a recent research highlight
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by gabriel 17y ago
I noticed Singularity hadn't been mentioned directly on HN before so that's why I threw a link in here :) I also wish the Singularity project had a friendly license. I also had to do a lot of work up front, so congrats on the work you've do
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by gabriel 17y ago
This also reminded my of the Singularity research project from Microsoft: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/ I've actually used some of the concepts in this research for writing a secure distributed testing platform
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Interview With a Hedge Fund Manager(nplusonemag.com)
1 points by gabriel 17y ago|0 comments
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The Crack-Up By F. Scott Fitzgerald(esquire.com)
19 points by gabriel 17y ago|6 comments
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by gabriel 17y ago
In "The Intellectual Situation" front-matter of Issue #6 of n+1 magazine about our "Book Review Nation" the following statement was written about the modern literature critic: "...what separates us from, say, Edmund Wilson? It is not tast
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by gabriel 17y ago
I was recently re-reading the "regrets" pamphlet by n+1 magazine (link at bottom) where the premise was to get a round-table discussion of some "intellectuals" and ask them what they regret about their education in order to provide a guid
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by gabriel 17y ago
You're welcome! And here I was half expecting chaos to ensue the next time I checked in :)
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by gabriel 17y ago
Uh oh. Honest mistake. I must have typo'd my search for this article before I posted it.
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The Disadvantages of an Elite Education(theamericanscholar.org)
130 points by gabriel 17y ago|78 comments
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by gabriel 17y ago
Government is filled with politicians not of a scientific/mathematical background but instead capable of rhetoric (or not capable at all =D). The word instead stuck out to me here, because I don't think these two qualities are an either
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Over Our Heads(therumpus.net)
33 points by gabriel 17y ago|13 comments
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by gabriel 17y ago
The New Yorker doesn't have a good reputation for fiction, and it hasn't for a while. However, I think its lack of reputation is more about how The New Yorker isn't thought of as a place for fiction anymore: They only publish one story (com
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What Ails the Short Story(nytimes.com)
21 points by gabriel 17y ago|12 comments
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The Artist as a Young Girl(ltimmel.home.mindspring.com)
1 points by gabriel 17y ago|0 comments
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I Want You to Want Me(therumpus.net)
78 points by gabriel 17y ago|9 comments
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by gabriel 17y ago
I understand the value of taking a higher-level course with a world-class expert in the subject, but calculus for poets barely requires a math undergrad to teach adequately. Imagine being 19 years old and already identifying yourself as a
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by gabriel 17y ago
Yeah, it's a US thing and it happens exactly as quoted. And it actually gets the same reaction from both men and women. The exceptions are men and women who have realized that it isn't easy to control infants and a good mother will do what
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by gabriel 18y ago
Here's the link to the Dec 2008 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society that this article is in response: http://www.ams.org/notices/200811/index.html

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