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by gphil 17y ago
My degree was in Philosophy, and I'm able use that "domain knowledge" in any situation, but that knowledge is generally more useful to me in a much more abstract/indirect way than my software engineering knowledge. I think that the most imp
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by gphil 17y ago
I'm ambivalent about this. A few times in the article the author suggests that only in a small percentage of cases is job-hopping justified, but I think it's actually justified in far more than a small percentage of cases. The fact of the m
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by gphil 17y ago
If you look at the list, Objective-C has also jumped up 31 spots since last April. I'm wondering if a shift toward development for mobile devices (iPhone and otherwise) has caused C to leapfrog Java.
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by gphil 17y ago
you missed out, this was worth reading
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by gphil 17y ago
this doesn't bode well for (ex) sun products if oracle is imposing significant cultural changes on former sun employees.
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by gphil 17y ago
1996 was quite a while ago if you think about it. 14 years is a long time.
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Home-baked Graphics(bit-player.org)
4 points by gphil 17y ago|0 comments
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by gphil 17y ago
> VCs have the right to block an exit. I don't know too much about the terms of VC funding, why is this the case?
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by gphil 17y ago
Cool! I really like what the Haskell community is doing lately to reach out to new users. As someone who didn't know anything about functional programming a year ago, I can say that I've learned a lot just by messing around with it a little
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by gphil 17y ago
Huh? How do you get from: (1) It is possible to emulate the mind on a Turing Machine. to: (2) We don't have qualia or consciousness. In my opinion, there's nothing about (1) that entails (2).
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by gphil 17y ago
I disagree--I have to either leave my house or wait a few days for Netflix/Amazon to rent/purchase a DVD, but I can fire up BitTorrent 24/7 and have access to almost as many movies within minutes.
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by gphil 17y ago
Reminds me of this request for startup: http://ycombinator.com/rfs5.html
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by gphil 17y ago
If you have the financial wherewithal, I'd imagine taking an unpaid internship opens up a lot of great options that wouldn't exist otherwise.
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by gphil 17y ago
> I now think that needing more than a 9" monitor is a code smell. I agree with this for most simple coding tasks, but when profiling, debugging and looking at documentation I think that more screen real estate is necessary.
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by gphil 17y ago
That's pretty cool, thanks for explaining.
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by gphil 17y ago
Anyone want to fill in a non-web programmer on what pixel-tagging is?
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by gphil 17y ago
I second that. I grew up in the East Bay and thought it was a great places to live. Oakland gets a bad rap, but there are certainly some nicer areas where one could rent a house much more inexpensively than in the other areas mentioned. Als
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by gphil 17y ago
> I thought at first that the article was sarcastic This article definitely is sarcastic.
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by gphil 17y ago
I predict that the OS will have far more features than people are expecting, and will perhaps be closer to Snow Leopard in terms of functionality than to the iPhone OS. I can't imagine Steve Jobs being "really proud of" a giant iPod touch--
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by gphil 17y ago
Not to be too nit-picky, but "priveleges" should be spelled "privileges."
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by gphil 17y ago
> There's really no point in restricting length or non-alphanumeric characters. I agree, the only rationale I can think of for this is that these institutions don't want people to forget their passwords, but even then I don't understand
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by gphil 17y ago
> It is actually fairly plausible that Stoppelmann has no idea at all that his sales representatives are using such shady tactics. I kind of buy this--I've been told that the sales reps at Yelp are paid by commission, which can lead to
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by gphil 17y ago
> It was filled with information and still very easy to read. I completely agree--I knew nothing about how these type of displays work, and yet I found the article to be very understandable and enriching.
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E-Prime and the Retiring of ‘To Be’(lonegunman.co.uk)
1 points by gphil 17y ago|0 comments
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by gphil 17y ago
I agree, there's not really anything I haven't already seen elsewhere in this argument. Ultimately, the iPhone's target audience isn't computer geeks who care about open platforms and robust architectures. Consumers love it because it's the
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by gphil 17y ago
Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust." Actually, I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html .
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by gphil 17y ago
I agree with your assessment, but it kind of bothers me that it's the status quo that medical technology has such a high barrier to entry. IMO, it should be that if a doctor thinks that a tool is useful, then he should be able to use it. Ju
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by gphil 17y ago
Given the fact that even before the quake, Haiti was a hotbed of gang activity, and now that many more of its criminals have escaped from prison, I can't help but worry that all of this aid money being handed over is going to ultimately fal
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by gphil 17y ago
As a semi-frequent traveler on the Northeast Corridor, I want to be excited about this, but the upcharge for the Acela on top of already expensive Amtrak tickets adds up to quite a bit more than the upgrade is worth IMO. The regular Amtrak
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by gphil 17y ago
There is an episode (entitled "Numbers") of WNYC's Radiolab (available for free as a podcast at http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/ ) that talks about the possibility of an innate ability in infants to interpret quantities on a logarithmic

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