hedgie

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by hedgie 14y ago
"I think its wrong of people who do discriminate against those who don't have a degree-- engineering is about having the skills and the mind." there are certain areas of software engineering where a real understanding of the subject takes y
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by hedgie 15y ago
If most of this is true, you're working at the wrong place. Needing medical insurance will change most peoples' perception of this argument (assuming they live in the US).
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by hedgie 15y ago
"The finance hedge funds had the most strict req's. Target school, CS degree (nothing else but CS), no Masters or higher degree, 0-2 years of experience etc." haha, I had considered this route since I have a BS in CS/math and MS in math and
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by hedgie 15y ago
Are you going to use this on news stories? It would be interesting to see results after events like 9-11. It would also be interesting to compare media coverage on a product and the sales of that product.
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by hedgie 15y ago
"Ada pushes you toward the waterfall development process which can be dangerous for newbs to internalize." Why do you say that? We use ada with spiral development.
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by hedgie 15y ago
No Ada at my (big ten) school but I work coding Ada at my current job. The language is amazing. Most of my errors are related to copy-paste oversights (Message_1 instead of Message_2). The typing is very elegant. Also, Java stole Ada's wa
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by hedgie 16y ago
Not having money will generally screw your chances with women and is very well documented. Instability I don't know about. I can't imagine it'd help. Gates was funded by a wealthy attorney father. Apple got revenue fairly quickly and was
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by hedgie 16y ago
I don't get why a dynamically typed language would be for beginners. We're usually picky about typing because it's so easy to lose track of what you're doing and make subtle errors. Dynamic typing is very powerful but requires a new progr
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by hedgie 16y ago
Obsession is more valuable than genius. If you accept IQ testing at all they call people over 130 on the WAIS very superior because genius implies a social or intellectual impact many very superior individuals never achieve. Very superior
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by hedgie 16y ago
Boredom? When I'm debugging someone else's spaghetti code it's not interesting or rewarding. It's mostly tedious bookkeeping that shouldn't even be necessary. It's the difference between compiling a custom linux kernel for yourself and r
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by hedgie 16y ago
We don't pick our tools to fit the job? The next big language will be determined by the needs of the largest computer user groups. The particular needs of these groups will determine the languages that eventually reach critical mass. Usin
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by hedgie 16y ago
It's not the best algorithm known to researchers. It's the best algorithm known to people who took any course in number theory or a higher level computer science course that covered approximation algorithms. This is used in actual applica
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by hedgie 16y ago
Why would anyone ask to find primes? Most people don't know the best algorithm and anyone who needs to code efficient ways of determining primality has intense number theory training. The "naive" solution typically is a sieve method and ch