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by ibebrett 12y ago
what experience do you have with writing c++? what is the last large project you completed with it? i'm not a huge fan of c++, but it has been the foundation of an extremely large number of wildly successful and pervasive projects.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
all of his points except for one are related to the jvm in general, which most people agree doesn't suck, and then when it is time to address java he just says "scala, clojure.. are great" Yes, thats the point. The JVM is wel
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by ibebrett 12y ago
cool and socially acceptable is not the same thing.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
yes, and no. i still think that without exploring you are not going to find things way out of your comfort zone. sometimes its not "weakness" in your tools that should inspire you. you can write perfectly great stuff with imperati
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by ibebrett 12y ago
its hard if you don't have the context to know this though. you may never think what you are using is insufficient if you don't get out of your comfort zone.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
multithreading programming is not "super easy." threads/parallelism give us power, but it definitely increased complexity and makes it harder to reason about the behavior of programs.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
i can touch type just fine. I'm not threatened by the concept of touch typing, I am making the case that its a waste of time to try and learn to touch type another keyboard map. While it may have some benefit, there are literally thous
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by ibebrett 12y ago
let me put it this way. i have never met a programmer who's productivity was at all based on their typing speed.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
I suppose so, it just seems that the odds that you may need to work on a machine that isn't setup for you is probably going to be pretty high at some point. I agree that RSI is probably something we should avoid, but other than that th
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by ibebrett 12y ago
They are more of an understanding of what theoretically can be computed, rather than anything to do with how to do it or how to efficiently do it. I study lots of theoretical computer science, but it doesn't intersect with software eng
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by ibebrett 12y ago
I have been programming for 10+ years (and really more like 15 if you count being a teenager coding), and I change languages/editors/distros all the time. I have never switched keyboard layout (this honestly to me sounds like the
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by ibebrett 12y ago
with alot of these services you can actually watch on a google maps app as customers open your emails.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
Honestly, this task is something that most people learn to do and just do. It's not nearly as complex as you are trying to a make it out to be.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
do you really think that the people who get the parasite are knowingly eating pieces of cat feces?
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by ibebrett 12y ago
Right but a huge amount of students are taking loans (because they cant afford school at the moment) for college so they can pay it back when they have increased job prospects. It doesnt make sense to spend 60K on school if you will never b
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by ibebrett 12y ago
That sounds perfect to me (an american who tends to like learning through MOOCs)
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by ibebrett 12y ago
Yes I agree, there are great classes all over the place, and there might be some gems where you least expect it, but for the most part the quality of the classes are going to go down as you go to worse and worse schools.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
Yes for sure, I am not trying to pick on public schools, its just that VAST majority of schools are not top level, and there are thousands of bad computer science classes being taught.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
the quality of the instructional materials, mastery, and level of difficulty yes.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
Sorry, wrote that in a rush. I meant "compared to the level of classes taken by some of my coworkers"
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by ibebrett 12y ago
Yes I am assuming that. As someone who attended a small state school compared to the level of some of the coworkers taken by classmates at the top schools it is like night and day. Trust me the machine learning class at stanford is better t
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by ibebrett 12y ago
That is why you seriously audit your tools and why many in the industry avoid Mongo like the plague. Controlling the byes that gets written to a file is actually not simple at all, and its a huge research problem as far as file systems of d
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by ibebrett 12y ago
The thing is I'd rather take a course from a top instructor even at a massive scale, than to take a poor course made by a guy who doesn't have any real business teaching the class. There is no reason every tiny state school should
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by ibebrett 12y ago
I have never in my life heard it pronounced without the -pre- sound.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
I wouldn't recommend trying to do this yourself. Of course you can make something that kind of works, but making a resilient production ready database that is fault tolerant and scales is a lot harder than writing to a file.
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by ibebrett 12y ago
Thats really the definition of "cant"
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by ibebrett 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(criminal)#United_St...
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by ibebrett 12y ago
I completely agree. That doesn't mean its a good thing that a dangerous group has a new tool
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by ibebrett 12y ago
There is a difference between a forum for the free exchange of ideas, and a decentralized system that can be used to plan and share murders/(horrible other things). It is totally legal (in the usa) for you to get together with your fri
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by ibebrett 12y ago
I would love to read it.

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