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by jasonjei 14y ago
They just need Automata, Grammars, and Computability, one of the "classical" courses in CS theory to complete their collection. That course really makes you a better programmer in being cognizant of the shear size of problems that can't eve
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by jasonjei 14y ago
I agree that our K-12 sucks, but why is our university system considered good? For instance, Berkeley, Stanford, MIT/FSF, Carnegie-Mellon, UIUC, etc, have made valuable contributions to Computer Science (this is becoming less true as commer
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by jasonjei 14y ago
Often times, the goal of TDD is often confused with spec testing. I think 37signals is right when they say TDD development is like TSA's security check process...
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by jasonjei 14y ago
I don't know about you, but the article points out those complying with NSL demands blindly even wrote NSLs for the FBI. That's pretty scary.
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by jasonjei 14y ago
There is precedent for software developers to responsibly shut down activation servers, such as Adobe (gasp!) who made available a serial number and software download for CS2. http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2013/01/get-free...
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by jasonjei 14y ago
Tell that to Linus Torvalds. Rails core. Ruby core. Give them an ultimatum: move to where HQ is, or lose commit access. See how quickly those projects die. Microsoft has an in-person team whose Win32 user land APIs are confusing, some of wh
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by jasonjei 14y ago
Here's a thought, why doesn't Linus Torvalds tell all the Linux core committers that if they want to continue to have commit access, they must show up at the office? When I was a kid, I learned most of my programming through IRC channels. I
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by jasonjei 14y ago
The answer is probably never. There will be deeper levels of abstraction, and the OS, for the most part, will do a marvelous job hiding it, but without a strong understanding of assembly you'll never be able to work on things like memory m
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by jasonjei 14y ago
Wouldn't Microsoft have benefited from the decision given that they were using Java syntax, grammar, API, and library interfaces without properly implementing Java, and were even sued by Sun for that? http://www.techlawjournal.com/courts/s
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by jasonjei 14y ago
I used to be in the office all the time. What ended up happening was that I ended up becoming a tutor and they weren't gaining the skills of an experienced programmer. The best thing you can do is force them to look up things. It's probably
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by jasonjei 14y ago
I've mentored junior programmers (e.g, some of my guys/coworkers are still in school studying Comp Sci despite my attempts to get them to drop out), and it doesn't have to be done in person. As long as there is good motivation and disciplin
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by jasonjei 14y ago
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/private-...
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by jasonjei 14y ago
Don't you still have to go through TSA even to board your own private plane? I could be mistaken...
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by jasonjei 14y ago
Just remember to leave important data in the cloud and if you need to access them use a secure storage and protocol (e.g, Dropbox, VPN, etc).
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by jasonjei 14y ago
Obama is the same as Bush, just with better marketing.
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by jasonjei 14y ago
What I find surprising is US ranks relatively low for global innovation. Apple, Silicon Valley, Google, Anyone?
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by jasonjei 14y ago
At Levion, we're looking at implementing a stated vacation day policy, but as a matter of policy. So to avoid discouraging people from using say, 10 or 15 days of vacation, you are guaranteed those days. As a matter of policy, we probably w
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by jasonjei 14y ago
There's also Levion - we don't have a documented API but we use Ruby on Rails that has JSON and XML out of the box. If there are interested users of our API, we would like to hear from you. Send me a shout at jason at levion c o m
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by jasonjei 14y ago
IANAL, but I have heard of something called the Reasonable Person Standard. Since the US is based on Common Law, I believe this standard could be used if this were really tested in court: ``The reasonable person (historically reasonable man
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by jasonjei 14y ago
How is Cisco IPSec affected by this blockage? Any business or foreign mission conducting transactions in China should be very wary if they start targeting IPSec in any way.
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by jasonjei 14y ago
Technically speaking (and not trying to nitpick), it would be a Taiwanese company (the ROC as distinct from the PRC), but yes, I definitely do see the irony.
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by jasonjei 14y ago
I wonder, though, if there is a software business in Singapore that is on the same level as Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, Google, Apple, VMware, etc, as well as the Linux foundation and FSF being present in Singapore. The US may not have the be
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by jasonjei 14y ago
If that's true, why is disproportionate number of companies such as Google and Apple and Microsoft thriving here if they could be anywhere? I believe there is a secret sauce in the US or Google would have been from elsewhere.
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by jasonjei 14y ago
I think that's a very good analogy, most people forget that Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) was a ruthless dictator, perhaps not as bad as Mao Zedong, but his son, Jiang Jingguo opened Taiwan up to democratization. I think it's partly owed
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by jasonjei 14y ago
I think it is the fact that we have such a ``weak" education system that America is capable of institutions such as Google, Apple, and the whole startup culture. Lately, this has been less and less relevant due to the Internet (as long as y
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I think this would be particularly useful if courses could be transferred to a university transcript. It is surprising to me that there is no university anywhere offering all undergraduate CS courses online--most have an in-person requireme
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by jasonjei 14y ago
I know all the people pushing for social networks will disagree, but I think email can be fixed, just like static web pages have been fixed to do asynchronous JavaScript to provide dynamic web experiences. I think the problem is the cure is
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by jasonjei 15y ago
Hi, my team and I have been working on this for months. Our objective is to reduce the pain of using QuickBooks for Windows. Let us know what you think.
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by jasonjei 15y ago
Speaking of a good calendar UI widget, I really like how ITA Software OnTheFly iOS app does it... Instead of showing you one month at a time it shows you the current week - 2 weeks, current week + 2 weeks. Makes it really utilitarian. I wis

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