jmzachary

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by jmzachary 18y ago
I'm aware. I was trying to take a funny jab at Java and it didn't turn out so well.
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by jmzachary 18y ago
I'm asking the same question, and you're not close to answering it. My question was "what problems in compiler optimization make it a thousand times more useful than protein folding and associated medical problems?" because you authoritativ
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by jmzachary 18y ago
Yeah, closures and anonymous inner classes would really redeem Java in the eyes of the masses. Java is going, going, ...
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by jmzachary 18y ago
I wonder if they submitted this patent application in crayon. The abstract reads like it was written by a third grader.
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by jmzachary 18y ago
Who cares?
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by jmzachary 18y ago
Thanks for the very detailed answer. Amazingly, I can follow the gist of it after over 10 years. But, you still don't answer the question. What problems in compiler optimization are more important than problems in protein folding? You seems
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by jmzachary 18y ago
Then we are in the same club. I've published research on global optimization algorithms for protein folding. I'm not a biochemist, but I understood that protein folding actually has immediate application in understanding disease and drug de
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by jmzachary 18y ago
Except that a biochemist learning Python to solve problems he/she has in protein folding research (or whatever) is a useful skill to get things done in his/her field. A programmer learning about basic lab equipment probably isn't going to h
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by jmzachary 18y ago
That would be good advice to your brother. Programming as a career seems like a dead end going forward, for whatever reasons. However, if he is in some other seemingly unrelated occupation (law, medicine, education, etc.), then programming
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by jmzachary 18y ago
If you can bring a pretty woman with you, it works even better. My wife and I visited the MIT campus a few years back, and she attracted more attention to us than I would have alone. She knows next to nothing about technology, but it didn't
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by jmzachary 18y ago
When I read "fundamentally hard", I think NP-hard. What is NP-hard about twitter? Am I missing something or is this a reference to a systems development issue?
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by jmzachary 18y ago
That's hard to say. One can make the argument for a price crash as speculators have flooded into the oil and commodities markets and bid up prices. There is a lot of fear of peak <insert finite natural resource>. Once people got tir
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by jmzachary 18y ago
Yep, a lot of us would have to adopt the hobo life and cut other people with our hobo knife.
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by jmzachary 18y ago
Yeah for Plaxo! Lot's of acquisitions going on.
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by jmzachary 18y ago
Interesting. CBIR was my dissertation topic and I haven't thought about it in some time. Brings back fond memories (and some kooky thoughts about what to with it now.) Thanks, nickb. It's a hard problem (computationally and figuratively) si
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by jmzachary 18y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I don't know if I could get serious work done at that Zurich office. I think it would feel more like working at FAO Schwartz.
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by jmzachary 18y ago
Microsoft is acting like a desperate & spurned lover, Yahoo like the 30+ year old former HS cheerleader who thinks she still has what the boys want.
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by jmzachary 18y ago
No way MSFT offers $33+/share again. Yahoo's pride/arrogance/stupidity cost their shareholders a lot of money.
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by jmzachary 18y ago
Yahoo lost a lot of leverage when they flipped the bird at Microsoft. A $33/share offer was gold and they left a lot of money on the table. Yahoo is in a really tight corner now with pissed off shareholders. I wonder how likely a merger wit
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by jmzachary 18y ago
Does anybody know if there are more details out there for Feynman's buffer analysis using PDEs? Is this an example of probabilistic analysis like bin analysis, birthday paradox, etc.
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by jmzachary 18y ago
How much Objective-C software is written at Apple?
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by jmzachary 18y ago
That is so freaking cool!
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by jmzachary 18y ago
Don't get a PhD. Get a MS from a good school like MIT, Stanford, CMU, etc., if you really want a graduate degree with the most bang for the buck. A PhD is really only necessary and sufficient for an academic career, which is not the same as
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by jmzachary 18y ago
This definitely puts the spotlight on Yahoo to start performing PDQ. If they are the same track six months from now that they are on today, you can expect some real gnashing of teeth among the shareholders. On the other hand, Microsoft come
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by jmzachary 18y ago
Good one, but don't quit your day job.
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by jmzachary 18y ago
I understand that. And it's true that it is best to negotiate the highest starting salary as possible because most people, on average, will get a standard "cost of living" (whatever that means anymore) raise increase on an annual basis. But
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by jmzachary 18y ago
Todd is right. After a couple of years, your school is much less important than what you've done with it during that time.
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by jmzachary 18y ago
That $5-10k delta could be made up within a year or two for a good developer coming from a non-namebrand CS school who puts his/her nose to the grindstone.
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by jmzachary 18y ago
No, it doesn't make sense. But it's a cheap way to get karma points.
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by jmzachary 18y ago
Give it time (4 or 5 days), and it'll be a blind-swap for porn.

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