joshhart

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by joshhart 16y ago
I wouldn't. I interned in core operating systems division a few years ago. Managers cared about portability.
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by joshhart 16y ago
A decent house in San Francisco, for instance, would be around a million (and it would be smaller than your house in Iowa). You'd have to spend 40k/year just on mortgage payments. It's great that your house payments are less than half, but
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by joshhart 16y ago
The author cites immutability as a large concern for using Scala. Immutability is pretty easy in Scala - use vals (like final in Java) and persistent datastructures (which have the same API as mutable objects), so I don't think this is a va
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by joshhart 16y ago
Please keep in mind the type inference systems in Haskell, Ocaml, Scala, etc are much more advanced and useful than C++ 0X or C#
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by joshhart 16y ago
I can try it, if you'd like. I haven't looked at the exercise at all, so it would be fair. I'd rather do the exercise in Scala though... So if anyone wants to benchmark that I can do it instead :)
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by joshhart 16y ago
Scala has (limited compared to Haskell, but still powerful) type inference and a way to simulate type classes as well.
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by joshhart 16y ago
Very fair points, but all I was trying to state is that there is a boundary where most people agree the material should be watched. Where that boundary is happens to be at different locations for different people, but I think it's important
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by joshhart 16y ago
Kiddie porn is OK?
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by joshhart 16y ago
The funny thing about business plan competitions is how often the "failures" turn out to be massive successes. The one I know of best is Raising Cane's chicken fingers. The business plan was given a C- and then the founders went fishing in
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by joshhart 16y ago
I had this problem 4 years ago. I joined a fraternity. It was awesome. Was it juvenile sometimes? Yes. Was it one of the best decisions I've ever made? Yes. It greatly widened my social circle and introduced me to people I'd never have met
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by joshhart 16y ago
Be careful with these. I recently found that Java serialization is much faster for large integer arrays than packed repeated int32 fields in protobuf. For most clients, this speed wouldn't matter, but for me I actually had to stuff the ja
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by joshhart 16y ago
Neal Wu's a nice kid in addition to being ridiculously smart. Went to my high school and was friends with my little brother. He's ranked 4th worldwide in Algorithms on Topcoder (everyone, not just high schoolers): http://www.topcoder.com/t
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by joshhart 16y ago
It was FathomDB (I worked there). FathomDB is still going actually, but I'd basically warn anyone away from building a convenience service on top of Amazon's stack - they're using the Microsoft playbook.
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by joshhart 16y ago
I'm not the person to refute Warren Buffet, but I will point out that the Dow Jones had abysmal performance from 1970-1979. One decade isn't enough to judge the economy for the next century. Do I think DJIA will hit 2 million in 100 years?
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by joshhart 16y ago
I take it there's some kind of story here?
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by joshhart 16y ago
Some companies have technical positions beyond Senior Engineer. LinkedIn goes up the technical chain like so: 1. Software Engineer 2. Senior Software Engineer 3. Principal Software Engineer 4. Software Architect All of our architects still
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by joshhart 16y ago
Whatever, this hasn't stopped me from writing LinkedIn's distributed social graph engine in it.
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by joshhart 16y ago
Not if you can get at least one credit at your college/university.
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by joshhart 16y ago
It uses ordinary files, not a database.
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by joshhart 16y ago
Unfortunately, that's not the case. Watching someone and his family suffer through Alzheimer's is really tough.
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by joshhart 16y ago
I carry most of LinkedIn's source code on my laptop wherever it goes. I'd say that's reams of confidential information, but I'm not planning on selling it. This is getting off topic, but I think you have to devote a lot more energy to physi
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by joshhart 16y ago
How is Cloudkick bootstrapped if they have 2.75 million in funding?
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by joshhart 16y ago
I actually have trouble contributing to StackOverflow as much as I'd like. The community has gotten so good that most questions with my realm (Scala & Java) seem to be answered within 30 minutes. Since I only look for questions to answe
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by joshhart 16y ago
This is because it switches to percentages by default. See http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?commit=Update&l0=... Everything is going down.
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by joshhart 16y ago
Why? Milk is more expensive than it used to be. Songs on iTunes are $1.29 now. I don't see any reason whatsoever that a company can't increase rates. Inflation and rising costs are facts of life. Even if they weren't, if a company realizes
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by joshhart 16y ago
Not so sure about that. Think about how much energy would be necessary to operate that many devices: http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/128_bit_storage_are_you
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by joshhart 16y ago
Does anyone want to explain how this works? I had no idea dragging onto a tab could start up javascript on a page. It's amazing!
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by joshhart 16y ago
They might know that it's you, actually. I spoke with a facebook employee recently and they apparently spend quite a bit of effort identifying likely duplicate accounts. Usually people make several accounts to have more farmville neighbors,
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by joshhart 16y ago
The saying you're looking for it "tooting my own horn". I really like the concept!
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by joshhart 16y ago
How do you identify someone who is 10x more productive? The difference between good and great is not always apparent in an interview. Perhaps developers with significant amounts of open source work could be identified but I'm sure that for

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