julsonl

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by julsonl 15y ago
With regards to the current classes, it typically takes 2-3 hours to consume the lectures (unless you have ADHD like me). 20 minutes to finish weekly exercises. 1-2 hours to finish the programming exercises in the ML class. The ML class als
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by julsonl 15y ago
Hell, due to the amount of interesting courses they've been pumping out lately, I'm more inclined to take a whole year off just to study.
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by julsonl 15y ago
I guess quality can be relative then. I have some relatives that would purchase these high-calorie, refrigerated foods here and take them back home, and everyone would treat them as if they came from a restaurant, but I guess they're not as
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by julsonl 15y ago
Either you're being sarcastic, or you have no idea how third-world country food is like (and I grew up on one of those countries). People are tremendously lucky here, and I'm not kidding.
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by julsonl 15y ago
I see. This makes more sense now that you've explained it. I'm now even more compelled to dive more into JVM details.
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by julsonl 15y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you confusing Java the language with the actual JVM? On your last paragraph, you pretty much described what the JVM is in my perspective.
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by julsonl 15y ago
Based from your excerpt, that's basically the type of book I would want to read. Reading a math book without having any background with what the heck I was grinding numbers for would just bore me to tears. I might have an ebook on that lyin
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by julsonl 15y ago
Ditto. Juggling between AI, ML and DB classes has been eating up all my free time. Though I have bought the book eons ago, I am yet to go through it. Correction: I take the last sentence back. I have "Standard Strang" instead (it was cheape
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by julsonl 15y ago
I've always admired people who started late in life and went on to succeed more than child prodigies. I guess this is a biased opinion as I never truly fell in love with programming until my last year in college. Now I'm trying to make up f
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by julsonl 15y ago
Well, he certainly had the drive when he started Apple. Based from what I read about him, it hasn't diminished until the day he died. I'm sure he could've kept it going for another 30.
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by julsonl 15y ago
And while the team is composed of people in-love with coding and technology in general, we also geek out on cycling, gardening, cars, photography, gourmet chocolate and awesome food (we seem to attract a disproportionate amount of amateur c
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by julsonl 15y ago
We are located in San Mateo, CA btw.
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by julsonl 15y ago
Sociable Labs is hiring a bunch of engineers for front-end, back-end and leadership roles. We're making great strides in creating a platform that drives sales and referral traffic from social networks (mostly from Facebook). We're a highly
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by julsonl 15y ago
By my own experience, if you have the appropriate skills and knowledge, most companies could care less on where you graduated. Some larger companies' HR departments can be university snobs, but I never encountered that on all the startups t
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by julsonl 15y ago
I've pretty much refused playing on public servers now (on the PC of course), and just stuck to a serious semi-roleplaying community focused on shooters, because of exactly this.
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by julsonl 16y ago
So how do I expect to travel 30 miles to work again? Bike my way there?
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by julsonl 16y ago
Well if my experience is of any use... Keep at it! I didn't graduate from a top tier college or have been creating game engines since 9 years old, so I had to start at the ground floor like most people. It was extremely difficult at the beg
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by julsonl 16y ago
I think what he meant was dating sites suck if you're a man since: 1.) Men do all the chasing/initiating contact. 2.) Women get inundated with a lot of messages from a lot of other eligible men that you're competing with your entire neighbo
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by julsonl 16y ago
I sort of value well-roundedness even into adult life. Sure, I didn't morph into a programming genius that spits out code in his sleep, but I do think time spent playing sports and hanging around with friends sort of saved me from being les
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by julsonl 16y ago
You forgot to read the part where he mentioned downvoting because the information was wrong or misinformed. The same way I'll get downvoted if I furiously debated that an apple's color is always blue.
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by julsonl 16y ago
Probably not in a hot new startup, but there might be some obscure company somewhere that would need some code monkeys...
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by julsonl 16y ago
If you could also show some open source work, it would be a tremendous help. I have been job hunting for well around 2 weeks already, and from what I have noticed is that half of the companies I'm getting interviews with placed a huge empha
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by julsonl 16y ago
To us engineers/founders/people with knowledge on how the software business works, it might be obvious, but not for the average Joe. Google (or Yahoo) will be a name brand and they'll hold high expectations of them, especially with Google's
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by julsonl 16y ago
Having studied both Chinese and English, I agree with you. Once you possess some sort of mastery with the English alphabet, you can more or less pronounce words phonetically. You might not know the meaning, but you could at least read it.
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by julsonl 16y ago
I wouldn't call somebody a close friend if he planned to sue me, take the share that was rightfully mine (unless his work deserved 60%, maybe not in code, but in deals, connections and marketing), and insult me around. That person wouldn't
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by julsonl 16y ago
Java has a huge open-source ecosystem that you could search for contributors with junior level skills. And some projects are interesting enough to warrant hobbyists to play around with them just for the heck of it. For example, I'm looking
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by julsonl 16y ago
Wow, this is really concise. I'll try adopting this somehow.
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by julsonl 16y ago
He was probably outraged to discover that you don't know the legend that is Jason Fried (37 Signals).
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by julsonl 16y ago
This is awesome. Our family business (before moving to the US) was a bakery (actually a chain of bakeries, but some problems occured and our aunt is in the process of doing a hostile takeover, but I digress). I still remember the smell of f
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by julsonl 16y ago
I use OCZ 60GB drives for my netbook and desktop. They're good enough for the price, and from what I remember, cheaper than Intel. Makes Ubuntu boot for ~8 seconds on my netbook.

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