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by kamechan 16y ago
can you get financial aid/scholarships? why won't your math transfer? you can try to "test through" some of the math by taking placement tests. could be a disadvantage for you later though, probably not in your CS program because it's more
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by kamechan 16y ago
seems like each time i [re] read it, much of it is applicable to today's computing environment as well (replacing the languages and technologies of his speech with those of today). i guess that's part of why it's a "classic".
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The humble programmer...(cs.utexas.edu)
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by kamechan 16y ago
3 languages you need to know: 1) a functional language, 2) an imperative/OOP language, 3) an interpreted language.
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by kamechan 16y ago
By the way...it's worth mentioning that I've been quite miserable in school about 50% of the time. The workload has been really insane and for many assignments autograders are used, which are absolutely merciless if your output deviates eve
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by kamechan 16y ago
i'd say if you can go to school for software engineering, go for it. apply to all the schools you want to go to (and some safety schools), pour your soul into the admissions process and SATs and choose a B.S. in CS at the best school you ge
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by kamechan 16y ago
absolutely. this is a wonderful thing...i may close a lot of windows, but i don't usually quit the entire program unless i mean to.
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by kamechan 16y ago
no keymap is without its annoyances. in DVORAK, ⌘w is right next to ⌘v (paste). i close windows all the time :(
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by kamechan 16y ago
i think a lot of his problem is one of perception. i also think his youth works against him sometimes. personally, i'm not a huge fan. sometimes it seems like he's trying to squeeze the facebook social graph for as much as he can. but then,
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by kamechan 16y ago
i think there's also a distinction between software engineering and programming lurking somewhere in the background.
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by kamechan 16y ago
will respond to this in the next day or so. trying to get a massive project done :D
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by kamechan 16y ago
yes, this is true. after all, we use books. that said, there is much value in having a structured set of challenging assignments with strict deadlines (presumably with some end goal) created by an engaging and knowledgable professor serving
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by kamechan 16y ago
i could really write quite a bit about this. i'll try not to and instead attempt to be concise. i wasn't a cs major before either. 2 years ago i set aside a quite successful consulting business i'd started to go back to school as a 30-somet
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by kamechan 16y ago
interesting tell in the url, that novell is involved. may be a good way for microsoft to let some things go OSS without directly doing it through collabs with novell, who already has a foothold in the market. one can hope anyway. i like a l
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by kamechan 16y ago
on this subject, just went watch some netflix on my maverick meerkat install (on a macbook) and clicking on "install silverlight" on a microsoft site redirected me to the "mono moonlight" project. if that's not acceptance, i don't know what
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by kamechan 16y ago
worth a bit, actually. a letter from ballmer (or gates) saying, "dude, nice work" would be even better. :D
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by kamechan 16y ago
hasn't happened to me. i'm usually running the latest chrome dev build with 2-3 tabs open (sometimes to HN) at a time. but i'm not exactly a "fervent" user. maybe it's different for others.
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by kamechan 16y ago
not a conspiracy theorist by any stretch, but i found it a bit humorous this came out just when oracle offered a pricing plan for mysql and, especially, innoDB.
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by kamechan 16y ago
to their credit, google has also been remarkably open and user-oriented with the technologies they (we) have paid to develop. i commend them on this stance.
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by kamechan 16y ago
but netflix doesn't ship me a two terabyte drive full of movies when i click a button on their website. and their so-called "HD" is only so-so. i'm guessing 480p.
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by kamechan 16y ago
this may or may not be true. it depends on the level of quality that all these folks spending thousands of dollars on high end panels/plasmas are willing to tolerate. i watch most of my films on a 27" computer display, and mostly over netfl
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by kamechan 16y ago
agreed. excellent move on their part. not to mention that i'm continually impressed by what the folks at MSR put out. some smart folks, those ones. i've always found it odd that the environment there seems so contrary to that in redmond. i
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by kamechan 16y ago
i use their imap server as well and rarely, if ever, log into the gmail interface. it's nice to know it's there if i'm on the road and without a phone and using someone else's computer. but generally the performance on imap has been great.
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by kamechan 16y ago
ubuntu is coming remarkably close these days, and i think 11 will be even better. it's just that it's not fully functional on newer macbook pros yet. not sure when support will get there for things like "automatic graphics switching" either
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by kamechan 16y ago
it's taxed ... just by drug dealers who get to charge a premium for something that could otherwise have been cheap and/or could be generating a revenue stream for the government. not saying that i'm pro-pot, i'm not. but i am anti-regulatio
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by kamechan 16y ago
the problem is that some movies can't be easily [legally] downloaded/distributed. take "tears of the black tiger" for example. one of the best films ever made, but nearly impossible to get from blockbuster, netflix (only recently could one
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by kamechan 16y ago
though i'm both an iphone user and a mac user, i'm not happy to see the app store coming to osx. it's not because i don't think apple needs a better "package" manager for their OS, indeed they do. macports is great, but limited. though soft
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by kamechan 16y ago
I wasn't even aware there was a C book besides K&R. Does it add anything?
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by kamechan 16y ago
not suggesting that HN should copy other sites out there... but twitter and the like have a "report as spam" feature. this, in conjunction with a min karma requirement, could possibly be a useful tool to enact more drastic measures towards
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by kamechan 16y ago
right, i mean 500 million users all making a constant investment in their profiles, connections, photo uploads, etc. the seemingly endless chain of privacy concerns (and i've learned recently through first hand experience there are many) ar

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