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by kd1220 15y ago
I'm learning Haskell right now. It's the most recent language I've decided to pick up since R back in 2006. Despite dabbling in Lisp about a decade ago, and the functional flavoring of R, it's been a pretty difficult ride. However, it's
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by kd1220 15y ago
Why not use Amazon EC2? Their free tier (for a year) is more than sufficient for hosting a blog. After the free period is over, you only end up paying about $20/mo for a micro instance with 10GB of EBS. Does SoftLayer offer anything more
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by kd1220 15y ago
"Een schip op het strand is een baken in zee." Posterous should have taken notes from previous sharing sites/functions: Facebook, Digg, MySpace, Google Buzz, etc. If you change things drastically, your userbase gets mad, and they seek out a
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by kd1220 15y ago
I feel you. The first company I worked at was like this, except I got out before I got completely exploited. It's a charming story. I was interviewed by the lead developer and the head of Human Factors. Fresh out of college, I didn't hav
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by kd1220 15y ago
I dislike these articles. And it's not because I like PHP or its development processes, but because the author is avoiding responsibility. "As a PHP user, it is not my responsibility to contribute to PHP. That's not how open source works,
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by kd1220 15y ago
Is Dropbox using S3 as their storage platform?
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by kd1220 15y ago
Now I pose another question to you. What is "learning?" When you feed a bunch of input to an ANN, isn't it doing exactly what it's told? The ANN itself does not seek out knowledge, it only adjusts weights according to an algorithm dependi
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by kd1220 15y ago
No. I worked at a small IVR systems company in 2000 and at Nuance in 2001. I also worked with the tech during my undergraduate years. My opinion on speech recognition is that it's very pie-in-the-sky and not yet ready for general applicat
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by kd1220 15y ago
It's likely bravado from college days. I remember overhearing many conversations at school where students would brag about pulling their second all-nighter in a particular week. I could only think that they were doing something wrong. If
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by kd1220 15y ago
The two Rails programmers I've met didn't know Ruby itself very well. Also both had to bow out of their contract jobs because neither could build a functioning CMS in less than a year. When I talked to them it sounded like they were kicki
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by kd1220 15y ago
scott_s is right. Enforcing cheating policies isn't as impersonal as enforcing parking laws. You can't just leave a citation behind and let the students and administration handle it. The professor will be involved. There's also the aspec
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by kd1220 15y ago
I think the lack of physical tokens for Bitcoin (or any cryptocurrency) will likely be the main hurdle for public acceptance. It'll probably take another generation or two for people to get used to the idea of not having a physical represe
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by kd1220 15y ago
I'm a CS graduate with 10 years in the field. I've worked at 3 different companies and, compared to college coursework and projects, not a single one of these jobs has been intellectually stimulating for me. In fact, my first task at my fi
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by kd1220 16y ago
Unfortunately, that's the mentality of a many start-ups. A couple months ago I was posed the question "Why don't you apply to work at Facebook?" by an interviewer. [To give him the benefit of the doubt, he didn't appear to be versed in ho
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by kd1220 16y ago
CMU here also. I graduated several years ago, but I distinctly remember groups of CS students banding together to create things on their own. That's start-up culture. You get a bunch of motivated, technically inclined people together and