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by keefe 17y ago
I think this is a great set of articles - the undercurrent I saw was that in his early days, Cuban was disciplined as a matter of course. If I had been as disciplined at 24, I think I'd be pursuing my own ideas full time right now. The one
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by keefe 17y ago
That's a 200 level class, as far as I know there is always a CS1 100 level class that usually starts with some EXTREMELY high level language, sometimes a metalanguage just for the class itself? I heard somewhere Python is in style for this.
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by keefe 17y ago
I certainly agree that learning C illustrates some extremely useful compsci principles. I also believe you can be a wizard at solving computational problems with very little practical programming experience - I met many such algorithms phds
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by keefe 17y ago
>>What programming language should I learn? C. What a horrendous answer, no new programmer should start with C in 2009, java or php or python or any damn thing but C and jockeying memory references.
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by keefe 17y ago
my mom has successfully mastered email... (:
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by keefe 17y ago
The post made some interesting points about technical success not equating to real world success, but the whole article suffers from a poor definition of the word.
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by keefe 17y ago
ssn = social security number, the # we use to pay our taxes into our social security fund. It's the only unique identifier every person qualified to work in the US is guaranteed to have and many times many systems are keyed off it.
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by keefe 17y ago
As far as I understand it (my dad worked for the labor union for decades) it's absolutely illegal to use SSN for anything other than taxes - a law that is regularly broken in this country. If some recruiter asked me for my SSN over the phon
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by keefe 17y ago
In my project I use Java for the server with a jQuery front end and at work it's Java on the server again with an AS3 front end, so 3 serious languages unless you count RDF, OWL, Jena Rules, SWRL rules in which case it's more like 7, if you
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by keefe 17y ago
However you slice it, $150/mo is only $1800/year. Let's say you want to launch some new site targeting the public consumer internet where you would like to see hundreds of thousands of people on your site. You're not going to get there firs
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by keefe 17y ago
I don't see any compelling reason to switch off of Java for the VS stack... maybe if I end up needing to do consulting, I will learn these. I'd probably have to buy a windows license first :( One point I'd like to make is that eclipse is ba
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by keefe 17y ago
That IS a real issue, vs the (relatively) open nature of Java and the absolute openness of tomcat, apache? I personally think that open source tools are inherently superior because it of the additional eyes on the code reducing screwups and
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by keefe 17y ago
I don't care for PHP because it's interpreted vs compiled, debugging is a pain and it muddles view and application logic! Separation of concerns is one of the key principles of software engineering. Also, library support is much better in J
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by keefe 17y ago
Being able to pay by the hour massively, massively reduces the capital expenditure required when launching a public site? You can launch on a relatively cheap $75-$150 a month and then if you get Slashdot/Digg your code can automatically sc
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by keefe 17y ago
The absolute key thing is that you can do this with an API and pay by the hour! I think the proper term is utility computing and amazon launched the cloud meme with EC2...
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by keefe 17y ago
I think it's also interesting to note that once you do a cluster, you have a distributed system and instantaneous writes are no longer a cheap operation... Plus how many operations do you need to access full data in your database? For simpl
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by keefe 17y ago
I think it's just too difficult a problem to distill down into a single metric. I did CS and Math for my undergrad and I was in the PhD program for CS but left with my MSc. My focus was on design and analysis of algorithms and based on that
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by keefe 17y ago
I think w3schools is the best starting point as well. However, if you are pretty new at this stuff I'd suggest you also take the time out (if you have not done this already) to get your basic computer knowledge with something like : http
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by keefe 17y ago
I think you should check your definition of unbearable. I graduated high school in 99 and was contemplating trying to exploit the first bubble but decided to go to school instead (I was obviously a bit too young at that time). A lot of life
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by keefe 17y ago
It's a pretty useless metric. How many lines of code did the people who invented quicksort (pick great algo of your choice) write in their first implementation? It's certainly important to have some minimum # so you can say you know what wr
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by keefe 17y ago
Interesting, I see those entries... I had been looking at this : http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2008/3/26/announcing-the-s... ". Please note that the current iteration allows access to DNS only." I guess they had another iteration sinc
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by keefe 17y ago
After a cursory googling, it looks like AWS is still the only one where you can programatically modify the number of nodes in your cluster. If your goal is to launch a public facing site and automatically scale up to some limit as you get u
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by keefe 17y ago
Each EC2 instance is a virtual, private server which looks just like any other linux box. However, files on disk are part of shared drives and are not guaranteed to persist. You have three choices : attach and pay for an elastic block store
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by keefe 17y ago
It's certainly an interesting idea that is related to the sea change in how people interact with media that has been ongoing for the last half a decade or so. As far as getting something for your own purposes, I think building something on
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by keefe 17y ago
Check out MythTV http://www.mythtv.org/ an open source, linux based DVR - this will do all of the low level nonsense for you. I suspect this does what you want - you can record the things you like and play them back. Now, I don't think y
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by keefe 17y ago
Sharpen your tools and remember the problems you are trying to solve. Building software is just like building anything else and the first effort should be getting your tools in the proper state - that means having a good IDE, a good and pri
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by keefe 18y ago
Suck it up and focus on building your portfolio to get into a good college - and selecting a major you'll be happy working in for 50 years.
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by keefe 18y ago
The point is you are locking yourself into a brand that has explicitly anti-competitive business practices, charges exorbitant rates for their licenses and not only shuns public standards but actively works to sabotage them! (ecmascript3 be
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by keefe 18y ago
I grew up in NKY, finished my MSc in CS and Engineering and then moved back to Cincinnati to work and visit with my family for a year and a half before getting completely fed up with the IT market in Cincinnati and moving out to silicon val
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by keefe 18y ago
I've never used those but how can it be so much better than eclipse + all the commercial plugins? Closed source can never beat open source in the end...

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