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by keefe 18y ago
The definitive algorithms book is Cormen : http://projects.csail.mit.edu/clrs/ I think you should study this book and here is the MIT course to go along with it : http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute... Learning
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by keefe 18y ago
I was just about to post a comment with : "Me: But there are other forms of concurrency. Processes that communicate using files, pipes, sockets, or even shared memory." You are spot on with the problem itself being hard. As I understand it
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by keefe 18y ago
It turns out this is a really hard problem. If you haven't seen it already check out http://www.netflixprize.com/ to set your expectations appropriately.
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by keefe 18y ago
Took me a 2nd read to get the daemons joke... Very well put, I get the same impression about decomposition. The bottom line is each CPU core can execute some sequence of instructions. If there's more than one core, there can be more than on
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by keefe 18y ago
IMHO, this guy is 6 different kinds of crazy. Parallelism is of course more efficient. Parallel algorithms are about determining which steps in an algorithm can be executed independently of one another to take full advantage of multiple CPU
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by keefe 18y ago
I left the PhD program after finishing my MSc and passing my qualification exam without trying my candidacy exam due to financial pressures. I could have easily scraped together enough with part-time jobs to solve the immediate pressing pro
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by keefe 18y ago
Time is the limiting factor as I am building my application and working full time. Every morning, I run 1 mile and do 25 pushups. Starting next week I'll repeat that in the evening. I make sure to stretch and do some of the katas I can stil
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by keefe 18y ago
You have already got money and your goal to feel like you achieved something is to make more money? I think money is just a means to an end. Think about your day to day life. Get up, eat, work, drink, be merry. As long as you have enough mo
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by keefe 18y ago
Maybe he has finished a working prototype and is looking to be out of money to pay the rent in a few months?
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by keefe 18y ago
SDForum always has excellent technical events : http://www.sdforum.com/ Maybe $15 at the door or so. For random fun things, this is a good choice http://sf.funcheap.com/
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by keefe 18y ago
Imho, there is an important technical side to this discussion. How scalable is your application? A bunch of friends scalable is a far cry from TechCrunch scalable. Are you confident that if you break on TechCrunch, your app won't fail? Ther
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by keefe 18y ago
I went to a borderline elite school, Notre Dame. Many of the students had this sort of an elitist attitude. However, I noticed that those students who aspired to true greatness - who saw Einstein, Newton etc. as setting the bar - often had
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by keefe 18y ago
I think that it comes down to the same reason Civ was such a popular franchise. Whenever you finish one thing, there's another thing to do. Oh, just a few more points until I level... oh, I can finish this dungeon and get a new sword. There
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by keefe 18y ago
I have had the beginnings of that unpleasant tingling at 27, and I make a conscious effort to keep my wrists straight. After a few years, it didn't even feel like an effort. Remember, it's compressing this little tunnel through which a nerv
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by keefe 18y ago
For one thing, don't be too quick to underestimate the value of socialization. You don't have to be a vapid partier just looking to hook up, but making social mistakes is much less costly in college than it is in the business world. Find so
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by keefe 18y ago
(clever code is faster)?clever:clearer...wait, what?
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by keefe 18y ago
Working on scalability of an RDF server at an established semantic web company. Enjoying going to moffet field every day. Not enjoying lack of free time as I finish prototypes of my own project.
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by keefe 18y ago
It seems that payment processing is the biggest issue here. People are very reluctant (rightfully so) to give up their financial information, so I think it is a good idea to start with an existing service like PayPal or amazon FPS. Next, I
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by keefe 18y ago
I'm currently using bugzilla at work, and it has the same problem you mention with trac - adding new tickets is a pain in the ass. However, I love the integration with Mylyn http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/ because I spend my whole day in ec
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by keefe 18y ago
I think this is an excellent article, the point about seeking confirmation instead of the truth strikes a chord for me. It seems like you can boil a lot of this down to making sure you don't lose touch with reality and focus on making a pro
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by keefe 18y ago
It is everything I thought it would be, in both the good ways and the bad. In the big corporate world, there are places where bureaucracy replaces the beauty of the code. You sit in meetings discussing what the code should do, often for lon
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by keefe 18y ago
I think that after a certain age, humans (I first wrote, users...) can't pick up new languages as well as their first language. There is some physical process that occurs in the brain. I am sure our native language affects our thought proce
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by keefe 18y ago
I swear in code like I swear in life, only rarely and with great motivation. If I am going through code and see an "F bomb" I know I did something seriously wrong in that bit of code that I didn't have time to fix.
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by keefe 18y ago
Back in grad school when I was working on papers, it seemed pretty essential to have an experience PhD involved in the process. No matter how "great" the idea I had, there were always a lot of complications. For example, making sure I had t
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by keefe 18y ago
I use a secured installation of tikiwiki off of my normal site for security reasons. I move computers too much to save everything on one machine, and it's more secure as I have backup jobs setup for replication.