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by keefe 14y ago
shameless plug : I've been working on a document management system with an epub content type for some time and I'm releasing this quarter, follow me @keefe and check it out... generally though, if you want to use something yourself you can
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by keefe 14y ago
You're using very emotionally loaded words and have made repeated decisions in the short term that have led to very negative results. This is the time to get help from an external party that can maintain sufficient objectivity, privacy and
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by keefe 14y ago
jetty is best deployed embedded
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by keefe 14y ago
download my reference server from github, write a couple templates, publish
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by keefe 14y ago
I'm a talented 32 year old with 24 years programming experience, but only 16 years of realistic things to put on my resume :] So, I was in a similar position back in the days of dinosaurs where we had to learn our coding primarily from dead
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by keefe 14y ago
interesting analysis, but I would prefer if it were pitched as - could a time traveler to ancient rome build a computer or could you build a computer while lost in the woods? The article talks about the knowledge of the romans, regarding ma
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by keefe 14y ago
overall great article, particularly this exceptionally elegant turn of phrase - 'It is known since the early ages of programming, most elegant programs are built as layers of "languages" or "dictionaries". These are represented by abstracti
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by keefe 14y ago
good question, I think this is one of those fundamental bootstrapping issues where you just have to reason it out and pull the trigger... if it's located in a country where you're not a resident, then things get weird with legal issues.
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by keefe 14y ago
The first question is - how much money do you have to work with? Bitcoin mining, ebay reselling etc require a certain minimum amount of money to start playing.
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by keefe 14y ago
Have you checked out chess problems and go problems? They're usually presented in bulk in structured data. http://www.chessproblems.com/ I haven't look at any in a long time, but it at least should highlight some problems hard for humans
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by keefe 14y ago
imho there is something here with a neural correlate related to gambling, e.g. I send my mom/boss/teacher a funny face picture or I send my crush a love note with an expiration date and I can cash in on the thrill with a low chance of the r
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by keefe 14y ago
java is still the biggest demand out there just note that sponsoring an H1B is a complicated and at least reasonably costly and ask yourself, who is going to be willing to do that? Probably a more established company vs a startup, so checko
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by keefe 14y ago
mej10 you sound like someone singinst associated : ] also not being able to keep git etc. running is some evidence about skill level
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by keefe 14y ago
well, there's mathematica/octave/matlab using single letter variables is for convenience and done in another script to avoid confusion with the text and sometimes varies to encode information (real value vs vector vs matrix). There's plenty
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by keefe 14y ago
stanford's is pretty sparse http://www-cs.stanford.edu/content/qualifying-exams http://www.cs.purdue.edu/academic_programs/graduate/curricul... Purdue's is a little more interesting but still will have to dig into the courses that's lik
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by keefe 14y ago
the qualifying exam is supposed to represent up-to-date, overall understanding of the field as a whole, note that I deliberately made the distinction about time away from reading/writing code...
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by keefe 14y ago
If I'm going to diverge from read code, write code long enough to do this much reading... I'd rather start with the papers and books recommended for the phd qualifying exam at the top 10 universities.
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by keefe 14y ago
yep that's 101 stuff eh?
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by keefe 14y ago
You need to simultaneously level your creativity and pure reasoning skills. The first and most obvious thing is to level your math - checkout the offerings on coursera. If you have never done higher math, there is a certain type of student
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by keefe 14y ago
this is actually quite a well written and amusing exploration of antipatterns that are used or arise organically, especially in design-by-committee or firefighting shops. I'd say finding this article hilarious would correlate well with prof
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by keefe 14y ago
MDMA still has limited clinical use and is under research, as is LSD but it is under quite tight controls. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02791072.2008.104... http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1987-01824-001
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by keefe 14y ago
>What exactly is illegal about researching the effects of the drug on the brain? Unless you dot all your i's and cross all your t's, you'll end up ending with illegal precursor substances in your possession. Synthetic drugs are one of t
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by keefe 14y ago
> How will we spend your money? on lawyers
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by keefe 14y ago
agree on tomcat vs jee but I really don't care for apache, unless they changed their implementation since I last checked... the whole epoll thing is just too exciting
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by keefe 14y ago
nginx->jetty->java->postgres with json+rest is a solid start
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by keefe 14y ago
it was the best game when I found the BASIC cartridge for my atari and even though I've played enough go to know what that means, programming is still the best game and I think it still will be in 20 years
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by keefe 14y ago
I think that vaguely competent would require analytical skills good enough to say, ok utf8="non ascii character", now if I change it to another nonascii character is that likely to change my request's execution path in the server...
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by keefe 14y ago
it's just a joke using a unicode x-ish char would still do the same as the check...
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by keefe 14y ago
have you checked out coursera? I started when I was 8, first professional programming job in 10th grade... The jump from intermediate to "complete" is indeed very large, so expect a journey. You need to find something you enjoy working on t
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by keefe 14y ago
a very broad intuition is that less entropy in the input, more predictability in executing algorithms on that input, more regularities to exploit

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