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by larsberg 16y ago
As did I, back in mid-2003. Of course, it was just an excuse to try out the then-new "Google Web APIs" :-) http://lars.com/tools/IncGoogleSearch/inc-google-search.jpg
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by larsberg 16y ago
We've been doing this in Manticore since 2008 or so. We couldn't really get speedups past 12 cores without it (we have a "typical" parallel GC implemented as well to test against). Hopefully we'll get the paper on the GC and associated lang
573.
by larsberg 16y ago
> I really wish I could find something for Emacs which automatically detects the style of the code I'm editing and switches the coding style to that. If it makes you feel any better, back when I was managing a team in Visual Studio, we
574.
by larsberg 16y ago
Even back in ~2005, "Seattle area compensation" was ~90k for folks just out of college, if you managed to get to mid-range it was around 120k, and then around 175k at senior IC levels. And, at the mid-range the eligible bonus amount jumped
575.
by larsberg 16y ago
> only bad advisors will require you to do nothing > but work directly toward immediate publications I disagree with this point. If you have an advisor encouraging you to keep your eye on the ball getting out frequent publications,
576.
by larsberg 16y ago
There's still some active research in Parallel Prolog implementation. See this fabulous survey paper of the implementation approaches: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=504083.504085 Gupta, G., Pontelli, E., Ali, K. A., Carlsson, M.,
577.
by larsberg 16y ago
Get a travel agent and never worry about travel again. Fixed overhead to not worry about the problem. I still think the most-complained-about reduction in benefits when I worked at MSFT was when they changed over from a corporate travel age
578.
by larsberg 16y ago
CA has some really weird rules. In addition to that, there's also a cash-out rule that vacation can't be expired without compensation. So, managers have to be persnickety about having you track the time you spend out of the office going to
579.
by larsberg 16y ago
The meme that I believe this image based on (Epicus Maximus) does, indeed has a laser beam coming from the shark's head.
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by larsberg 16y ago
Visual C++ has had things like profile-guided optimization for over a decade internally to MSFT and nearly that long shipping externally ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2008/11/12/pogo.aspx ). In general, the Microsoft and Intel C+
581.
by larsberg 16y ago
"advised by Goldman Sachs" Who wants to bet Goldman took a large, long McAfee position in the last couple of days? From an unrelated portion of the company, performing usual hedging activities, naturally :-)
582.
by larsberg 16y ago
To the list of things business cofounders could bring, I would also add "deep domain knowledge." For example, if it's a site on selling foos to wumpats, you'd better have spent all of your years before bschool in either the foo industry, wo
583.
by larsberg 16y ago
s/aught/ought :-)
584.
by larsberg 16y ago
This article, like many others, seems to overestimate how large the actual numbers of developers is at Microsoft, as opposed to full teams with Test and mgmt and their associated marketing, sales, etc. organizations. The .NET GC was roughly
585.
by larsberg 16y ago
Exploit the learning and networking resources at your school instead. If you show that you are motivated, there are faculty who will be happy to teach you everything you want to know for zero extra dollars, and might even pay you a small st
586.
by larsberg 16y ago
If the code works and I haven't written the same exact thing myself, the most negative comment I am willing to make is "complicated." At my advanced age, it takes nothing short of a critical system requirement that a piece of code can't pos
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by larsberg 16y ago
I work on an ML compiler for my day job, which means a lot of ML but also quite a bit of C for runtime and basis library stuff. That of course doesn't include M4 (blech!), bash scripts, LaTeX, etc.
588.
by larsberg 16y ago
Just before 10pm, and up at 4am to get in my workout and get to work before the hungover morning slacker crowd gets in.
589.
by larsberg 16y ago
I recommend "short americano." Espresso+hot water, and as a short it's about the same price as a tall coffee for the same kick. Their espresso beans and pulls are pretty reliable; their coffee, not so much. Except for Tully's, I've never ex
590.
by larsberg 16y ago
Because Chinese people (at least the skinny+trim ones) have a single, small bowl of rice and eat tons of veggies and then a few pieces of meat. Not the Amero-Chinese style half-plate of rice with a heaping of fatty meat cut, slathered in so
591.
by larsberg 16y ago
Most of the terminal MS programs are not terribly competitive and are mainly made up of either students who did not have a CS undergrad degree or got one long ago and did not use it. If you have the cash and pass their basic entry tests (us
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by larsberg 16y ago
Fundamentally, the problem comes down to the other 90% of the toolstack. Even if you get people to use your language, are you really going to get them to change their source code control, every person's text editor, build system, scripts
593.
by larsberg 16y ago
I think the author doesn't realize how much money prop trading firms make off you even if you "just invest in the S&P 500". Between changes in index makeup, differences between underlying and derived instruments, and the need for the ET
594.
by larsberg 16y ago
Yup. NASDAQ will even tell you what the current latencies are for their coloc: http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?id=inet Microseconds indeed. Alternatively, you might consider going overseas if you aren't prepared to pay coloc fees
595.
by larsberg 16y ago
I'm guessing admit full fault and a return/exchange of iPhone4. Oh, and one more thing -- new MacPro and iMacs! Making the iPhone recall a non-event, in terms of news and stock price :-)
596.
by larsberg 16y ago
Reboot into safe mode with networking (press F8 during system startup) and run your web test. If everything runs fine there, you're almost certainly loading some piece of malware that's stealthy or malevolent enough to be hidden from the sc
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by larsberg 16y ago
That's madness! I was happy when my eCPM would get around $3 back with AdMob in my old iPhone apps.
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by larsberg 16y ago
Or, if you don't want to jailbreak, you can just pay $99/year for a developer license and build+install whatever you want on your devices. Think of it as a "freedom tax" for your hardware. Are tethering, WiFi scanning, and flash worth $99/y
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by larsberg 16y ago
At least in the PL conferences I've been to, the session chair is expected to have a softball question for the speaker if there are no questions being asked. That question usually serves the same purpose as the one that this individual has.
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by larsberg 16y ago
That's awesome! I'm very jealous.

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