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by linguae 7y ago
I think it ultimately boils down to what future does Silicon Valley want for itself. The Silicon Valley may be ideal for the top 10% of developers, who benefit from compensation that is high enough to be able to afford to live in central l
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by linguae 7y ago
It depends on the companies these people work for, though. Someone who has worked for a company like Facebook or Google with large salaries and generous RSU grants will eventually be able to buy a house in Silicon Valley. The RSUs would b
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by linguae 7y ago
Leaving the Bay Area is an appealing prospect in order to save on housing costs, but there are two issues that some people would need to consider in order to make that move: 1. There are some specialized types of jobs in the software indus
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by linguae 7y ago
I'd be an independent computer science researcher who would hold an adjunct professorship to have an academic affiliation and also to occasionally teach.
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Landscape of Industrial Computer Science Research in 2019
1 points by linguae 7y ago|0 comments
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by linguae 7y ago
It is for me. I work as a research engineer at a non-FAANG company in Silicon Valley and I have 4.5 years of industry experience largely in R&D environments. If I were in the Sacramento metro area then I could afford to purchase a det
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by linguae 7y ago
The salaries for the FAANG companies are dramatically higher than even other large Silicon Valley companies. Over four years ago my first job after graduating with a MS in computer science was at an old-school Silicon Valley giant. My off
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by linguae 7y ago
I've generally had the same experiences as a CS undergrad and grad student. While sometimes CS textbook prices are high, the books I was assigned tend to be useful long after I complete the class the book was assigned. For example, I
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by linguae 7y ago
I’ve taken some graduate courses in programming languages where I’ve learned about the lambda calculus and about type theory, and I really appreciate this post since this provides a nice timeline of how programming language theory has evolv
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by linguae 7y ago
The Linux kernel, as well as the FreeBSD kernel, supports the loading and unloading of kernel modules, which are compiled binaries that can be linked to the kernel while it is running. These modules are still in the address space of the ke
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by linguae 7y ago
For learning the basics about how an operating system works, I recommend Remzi and Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau's "Three Easy Pieces", which is freely available at http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ .
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by linguae 7y ago
I wonder what the future is going to be like for research within the next few decades? Since working in industry for the past five years largely in research environments, I've noticed a profound shift away from research labs run by com
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by linguae 7y ago
Pointers, linked lists, and trees are fundamental concepts. Even though many CS programs have moved away from C and C++ for their intro-level courses, there is still a need to teach how dynamically-allocated data structures are implemented
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by linguae 7y ago
No, not everyone is going to abandon Linux; I'm going to define Linux in this context as the traditional Linux desktop where people run some sort of X11 or Wayland window manager or desktop environment on top of a Linux kernel running
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by linguae 7y ago
LibreOffice and its predecessors (OpenOffice and StarOffice) have always been considered bloated for as long as I could remember, which is nearly 20 years. While I'm very grateful for having a free, open source office suite, I've
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by linguae 7y ago
Something that just dawned on me is how far we have come regarding the compute resources that are available to the average person living in the developed world. Consider the hardware that Larry Page and Sergey Brin used to start Google in
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by linguae 7y ago
The problem I have with coding interviews isn't necessarily the algorithms-based questions. I don't have a problem with reviewing undergraduate data structures/algorithms as well as those related to my subfield (for example,
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Where Can I Find a History of GUIs from a Programmer's Perspective
6 points by linguae 7y ago|1 comments
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by linguae 7y ago
It is true that iTunes and Finder were written in Carbon, but it is also true that Apple's original plan was for Yellow Box (the OpenStep API that later became Carbon) to be the main API for developing programs under Rhapsody, which wa
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by linguae 7y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. While the technical underpinnings of today's desktop operating systems have never been better (we have come a long way from DOS-based Windows and the somewhat unstable classic Mac OS), I feel that we have exper
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by linguae 7y ago
Unfortunately Apple has no direct options for users of pre-2019 Mac Pros who were able to afford them at the previous entry level price of $2999 but not at the $5999 price point, which is the price of the new base model Mac Pro. Apple no l
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by linguae 7y ago
The sub-$3K flagship era of the Power Mac G5 and original Mac Pros is something of an anomaly. Apple actually was able to maintain this pricing for entry-level Power Macs and Mac Pros from 1999 (I haven't checked earlier prices) thro
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by linguae 7y ago
Here are my issues as a user of a 2013 Mac Pro: - Neither the Mac Mini nor 2019 Mac Pro are user-serviceable; you have to take your Mac to an Apple-approved repair center if you want to upgrade your RAM (see https://support.appl
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by linguae 7y ago
I’m glad that Apple is finally updating their Macs again, but at the same time Apple has doubled-down on its refusal to sell user-serviceable, upgradeable, and expandable hardware at prices that are within reach for most customers. The lap
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by linguae 7y ago
I personally believe that the reason why Apple is losing mindshare among some software developers, particularly in Silicon Valley and in academia, has less to do with particular choices regarding macOS and has more to do with Apple's h
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Is There Room for a New Desktop Operating System
8 points by linguae 7y ago|10 comments
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by linguae 7y ago
It's because for the past two decades Apple has always provided a Power Mac or Mac Pro at the inflation-adjusted $2500-3000 price point. As of now there is no user-serviceable Mac at that price point. The people who are upset are not
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by linguae 7y ago
- The new Mac Mini has soldered storage. This precludes upgrading storage, replacing internal storage (which is important for preserving data due to a motherboard failure), and adding additional internal storage. - Apple finally made the
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by linguae 7y ago
I was ecstatic about the 2019 Mac Pro until I heard its price. $5999, which is well above the price range of the entry-level 2013 Mac Pro ($2999) and of other Mac Pro and Power Macintosh models, which have historically had an inflation-adju
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by linguae 7y ago
One of the things I miss about the 1990s is the degree that Microsoft, Apple, and other vendors of desktop operating systems such as NeXT and Be invested in refining the desktop computing experience. I personally believe that the Windows 9

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