mhewett

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by mhewett 15y ago
You are missing the point. The point is not for everyone to write perfect code in some mythical perfect language. They can't do it and there isn't any such language. The solution is for everyone to re-use the nearly-perfect code we have
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by mhewett 15y ago
Makes some good points, but finishes badly. The best part is where he is going to reward his best employee with an all-expenses paid vacation with....Sebastian Marshall!
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by mhewett 15y ago
Lisp implemented in Java. Fairly complete set of datatypes and functions, but no objects. Has been available for 10 years. http://jatha.sourceforge.net/
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by mhewett 15y ago
Ah, you youngsters. Trust me, it is FAR easier now to get started than any time in computing history. Before GitHub, you installed SVN or CVS on your own. Before that you accidentally overwrote your software once a month. Before Cloudan
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by mhewett 15y ago
This should be a poll...
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by mhewett 15y ago
The company most similar to Google in hiring bias is early Oracle. In the mid-1980s they were hiring every Stanford graduate they could get hold of.
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by mhewett 15y ago
It makes me feel old that I remember reading the original article when it first came out. When the first Mac came out in 1984, my roommate (an aerospace engineering student) was down on it until he came rushing home one day and excitedly i
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by mhewett 15y ago
I'm sure John would appreciate the chance to correct an error. His email address is at the bottom of the page.
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by mhewett 15y ago
I've tried many chairs but none of the expensive ones (except for briefly sitting in an Aeron, which I liked). The last chair I bought was a $99 chair from Office Max, similar to this one: http://www.officemax.com/office-furniture/chairs/
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by mhewett 16y ago
KCK and Wyandotte County in particular are economically depressed, yet near a lot of infrastructure and near an international airport. I think Google could do a lot of good there. As another Topeka native, I'm interested to see the reactio
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by mhewett 16y ago
Deep Blue was "in the early days of AI"??? The OP needs to study the field before making such pronouncements. There were many breakthroughs in AI 30 years before Deep Blue. See, for example, Arthur Samuel's checker program from the early
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by mhewett 16y ago
I'm not sure these technology-based analyses are correct. I had four teenagers at the time and they all switched from MySpace to Facebook because the MySpace pages got cluttered with glaring ads. The Facebook layout was cleaner and had no
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by mhewett 16y ago
I'm exactly like you. Everyone looks the same to me. But my ex-wife is exactly the opposite. We once walked into a very crowded baseball game at Candlestick park looking for a friend who was somewhere in the crowd (we had no idea where).
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by mhewett 16y ago
I presume that Chomsky is not impressed with his own brain, since it is just a "bigger steamroller" than other primate brains.
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by mhewett 16y ago
I once attended a talk by Carl Sagan where, during the question-answer session, someone mentioned how much we could learn from "primitive societies". Sagan replied that we should not glorify such lives. In addition to other things, he sai
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by mhewett 16y ago
It's not hard to get "near production quality". It is hard to get to production quality.
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by mhewett 16y ago
Expecting a good answer to this question in 30 minutes without any warning is totally unreasonable. Expecting anyone to implement a deployable, generalizable, tested solution to this in two weeks is totally ridiculous. I wouldn't work at
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by mhewett 16y ago
I had exactly the same problem and never quite solved it despite ending up as a research scientist at a world-class university. My best advice is to find an engineering-oriented advisor, even if they are from another department. If that fai
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by mhewett 16y ago
1. Plan to start your company in 10 years. 2. Between now and then, work at a small company, a just-funded startup, a raw startup and a big company (maybe in that order, maybe in any order). Watch the management closely and LEARN. 3. No ma