mikevm

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   by mikevm 13y ago

   When you sit in class, or say, on the bus, do you usually go for the back seat, behind everyone, where no one can see you? Maybe you have social anxiety (or anxiety in general) which what makes it painful going out and interacting with othe
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   by mikevm 13y ago

   Intel NUC is a rip-off. BRIX + AMD Kabini should get the work done and prolly save you a $100 or more (unless you need a gaming HTPC).
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   by mikevm 13y ago

   Thank you, this was very helpful!
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   by mikevm 13y ago

   What's the advantage of using ZFS RAIDZ over mdadm? I thought that mdadm was more flexible in growing your RAID array.
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   by mikevm 13y ago

   I wish I had enough HN karma to downvote you.
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   by mikevm 13y ago

   Do you really care about Valve's reasons? Let's just shut up and let them use their industry muscle to encourage Linux gaming, and in the end we will all win.
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   by mikevm 13y ago

   A few books that might be helpful: http://www.pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir.htm http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Your-PhD-Survival-Doctoral/d...
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   by mikevm 13y ago

   Book link: http://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illu...
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   by mikevm 13y ago

   Note that this is not a watered-down course! It's the same course as the students at Caltech are taking, and in fact they will have the option not to attend the lectures and watch them online instead. The homework assignments will be t
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    > It turns out the publisher still has authorized PDF sales. Did you mean "has not authorized"? Otherwise, I would gladly pay for PDF editions of the 3 volumes. If they already went with producing a free online copy of the 1st
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    I didn't doubt it existed, I doubted that it was publicly available .
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    I doubt a LaTeX version is available of the old volumes. You can get vector (draft) PDFs of parts of the newly released 4th volumes though, since Knuth released the drafts himself. What's interesting is that a draft version of Concrete
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    Last I heard from the publisher, they are working on digital editions of TAoCP, not sure when it will be ready though (I was told that it will be of the quality that people expect from Knuth).
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    One of the things I hate the most about reading books is holding them up while reading. eReaders have solved this problem for me, and now I am a happy camper!
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    Yes, truly a great time to be an Android developer...
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    > I'm going to read the rest of this comment about the "very easy fix" of communicating better, and then edit my reply if I think there's anything else to say. I'm going to reply to your comment, so that in case
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    Maybe a good place to mention the book that got me started on meditation: http://www.amazon.com/Minute-Meditation-Quiet-Mind-Change/dp...
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    > Once expansive touchscreens are cheap, of course, we can display a virtual wall of bookshelves and instantly load a text on the device of choice, or even print on demand. This is exactly what I had in mind when reading some of the comm
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    Same here. Plus, those of us that do move once in a while know that books weigh a ton. When I helped my dad move, I think the boxes that had his books weighed more than his fridge ;-).
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    > and that I have nothing to put on my shelf. Why do you need anything to put on a shelf? I, for one, am glad that books don't need to take up physical space anymore.
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    What is this "life" you speak of?
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    > So don't feel bad, people who interview applicants a lot know this. They do, and they will count it against you. (A few people in this thread have actually said this)
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    I also get very anxious during exams and always make silly mistakes. It saddens me to see some some interviewers on this thread that naively believe that the kind of stress a person feels during an exam (especially one where the tester is s
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    So basically this is a synopsis of the relevant chapter from Introduction to Algorithms by CLRS.
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    If only people were this determined to run things like Folding@Home....
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    By pretending to be something you aren't you risk of trying too hard and looking even creepier.
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    I was thinking of buying that book, but he sounded like a typical wackaloon to me. I mean, just from reading the first few lines of the Amazon review: > Dr. John Sarno caused quite a ruckus back in 1990 when he suggested that back pain i
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    Having an undergrad CS degree is enough to self-study math, I believe. But having no formal education in the sciences/maths is not (unless you are a genius). For me, merely pushing myself through a theoretical CS curriculum made me see
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    It also drives innovation.
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    Thanks for the quick reply! > Instead of spinning up a VM on your local machine it spins up a new droplet in your Digital Ocean account (droplet is DO's term for a virtual server). >Vagrant integration with AWS or DO is simply to