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by mmp 12y ago
AdGear – Montreal, Canada – Full Time - Analytics Developer AdGear is a fast-growing digital advertising technology company. We provide software and services for publishers, advertisers and media agencies. As a hybrid between back-end softw
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by mmp 13y ago
No offense, but I'm not sure that the Language Shootout is the best showcase, the SBCL code submitted there could hardly be called idiomatic Common Lisp. Mandelbrot is one of the most egrerious offenders in that regard [1], compare that wit
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by mmp 19y ago
Maybe it's just his students that are like this, and not all young people. Considering how mediocre and ignorant most journos are, is it that surprising to consider that the same may apply to journalism students? When I say mediocre journal
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by mmp 19y ago
This rant would be worth reading weren't it for the fact that programming language provability is but one of many areas of research in CS, which is something the author doesn't seem to realize in either of his two rants. Almost no one cares
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by mmp 19y ago
Languages don't matter, eh? A month ago I heard a couple of hackers talk about how they were able to complete a personnel scheduler in Scheme in 20'000 LOC and a few weeks time, when the previous C++ codebase was 200'000 LOC and was never g
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by mmp 19y ago
On never using popular products: If you refuse to use certain tools because of religious or ideological reasons then you're just narrow-minded. If you're an start-up entrepreneur, you're in the situation of having to efficiently allocate sc
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by mmp 19y ago
640K ought to be enough for anyone!
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by mmp 19y ago
The smarter students become aware pretty soon that grades are meaningless, and only care about them if they have a good reason to (scholarships, etc). There's a middle ground of fellows like him, who are smart enough to get good grades if t
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by mmp 19y ago
It can be very interesting to see what other coders did and compare it with your own solution, in the messageboard (when you solve a problem you get access to the corresponding thread). You can compare the actual algorithms and ways to app
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by mmp 19y ago
The reason behind full employment of programmers is actually pretty down to earth. Enrollment into CS programs dropped dramatically when the bubble burst, and has remained low to this day, even though the market recovered in only a couple o
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by mmp 19y ago
This `Microsoft experience = viruses + popups + hardware problems` complaint may have been true as little as 5 years ago, but it certainly is no longer the case with XP SP2 and Vista, the author is being a bit dishonest here. Doesn't invali
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by mmp 19y ago
How do you make sure the times are synchronized? Why don't you just have your server broadcast a bunch of bits that change every minute and use them instead of a timestamp to hash with your secret? Your protocol seems vulnerable to eavesdro
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by mmp 19y ago
I'm a CS grad student at the Universite de Montreal. It's probably not what you're looking for (what's security?), since it's francophone and concentrates mainly on operations research, but if there's any interest feel free to email me. If
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by mmp 19y ago
Very interesting work. Could results on 'C++' or 'C#' also appear as results for 'C' though? Or is the search strict enough for that not to happen?