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by msg 18y ago
My favorite part was at the end: "Remember, it's FREE to join and there is NEVER any obligation to buy anything in order to earn. Just refer other free members and MAKE MONEY! WOW! Click below to fill out the SHORT registration form! [JOI
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by msg 18y ago
Post my MSCS, developing for a defense contractor in C++/Unix/Qt in a median COLA area, I started at 70k. So I don't think I'd say that career programmers are going to end up in that salary range. If you can't beat that over the course of s
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by msg 18y ago
The other problem is, Unix is the worst operating system ever devised, except for the others that have been tried from time to time. http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html Google and Amazon seem to have post-Unix operating systems in
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by msg 18y ago
Taleb saved it on his website, as a pdf, ads and all. http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/wsj-patterson.pdf For what it's worth, the same article has him still in as of October last year with a new fund called Universa, doing basically the
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by msg 18y ago
"You make a better door than a window" seriously, though: "on their own grounds / in context". But you're right, no pithy phrase comes to mind. OT: I was looking for stuff like this: "Linux: can't blend margaritas", which is kind of the ide
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by msg 18y ago
I don't think it's bad to want to abstract away the low-levels of client-side JavaScript, but you might want to start with JavaScript first to know what and why you are abstracting away. There's a good introduction in the form of lectures f
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by msg 18y ago
I forgot another all-time favorite. I must've read this one when I was about 10 and a couple of times since. Genghis Khan: Emperor of All Men, by Harold Lamb.
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by msg 18y ago
Linus's biography, Just For Fun, is not bad. I have sentimental attachments to Man Out of Time, the Tesla biography. No Man Knows My History is about Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church. It is naturally controversial to the LDS, for
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by msg 18y ago
Seattle: You should be unique. Logan, UT: You should be one of us. Denver, CO: You should be healthier.
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by msg 18y ago
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/05/dynamic-languages-st... So one way to say it is that high-level languages are like porno, "I know it when I see it." Another way to say it is that there's machine language... and everything else. Or
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by msg 18y ago
This comment will be a little roundabout, but it has a real conclusion. It seems like the subject of this Google Tech Talk keeps coming up over and over again. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2469649805161172416 Here's a summary.
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by msg 18y ago
Lots of people have probably read these, but Steve Yegge wrote some great posts about interview loops on his old Amazon blog. http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/five-essential-phone-scre... http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/why-phone-sc
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by msg 18y ago
I agree to a certain extent. All sciences specialize as they mature. Computer scientists looking to make their mark are inevitably driven out from the core into security, bioinformatics, robotics, data mining, distributed systems, what have
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by msg 18y ago
There's not a slim chance you'll never have a fat chance of unapplying that locally to unnatural language.
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by msg 18y ago
You were not misremembering. Volume 4 is in beta, and a planned rewrite of Volumes 1 to 3 (after Volume 5! eta: 2015) to take advantage of MMIX (the new version of the MIX language) is not even on the horizon yet. http://www-cs-staff.stanf
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by msg 18y ago
I've always thought Knuth was quite entertaining and droll, even in his scientific work. Like the time he showed up for Randall Munroe's Google talk and asked about the n log (log n) sort algorithm discovered by his dark apprentice Elaine.
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by msg 18y ago
There is a Borges story about this, "Of Exactitude in Science." ... In that Empire, the craft of Cartography attained such Perfection that the Map of a Single province covered the space of an entire City, and the Map of the Empire itself an
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by msg 18y ago
Here's a first impression. Download it. It's Win or Intel Mac at the moment. You have to register at the top right of the page (just username, password, email). http://www.fold.it/ I found this game very absorbing. Kudos to the team for m
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by msg 18y ago
This continues to be a troll, but I'll bite. Hopefully in such a way that no one else has to. Arguing from obviousness about religious beliefs? Come on, people have fought wars over the iota in homoiousious. Arguing from obviousness in inte
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by msg 18y ago
I'd say that the algorithms are key in AI, not necessarily the language. You can program neural networks, genetic algorithms, search in Blub. The early AI programs tended to solve toy problems. No one had thought much then about the implica
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by msg 18y ago
There's specific stuff in the article about this. Emacs is much more discoverable than your average IDE. It is much easier to write plugins. You don't have to bow to the gods to get a working, documented interface (see the Stevey post just
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by msg 18y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+y... There's no other search.
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by msg 18y ago
This is a red herring. It's a pack of lies that you can't figure out who to believe. It is the fatalistic, repugnant Fox News answer: "CNN was lying to you, the damn liberal media was lying to you, so now we throw up our hands and we lie to
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by msg 18y ago
Another level of simplicity is licenses and DRM. I've got multiple computers and OSes (Win, Mac, Linux). I'll have more computers in the future. The words BSD, GPL, and public domain simplify my life enormously. There's a tradeoff when I ha
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by msg 18y ago
The classic, the best thing to read about rejection. It's by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, an editor at Tor (also a moderator at Boing Boing now). The context is science fiction publishing, but the feelings are all the same. And it's a good laugh.
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by msg 19y ago
"Why provide rating dates and movie names?" Other datasets provide it. Cinematch doesn’t currently use this data. Use it if you want. As it happens we provided years of release for all but a few movies in the dataset; those seven movies hav
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by msg 19y ago
C++ here reminds me of Perl, the postmodern language. There are tradeoffs between legibility and power, but never for the sake of safety or artificial consistency. "How does Perl [C++] put the focus onto the creativity of the programmer? Ve
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by msg 19y ago
People aren't defined by their arguments. They are defined by their perspective. Winning arguments change no perspectives (unless you are arguing with saints). The reason they don't is that ideas are not trees. There is no root node. We are