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by nadam 16y ago
It is really simple: Theorem: Genius is talent AND hard work Proof: 1. Look at geniuses: all worked hard to achive what they achieved. 2. Look at a group of persons who are all extremely hard working, successful and good at what they do. Li
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by nadam 16y ago
For example if you can prove a hard open mathematical problem at which great mathematicians failed then you are a genius. (This is just an example, there are other examples, but this is quite objective.)
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by nadam 16y ago
I think what he writes is true: one does not have to be a genius to do mathematics. But: - He says that a reasonable intelligence is needed (I think it is something like an IQ of at least 120, so most of the population would have no chanc
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by nadam 16y ago
Good advice generally. Although there are rare very serious cases when even this does not help. There was a mentally ill guy in our primary school who was strong, wild and agressive like an animal. (He has done weight training every day bei
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by nadam 16y ago
My first idea would be the following: If I had enough time for the problem I would first use a morphological and syntactical analyzer to try (at least with a high probability) to determine the morphological structure of the words and I wou
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by nadam 16y ago
I began programming professionally at around 1997. Joel wrote this article in 2000. Before 2000 I've worked for Nokia, GE, and Lufthansa Systems. Source code control were a trivial established practice already at all these firms even in the
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by nadam 16y ago
I think it is great that children are building things, although I don't think it is news to anyone here, I think everyone here have built things as a child. The other moral of the story for me is that I should avoid markets where a 10 year
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by nadam 16y ago
I don't really understand what the debate is about. Even if the market is totally 'bimodal' valuations matter the same way as in a non bimodal market. Expected return is orthogonal to expected Risk. Let's say the market is so bimodal that a
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by nadam 16y ago
From a bit philosophical point of view a program is the specification of what the computer should do. Unit tests and type annotations both are some kind of checksums. Generally I am for brevity: the program should be short. So I prefer that
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by nadam 16y ago
Scala
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Yes I understand that it is not easy. But I think that the consumer market is also very hard. The problem is that consumers don't really have too much important problems which can be solved by software. I mean they have some, but those fiel
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by nadam 16y ago
I have learnt a lot on HN over the last years. But after a point I have realized that following the actual good advices and trends will not help me, because everybody will follow those advices/trends so that I will always be competing in an
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by nadam 16y ago
I am not against language research. For example there is one interesting research language, called 'Joy' which is the most concise of all languages I know and its simplicity inspires me. It is really fun. I just have no clue how I would wri
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by nadam 16y ago
Python is a better language than Java overall, but Java has some advantages over Python: because of static typing it is faster and has a very good IDE support. (autocomplete, code navigation, refactoring, etc...) In my eyes the most superio
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by nadam 16y ago
One more thing, he discusses some details about strings, lists, hashtables, and representing numbers as lists. These are in fact not deep language design topics. Most of what he discusses are not core features of 'serious' languages in 2010
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by nadam 16y ago
As much as I like pg's essays generally I don't particularly like his essays on hardcore programming topics like language design. Maybe it is because I am inexperienced in most of the topics he discusses in his essays but I am quite experie
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by nadam 16y ago
Yeah, it is interesting how chosing methaphors change the outcome. For example change 'carpenter' to 'artist' and 'hammer carpenter' to 'painter', 'musician' or 'sculptor' and you have different outcome. Or change carpenter to scientist. Or
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by nadam 16y ago
web is just one kind of user interface. I think those guys more generally refer to applications which are mostly user interfaces to a database and do not involve too much algorithmization challenges. As far as I am concerned I like algorith
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by nadam 16y ago
I agree, but creating a job is much much harder than successfully applying for a(n average) job.
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by nadam 16y ago
It is trivial that you should show some of your works in your job application/CV/website/reverse-job-application (does not matter for me how you call your pitch). I think you can further improve this by: - Providing the source code. You cre
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by nadam 16y ago
If we take the mantra: "Create something that people want and want to pay for" what would be the application you would create if there were no competitors? As far as I am concerned it would be the Office suite. People at every company want
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by nadam 16y ago
"So before you jump on that bandwagon thinking nothing interesting could possibly be done with PHP" The problem is not that nothing interesting can be done in PHP. Lots of interesting can be done in any Turing complete language. It would be
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by nadam 16y ago
I agree with you generally, but how much mathematical thinking will help you still depends extremely on the kind of job you are doing. In my experience the single thing in which mathematical thinking can help you best is going meta. When yo
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by nadam 16y ago
I have been a programmer since I was a child, and I was also good at math, I won competitions, etc... But interestingly I was only interested in and good at discrete math. I loved mathematical logic, set theory, number theory, graph theory,
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by nadam 16y ago
I think both. Plus consumer web applications and consumer smart phone apps and social media apps are some kind of fashion among young people. (I am 35 years old and even I feel the generational differences from younger folks a bit.) Older f
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by nadam 16y ago
I am wondering whether this could be used for real-time ray tracing or even for real-time photon mapping. I always had the impression that in case of highly parallel algorithms an incredible amount of very primitive processors have the best
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by nadam 16y ago
Cool! Also interesting and perhaps even more geeky: Lego Turing Machine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYw2ewoO6c4
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by nadam 16y ago
Probably I would not suggest this book otherwise, but if you are an experienced C programmer then Bruce Eckel's 'Thinking in C++' book might be for you. It explains to C programmers why object orientation is a good thing. It gradually shift
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by nadam 16y ago
It's not only the culture what is important for me, but what are my strengths, what am I good at? If I do what I am good at that can be the win-win situation. I am not especially good at the frontend work they described. I mean I could do t
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by nadam 16y ago
Let's take the probability distribution of how much money people make with their projects. I think if we take the set of young people then this distribution has extremely big variance. I think that this distribution for experiened people ha

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