neilc

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by neilc 18y ago
Wow, I'm jealous. I think the real question is how you can get a job writing about your experience bribing maître d's and eating free meals at some of the best restaurants in New York.
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by neilc 18y ago
If you interpret "compiler optimization" broadly enough, I don't think the argument is right: compare the performance of a typical Javascript implementation from 5 years ago with the performance of the best implementations today. That diffe
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by neilc 18y ago
Precisely the same comments apply. Even the quality of two different implementations of the same algorithm can vary on a lot more dimensions than simply performance.
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by neilc 18y ago
Whether a design is "done right" is about a lot more than just performance. Even being able to distinguish between good and bad design requires some considerable training -- ideally, both in computer science theory and in practical experien
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by neilc 18y ago
Making long-term decisions like where to live and work on the basis of short-term variables like the current economic climate is not a great idea, IMHO. It's hard to forecast economic conditions any significant time into the future, and the
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by neilc 18y ago
You could also try to do content-based duplicate detection: rather than looking at the URL, try to determine whether a new article is substantively similar to a previously-posted one. Getting that to work with a high degree of accuracy woul
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by neilc 18y ago
they did it by designing better products and software. Why not figure out how to do that again instead? Right, because a company of Microsoft's size is capable of only doing one or the other. The purpose of MSR is not to directly ship sof
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by neilc 18y ago
if she has so much deep understanding of social networks why isn't she creating her own social network? Does the world really need yet another social network? There is value in both people who do, and people who analyze. In my eyes it's
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by neilc 18y ago
"Bloat" typically means profligate memory consumption and unnecessary features, not rampant CPU usage: using a lot of virtual memory wouldn't significantly effect power consumption (unless you end up spinning up the hard disk to swap stuff
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Stasis: Flexible Transactional Storage(cs.berkeley.edu)
2 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 18y ago
Personally, I think it's more obnoxious than awkward. I can't see anyone's political views being positively influenced by a WiFi network named "Obama2008".
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by neilc 18y ago
Nonsense. The ad is interesting and faintly amusing, and the advertising strategy from which it is drawn is worthy of discussion. I think you are vastly overreacting to say it is "goofball lowbrow crap", or that it "makes us into Microsof
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by neilc 18y ago
Firefox, Safari, and Opera are horrible brands that non-technical people hate. Um, really? Most of my friends who use Firefox quite like it. Those who use Macs use Safari, for the most part. Basically no one has heard of Opera. But I don'
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by neilc 18y ago
I thought I was going to miss Linux package management tools, but MacPorts is just as good MacPorts is decent, but it is definitely not as good as apt/dpkg in terms of overall package quality, comprehensiveness, and convenience. In the
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Bridging the Gap between Relational Databases and MapReduce(anand.typepad.com)
5 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 18y ago
I'd be curious to know if there's any empirical evidence for this -- that's precisely the sort of plausible claim that might easily not be supported by the evidence.
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by neilc 18y ago
"Modern tools" like some trivial CSS and a fixed-width <table>, you mean?
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by neilc 18y ago
Or else they just didn't make supporting Silverlight a priority of the initial release.
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OpenCalais: Semantic Processing as a Web Service(datastrategy.wordpress.com)
1 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments
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What's Wrong With Academic Publishing(perceptualedge.com)
5 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 18y ago
I'm not sure I understand why this is "huge." If the working set of the program is stable over time (or slowly growing), it seems like this isn't a significant win: it's only a win when the working set shrinks, and this change allows the fr
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by neilc 18y ago
Actually, there was an active Danish resistance to the German occupation, particularly toward the end of the war.
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by neilc 18y ago
As Oku repeated a maneuver several times, the trajectory of the helicopter inevitably varied slightly with each flight. But the learning algorithms created by Ng's team were able to discern the ideal trajectory the pilot was seeking. Thus
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by neilc 18y ago
I don't think it's a matter of reliability: most aspects of the Internet infrastructure are perfectly reliable. I think it is mostly a question of social convention: most of the people posting these ads don't think of the Internet first, an
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Ask YC: Laser Eye Surgery?
27 points by neilc 18y ago|54 comments
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by neilc 18y ago
For those of you in the Bay Area, Stephenson is giving a reading from the book on September 7th in SF: http://www.longnow.org/anathem/ Unfortunately, tickets are $10.
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by neilc 18y ago
That seems like a fundamental property of a market leader (a reluctance to threaten the very market in which they are already dominant -- see "The Innovator's Dilemma"). It doesn't seem like it's just a short-term "crisis" that has arisen r
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The Claremont Report on Database Research(db.cs.berkeley.edu)
1 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 18y ago
Having an untenured advisor is not necessarily a bad thing. An advisor trying to get tenure is going to be very active and focused on their research, because their own job is literally on the line. Although a more senior professor might hav
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by neilc 18y ago
I wouldn't put too much stock in a few anecdotes from your friends. Researching funding varies over time, but generally speaking, if you're at a good school (CMU and Berkeley would both certainly qualify) and your advisor is doing their job

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