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by nessus42 15y ago
Are Fourier Transforms covered in 6.002x? I took 6.002 many years ago, and transforms (Fourier Transforms, Laplace Transforms, Z-Transforms, etc.) were covered in 6.003 (Signals and Systems), not much in 6.002 (Intro to Circuits).
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by nessus42 15y ago
I haven't read this book, but had terrible back pain due to these very issues. Certain muscles in my back had atrophied to the point that I could not hold my shoulders down and back without a lot of strain to do so. This resulted in a great
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by nessus42 15y ago
>> I mapped Esc onto one of the thumb keys. >> That's a good idea, and one I hadn't thought of. Which one did you give up? I have done a bunch of remapping. I (1) mapped Esc onto End so that Esc is on my thumb. I can still d
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by nessus42 15y ago
"The National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine recently released their long-awaited report on Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Workplace. The report, requested by industry groups and conservative Republicans who opposed a
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by nessus42 15y ago
This is patently absurd. People who say such things could not be more wrong on this issue. I have a number of very significant chronic ailments, and there are many putative treatments that I should have liked to work. Almost none of them ev
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by nessus42 15y ago
Yes, the function keys suck, but I don't use them all that much, so it's not so bad. Also, I mapped Esc onto one of the thumb keys. My bigger gripe is that it sometimes misses up -key events, so a key will start repeating, or the Alt or Sh
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by nessus42 15y ago
unproven advice about ergonomics What makes you say that such advice is unproven? I know many people, myself included, who had serious RSI problems. Everyone I know, including me, who addressed their ergonomics, and perhaps also did som
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by nessus42 15y ago
Here's what worked for me to cure my RSI: (1) Kinesis Contour Keyboard. (2) BodyBilt ergonomic chair with linear tracking arms. (3) Stretch Break, a program which stops you periodically to do some stretches, which are illustrated by compute
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by nessus42 15y ago
The idea that every programmer should be able to write runnable programs under extreme stress without any errors is ludicrous. That has nothing to do with "attention to detail". It's like professors who give you a failing grade for making a
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by nessus42 15y ago
It irks me that people think that being able to pay attention to detail in a stressful job interview while standing in front of a whiteboard has any strong correlation with their ability and desire to pay attention to detail while doing rea
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by nessus42 15y ago
I loved Permutation City , but I actually preferred Diaspora . And I think his best novel is Quarantine .
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by nessus42 15y ago
Too late! I already tried, but was bitterly thwarted.
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by nessus42 15y ago
For a full sci-fi book of this genre, check out Permutation City. Then go read everything else by Greg Egan!
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by nessus42 15y ago
I have a TiVo and TV works just fine for me. (It's hard to fathom now, however, how I ever coped with TV before getting a TiVo, which I've had for more than a decade now.)
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by nessus42 15y ago
I use both Git and Mercurial and I love Git, but I think that Mercurial is far better for the typical environment, where it's already virtually impossible to convince people that they should switch from Subversion to something decent. I thi
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by nessus42 15y ago
How about getting out of touch with modern society, arts and music? I don't like Lady Gaga or Nicki Minaj, but there's still new bands and new albums coming out that I do enjoy I know that this is neither here nor there, but check out Mar
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by nessus42 15y ago
Some people like putting salt on grapefruit. You sound as if you think that putting salt on grapefruit is inherently strange, while in actuality there's a very good reason to do so: it reduces the perception of bitterness. I'm not saying
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by nessus42 15y ago
One one side you have people like the author who crave the power of code-as-data more than they care about nice syntax and therefore love Lisp. I crave both the power of code-as-data and nice syntax, which is why I love Lisp.
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by nessus42 15y ago
Great. I'll start eating pizza three times a day, stop bathing, and jerk off more While you seem to think that the OP is so obviously false that it shouldn't be said, I think that is so obviously true that it goes without saying. It jus
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by nessus42 15y ago
Ah. I'll never again whine about how much my MIT education cost me! (Even though I never got to take a linguistics class with Chomsky.)
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by nessus42 15y ago
I'm not sure I get you. At MIT it is encouraged for the most prestigious professors to teach even freshman level classes. In fact, Sussman and Ableson themselves taught 6.001 (SICP) when I took it as a first semester freshman. I was taught
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by nessus42 15y ago
I, for the life of me, don't understand why people defend these gauntlets. Wasn't getting a degree from MIT enough of a gauntlet? Wasn't writing reams and reams of working, robust, well-documented code proof enough of one's software enginee
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by nessus42 15y ago
I don't think that he's quite as inspiring to learn EE from as to learn CS from, though he's certainly an excellent teacher in any case. I'm kind of sad, however, that they cancelled the graduate-level sequel to SICP that he was going to te
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by nessus42 15y ago
They aren't. And neither is hiring only people with red hair.
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by nessus42 15y ago
My favorite part of the blog post: " Don’t hire people based on their survival through a useless technological gauntlet. Hire them because they fit your team and can do the job. "
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by nessus42 15y ago
Because at least that was slightly better than being forced to program on a whiteboard. At least I was able to muddle through and do something half-assed, rather than nothing at all.
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by nessus42 15y ago
Is this really because of the whiteboard though? Yes, I have no problem at all with a "traditional" job interview. Even ones where I've been given a paper exam and then left alone for a while have been okay. Though I also find that kind o
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by nessus42 15y ago
At MIT I did almost no coding on paper. For programming classes, most of the grade was always determined by very substantial coding projects and problem sets. There was the occasional exam with some coding, but the coding was typically rath
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by nessus42 15y ago
You are a victim of the apparently common misconception that everyone smart thinks exactly the same way that you do. I don't work the way that you think I should and I don't want to. I often just write a little bit of code to get my brain p
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by nessus42 15y ago
Knowing how to program means knowing how to program a computer . Not a whiteboard, not a piece of paper, and certainly not with someone standing behind or over your shoulder. This is not a test of whether you can program; it's a test of wh

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