onan_barbarian

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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
Did it ever, and this parody stuck in my mind: Open the pod bay door, please, Hal... Hal, do you read me? Affirmative, Dave. I read you. Then open the pod bay doors, HAL. I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. I know th
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
A lot of this scam-bait stuff is going way too far, and I can't help but wonder about the ire on behalf of all those 'innocent victims' out there. In the classic 419 scam (and yes, there are other variants that don't imply quit the same lev
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
True enough. I mainly meant 4.0 in their CS courses, although some have overlap between advanced HS math and first-year university math.
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
You forget that you can have the best of both worlds: you can join a startup and become a Rock Star Programmer. Possibly also some sort of Ninja! More seriously: nothing wrong with taking a swing. The main problem is not the people who take
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
Spot on. The 'how do I get an A' question always seemed to be on the lips of everyone who never seemed to want to do the thing consensus reality suggested you might have to do to get one (turn up, pay attention, work hard, ...) Computer Sci
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
Cultivating a thicker skin would be wise. Would you leave the US because you're embarrassed to go back to your old job? Possibly if you're at a large enough company, you might be able to split the difference and find a job at another team w
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
Anyone who starts a post with "Unfortunately i probably have more balls than sense" is worth reading, if only for laughs. The typography and grammar leave a lot to be desired... but I'm in two minds about the content. It's possible that thi
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
Strange how any post that could be construed as being negative about Arrington gets down-modded by about 5 points, regular as clockwork. That being said, I think he's on the money with this one. This can only be good for YC overall. The sus
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
Some good analogies with the main business of hacker news, here. It's worth thinking about some of the connections, especially: 1) Working in places where you will learn and acquire respect subsequently, if you care about that sort of thing
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
Change hands after 50 (uses of the control key, that is).
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
Good for her. Even if you are open to an acquisition, being ready to be 'in it for the long haul' puts you in a better position to negotiate - especially if there's only one really good potential acquirer out there. If you don't like their
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
"This summer, since I’d just moved, I did a lot of household things—like unpacking or buying a shower rod. Depending on my plans, I may go out to dinner with my friends or my parents. Or I’ll eat alone and then go back to work." Key insight
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
This is a simple and elegant discussion, marred only by the fact that it is utter gibberish. How does this have anything to do with recursion? It's like you just learned about recursion last week and think it's so unspeakably cool that ever
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
Whether you want to teach is moot. The top tier schools are not about preparing you to teach, they are about preparing you to do research. There are many options after a CS PhD and most of my classmates are not teaching now. Getting into a
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
Something that combines finance and technology? It's about time that someone tried to do something in these two areas... Fortunately for you, I most of the people in this here 'finance' area tend to be earnest, idealistic individuals, keen
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
Well, sometimes it's fun. Other times it's utterly horrible. gcc doesn't always do a wonderful job and the maintainers sometimes just don't seem to care - induction variable optimizations and gcse were broken in 4.2 and 4.3 and the issue wa
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
TAOCP and the Lion's commentary? Edition 6 kernel into asm? Why? You're working hard to sound old-school, but these are just random allusions. TAOCP is not especially relevant to OS programming, and translating _all_ of an OS into asm to ma
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
If I was this Khang guy, I'd be flattered but maybe a bit self-conscious at being so publicly fellated. I mean, really.
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
People who choose to not do in Chip Elsworth the 3rd are excessively discounting the future utility of taking this course of action. To wit, being undisturbed by whitey in the future and free to go on to find a white woman wearing a navy bl
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
You are not expected to understand this.
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
These are dumb expressions ("Code Ninja", "Rockstar") but the intent is fine. My recommendation is to build a bunch of interesting things that are at a higher level than one-off, design-free algorithm puzzles (well, those sorts of things ar
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
Akin to 'grow a pair' programming.
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
Lulz at "My dentist kept me waiting 50 minutes not long ago." This is a pretty accurate measure of the value of a recruiter's time vs. a dentist's. Medicos maintain a queue to ensure almost full utilization for their valuable services.
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
I support the idea of labeling the 'sophistication level' of blog posts in their titles, but a bit of punctuation would be nice.
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
Back to magazines.
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
Ah, "Hacker" news. Three days ago, Zed Shaw told us how to take a poo. Yesterday, walking. Today, mowing the lawn. Where will it go next?
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
How dare you accuse Mick of being ethically questionable? This app just grows from his natural desire to keep track of his two or more lovely children, as he has written about so passionately in this review of his own app: http://appcommen
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
Things we don't need to hear, EVERY LAST TIME anyone says anything quantifiable about programming language performance: 1. People are more or less productive in different languages. 2. If a task can be done mostly in a library the speed of
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by onan_barbarian 16y ago
Start with $5M. Invest in a bunch of Web 2.0 startups, preferably ones blessed by Y Combinator. If you are lucky, you will still be a millionaire at the end of it.