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Ask HN: What's an inspirational pop book about Computer Science?
2 points by pgbovine 16y ago|3 comments
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by pgbovine 16y ago
on a meta-level, has anyone done a query for "Why X Should Y" titles for blog posts? those sorts of titles seem to get on HN often. other popular templates include: - "Why activity X is like doing a start-up" - "Why I'm leaving X", follow
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by pgbovine 16y ago
i hate to be 'that guy' who says "me too", but i felt the same way when reading it 5 years ago. i had far higher expectations of a pulitzer prize winning book in non-fiction. another pulitzer prize winner that's almost as long but far mor
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by pgbovine 16y ago
no, it's not using the same mechanism as a real chroot (since you need to be root user to create a chroot). cde uses strace to intercept all the system calls that a monitored child process makes, and re-writes all file access system calls
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by pgbovine 16y ago
please email me at the address listed on the website. looking forward to chatting more about this!
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by pgbovine 16y ago
oh good point. the contents of the cde-package is simply a directory hierarchy, so you can feel free to use 'find' to skim thru it. also, i'm now adding a feature where you can tell cde to ignore certain directories (e.g., ~/.ssh/) so tha
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by pgbovine 16y ago
thanks for reposting, sfk. i don't know why the original comment would've been killed ... chbarts brought up a great critique about my presentation of cde.
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by pgbovine 16y ago
what research field are you working in? please email me personally if you'd like to chat more about how cde can help your workflow. i'm interested in collecting real-life case studies and anecdotes
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by pgbovine 16y ago
hi everyone, i'm the author of CDE, so please feel free to ping me if you have questions, complaints, or bug reports. i'm in the midst of fixing a bunch of silly bugs now and improving the documentation.
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by pgbovine 16y ago
''' The following data structures are a complete list for almost all practical programs: array linked list hash table binary tree ''' this is why it's such a pleasure to program in modern high-level languages (e.g, python, ruby) --- thes
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by pgbovine 16y ago
i hope when the author refers to zuck's "rejection", he/she isn't referring to the narrative popularized by The Social Network movie that he started facemash/facebook purely motivated by getting rejected by girls (or 'mainstream society').
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by pgbovine 16y ago
wow, GS is the man! he still looks remarkably similar to the way he did almost 10 years ago when i took his class. EDIT (to make this post not as content-free): Prof. Strang keeps the hope alive that some distinguished faculty in top resea
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by pgbovine 16y ago
when i was doing Palm OS programming back in the stone age, i remember the simulator had a "monkey testing mode", where it would just generate GUI events randomly. it was actually quite useful for uncovering sporadic crashes. EDIT: ha, i f
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by pgbovine 16y ago
ok i'll bite ... the y axis starts at 2.6, not 0, which visually exaggerates the differences. regardless of the merits of this analysis, this graph is disingenuous
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by pgbovine 16y ago
they would talk about how they'd drive down to Yale and scream "Harvard, Harvard!" and it was then, I realized, how little I had in common with these grads. that in itself isn't necessarily a sign of 'ivy league' elitism ... it might just
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by pgbovine 16y ago
it's not that weird like "zomg micro$oft contributes GPL code zomg zomg" ... Microsoft Research is, at its core, an academic research lab that publishes in academia. it's no more surprising than if a university contributes GPL code back to
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by pgbovine 16y ago
oh sorry i don't think i made my point clear. i didn't mean to say that primarily-male gyms were misogynist. i was referencing the supposedly misogynist frat parties portrayed in the movie and saying that an equivalent form of sexism migh
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by pgbovine 16y ago
uh, ok without this thread devolving into 4chan ... i doubt that you (or most men) would want to be demeaned and treated like a sex object by a bunch of women whom you find utterly repulsive. maybe a better way to think about this is: repl
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by pgbovine 16y ago
have no problem whatsoever with female-only gyms and the like i'm speculating that what they're mad at isn't the fact that there are all-male facilities, but it's how women are treated when they enter said facilities (i.e., like pieces of
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by pgbovine 16y ago
Does this person believe the unwashed masses think it's absolutely acceptable to plagiarize? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraposition when someone claims "if A then B", they don't necessarily mean "if not A, then not B" :)
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by pgbovine 16y ago
Doing research 5 days a week really wears you down if the people around you doing similar work are assholes. whoa whoa where do you do research only 5 days a week??? most PhD students i know average 6 to 6.5
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by pgbovine 16y ago
Here’s a freebie: the HN audience is uber-highbrow and likes longer articles on weekends. would y'all describe HN as highbrow? seems pretty populist to me. e.g., every time there's mention of elite universities or anything prestigious i
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by pgbovine 16y ago
hmmm, it seems like one predictor of start-up success (at least according to pg and yc mantra) is that the cofounders have to be good friends or work well together. seems tough to achieve when matching up cofounders on a 'dating service' l
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by pgbovine 16y ago
really? every cs graduate has a deep understanding of compiler internals? doubtful.
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by pgbovine 16y ago
Their business isn't built off of their technology, which, while nice, isn't exactly novel. well, be careful with such claims. many technologies don't seem novel at first glance, but i'm sure there are lots of novel tricks they play unde
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by pgbovine 16y ago
but I am wondering, are there many people out there who found their years of a PhD helped them much on their start-up? sorry for the snarky comment, but i'm pretty sure 10000% of HNers will agree that a Ph.D. is definitely an anti-prereq
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by pgbovine 16y ago
cool, thanks. please email me personally (i can't find your email addr from your HN profile)
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by pgbovine 16y ago
In the sense of the word that means people who write code or more generally, people who like to tinker for discovery and exploration. code just happens to be the easiest medium in which to do so :)
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by pgbovine 16y ago
sorry, those modules were omitted due to obvious security concerns ;) raw_input() sounds like something reasonable to include, though, since it could simply pop up a text box and ask the user to input a string. please email me if you have
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by pgbovine 16y ago
One of my goals is to use this app as the foundation for some free online introductory programming tutorials. Unfortunately, I don't have much free time right now to pursue this goal; but if you're interested in getting involved, please ema

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