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by pgbovine 16y ago
hi (i'm the guy who created this app) ... if anyone finds security vulnerabilities, please email me (and don't rm -rf my account hehe). i put this up a few months ago as a small hack to teach people Python, so it wasn't meant to be pounded
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by pgbovine 16y ago
cool, please email me if you have suggestions for making this more useful (or bug reports!!!)
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by pgbovine 16y ago
hi (i'm the guy who created this app) ... the purpose of this app is to be an educational tool (e.g., visualizing how data structures change over time), so it's not really filling the same role as a symbolic debugger.
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by pgbovine 16y ago
How do y'all feel about start-up "About Us" pages that try to make the company's employees look super cool? e.g., "check out these pics of us rock climbing, dudes!"
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by pgbovine 16y ago
what a linkbait article title ... sadly, if a company has a degree requirement for hiring, then no amount of self-learning can substitute for a lack of an accredited diploma. i doubt that a hospital will hire you just because you read all t
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by pgbovine 16y ago
Re: Cobb only spends a brief amount of time there to find Saito, as evidenced by his relative lack of aging. one explanation i've found online is that since Cobb's mind is more aware of limbo, it's better able to handle the time he spends
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by pgbovine 16y ago
anyone care to comment on whether multiple dispatch or multimethods (e.g., in CLOS) solves this problem more elegantly?
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by pgbovine 16y ago
first i'd split it up into a bunch of smaller files, maybe 100 files that are each 350 MB? then if you have multiple cores on your machine, you can run multiple instantiations of the same script on those smaller files and aggregate the resu
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by pgbovine 16y ago
agreed, well it's because academics have to be good salespeople (i'm not saying that to be demeaning, it's actually a useful skill). professors need to 'sell' their research proposals and visions to funding agencies in order to get multi-m
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by pgbovine 16y ago
Re: Speaking of talent: Yahoo got best paper at EVERY data-related conference in 2010. No single lab(Google,MS) or university(Stanford etc) has ever done this. Clearly you can achieve this without talent, pg! engineers/hackers don't usual
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by pgbovine 16y ago
EDIT: sorry tenderlove ... that was just my gut first reaction. perhaps it was cognitive dissonance from seeing an AT&T Engineering banner mixed with an ultra-casual blog post :)
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by pgbovine 16y ago
well, you can't crowdsource everything ... sure, crowdsourcing things that most humans can do (e.g., labeling images) works pretty well, but solving open problems in math or composing masterful works of literature, eh more doubtful. the
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by pgbovine 16y ago
I wonder if it is because hacker news is filled with elitists. wow, i'd be careful about throwing this stone on HN. this place is filled with anti -elitists --- e.g., high school and college drop-outs, self-taught hackers, anti-formal-e
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by pgbovine 16y ago
yep, agreed ... especially because it sounds so artificial, like they're trying to make AT&T engineering seem hip and cool. if you read just the conclusion, it sounds like a normal article, so clearly someone made a concerted effort to
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by pgbovine 16y ago
I will say without hesitation that it's wrong to consider the only way to increase the sum total of human knowledge is to grant someone a Ph.D. agreed, but i don't think anyone was arguing this point, though the contrapositive of: PhD --&
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by pgbovine 16y ago
s/summer students/grad students/g or s/summer students/postdocs/g or s/summer students/full-time research staff/g
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by pgbovine 16y ago
wow, yeah 1920x1200 usually corresponds to a 24" monitor, which regular moms and pops aren't likely to have
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by pgbovine 16y ago
i don't see why everyone is downvoting this guy ... many of his claims are just as arbitrary and unsubstantiated as others posted on this thread
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by pgbovine 16y ago
what many people don't realize about an MBA is the fact that it's a gateway into certain big-company jobs (e.g., those in select Wall Street firms) ... the degree and school name are what people pay for. obviously, they can always learn th
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by pgbovine 16y ago
yeah USENIX is great ... even in their more academically-focused conferences, industry people are given quite a bit of respect and attention
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by pgbovine 16y ago
1) a smallish hunk of cash i dunno how much they each got in the acquisition, but i doubt it was 'smallish'. it wasn't like they sold some artwork online for $30.
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by pgbovine 16y ago
i think it might also be because people often conflate two types of drop-outs: 1.) those who dropped out of school due to lack of financial or social resources, or due to personal emotional problems 2.) those who dropped out of school becau
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by pgbovine 16y ago
when will this "gates was a dropout so he don't know nothin' about skool" meme die? the man went to prestigious private schools and Harvard and was well on his way to graduating when he chose to drop out. it wasn't like he was a poor kid
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by pgbovine 16y ago
who as I understand it, sold AppJet to Google to work on Google Wave somehow i don't think they need your sympathies ... they probably got a decent amount of money from their acquisition, so they're probably not crying right now ;)
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by pgbovine 16y ago
<rant> ok, for all you school-haters out there on HN, one thing that i think is often overlooked in the 'discussion' of how public schooling is such a mind-numbing rote memorization grind is the fact that it is a way of developing g
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by pgbovine 16y ago
yup agreed, and even if developers would like to write up their findings in an academic-style paper, they aren't likely to be accepted at top-ranked conferences, since they're so selective and only publish papers that are presented and poli
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by pgbovine 16y ago
it seems like we're not supposed to self-promote on HN, but two of my articles seem relevant to OP at the moment ... "The similarities between being a junior researcher and a high-tech entrepreneur": http://www.stanford.edu/~pgbovine/resea
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by pgbovine 16y ago
phew, you said movie ... i was about to say, when the comic first came out, Branson was probably still in diapers
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by pgbovine 16y ago
but because he bent a few rules to gain better access to a terminal through school. iirc, gates went to a pretty well-off private school that actually HAD computers. i doubt that most people attending public schools in the 60's could eve
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by pgbovine 16y ago
oh wow, this article is bound to get flogged on HN ;) before the onslaught begins, i'd like to add my own short anecdote. reading this article reminds me of when i took my first CS course as a freshman in college over a decade ago ... i r

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