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by pgbovine 16y ago
I've known a number of really smart people at Microsoft Research. And I've always wondered why they seem to produce so little. it might be because the primary 'product' that MSR produces is academic research papers, not production softwar
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by pgbovine 16y ago
agreed, what makes DIY wedding stationery look gross isn't just the comic-sans-like amateur designs; it's also about printing quality. a home printer is totally unacceptable; even Kinko's might not be that great if you're picky. you will
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by pgbovine 16y ago
... even if you were to make Facebook in 1998, it might not have gotten critical mass due to it being simply 'too early' (and also not getting seeded in a college campus environment) ... iirc, Friendster and others were started in the late
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by pgbovine 16y ago
nitpick on that point ... how is that related to programming? seems more like unix sysadmin/IT knowledge e.g., a veteran programmer working in a MS Windows environment all his/her life would never run into something like this
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by pgbovine 16y ago
looking back, what aspects of your Ph.D. training do you find most useful now? was it deep expertise in one particular sub-field? was it a certain type of work ethic or approach to problems? was it the doors it opened for you professiona
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by pgbovine 16y ago
that's a great response! i think all too often, members of the hacker community view 'social networking' as somewhat of a slimy, schmoozy 'MBA-type' of necessary evil, but when done properly (like OP apparently has), it can lead to true pe
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by pgbovine 16y ago
he was the photographer at ellison's, though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison
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by pgbovine 16y ago
not necessarily ... official language standards bodies might make decisions much more slowly than individual hackers or groups, and even when a feature is officially baked into a new version of the syntax, it might take compilers/interprete
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by pgbovine 16y ago
agreed ... since you seem to be proficient in Python, one potential exercise is to write a C extension to the Python interpreter or C library modules for high performance
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by pgbovine 16y ago
From his 'about me' blurb: Welcome to Rodinhood Inspired by Rodin who sculpted the Thinker and Robin Hood who delivered. Hence Rodin+Hood. Enjoy my blogs, contribute by commenting and sending me stuff that I could publish!
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by pgbovine 16y ago
iirc, almost every technical person there who does coding is a 'software engineer' ... even ken thompson, rob pike, guido, etc. EDIT: k nevermind about ken thompson and rob pike ... but there must be other big-shot hackers whose title is st
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by pgbovine 16y ago
find social situations where you can bond over shared interests or things ... e.g., if you're really into Linux IT or something, then find local Linux IT meet-ups. you have a lot better chance bonding with people over shared interests than
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by pgbovine 16y ago
great advice (as usual), edw519 ... have you thought about starting a blog with an FAQ mined from your responses from "Ask HN" questions? an easy hack that someone else could even do would be to troll through "Ask HN" threads, extract the
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by pgbovine 16y ago
perhaps you could create a polyglot resume: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_%28computing%29
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by pgbovine 16y ago
It's to bad that there is a glaring typo in the first sentence. If you are reading this, fix the spelling! (sorry, cheap shot!)
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by pgbovine 16y ago
totally agreed; there is an abundance of research in the academic literature from the past 15 years that still have not been properly commercialized. technology transfer between academia and industry is often a slow and bumpy process, but
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by pgbovine 16y ago
That said, I'm pretty sure there are some CS professors that are 65; if they can hold that gig we should be able to crank out software (I hope)! there's no concept of tenure outside of academia, though :/
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by pgbovine 16y ago
Check out this research project from MIT ... it aims to provide a more sane interface to MTurk: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/turkit/
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by pgbovine 16y ago
She may not have done it if on her own, unfortunately. care to elaborate on this conjecture?
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by pgbovine 16y ago
haha i LOVE the upper-right reason (storing answers on calculator) ... kids learn the benefits of caching early-on! why re-compute when it's much more efficient to do a cache lookup?
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by pgbovine 16y ago
i think one of the coolest aspects of this prototype is that HTML/JS is now your canvas for your Python script outputs (rather than stdout/stderr on your terminal, for traditional scripts that you run on your desktop). that means you can l
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Write, execute, and share Python data analysis scripts within your browser(ridddlr.posterous.com)
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by pgbovine 16y ago
also, take care of creating thumbnails and several different resolutions
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by pgbovine 16y ago
here's one more to add to your list: if you do an automated text meta-analysis of "Ask HN" titles and see what words/phrases are correlated with more upvotes, then post your analysis on a blog post, i'm sure people would upvote you like cra
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by pgbovine 16y ago
i think a lot of very lucrative successes are not in consumer-facing applications. i suggest reading Super Crunchers if you're looking for some very lucrative successes: http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/supercrunchers/
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by pgbovine 16y ago
less cynically ... perhaps the poster wanted the personal opinions of HN hackers, many of whom probably have first-hand experience with Python and might be able to give more personalized answers than what's on FAQ pages
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by pgbovine 16y ago
true, i can't dispute your logic :) but if something is totally hyperbolic and doesn't fit expectations, then it's still weird. imagine reading something that says "X for SUPER-DUPER-GENIUSES!!!" that somehow implies that X is not for re
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by pgbovine 16y ago
that's sort of my point, though ... you still don't need a computer science degree (or even much CS knowledge) to understand this tutorial. i would think that self-taught hackers might be offended by the title of this article, since it i
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by pgbovine 16y ago
do the exercises not only in Scheme, but also in your own favorite programming language. this will help you see differences in programming languages and also allow you to understand which concepts are language-independent and which ones ar
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by pgbovine 16y ago
semi-troll comment time: the title of this article seems a bit elitist and demeaning ... what are the rest of the git tutorials on the web, then? "Git for grubby coders"? i don't see how simply presenting a bunch of DAGs all of a sudden ma

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