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by pgbovine 16y ago
amen, and you might find that some of the ideas that you thought were really good or tractable might end up not sounding so good, once you get a better feel for how to actually implement them. as an analogy, i know almost nothing about teen
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by pgbovine 16y ago
I believe that if Gates stayed Microsoft's CEO -- Microsoft would be more successful company and delivered more to the society. interesting opinion about microsoft possibly delivering more to society. would you care to speculate on what
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by pgbovine 16y ago
afaik, MIT EECS does not have a 'cash cow' master's-only degree program. in order to do a terminal Master of Engineering (MEng) degree in EECS, you must have been an undergrad there as well. the only way to get a terminal MS from MIT EECS
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by pgbovine 16y ago
Please, someone bring me back down to earth before I start reading papers again instead of studying for my exams... by all means, read more papers ;) study just enough to get a decent grade on your exams. if you're into reading academic
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by pgbovine 16y ago
do you wanna post a link or blog post to show us what you mean? i'm not familiar with LuaJIT vs. python/js JITs
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by pgbovine 16y ago
yeah, that's a whole other big debate within academia :) but if you can make your technical reports and white papers public on your website, that could really help out people working in related areas. Edit: i agree that if you're running a
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by pgbovine 16y ago
at the risk of HN turning into online gossip forums ... could we stop with the "you don't need no damn degree to do them codin' jobs" comments? if you truly feel that way, then on your own company's hiring webpage, you don't have to put th
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by pgbovine 16y ago
awesome, Maro! one of the biggest impacts of research (in an applied field like CS systems) is that it provides good ideas for people in industry to pick off, adapt, and refine for their own applications. great work
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by pgbovine 16y ago
great point; the persistence of the IncPy cache is one of the biggest differentiators from an ordinary memoize decorator
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by pgbovine 16y ago
hi stevelosh, sorry that it didn't work out of the box; as you can tell, it's still a research prototype :) i'll add the Mercurial test suite to my TODO list of programs to try. in your experience, what kind of Mercurial operations do you
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by pgbovine 16y ago
thanks for such a great summary and 'sales pitch' of my project ;) i couldn't have put it any better. if you have any further suggestions, please email me personally.
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by pgbovine 16y ago
hi everyone ... i'm the creator of IncPy and pleasantly surprised that it ended up on HN :) anyways, this is still an early-stage research project where i'm the only developer, so i can't make much guarantees about its robustness (i can onl
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by pgbovine 16y ago
potentially off-topic, but i'm SO glad that the title of this post wasn't "Check out our new start-up: cleaning up whiteboard pics via email!!!" the pitch is honest and straight-forward, and not overselling. excellent work
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by pgbovine 16y ago
uh i'm sure these kids weren't being specifically trained in fine art ... and also they might not have had a ton of time to make their drawings
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by pgbovine 16y ago
uhhhh that seems incredibly unlikely to me, given his public persona, at least. i can't imagine how a man who started the Gates Foundation would ever do such a thing.
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by pgbovine 16y ago
yup, agreed, and if word.endswith('ing') looks much better than if word[-3] == 'i' and word[-2] == 'n' and word[-1] == 'g' clearly the authors of that article weren't proficient in the C standard library :)
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by pgbovine 16y ago
were you trying to make an argument as to how this compares to other languages? (sorry, i don't mean to sound trollish, i'm actually curious as to your intent)
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by pgbovine 16y ago
i love python more than anything else in the world (well, almost), but i think that this example is quite superficial ... this line alone gives python its enormous 'readability edge' over other languages: if word.endswith('ing') of c
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by pgbovine 16y ago
there's an old cliche about a frog being slowly boiled to death here ;)
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by pgbovine 16y ago
ha i can't access this article at Panera since their internet content filter blocks the domain. but i'm actually trying to read Playboy for the articles here!!! EDIT: Question for discussion - how many of you would be afraid of clicking on
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by pgbovine 16y ago
Great essay on this topic (it was later expanded into a full-length book): http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-sou...
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by pgbovine 16y ago
wow, and he's not just a random dude, either ... he has a long and illustrious history with silicon valley start-ups: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cheriton EDIT: notable line from wikipedia article: "Cheriton is also credited for co
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by pgbovine 16y ago
i'm sure they still have dedicated windows test machines (that are sandboxed from their super-secret data) ... or using virtual machines
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by pgbovine 16y ago
From the end of TFA: Bill Gates could never have been the Dean of Admissions at Stanford, but the Computer Science building at Stanford carries his name. sigh, i wish people would stop using Gates, Zuckerberg, and other drop-outs from eli
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by pgbovine 16y ago
this doesn't answer your question at all, but it's just food for thought: imagine we traveled back in time to the 1960's ... i suppose that people would ask "Serious question, is there anything driving reliable robust nationwide packet-swit
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by pgbovine 16y ago
ok, i'll bite ;) if everyone thought the way that you did, then we'd still be programming by submitting our punch cards to some gigantic centralized machine. think about how much basic academic research occurred before the invention of som
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by pgbovine 16y ago
Which also raises the question whether there should be a similarly venerable(and compensated) position reserved for researchers who don't teach? an academic research lab sponsored by a big company (note that this is not the same as a co
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by pgbovine 16y ago
I wonder how much research could easily be delayed a couple of years until it becomes cheaper to carry out. Was it so important to do that experiment back then? one of the goals of academic research is to take high risks (and costs) to ex
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by pgbovine 16y ago
For me it means that you (or anyone who give those short-answers) do not care so much about the matter.... am I correct? sorry to sound rude, but you were the one who asked for advice here ... if i were you, i'd be grateful that people ch
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by pgbovine 16y ago
there are lots of great comments on this thread, so i won't attempt to re-iterate them ... the one word i would add is: grit anecdotally, one trait that all successful people i know possess is 'grit', which i define informally as the abilit

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