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by pgbovine 16y ago
On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules D.L. Parnas Carnegie-Mellon University Communications of the ACM, Vol. 15, No. 12, December 1972 http://sunnyday.mit.edu/16.355/parnas-criteria.html
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by pgbovine 16y ago
yep, organized Ultimate clubs seem like a popular geek weekend activity amongst bay area hackers
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by pgbovine 16y ago
since the Linux kernel most definitely is C. how many people do you know who write kernel (or other low-level OS code)? i think there are now more and more devs writing apps than systems code, which means a rise in the use of higher-leve
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by pgbovine 16y ago
amen ... oftentimes a cache look-up is way faster than re-computation, and by developing your associative memory, you're effectively "increasing the size of your cache" over time, which is never a bad thing. some of the smartest people i k
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by pgbovine 16y ago
or go completely nuts and write a python implementation! you mean write a Go compiler in Python? i hope you don't mean to write a Go interpreter in Python, since that will totally nullify all of its supposed performance advantages
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by pgbovine 16y ago
barry schwartz has a TED talk about the paradox of choice!!!
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by pgbovine 16y ago
agreed that it looks super ugly. but it's probably meant first and foremost to be internal documentation, so i doubt that the writers cared to make it all snazzy using translucent boxes with rounded corners and jquery rollover effects.
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by pgbovine 16y ago
i'll offer a snarky comment followed by a constructive one (so i hopefully get a net vote count of zero) 1.) at my college (a top 10 engineering school) why the mention of 'top 10 engineering school'? is that relevant to your entrepreneu
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by pgbovine 16y ago
I wish apple would be a little more involved in open source. hopefully they keep the LLVM team well-funded and give them good freedoms.
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i totally agree ... if larry page hadn't been in a Ph.D. program, he would've likely not gotten exposed to that sort of research, especially because back in the early 1990's, it was much harder for people to get access to or even knowledg
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by pgbovine 17y ago
built on a very original idea of PageRank careful about this slippery slope ... it's rare for something to be 'very original'. PageRank is based on well-known academic research by Jon Kleinberg and others on graph reputation algorithms .
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by pgbovine 17y ago
very cool, i like how the author didn't do any trollish editorializing like "lulz brin and page were soooooo unoriginal, omgz pagerank is so not innovative it's been around for 60 yearz, anybody could've built googlez" scientific discoverie
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by pgbovine 17y ago
skimming thru it now, pretty amusing in parts ... from the beginning of chapter 5: Every programming language has some kind of way of doing numbers and math. Don’t worry, programmers lie frequently about being math geniuses when they real
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i wonder if there's a scriptable game like simcity (maybe freeciv? i dunno) ... that could make for a good testbed for certain optimization algorithms
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by pgbovine 17y ago
from a comment on your blog post: is treadmill programmable? You could increase the speed while your program is being compiled. ha i like that! or connect other feedback from your programming/computer usage to your treadmill. e.g., if y
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by pgbovine 17y ago
what if you have more than 2 versions, or if your #ifdef's get nested and more hairy? slippery slope to preprocessor hell :) with git, there's a nice 'bisect' feature that lets you quickly jump back-and-forth between different versions of
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by pgbovine 17y ago
agreed, i totally hate going thru dependency hell, but on any OS X, if you install the developer tools from the installation DVD, that will give you gcc and the basic libs you need to compile git with no problems. ./configure; sudo make in
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by pgbovine 17y ago
The eBook it self probably took around 3-4 hours to write holy cow, i don't think i could type 60 pages of coherent markup in 3-4 hours.
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by pgbovine 17y ago
A secret of success: do only the things that you are capable of doing, like shaking hands and making deals. I hardly think that this is all that zuckerberg is capable of doing, since he was the one who initially hacked on facebook (as wel
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by pgbovine 17y ago
just from a 5-second glance, reminds me of jQuery idiomatic style
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by pgbovine 17y ago
(apologies in advance if someone else already mentioned this ... i haven't read any of the replies yet) i would recommend thinking intensely about ways you can serve others (not just your girlfriend or immediate family, but strangers in you
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by pgbovine 17y ago
yep, it was, but it's sort of sad that most laymen use the derogatory term 'knock-off', since that implies some form of piracy
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by pgbovine 17y ago
The Linux-based Red Star system borrows heavily from early versions of Microsoft and has knock-off copies of the computer giant’s word processing, spread sheet and power point programmes, the report said. ha, excellent, OpenOffice is now
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i'd hardly call huffington post 'mainstream' ;) not when FOX News has a huge lead on all other mainstream news outlets in the US.
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by pgbovine 17y ago
no, this is a course that's mostly for non-CS majors who want to learn some programming for their research (e.g., computational biologists, economists, physicists).
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by pgbovine 17y ago
huh? do you mean links to movie trailers? or sending them as attachments?
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i didn't find any insights that were unique to West African kidnappers; the same comparisons could be made to any risky enterprise with an intense and tightly-knit team. did anyone else find that article a bit creepy to read? i'm afraid of
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by pgbovine 17y ago
iirc, pg mentioned something about cooking rice and beans or some other cheap but healthy food during his startup hacking days ... could somebody post a link if you remember it?
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by pgbovine 17y ago
subway sandwiches are probably the cheapest, quickest, and healthiest 'fast food' that you might tolerate eating on a daily basis. you can get a decent sandwich for ~$4.
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by pgbovine 17y ago
for laymen, startup is synonymous with business, and an MBA is a business degree.

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