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by pgbovine 17y ago
<pedantry>your XML failed to parse</pedantry>
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by pgbovine 17y ago
sorry for the meta-comment, but i'm dismayed by the use of down-votes for posts expressing unpopular opinions (unpopular w.r.t. the hacker news audience). it's gotten so bad that i can quickly pinpoint dissenting opinions by scrolling quic
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by pgbovine 17y ago
just to preempt responses of the form "higher education is a rip-off, it's way better to just learn stuff on your own and start your own software start-up", keep in mind that we in developed countries (I can only speak for the U.S., but it
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by pgbovine 17y ago
This is the what society sells people who are in the upper middle or just plain upper classes. what about all the outreach that (especially public) universities do to encourage middle-class and lower-class americans to all attend a 4-year
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by pgbovine 17y ago
3) Joe does a TED talk, writes a blog, or some other way tells us his deep thoughts, most of which sound like a spin-off of The Matrix. Very cool. Very shallow. And without any historical context. I doubt that any average Joe Blow would b
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by pgbovine 17y ago
It's definitely interesting, but I've seen way too many papers that never actually release something useful. The primary goal of academic research isn't to build a production-quality product. The hope is that in 5, 10, maybe even 20 year
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by pgbovine 17y ago
what did you use that for?
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by pgbovine 17y ago
are the teenagers just there hanging out and socializing with each other (a common occurrence if there's a cafe inside the bookstore), or are they actually deeply engaged in reading?
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by pgbovine 17y ago
reminds me of the sean connery celebrity jeopardy sketches on SNL in the late 90's ... penismightier and therapist were great
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by pgbovine 17y ago
... at the risk of getting downvoted for low-brow digg-like links: http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/09/are-linux-programmers-getti...
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by pgbovine 17y ago
awesome, could this be the start of Knuth's literate programming for the 21st-century web world? http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
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by pgbovine 17y ago
yup exactly! HN makes for a great crowdsourced expert search engine ;)
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by pgbovine 17y ago
reminds me of a really old article (before the term 'blog' even existed) about a person exploring why the heck a 'hello world' Linux ELF binary was so darn big. i think it's an interesting exercise to figure out why 'hello world' in your
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by pgbovine 17y ago
good point, it's really an introduction to 'how to get disciplined and organized in your code hacking'
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by pgbovine 17y ago
is ./bin/pypy the version of pypy that's been compiled or simply the pure-python interpreted version (easy check is to view it in an editor)? if you're running the interpreted version, then that makes sense that it's 5x slower.
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by pgbovine 17y ago
I look forward to seeing PyPy become the canonical Python compiler in a couple of years. I think Unladen Swallow might be ahead of them on that one since they're much closer to getting integrated with Python 3.0 (and they're supported by
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by pgbovine 17y ago
this sort of thing would be awesome for boosting developer productivity if they have 3 24" monitors ... nowadays it's quite affordable to buy 3 24" monitors (at ~$300 a piece), and when they're all linked-up horizontally, an IDE like this o
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by pgbovine 17y ago
seems good if people in your occupation value geographical diversity in experiences (e.g., if you want to get a job as a travel photographer or international spy) ... not so useful if you're applying for software positions, though
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by pgbovine 17y ago
this isn't intended to sound snarky ... but this article seems pretty long, and just by reading the first few paragraphs, i don't see the relevance to HN. could somebody who's read more of it post a summary for why it's HN relevant? i thi
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by pgbovine 17y ago
What this feature needs now is code correction on the fly integration with an IDE or vim/emacs + incremental compilation ==> smart error messages and corrections 'on the fly' while you're typing! sort of like how Eclipse gives you sq
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by pgbovine 17y ago
just because the ui is more user-friendly? Those better warnings aren't just due to a simple UI patch ... clang is doing better and deeper static analysis than gcc in order to even be able to produce those more intelligent warnings.
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by pgbovine 17y ago
perhaps there's a quasi-inverse correlation ... e.g., superstars like sergey don't care about putting in a ton of time to polish up their resume and make it sound all fancy and stuff (they're busy building google in their dorm room), wherea
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i don't think python got super popular until ~2004, but it's been around and used for research prototypes and niche hacking since the mid-1990's
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by pgbovine 17y ago
the two papers he got published were in VLDB and SIGMOD, which are the two top conferences in databases and data management ... even pre-google, this guy had cred!
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by pgbovine 17y ago
hmmm sorry don't know how to do that. one semi-gross hack is to simply open up 3 vertical buffers in vim/emacs and have two of them be empty :)
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by pgbovine 17y ago
what about using vim with your terminal set to full-screen mode? Edit: or in-terminal emacs ;) iTerm for Mac OS X has a nice full-screen mode
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by pgbovine 17y ago
luck probably didn't play that much of a role in Google hiring them, given that they already established major cred at Bell labs.
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by pgbovine 17y ago
the SCIgen example he cited at the end of that post is an extreme straw-man ... it was accepted into a fraudulent conference without receiving any peer reviews. the more reputable the conference or journal, the harder it is to BS the revie
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by pgbovine 17y ago
Or, more practically, what has MSR produced that's active in changing the world, compared to a handful of startups acquired by Apple? the premise of funding basic research (as opposed applied product-driven research) is that only by givin
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i've found that demanding empirical evidence from a blog post often leads to disappointment ;)

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