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by pgbovine 17y ago
wow lee's kickin' it old-school with: <table width="600"> that's interesting to note that not having a snazzy CSS is a mark of street cred, since presumably the author cared more about content than making it look showy :)
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by pgbovine 17y ago
sorry to sound trollish, but the sad part is that this sort of marketing-speak masquerading as technical blogging might actually be able to earn companies 'streed cred' with customers. their potential clients might be like "oh wow you guys
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by pgbovine 17y ago
amen, the MapReduce paper is all about the distributed system they built around the core algorithm. this article would be akin to somebody 5 years ago saying "hey guys, it's easy to implement Google's search engine in 5 lines of R ... here'
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by pgbovine 17y ago
this book has a cheesy title, but it's wildly helpful for learning how to deal with people (e.g., bosses) and get what you want without being a jerk: Dale Carnegie's "How to win friends and influence people"
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by pgbovine 17y ago
yup, agreed. type inference for a dynamically-typed language is extremely hard to do well ... you often have to make people program in a restricted 'static' subset of the language, like what PyPy does with the RPython dialect: http://codes
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by pgbovine 17y ago
looks cool! what features did the author add beyond straightforward (nice-looking) syntactic transformations from Python-like syntax into C code? in other words, if i stared at Brace code and imagined how to manually translate it into C,
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by pgbovine 17y ago
that would be a cool idea for a longitudinal study: re-survey the sample every year for 10-15 years
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by pgbovine 17y ago
some research projects that might be relevant (although not quite what you were thinking about): statistical bug isolation: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~liblit/pldi-2005/ CHESS - automated finding of concurrency bugs: http://research.micros
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by pgbovine 17y ago
you could run Pig locally on your machine and still get all of its benefits. it should work on small datasets as well as huge twitter-scale datasets
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i hope he/she ported over bookmarks and preferences too, rather than starting a fresh new Firefox install
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i haven't looked into this myself, but i think that Mathematica 'notebooks' tries to reach this ideal of "just leave everything in mathematica, and we'll take care of code, tests, visualizations, documentation, etc."
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by pgbovine 17y ago
ADDENDUM: and, depending on the need-based financial aid they receive, there are plenty of people who attended name-brand universities who graduate with much less debt than $150k
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by pgbovine 17y ago
> Why not also write about the 6 figure debt that many graduates walk into their first job with ? ADDENDUM: there's been no discussion of financial aid packages at private universities (doesn't matter if they're 'name-brand' or whatever
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by pgbovine 17y ago
EDIT: Also, nobody has mentioned financial aid packages at private universities (not just 'name-brand' ones, but rather all private universities). depending on your family's financial situation, it's possible to pay tuition comparable to
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by pgbovine 17y ago
> The author seems like a tool. That's the thing about name-brand graduates (particularly Harvard), within 5 minutes of meeting someone you will hear about where they went to college, even 10+ years after they graduated. Clearly this is
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by pgbovine 17y ago
(this is the maniacally egotistical author here) > Clearly the article is only a celebration of the author's ego since he fails to cite the number one professional advantage from attending a name-brand school: receiving a world-class ed
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by pgbovine 17y ago
(this is the tool/author here) Right on for being debt-free out of college :) The financial argument you make is convincing, but please note that I am not trying to pit private schools against public schools! There are plenty of people
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by pgbovine 17y ago
(this is the tool/author here again) > Speaking from my own experience, somebody from an relatively uknown school but who spent his college and high school years working in the industry (even in small companies people have rarely heard
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by pgbovine 17y ago
(this is the author/tool here) > Maybe those points(which glaringly describe benefits) are no substitute for competency & experience. Agreed, but the title of my article was the ADVANTAGES of attending a name-brand school, so of c
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by pgbovine 17y ago
(this is the tool/author here) yes i totally agree --- actually i've observed that people who graduated from name-brand schools are often more risk-averse and less likely to start their own companies, since they've been trained at a young a
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by pgbovine 17y ago
hi, this is the tool (author) here ... regarding the price differential, please note that i am not trying to compare private vs. state schools, where the price differential is staggering! there are plenty of private schools that aren't "na
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by pgbovine 17y ago
one technique i often use when trying to understand someone else's code is to add in comments myself in my private branch (of the form "I think that X works like Y and Z"), or even better, adding in run-time asserts that I think ought to ho
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by pgbovine 17y ago
google's unladen swallow targets LLVM, and apple is now sponsoring work on LLVM, which they might be using to target iPhone ... so it could become a reality in the near future :)
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by pgbovine 17y ago
i think OP might be thinking along the lines of, "how many working programmers need to know or use calculus in their day jobs?" sure, CS researchers working with physical medium like robotics or computer vision need to use calculus, but th
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by pgbovine 17y ago
how much popular appeal do you think it has beyond the erudite geek audience? that'd be great if this thing went really mainstream!
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by pgbovine 17y ago
agreed! also another factor is cultural barriers. e.g., an otherwise-confident Chinese person might appear super-shy in front of Americans because of his/her inability to speak English and lack of familiarity with American social customs.
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by pgbovine 17y ago
for an easier time, your favorite language interpreter's source code ... interpreters are easier to comprehend than compilers, since you can 'follow along' with the flow of execution in the main interpreter loop just like you're executing a
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by pgbovine 17y ago
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience http://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Mihaly-Csik... The Design of Everyday Things http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d...
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by pgbovine 17y ago
(flamebait warning from someone who is in research) ... research in engineering fields is hardly just about studying and not doing. quite the opposite ... research is all about building prototypes to test out new concepts, and iterating on
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by pgbovine 17y ago
British illusionist Derren Brown does a lot of stuff with hypnosis and subliminal influencing of people ... there are a ton of 5 to 10-minute-long YouTube videos of his sketches. He never goes into what he thinks might be the science behin

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