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by pgbovine 14y ago
hey scott! i actually was gonna look you up and email the link to you tomorrow ... but it seems like someone else has already posted on HN
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by pgbovine 14y ago
yes, except for the part about disseminating novel research findings
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by pgbovine 14y ago
semi-related ... some of my colleagues wrote a research paper about 4chan (but I don't think they posted it ON 4chan!): http://projects.csail.mit.edu/chanthropology/4chan.pdf
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by pgbovine 14y ago
Who claimed that the primary purpose of peer-reviewed academic papers was to serve as an all-inclusive, real-time, 'democratic' discussion forum? Next up: "4chan flame comments are a terrible way to incrementally advance the state-of-the-a
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What makes a good engineering culture?(quora.com)
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by pgbovine 14y ago
curious question: Which projects within Microsoft are using Git? The company is listed as a user on the front page.
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by pgbovine 15y ago
See http://static.usenix.org/event/lisa11/bofs.html
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by pgbovine 15y ago
I know you're being snarky, but I really don't see the contradiction. These students haven't graduated yet, so they can still drop out if they're inspired by his class.
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by pgbovine 15y ago
I know this is cliched, but of the ~30 students who started the Computer Science Ph.D. program at Stanford in 2006 with me, maybe 10 have dropped out. A few of those ten have gone onto successful startups and are now far, far, far wealthie
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by pgbovine 15y ago
long-term "blue sky" research is, by definition, done without an eye towards profitability.
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by pgbovine 15y ago
i never sensed P.E. class resentment from fellow MIT students during the time i was there. it's a light requirement, and people often chose activities that they would like to learn for fun (e.g., sailing, archery, badminton). no memories
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by pgbovine 15y ago
i had a ton of fun during a few of my MIT P.E. classes and ended up incidentally meeting at least one guy whom i became good friends with later in life (when people ask where we met, "P.E. class" is an unexpected answer). there might be som
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by pgbovine 15y ago
ah, the old lisp argument again ;) So the point of programming language research is to come up with ideas for the practical programming languages of the next 50 years to steal. More generally, one point of research is to come up with idea
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by pgbovine 15y ago
thanks! that's a known bug in my todo list
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by pgbovine 15y ago
whoa what a pleasant surprise seeing my project on the HN front page this morning! just an FYI: this is a "demo-quality" project, not production-quality. it's probably not ready for HN-level traffic! please email me if you have more deta
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by pgbovine 15y ago
quite ironic given the poster's highly-editorialized title
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by pgbovine 15y ago
I don't see why anyone expects Woz to be a die-hard rabid fanboy of all of Apple's products ... he hasn't been involved in Apple's product development for almost 30 years, and he's obviously not someone to blindly evangelize based on market
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by pgbovine 15y ago
i think if you're a 50+ year old tenured professor, your skills are probably not in line with what a start-up needs; you've spent 25+ years of your life optimizing for doing academic research and teaching, not sweating out the details of ma
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by pgbovine 15y ago
Cool! I love how universities are acknowledging that there is a fast-growing "long-tail" of programmers who are scientists and data analysts, and that they need different sorts of programming training than CS majors ... Reminds me of Greg
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by pgbovine 15y ago
good site idea, but the url is very hard to parse (for humans, i mean). i don't know how much that matters to your project, but the repeated doubling of letters 'tt', 'ee', 'ff' is disconcerting. good luck, though!
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by pgbovine 15y ago
But I don't think the founders need to have done the research, just be aware of it. An undergraduate degree is sufficient formal training to figure out and harness something specific revealed by others in advanced research. Hmmm, I doubt
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by pgbovine 15y ago
Just as easy as it is to compile and install anything on nix ...* I hope that's tongue-in-cheek, because compilation is definitely non-trivial for any sophisticated piece of software with lots of external dependencies, especially if they'
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by pgbovine 15y ago
Although a Ph.D. is by no means a requirement for starting a profitable company, it can allow you to develop an expertise and specialization that, if the conditions are right, can give you a comparative advantage. You don't need a Ph.D. to
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by pgbovine 15y ago
If you know you want to start a startup, the best thing to do is to START - now. I think people in the software world are inherently biased since it's possible to start dazzlingly-profitable companies at age 19 ... in many other fields (e
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by pgbovine 15y ago
good idea, but must be done tactfully, or else you run the risk of being labeled as that geeky kid who always insists on disrupting the status quo. remember, for a lot of people, web browsers are interchangeable, so if they're happy with X
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by pgbovine 15y ago
incidentally if anyone has a solution to this particular problem with jdee I'd love to know :) Shameless self-promotion ... over the past year, I've been working on a project that aims to solve this dependency hell problem: http://www.st
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by pgbovine 15y ago
a cool project would be to make a webapp that implements the following contest: create an ELF binary to do X with the smallest number of bytes.
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by pgbovine 15y ago
[cross-posting from the Googlers publication thread ...] I also noticed that someone recently posted a list of publications by Microsoft Research (MSR), presumably to contrast with Google's publication list. MSR does some amazing academic r
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by pgbovine 15y ago
I also noticed that someone recently posted a list of publications by Microsoft Research (MSR), presumably to contrast with Google's publication list. MSR does some amazing academic research, but it's not a fair apples-to-apples comparison
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by pgbovine 15y ago
for academic research, oftentimes it's not a matter of keeping results secret for years before publishing ... it's simply because the academic peer review and publishing process has such high latency

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