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by pgbovine 15y ago
[I'm not a Google employee, but I am a Ph.D. student who has gone through the academic publishing process a few times ...] Publishing in academic conferences is not the only way to be "non-secret", nor is it the fastest way to get early fee
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by pgbovine 15y ago
random (drivel) hack idea ... create hybrid pages with iframes that combine a meaty technical article (e.g., a russ cox blog post) with a fluffy tech gossip article, and post these hybrid articles to HN. e.g., "Fast string matching with DF
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by pgbovine 15y ago
I'm just speculating here, but perhaps their primary target audience are casual users, not serious photographers. It seems like most of your feature requests are geared towards power users.
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by pgbovine 15y ago
maybe they didn't know they wanted to start their own business until they were doing their Ph.D. (e.g., larry and sergey) Edit: Or they wanted to start a business in a field where graduate level credentials are required for people to take y
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by pgbovine 15y ago
the compiler also needs to figure out that getWidth() and getHeight() are pure. but yes, i agree with you that for an intro class, students should focus on writing clear code and then optimizing for performance later.
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by pgbovine 15y ago
first paragraph of TFA: Last summer, an engineering intern named Pieter Senster joined the mobile advertising team to explore how we could display Flash animations on devices that don’t support Adobe Flash player. Pieter made such great pr
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by pgbovine 15y ago
s/Macbook Pro/good computer and your point is?
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by pgbovine 15y ago
this is starting to get off-topic, but one could argue that athletics played at the highest level is an art form, with its own rich culture, history, and passion just like great music, film, or literature.
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by pgbovine 15y ago
FYI Ren Ng (the founder of this company) won the 2006 ACM Doctoral Dissertation award for the research that turned into this product: http://awards.acm.org/doctoral_dissertation/
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by pgbovine 15y ago
true, but that's usually the amount of time it takes for many research technologies to come to fruition as products.
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by pgbovine 15y ago
and also Conan's commencement speech to Stuyvesant High School in 2006: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi4-1d9DB9Q
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by pgbovine 15y ago
MLDemos is a great free cross-platform GUI program that you can use to play around with various algorithms and visualize their effects: http://mldemos.epfl.ch/
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by pgbovine 15y ago
not merely publishing on blog, but then self-posting to HN and meticulously fielding questions. i guess it's all part of "character building" / entrepreneurial self-promotion
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by pgbovine 15y ago
Sometimes you don't get this unless you've been head-down, balls-out. or ovaries-out, i suppose?
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by pgbovine 15y ago
summary: author implemented a sophisticated compiler algorithm (loop header recognition) in a straightforward canonical way in C++, Java, Scala, and Go, measured performance/memory usage, and then (the most interesting part of the paper) he
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Google paper comparing performance of C++, Java, Scala, and Go [PDF](days2011.scala-lang.org)
200 points by pgbovine 15y ago|134 comments
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by pgbovine 15y ago
Ha, way to self-post, greg ;) but it seems like people are feelin' your article, so keep up the good work. My oversimplified view of the world is that there's a 2x2 matrix: {need to work hard, don't need to work hard} x {doing what you lov
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by pgbovine 15y ago
iirc i don't think the focus of this study was on 'success' in the business sense
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An academic study of anonymity and ephemerality in 4chan /b/ [pdf](people.csail.mit.edu)
85 points by pgbovine 15y ago|16 comments
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by pgbovine 16y ago
minor nit: i don't think rms is a "Dr.", since he didn't get a Ph.D. (unless he has a secret M.D.) From wikipedia: "Stallman then enrolled as a graduate student in physics at MIT, but abandoned his graduate studies while remaining a program
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by pgbovine 16y ago
awesome news! keep up the good work. on a side note, perhaps this is a benefit of attending college that a lot of the anti-education crowd here on HN might not realize --- connections with alumni from your alma mater. of course, you still
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by pgbovine 16y ago
esteemed mr. arash, perhaps it might be a good idea for someone within dropbox to write a blog post answering common security-related concerns. having a security sub-section in TOS is great, but it might be buried in google searches. anywa
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by pgbovine 16y ago
think about the HN demographic, and it's not a surprise that a knee-jerk reaction to your post would be a swift downvote
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by pgbovine 16y ago
apologies in advance for the self-post, but i wrote a somewhat-related article a few years ago about how the grad school research world can actually be similar to the start-up world, even though they seem like polar opposites at first glanc
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by pgbovine 16y ago
Obvious question: How are they going to market these to women (if at all)? Women's watches have to be much smaller than men's watches, and that will mean less pixels.
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by pgbovine 16y ago
I bet there is a strong correlation between Data (the character) and a programmer. seems a tad cliched, don't you think? i'd bet that most people wouldn't want to self-associate with an emotionless android
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by pgbovine 16y ago
let me attempt to clarify with a thought experiment. suppose instead the article was something like "All-star politician X claims that fund-raising, public speaking, polling your audience, and framing your ideas to persuade others should b
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by pgbovine 16y ago
The important thing is that you've created something unique that you can keep. I think the point I was (not so eloquently) trying to convey in my parent post was that hackers value 'creating something unique that they can keep' more than
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by pgbovine 16y ago
a 'project-centric' education might be great for hackers (i.e., everyone who reads this website), but remember that not everybody wants to build stuff for a living, and even for people who do want to 'build stuff', the kinds of things they
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by pgbovine 16y ago
what about if your employees' erotic workplace behavior makes their colleagues uncomfortable (and those colleagues might be afraid to speak up because they're not in positions of power, so you might not even know that a problem exists)?

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