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by pgbovine 16y ago
wow my head just exploded at the thought of that :) if you wanna write a blog post speculating on that, i'd gladly post it to HN
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by pgbovine 16y ago
wow, i hope no Ph.D.'s apply for a job at your organization, or else their resume will probably be thrown directly into the trash bin ;)
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by pgbovine 16y ago
cool, best of luck to you! perhaps another idea is to explain this background info on your site in some tasteful way. that way, potential employers will see that you're an earnest hacker with a real interest in this stuff (and you might n
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by pgbovine 16y ago
yeah agreed. right now the tone of your site looks too gimmicky, like you made this JUST so you could land an internship. even if that was your intention, at least hide it better. ideally i think companies are looking for employees who h
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by pgbovine 16y ago
interesting ... i don't know about stallman's involvement in Hurd, but iirc he's been pretty critical of all major software companies, even ones like Google that are friendly to the open-source community. i wonder how he feels about Hurd p
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by pgbovine 16y ago
i doubt future-bill-gates would have the patience to apply and wait for big company internships. he would probably be spending that time hacking, hustling, and creating his own software business.
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by pgbovine 16y ago
this is a great inspirational hack because: 1.) it scratches an important personal itch (having to live his whole life in a crowded urban apartment) 2.) it demonstrates resourcefulness and ingenuity given the (literal!) constraints 3.) the
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by pgbovine 16y ago
yes, but look at how many people on this thread have accused Mark of being a fame-whore and maybe even faking this whole incident just for publicity. I can't speak for Mark, but I doubt that this is the kind of publicity that he's looking
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by pgbovine 16y ago
would you have made that same comment if OP was an uber-1337-coder looking for a business co-founder?
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by pgbovine 16y ago
time to cue the cliched "isn't google just a clone of altavista" or "isn't facebook just a clone of myspace" rebuttals.
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by pgbovine 16y ago
Richard Stallman hmmm, i think Turing Awards are more biased towards theoretical contributions to CS (even for systems people). Although Stallman has made great contributions to the field of computing, he isn't an academic CS researcher,
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by pgbovine 16y ago
as bits slam into other bits and people scream and die. hmmm, perhaps this appeal isn't as strongly felt by the general public as cute birds slamming into pigs?
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by pgbovine 16y ago
can anyone find 2001? that trippy space color light show near the end could be cool
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by pgbovine 16y ago
i think the curtness of his statement makes it easy to interpret as racist. however, it's possible to interpret his statements in a more neutral way. he isn't making any claims as to the origins of the achievement gap. e.g., it would be
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by pgbovine 16y ago
great product name (even if it's vaporware at this point) ... it's refreshing to see a name that's crisp, memorable, and comprised of PROPERLY SPELLED WORDS! bravo to whoever came up with that name
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by pgbovine 16y ago
i didn't rtfa too carefully, but from what i've heard, all newly-hired developers at Facebook go through a 6-week 'boot camp' where they fix bugs and do maintenance to get up to speed with the code base ... http://articles.latimes.com/2010
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by pgbovine 16y ago
semi off-topic: Prof. Pierce's research group created the Unison bi-directional file synchronizer and open-sourced it. It's a really useful tool that I use literally every single day to keep my files synchronized. Think of it as a predece
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by pgbovine 16y ago
Engineers solve problems. Why shouldn't they be able to solve a problem like recruiting? that sounds a bit over-confident, eh? i read that as, "Engineers solve problems. Why shouldn't they be able to solve a problem like X?" where X has
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by pgbovine 16y ago
it's not that hard to transfer after 1-2 years to a place like Stanford citation please? from anecdotal evidence, selective private schools take very few transfer students. however, good public schools like UC's take a lot of transfer s
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by pgbovine 16y ago
most people don't want to be knights, they want to be the people who are ordering the knights into battle. (most computer users don't want to become experts at interacting with a computer, they want to be adept at using the computer to do
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by pgbovine 16y ago
at the risk of sounding ignorant, how the heck are people supposed to pronounce your product name? in fact, how do you even talk about your product verbally with others?
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by pgbovine 16y ago
true, but i'm sure that NY Post has more subscribers than NY Times, so if his goal was to reach the largest possible audience, perhaps NY Post was an appropriate venue
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by pgbovine 16y ago
(IncPy author here ...) yup agreed, but the programmer needs to figure out: 1.) when it's safe to memoize 2.) when it's worthwhile to memoize also, your memoization decorator doesn't save data to disk. if you wrote a persistent memoizer, t
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DataWrangler: an interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation(vis.stanford.edu)
8 points by pgbovine 16y ago|0 comments
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by pgbovine 16y ago
cool, it would be interesting to mine that raw data and look for correlations with other geo-related data. ideas?
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by pgbovine 16y ago
a.) a pair of foam earplugs does wonders for noise cancellation. much cheaper than $200 noise-canceling headphones, and works just as well (assuming you don't want to listen to music)
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Wikipedia security policies(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pgbovine 16y ago|0 comments
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by pgbovine 16y ago
Not sure I trust a human's insights on why animals get X ... (you don't need to have condition X in order to study X)
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Socially acceptable underemployment (short post about students & start-ups)(ridddlr.posterous.com)
2 points by pgbovine 16y ago|0 comments
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by pgbovine 16y ago
thanks for the references! i really appreciate you taking the time to reply to my question. btw "Dreaming in Code" is the only one of those that I've read, and I don't think it's a good fit for my friend because it's basically the story of

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