phaedrus

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721.
by phaedrus 18y ago
I don't follow your logic: if Microsoft has an NIH culture why would the combined Microsoft+Yahoo do more acquistions than Yahoo did independently? Remember who would be consuming who here. Isn't it more likely that the larger Microsoft
722.
by phaedrus 18y ago
Maybe the junior developer does have a great idea tomorrow - the question is, will anyone listen to him? Or will his small voice not be heard in a big company? It's not that they lack people who have the potential to do great things, it's
723.
by phaedrus 18y ago
In Oklahoma it seems to be more like $40K. :( When I went to make some job applications, I realized none of my professors gave any of the new CS graduates any advice on what salary to ask for. It's a moot point because I'm not convinced
724.
by phaedrus 18y ago
It's on the same level as the invention of the transistor.
725.
by phaedrus 18y ago
Finally! An article with some real meat to it! I wish more others were like it.
726.
by phaedrus 18y ago
The book is symmetrical but the writing - hence, pages - proceed from left to right. It's most evident when using the thumbs to flip through a book or magazine. Being left-handed as well, I always flip through magazines backwards.
727.
by phaedrus 18y ago
That works on Windows too.
728.
by phaedrus 18y ago
We installed Ubuntu on all the machines in the computer lab. Apart from the students who already used Linux, who just argued over which distribution, the CS students who'd only been exposed to Windows unanimously expressed they hated Linux
729.
by phaedrus 18y ago
The author says it's a paradox that although management cannot tell the difference between a good developer and a bad one, the good developers are the ones ultimately held responsible for the product. It's no mystery: the difference betwe
730.
by phaedrus 18y ago
A Mensa for programmers sounds like a good idea. I'm in favor of mandatory licensing requirements for commercial developers, but in lieu of that, maybe a society of competent programmers would highlight the difference between those who can
731.
by phaedrus 18y ago
Have to watch out though if you have scholarships. Some of them have the equivalent of a self-destruct clause that can be triggered by taking just one semester off. In order to take a NASA internship for one semester, I had to get approva
732.
by phaedrus 18y ago
Geometric shielding. I stayed away from class except on test days. Don't drop out though. I got pressured by a company to drop out and go work for them; I didn't do it and it turned out they went out of business anyway. Moreover, they k
733.
by phaedrus 18y ago
About time! As Alex Papadimoulis explained when he (briefly) changed the name of The Daily WTF to "Worse Than Failure", the problem is not just that so many software projects fail, it's that so many are passed off as a "success" just beca
734.
by phaedrus 18y ago
At least he's candid.
735.
by phaedrus 18y ago
Optimization most definitely is science - if done right, anyhow. You conduct observations (benchmarks) and form a hypothesis about what will improve speed/memory usage. You make the changes and conduct experiments to see if your hypothe
736.
by phaedrus 18y ago
Thanks for the link! I'd always just called them "clicky keyboards" and wondered why you could never find them anymore...
737.
by phaedrus 18y ago
We should remember that not all time is interchangeable; just because you're up to spending 4 hours zonked out watching TV in bed does not mean you are up for spending 4 hours doing useful cognitive work. Maybe you're tired, hung over, sic
738.
by phaedrus 18y ago
I think there is a shift in thought upon us. Twelve years ago people thought my family was strange because we didn't watch TV; now when you say you stopped watching TV the reaction is more like what you'd get if you told someone you were e
739.
by phaedrus 18y ago
Personally I take it as an insult when someone says that in response to something creative I've built. You go months work-school-sleep-work-school, waiting for the occasional free hour or two to work on something because you're passionate
740.
by phaedrus 19y ago
Especially the vi and emacs graphs - definitely illustrates the way it feels trying to learn them.
741.
by phaedrus 19y ago
If anything Blogger's problems remind me of Google Pages' problems: lots of potential but feels like it's getting the short shrift. Not coincidentally, Google had decided to abandon work on Google Pages, in favor of Google Sites! I really
742.
by phaedrus 19y ago
Actually at the CS department at my university we used RateMyProfessor to avoid truly bad professors, it was not just about grades you seem to be implying. We used it as a tool to protect ourselves as consumers from a business which was ta
743.
by phaedrus 19y ago
Segway! Segway! It's a Segway-motorcycle. And there's nothing wrong with that. But why does the article not mention it? Edit: Meaning Segway in the generic sense, not the brand.
744.
by phaedrus 19y ago
Amen! I optimize incrementally; sometimes when you're writing something you can tell it will be CPU-intensive or I/O intensive. You don't know how much, but you optimize it enough so that it is at least up to par with the rest of the code
745.
by phaedrus 19y ago
The way it should be: 1. New technology, faster internet 2. People use it 3. People demand more 4. Go back to step one, only better The way the telcos want it: 1. Old technology 2. People use it. 3. People demand more. 4. Blo
746.
by phaedrus 19y ago
I think most people who read HN would have thought of that; from Jeff Atwood's article, it sounds as though the primary problem is a political one, not a technical one. A plugin already exists that can be that "patch," but the project lead
747.
by phaedrus 19y ago
What use is semantic metadata that is generated automatically? The whole point of "semantic" is that it's created by humans to describe the data; you can't get around the "extra work" requirement without defeating the uniqueness of the sem
748.
by phaedrus 19y ago
One of my professors is nuts about the semantic web. This same professor believes Ray Kurzweil; I don't think it's a coincidence.
749.
by phaedrus 19y ago
Short but worth the read. Usually "N Rules of Doing X" are what I would consider linkbait, but this one has a few interesting points.
750.
by phaedrus 19y ago
Yes! This is exactly why the live view is so useful. I did a land nav course in the Marine Corps; we had compasses we used to sight landmarks so we could triangular our location. To do this you held up the compass and looked through a sli

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