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by pigs 15y ago
"I still stubbornly believe the whole “private members accessed via accessors” thing in java is bullcrap for internal projects. It adds piles of useless boilerplate code for absolutely no gain when you can just right click a field and chose
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by pigs 15y ago
Thanks for this, especially for annotating the lectures. It's much easier to skim/review this way. I was rewatching the computer vision pipeline lectures over the weekend when it occurred to me that they might not be available when the new
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by pigs 15y ago
The irony (from his own follow-up comment): "Guys, no more offtopic comments, even if you're only replying to existing offtopic comments. Thanks for understanding."
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by pigs 15y ago
In my experience at a big business, technical skills alone are not sufficient for "be treated with respect, get paid well". It takes a certain amount of shameless self-promotion and other skills normally associated with politicians. The nic
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by pigs 15y ago
Although he's not listed as an author, I find it interesting that Andrew Ng has been using "malignant or benign tumor" as an example of a machine learning classification problem at http://www.ml-class.org
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by pigs 15y ago
Perhaps I wasn't clear, but I was referring specifically to the aesthetics of the typeface. Good code in monospace is no less beautiful than good code in font X.
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by pigs 15y ago
UX implies usability as well as aesthetics. Any time spent worrying about the aesthetics of code is time not spent solving problems. In terms of usability, off the top of my head, two things that I find useful are: 1) Editors with syntax hi
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by pigs 15y ago
PEP8 recommends spaces: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/