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by rabidgnat 17y ago
You have to be honest about the best way to motivate yourself. In the speech "You and your Research," Richard Hamming[1] talks about how he uses his ego against himself. When he went on sabbatical to write a book, he told everyone he was go
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
I did some SciPy work in computer vision applications, and it was both a blessing and a curse. About 80% of the code could be reduced into matrix operations, which provided the 'embarrassing' moments that the article mentions. However, I'd
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
IANAL, but the text of the Fifth Amendment doesn't support your claim. Let's look at it piece by piece: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, exce
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
Starting next year, private insurers could no longer deny anyone coverage based on preexisting conditions, place lifetime limits on coverage or abandon people when they become ill. Worth it! I also don't think suggesting that this violate
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
I'm a big fan of Knuth. I haven't purchased any of his Art yet, but I do have an Amazon gift certificate in reserve...
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
I've been experimenting with coffee for a few years now, but I've never tried to quantify my results quite like the author did. I've been everywhere from 1 cup a day to gross overconsumption. In the end, coffee doesn't seem to significantly
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
If you're writing software as DLLs, the venerable Depends.exe is critical: http://www.dependencywalker.com/ If there was something that made debugging linking errors this easy, then C++ development would be a snap... kind of...
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
"Do engineers just need interesting technical problems to remain happy?" I landed a programming gig working on robotics projects, and working on interesting problems makes up for a world of sins :)
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
The problems mentioned are huge in the over-30, non-tech crowd. I worked IT in college, and the skills of professors and admins older than 35 were much worse than the average English major in a computer lab. They viewed the machine as a Mag
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
My girlfriend is a web developer and we've been trying to snag an invite so she can play around with it. Thank you in advance jakevoytko@gmail.com
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
"Lazy authors!" But there's extra money to be made by selling the solutions manual!
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
I think that the rise of Amazon as the primary retailer leaves the delivery market ripe for upheaval. The current delivery model is kind of awkward: they do a first delivery when you're at work, and then trying to coordinate with them becom
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
The TED talk mentioned reminds me of "You and Your Research" by Richard Hamming: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html Hamming asserts that people who have done great work fail to "plant acorns." They chase another gr
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
"I think the data won't be so easy to collect." A poll by an external agency wouldn't be very representative of Facebook's population, so Facebook is the only organization that has access to data to accurately make these kinds of claims, wh
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
Graphs help. If you can measure tasks completed and clocked time accurately, seeing that you've spent less productive time than yesterday can give you the kick you need. I don't use this for personal projects, but I was an intern on a websi
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
My mother's old trick for situations like these is to be on their side without saying anything bad about anyone else in the house. Instead of "Whatever, I'm freezing my ass off", try something like "I can't believe they'd do that to you! Th
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
"Web programming is difficult in a different way than say, compiler construction or kernel programming... Web programming is mad due to integration issues and malicious users" To me, web programming isn't as well-defined as most programming
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
“The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.” ~ Piet Hein In other news, I try to check my answers by deriving them two ways. If they agree, then I at least have a good
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
"But where's the money?" It's not in search, as far as Yahoo is concerned. Having gigantic teams dedicated to tweaking search algorithms and running servers was obviously not working out to Yahoo's advantage in the long run... they were los
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
> Step 2: Turn your phrase into an acronym. Be sure to use some numbers and symbols and capital letters, too Adding symbols to passwords is a huge inconvenience. Why? Because some of the sites that I use fairly regularly don't allow the
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
I've found a way to partially counteract a manager's meeting schedule: splinter my work into extremely small pieces, and write them down in a TODO list. These tasks must have a clear DONE/NOT DONE boundary, and shouldn't need to be revisite
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
Absolutely. To push some anecdotal evidence on top of the heap, my job has a Light side and a Dark side. When the Light side is in effect, I generally work 8-9 hours a day at my day job (basically until I feel my focus start to drift, or un
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
"API doc autogeneration; I can guarantee that if anyone came up with a default tool with default output such that "doctool module html_directory" was all you needed (and indeed people have) then there would be widespread, perfectly legitima
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by rabidgnat 17y ago
"No matter what you decide, you must take care of yourself." I second this! I've been experimenting quite a bit, and my diet and exercise patterns definitely shape my feelings about work more than the B.S. I experience per day. All of the c