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by ramanujan 17y ago
I actually am interested in seeing resumes that list more than just languages. E.g. if I see something like this Linux (GNU textutils, LDAP, ...) C/C++ (STL, Boost, gdb Archer, Cint) Emacs/Elisp (Org-mode, ESS, IPython, Haskell-mode) Python
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by ramanujan 17y ago
Sure, but now we're talking about a programmer analog of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The first trait of a manager in high tech (whether professor or product manager) has to be technical competence. That trait is not usually sufficient to b
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by ramanujan 17y ago
> Why is it that people disparage managers who don't write about code? Because it increases the probability that they don't understand what they're managing. Look at Peter Norvig or Urs Hoelzle or Jeff Dean. They are still very, very te
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One thing I noticed is that while there are quite a lot of posts on his site about "agile" and "methodology" I see basically nothing in the way of technical stuff (meaning working code) on his front page or in his tags list. Sets off my spi
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by ramanujan 17y ago
Having 11 papers at once in Science is almost unheard of (especially when they're all by the same group of authors!). It's reserved for Human Genome Project level efforts. So what's the big deal? A prof at Berkeley (Tim White) and his team
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4.4 Million Years Old, 15 Years of Work, 11 Science Papers, 1 Fossil(sciencemag.org)
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by ramanujan 17y ago
Key idea: if N people sending emails to each other are all on Gmail, then Google can keep only one copy of the email discussion and show it to all N of them. This is why gmail-to-gmail emails arrive so quickly. More generally, rather than u
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by ramanujan 17y ago
Here's the link to the org-babel documentation: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php Skimming, it appears to be the one ring of literate programming. Finally I can write a paper which includes R, python, and haskell cod
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by ramanujan 17y ago
Many programmers and entrepreneurs are bipolar or borderline. "The Bipolar Edge" is a book with some interesting research on this if you filter out some of the sensationalism. I think one of the best strategies when depressed is to text som
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This is a good paper with an empirical example of a molecule level ratchet effect, but the message here is way overstated. It is definitely NOT the case that evolution "can't go in reverse" as a categorical statement. 1) First and most im
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by ramanujan 17y ago
It's worth mentioning conkeror as well -- it's basically Firefox with emacs keybindings. You can use the mouse if you want (as training wheels) and a lot of FF plugins still work. Moreover, the .conkerorrc is in javascript rather than emacs
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by ramanujan 17y ago
I would recommend pyparsing for this. There was an excellent article on it in Python Magazine a few months ago. Some links: 1. O'Reilly mini-book on pyparsing (probably best single ref) http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514235/ 2. Quick e