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by russell 16y ago
>> When they do discover that CS isn't for them, they will be stuck with the ability to write scripts and analyze data. >> With all due concern for not wasting students' time, this is a problem we in CS should willingly acce
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by russell 16y ago
For stupidity, if nothing else. I trust everyone here knows that employers regularly install tracking software. And I also trust that you wont do it to your own employees.
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by russell 16y ago
Keep on hacking.
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by russell 16y ago
I'm with you there. If I need any Photoshopping for personal projects, I have my GF do it. She's a painter, photographer, and Photoshop heavyweight. In return I do the dishes, which I find much more satisfying.
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by russell 16y ago
I can't comment about middle America banking, but this was definitely NOT the case in Silicon Valley. People who became programmers were extremely bright and a very diverse lot. A significant number were accomplished musicians. A lot fro
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by russell 16y ago
Go for it. http://www.longbets.org/
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by russell 16y ago
Well it isn't discrimination anymore. I didn't read that part; I accept their conclusions. They have three conclusions: girls like people, boys like things; females are under-represented in the high end of the ability distribution; and w
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by russell 16y ago
In a hyphenated word Sarbanes-Oxley. This makes it so difficult to go public that that exit strategy is closed for most startups. Acquisition is about the only way to go. When I was privy to some discussions about going public half a dec
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by russell 16y ago
I recently bought a messenger bag. Does that make me an alpha male or a sissy? But I have learned by personal experience how women accumulate all that crap ion their purses.
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by russell 16y ago
I did some consulting a while back for a manufacturer that sold the home page on the default browser for $150M. It is indeed real money.
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by russell 16y ago
This seems to be a not rare occurrence around the phase boundaries of functions. I had a similar problem with the atan2 function in the PL/I - Fortran library on the CDC 6600. One of my testers was stepping across the boundary between val
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by russell 16y ago
RFPs are written by people you never met, were negotiated by people you barely know. Coding standards likewise. If you do something smart, the auditor or whomever will piss on your boss, who will kindly (or not so) tell you to quit making
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by russell 16y ago
Anyone got a college deferment, but were drafted afterward unless they were in an essential occupation, which did not exempt doctors, lawyers, and most professions. One way to get out of ground combat was to volunteer for the Navy or Air F
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by russell 16y ago
One good rule of thumb is that a transforming technology was in existence 15-20 years before it became revolutionary. Applying that to this list: 1. Machine translation already exists and is getting better. Will it be ubiquitous? Unlikely.
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by russell 16y ago
Google already has self driving cars that can safely navigate city traffic. I would say that 20 years is plenty of time to resolve the remaining technical and social issues.
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by russell 16y ago
Wishful thinking. Having the draft did not keep us out of Vietnam (or the escalation). Eighteen yearolds have no influence on military policy and their parents buy the patriotic fervor. I am thankful that we dont have the draft and my so
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by russell 16y ago
I agree with you, yoyar, but the use of fascism is so overloaded with historical emotion that it weakens your argument. Corporatism != fascism. Fascism adds to corporatism religious intolerance, racism, denial of freedom of expression, de
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by russell 16y ago
The langpop link is interesting because it does an analysis by source. If you are familiar with Craigslist, you can see some of the problems with the methodologies. The SF Bay Area is heavily into web development, so PHP is no surprise.
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by russell 16y ago
OK kids, quit the bellyaching. There is only one way to get a USB cable wrong, even if you get it wrong 90% of the time. Remember the PS2. It came with round DIN connectors. There was only one right way to plug it in, but an indefinite
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by russell 16y ago
As I said in a comment yesterday, go to the author's web site or to his/her university/lab/corp. There is usually a prepublication or slightly different version.
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by russell 16y ago
Go to the author's/university/lab website. You will usually find a pre-publication version or a closely related paper, months to years ahead of the actual publication. Some of the stuff you find isnt very good (too narrow, for example) bu
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by russell 16y ago
The Drake Equation has so many fuzzy unknowns that you cant get meaningful information out of it, if rephrased right we could get some meaning variables to play with. If we want to know if there are possible communication partners right no
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by russell 16y ago
I'll share my secret for getting past HR. I have been consulting for the past 30 years, so I get to job hunt more frequently than most of you. I have a good resume, but I am older than most of you and I run into age bias in small startups
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by russell 16y ago
From a comment: >>> Collecting police badges is a popular hobby for many policemen and they didn't want to have to stop. They rate their hobbies above the safety of the public. I guess this is nothing compared to all the other
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by russell 16y ago
You think you're joking. I remember having to use a $5000 box of real fan fold vellum to print a short document as specified by some govt contract or other.
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by russell 16y ago
My Dr is always 2 or more hours late, so I came to an understanding with her staff. I always ask for the last appointment of the day, get an ETA from the receptionist, and usually show up half an hour after that, say 7pm for a 5:30 appoint
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by russell 16y ago
Just to pick a nit or two on graduation rates: Harvard 97%,MIT 93%, CalTech 86%. That's not really indicative of a high drop out rate because they feel the school is too hard. Gates dropped out to become an entrepreneur, hurting the grad
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by russell 16y ago
I read quite a bit about measurable programmer productivity in the 90's because it was an interest of mine. Basicly the studies were worthless. Professional programmers were too expensive, so CS undergraduates were used. As you can imagi
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by russell 16y ago
Typical think tank thinking: make an outrageous statement; lots of contracts if you are right; no one remembers if you are wrong. There is so much political and economic damage to be done that the euro wont be allowed to tank. Restructuri
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by russell 16y ago
Hey, I did. In the cockpit. Well, OK, it wasnt a full-blown Concorde. It was an engine flight simulator at Rolls Royce in Bristol, England. (They made the engines.) Two of us from Control Data were installing software for a month at Ro

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