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by rw 15y ago
I strongly recommend both of these: * The Practice Of Programming (co-authored by the 'K' in C's K&R) * Code Complete 2
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by rw 15y ago
What does yahoo do? Google does search. Microsoft does consumer and enterprise software. Apple does hardware & consumer software... but Yahoo? Do they 'do' news? Not really. Finance? Kinda. Distributed computing? Yes, but they don't m
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by rw 15y ago
tarsnap
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by rw 15y ago
Exceptional link, could stand on its own. Thanks!
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by rw 16y ago
Many companies manage their small clusters mostly by hand, even if they know there should be a better way. You just showed me one better way--thanks!
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by rw 16y ago
A task list should enhance your productivity by offloading bookkeeping. That's it. If you need people to yell at you (as the OP says) to determine priority, you are probably working in a painful and interrupt-driven way. Here's my method (f
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by rw 16y ago
Source or object code? The article doesn't specify.
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by rw 16y ago
If he could learn to care less (for comparison, he should not try to read all of Twitter), then Facebook would not present such a problem.
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Buffering in UNIX Standard Streams(pixelbeat.org)
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by rw 16y ago
No. randomwalker's point is that every branch must be proved to be a win. >> "it would require devoting more computing resources than the planet has for a pretty significant amount of time" This is also incorrect. As mentioned in ot
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by rw 16y ago
Even more than that, there's the whole hustle element to good hacking. That hustler + hacker combination is how you get amazing things done. (Shall we call them... the haxlers?)
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The Limits of Pain - Irukandji Syndrome(godheadv.blogspot.com)
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by rw 16y ago
Irony: it is articles like this that keep me coming back to HN.
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CMU Snake Robot Climbs Trees(youtube.com)
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2010 Fields Medal Awarded(icm2010.in)
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by rw 16y ago
I recommend against studying CS in college unless you think the school has a really stellar program. Since the OP is self-taught already, he can keep his software development hobby+job, while officially studying math or econ in school. That
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by rw 16y ago
In Scheme (vs. Common Lisp) sequence operations are typically defined in terms of cdr, which operates on [singly-linked] lists.
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by rw 16y ago
Definitely check out his other essays too!
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Detailed guide to mechanical keyboards (switch types, hysteresis graphs, etc)(overclock.net)
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LHC: Are We There Yet?(symmetrymagazine.org)
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"Bionic Cat": cat with 4 bionic legs(hackaday.com)
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by rw 16y ago
How does Digg differentiate itself from Reddit?
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LHC Beam Status: updates every 10 seconds(op-webtools.web.cern.ch)
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A fraction too much friction [at absolute zero] causes physics fisticuffs(arstechnica.com)
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by rw 16y ago
Apostrophe injection attacks are very bad in Scheme.
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by rw 16y ago
P.S. Terry Tao posted a comment on the OP. Worth a read.
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by rw 16y ago
The "AI API" is the dream application. Just imagine: you get to implement (and even discover) cutting-edge prediction algorithms, make them scale, and expose them via your protocol-of-choice. No frontends to write, no Joe Luser to support,
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by rw 16y ago
For more on that, you might enjoy Charlie Stross' "Accelerando": he discusses lots of awesome singularity topics, including so-called Economics 2.0. He posts on HN as cstross.
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by rw 16y ago
With Vimium, press f-S-E and you're there. Not as good as one keystroke, but better than using the mouse!
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by rw 17y ago
"Everyone generalizes from one example. At least, I do."

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