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by rw 17y ago
So, you're saying that Google, as an employer, is a member of an equivalence class of other worthwhile employers. And, knowing the name and reputation of an employer is not enough, we also need to know what the person worked on while there.
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by rw 17y ago
How does this compare to advisor-student relationships in grad school?
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by rw 17y ago
Wasn't that what the author was getting at? The DSL for including rewrite/optimization rules in the compiler is actually accessible to the "mere mortal".
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by rw 17y ago
Would you honestly consider working at Google to be ceteris paribus equal to working at merely a "typical" software company? There is information there. Refer to what I said about false negatives versus false positives.
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by rw 17y ago
Indicates that reverse-engineering human intelligence is harder than merely understanding the brain.
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by rw 17y ago
I agree with your point that credentialism is counter to the notion of what we've been told YC is about. Yet, pg has always said that they want to see indicators of past performance and success, and working at Google is a pretty darn good o
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by rw 17y ago
Ah, was posted previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=190963 Still, an awesome analysis that traverses the code hierarchy from assembly to Haskell.
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Write Haskell as fast as C: exploiting strictness, laziness and recursion(cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au)
73 points by rw 17y ago|9 comments
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by rw 17y ago
Yet, if you look in functional programming code (e.g. Haskell, Scheme), you'll find many anonymous lambdas (that in python would be > 1 line). Why would good coders bother doing that?
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by rw 17y ago
Rule of thumb is that short term memory can hold 7 +/-2 items. ("Items" is variously defined.) Edit: if you can explain why you downvote something like this, I'm very open to hearing it.
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by rw 17y ago
If you give something a name, yet still only use it once, what's the point? It is just semantic clutter to do that (unless, of course, you can't use multiline lambdas...).
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by rw 17y ago
Between Banks and Alastair Reynolds, I think that Welsh SF has hit a great stride in the last few years. I wouldn't normally say something so vacuous but I'm compelled to: I agree with everything you said, Hast.
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by rw 17y ago
Very true in my experience: "When you take people like this and put them together with other ambitious people, they bloom like dying plants given water. Probably most ambitious people are starved for the sort of encouragement they'd get f
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by rw 17y ago
That leads to the subreddit problem.
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by rw 17y ago
I emailed something to you about this last year. Is there anything you find useful in it? http://exponentialspace.com/hn-churn.txt
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by rw 17y ago
> Any language, no matter how obscure, will have some practitioners who can read any code written in it. So you haven't seen the Malbolge language, then? http://www.lscheffer.com/malbolge.shtml
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by rw 17y ago
Google? YC is a drop in the bucket. It's a cool and potentially game-changing one, but a drop nonetheless. Edit: To be less snarky about it, this will probably interest you: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550351
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by rw 17y ago
The submitter appended a # to the URL, too, to get it to pass the dupe filter :(
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by rw 17y ago
He also invented supply!
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Free logic book: Introduction to Proof Theory (1998) (PDFs)(math.ucsd.edu)
2 points by rw 17y ago|1 comments
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by rw 17y ago
Let us know how the advice seems after you've made your money.
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by rw 17y ago
Reading the small print at the bottom, the maximum Microsoft will spend through this campaign is 1MM. I downloaded it anyway (on Ubuntu :).
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by rw 17y ago
I put Project Euler on my resume (I've completed 30% of the problems), do you consider that wise?
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by rw 17y ago
If the star is <1.5 billion years old, and the planet is expected to fall into that star in <1 million years, how did that planet have both time to form (which would have occurred far away) and to have its orbit decay?
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by rw 17y ago
From: http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Lisp/comp.lang.lisp/2004... "" Here it helps that a Lisp-2 seperates variables and functions by default. Variables are usually not important parts of an application's ontology. If they are, the co
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by rw 17y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=tl+dr
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by rw 17y ago
I, too, am basing the libraries claim on others' opinions. I quit CL because I found the system too complex to fully grok, and what 21st-century technologies I needed were not standardized (see: concurrency). I would've been stuck either a)
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by rw 17y ago
I think that going from Scheme to CL is much easier than the converse; Scheme's syntax is more straightforward (e.g. there's no #' for funcall), and there are fewer conceptual edge cases. If you use PLT Scheme, too, you get Lisp-n (not Lisp
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by rw 17y ago
This is a blatant "hey can I crowdsource my duties?" kind of question. If they suggested something and you've never heard of it, you could look it up.
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by rw 17y ago
Regarding the competition: if a competitor is doing a good job, but there are still customers out there waiting to be found, then replicating their technology and capturing that unfound part of the market would be a good idea. Try to get a

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