smanek

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by smanek 16y ago
Yes! It's amazingly hard to do inheritance right. As a rule of thumb, if you can't prove that the inheritance doesn't violate the Liskov substitution principle, you shouldn't be allowed to do it. (It amazes me how many java 'programmers' ha
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by smanek 16y ago
Yes, Java 7 finally will fix this bug (which is 7 years old!). The fact that good IDEs can work around this bug, doesn't mean Java sucks any less for it though. I have similar issues with syntax for anonymous classes (which you need a lot
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by smanek 16y ago
- It is just barely object oriented (and Alan Kay agrees with me on this). Checkout CLOS and the MOP or Smalltalk sometime for a good object system. - No. Java has a complex syntax. Take a look at the grammar sometime. It's 10s of times l
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by smanek 16y ago
Most of my work these days is Java too, fwiw. But only because I need Lucene and Hadoop ;-) The main bad habit is a gross overuse of patterns to compensate for language stupidity (see: http://norvig.com/design-patterns/ ). A few particular
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by smanek 16y ago
As someone who rather dislikes Java, I'd still tell others to learn it (but certainly not as their first or even second language - it teaches too many bad habits). The main reason would simply be that a lot of interesting problems require t
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by smanek 16y ago
http://www.backupify.com/
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by smanek 16y ago
Everyone will eventually die anyway. And your reasons can just as easily be turned around. Why work hard to win at WoW? Cause you want to. Cause it is your dream. Cause you ever [sic] wanted to be lvl 80. etc. If your 'argument' applies e
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by smanek 16y ago
IIRC, that's when he just bought the mansion (which has long since been nearly destroyed from neglect [1]). Here's a more recent picture of his home office - which looks relatively cluttered: http://allaboutstevejobs.com/pics/life/2004-200
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by smanek 16y ago
As a rule of thumb, investment banks will charge about 7% of the value of a stock issue for an IPO. So, for comparison a ~$1B IPO (which this round was comparable too) would have earned a bank about $70M in fees. By that metric, only paying
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by smanek 16y ago
I know people who would think that is good ... (Based on the fact that they think flash pages with intro animations are good, because they 'clearly take more work, and are so much more unique.').
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by smanek 16y ago
Just use UUIDs and be done with it. I'll give you a $1 if you ever see a collision ;-)
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by smanek 16y ago
Harvard doesn't use RateMyProf much (there is an internal rating system called the 'q guide'). Chosen at random, his 2009 CS61 class has generally very positive reviews (see: http://imgur.com/cSWsq.png ).
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by smanek 16y ago
FWIW, I sat in on some of his lectures on distributed sensor networks and thought he was great. Even if he wasn't, he gave up his tenured faculty position to hack full time at Google (IIRC, less than a year after getting tenure). See http:
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by smanek 16y ago
Yeah, but an employee might get 'laid off' (and have to look for a new job) at most, say once every 3 years. It's possible it could be more often, but over the course of your career the average probably doesn't exceed once every 3 years (un
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by smanek 16y ago
I agree - an overall great post. But to add another nitpick, do you mean anachronism where you say asynchronism?
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by smanek 16y ago
One would expect serious business customers will move up to Band 4 [$3K+] and the job of Macintosh and VLC is to migrate the remaining Band 3 [$1500-$3K] customers down to Band 2 [<$1500], leaving Band 3 manufacturers out in the cold!!
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by smanek 16y ago
Sure it does. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particle#Pair_productio... (for a particularly cool consequence see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casmir_effect )
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by smanek 16y ago
Peter Thiel (the 'don' of the paypal mafia) was the first outside investor, to the best of my knowledge. He is still a very active and respected angel. Diluting Eduardo Saverin was almost certainly Zuckerberg's doing (or at least he didn't
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by smanek 16y ago
It seems like someone did do them! Obvious examples include: 1. basecamp/fogbugz/jira 2. Confluence/Sharepoint 3. django/rails 4. Google Docs 5. Facebook
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by smanek 16y ago
Given the scale of Wikipedia, the fact that they can run it on only $10M/year is rather impressive. Glancing at the docs you reference, roughly $6M of their spending goes to straight operating expenses (servers, bandwidth, travel, etc). I d
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by smanek 16y ago
Scientists aren't rich, but the ones I've worked with (quite a few) all made considerably more than 75K. Other than postdocs (which is a temporary state), when do scientists make under 75K? Any tenure track prof at a decent/big university o
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by smanek 16y ago
Clickable Link: https://www.23andme.com/store Original Source: http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=2412731 Killed post to original source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1937634
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23andMe (personal DNA testing) $99 Sale (normal price is $500)
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by smanek 16y ago
Doh, didn't realize that! Ah well, I guess I'm only getting basic :-( I don't even have a project underhand now, I just figure it will be useful for the future. For other people on the fence, I'd suggest getting this now while you still can
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by smanek 16y ago
That's like saying integers are an optional thing, and it's no big deal if your programming language doesn't have them. True, they aren't necessary (look at peano arith or pure lambda calc) - but it sure makes things a lot easier. It's much
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by smanek 16y ago
If they bought the bonds from the treasury instead of the market, the newly printed money would be in the hands of the treasury. They want it in the hands of the private sector - which makes sense.
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by smanek 16y ago
I could be wrong, but I seem to have noticed that articles with a high comment to upvote ratio fall off the top more quickly. If that's true, it may be the case in those articles.
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by smanek 16y ago
FWIW, I think subsidizing students based on gender is just as disgusting.
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by smanek 16y ago
I'd hesitate about MongoDB - I'm not aware of a mature Mongo-backed ORM, for starters. Personally, I like http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/postmodern/ .
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by smanek 16y ago
Don't take the money. To do otherwise is saying you should choose to get paid to be sexist.

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