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by sofal 18y ago
This reminds me of the part in "It's a Wonderful Life" where Mr. Potter offers George Bailey a job. Anyone remember that?
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by sofal 18y ago
Hey, us family men like adventure too! We just can't live in a cardboard box in San Francisco, or pretty much anywhere in California for that matter (my wife was a clarinet major, not a lawyer). It doesn't take six figures to raise a family
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Are you angry enough? - The Bing Blog(stanleybing.blogs.fortune.cnn.com)
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by sofal 18y ago
I'm now desperately trying to decide between a master's and a PhD. I'm unsure as to whether I should take the economy into account.
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by sofal 18y ago
I had a friend try to teach me how to do it, and it still didn't work. I examined how he positioned his tongue, lips, and everything. I tried to do the same thing and nothing worked. I then spent a matter of weeks experimenting with differe
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by sofal 18y ago
How stupid our old hunter-gatherer ancestors must have been! They chose their actions based on incomplete information! It's a good thing that kind of thing has become antiquated among our intellectual upper class. A question for you: what's
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by sofal 18y ago
It looks like some people have the idea that biases are inherently bad, and they see this collection of bias patterns as a list of flaws that would not stain the judgment of the ideal human being. This is not true. Unless your ideal human b
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by sofal 18y ago
It would be hard I think to name a more irrational group of people than entrepreneurs. May we be blessed with an abundance of the more altruistic among them.
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by sofal 18y ago
"Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." - David Hume Be careful in your quest to be rational about all things. The term "rational" has no solid foundatio
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by sofal 18y ago
The catch is, you have to be really, really good at what you do in order to adopt this stance, otherwise it's just sheer overbearing arrogance. It is sheer overbearing arrogance no matter how good you are at what you do. Arrogance is not
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by sofal 18y ago
The cocky guy in the story sounds like one of those extreme "we should code it all in assembly" types. I'm not usually very impressed with the pragmatism (and therefore the technical decisions) of people like that. Of course I don't know th
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by sofal 18y ago
Reading language manuals out of the pure need to survive doesn't count.
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by sofal 18y ago
Question #1 should be: Do you have an hour?
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by sofal 18y ago
I've used Ruby for quite a while. I don't use Rails, and I haven't touched a web application in a long time. I've used it for system scripts, GUI applications (JRuby), game development, data processing, automation of MS Office applications,
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by sofal 18y ago
That's funny. I have a really hard time taking anyone seriously who fails to realize the massive shortcomings of C++ as a language.
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by sofal 18y ago
I read them because I find them entertaining, and I can even relate to a lot of the sentiments. A written piece labeled under the heading "Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants" is not intended to be a carefully crafted treatise. A drunken blog rant
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by sofal 18y ago
I used to work for a corporation whose only concern was with image. They were much happier to pay thousands of dollars to terrible software vendors simply because the vendors projected themselves as corporate-friendly "professionals" with "
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by sofal 18y ago
Yes, that is what I meant. Thanks.
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by sofal 18y ago
It does get pretty silly sometimes. There are only a few things that are "outlawed", and therefore people think that as long as they abstain from those substances, they're in total compliance with what their religion expects of them. The ro
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by sofal 18y ago
Disclaimer: I don't speak for BYU. I went to BYU. I'm sorry to hear that your friend had that kind of experience. I believe that everyone I went to school with would have considered that very intolerant and rude indeed. I hope that's far fr
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by sofal 18y ago
Sometimes the illusion of competence is the only thing you need to succeed.
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by sofal 18y ago
Related post from Jamis Buck: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006/11/10/just-say-no-to-certif...
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by sofal 18y ago
Actually UML is the only programming language allowed, so he had to code it all up in the proprietary CASE tool first and then generate the Java from that.
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by sofal 18y ago
How does "low-level" imply difficulty? Why are low-level programming tasks considered harder than tasks higher on the abstraction ladder? I don't think the difficulty of your job has anything to do with with the level of abstraction you're
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by sofal 18y ago
" You begin to suspect that a problem you are having is due to a hardware problem, where the processor is not conforming to its specification. How would you track this down? How would you prepare a bug report for the chip manufacturer, and
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by sofal 18y ago
I'm all for shifting CS education away from easily outsourced commodity skills, but Dr. Dewar goes beyond that and argues that safety-critical embedded systems is where a CS education should be focusing. I'm sure if you asked a CEO of anoth
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by sofal 18y ago
I'm tired of reading about how one person's favorite position on the abstraction continuum is the most important. Or at least I'm tired of reading that argument with nothing to back it up. Sure, CS departments may benefit from changes, but
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by sofal 18y ago
" Great fiction expands your emotional repertoire... " This is an excellent way of putting it. Good novels I've read have elicited emotions that are unique from any other life experiences I've had. I would say that expanding your emotional
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by sofal 18y ago
Be very careful about using that as a measuring stick.
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by sofal 18y ago
I don't understand how the desire to "solve the money problem" and get to the point where money is not that essential is supposedly on some higher moral plane. It's like you're saying, "Hey, we're not greedy. We just want enough money so th

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