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by strlen 14y ago
Facebook, Google, and Twitter certainly hire/make offers to hire individuals without degree. I know folks that are greatly respected at all three that fit that bill: Wayne Rosing is a famous example. These companies also can't afford to mak
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by strlen 14y ago
For what it's worth, Cornell is the only Ivy League school amongst the top-10 for CS. That said, there is still a strong reason to consider a private university (even if they are not in the top 10 for CS, but are still amongst the top 25).
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by strlen 14y ago
Few things: * Existence of tools beyond Map/Reduce in use at Google, does not imply that Map/Reduce's "days are numbered." Map/Reduce is still enormously useful for many tasks even when other approaches (BSP, traditional distributed RDBMS t
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by strlen 14y ago
Learn Java first before learning other JVM languages: one of their strengths is interoperability with Java libraries. If you want to learn functional programming _for its own sake_, learn Scheme (Little Schemer, SICP, Seasoned Schemer) , ML
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by strlen 14y ago
[ Short on sleep, so the post may sleep incoherent. Excusing myself from any egregious offenses against the English language ] I read this in its entirety, unable to go to bed before finishing. This is amazing. I'll admit that I started out
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by strlen 14y ago
Well, most students these days still would not have been exposed to lambda calculus in high school: I'd wager that most students who played with Lisp/Scheme in high school wrote imperative code (taking advantage of mutable cons cells and lo
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by strlen 14y ago
Not necessarily: there are ways to build high rise buildings in such an environment. It also isn't hypothetical: San Francisco skyscrapers are some of the safest places to be during an earthquake. See also Taipei 101 -- designed to withstan
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by strlen 14y ago
Brilliance: "Activities and Societies: NKVD"
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by strlen 14y ago
Lock free algorithms still use primitives like memory barriers. A memory barrier in a shared memory system is expensive, but not nearly as difficult as a memory barrier in a distributed system. Additionally, distributed systems not only exp
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by strlen 14y ago
Check out the Richmond, Sunset, or Glen Park neighbourhoods. There's more to San Francisco than SOMA. Also see Berkeley, or Temescal District in Oakland. Likewise, check out Mountain View, Cupertino, or Saratoga: suburban and safe, relative
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by strlen 14y ago
> Unfortunately tons of firms put a huge value in this. Try getting a high level rockstar-ninja-badass (lol) engineer job, especially at a bay area startup, without some sort of pedigree from a named institution. Its bullshit, but reali
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by strlen 14y ago
I don't know about Bill Gates, but several of the people mentioned (e.g., CEO of Jetblue) have clinical diagnoses and would not have been able to be where they are without understanding their conditions.
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by strlen 14y ago
> You're getting downvoted, but not being told why. That's also a great way to describe the social aspects of mild[1] Asperger's: afflicted individuals are ignored, bullied, and excluded. No one tells them why this is happening, the
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by strlen 14y ago
As cynicalkane said, you say this because you haven't met people who are very serious affected by these illnesses. These people will greatly disagree with you: yes, they are interesting and clever, but they do _suffer_ from their affliction
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by strlen 14y ago
Tokutek uses Fractal Trees which have several SSD-friendly properties: http://www.tokutek.com/ . Unfortunately, I don't have any first hand experience with it. If you want an interesting challenge, you could also try implementing a MySQL s
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by strlen 14y ago
> My girlfriend is in the medical profession. Ask your girlfriend about her rotations (where students literally cry after being screamed at while working insane hours), MCATs, and how difficult it is to get into any medical school. Jo
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by strlen 14y ago
Some bit-twiddling questions are a fair game to ask even for folks who haven't done low-level C and C++. Asking esoterica from Hacker's Delight (an excellent book, by the way, but in no way a source of interview questions), is not, but I do
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by strlen 14y ago
The other interesting part about Pinterest is that they mostly gained traction outside of the traditional early adopter segments. Not sure any what's the right way to value this kind of company: obviously if it was an established public com
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by strlen 14y ago
Very curious to what kind of code he has written: was it a part of his judicial duties, on his own?
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by strlen 14y ago
I don't think this true: despite all talk of elitism, CS classes at universities like Stanford are actually more diverse than technology companies.
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by strlen 14y ago
On the other hand, the average SAT score at Harvard in 1950 was much lower than the average SAT score today (adjusted for SAT re-calibration as well). Grade inflation also applies mostly to non-STEM majors. Average GPA for EECS at many of t
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by strlen 14y ago
Not to mention this is standard boilerplate: it's not even listed as a hard requirement (should have, not must have). If someone is deterred from as much as submitting a resume because they don't have one of the "Desired Skills", odds are t
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by strlen 14y ago
[Disclosure: I work at fb] There is no dress code for people who come to interview for a job at Facebook. I am curious, was something vaguely worded in an email you've received? Please let me know. I came in in jeans, t-shirt, and a sweat-s
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by strlen 14y ago
Couple of things: If a furniture company is unable to function without having an in-house fleet of trucks (as opposed to outsourcing it to a transportation company and/or contracted drivers), then they are really a logistics and transportat
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by strlen 14y ago
Yes, there is indeed a shortage of strong developers (especially in certain niches like infrastructure, mobile, or machine learning). It also impacts big companies and not just startups. Startups also do experience a higher degree (usually
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by strlen 14y ago
Made the edits you've suggested and a few more. Thanks! That said (and I think we agree on this), it doesn't invalidate my argument (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque ). The grammatical mistakes I made did distract from the poin
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by strlen 14y ago
Good point: I'll go through and do a second round of proofreading. That said, there's a different standard for blog posts as opposed to comments. The few posts on my own blog take took several days to write and edit.
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by strlen 14y ago
Hi, here are a few bits of advice based on your current and previous posts. First, please make sure to proof read your posts and find a few folks who are willing to help you do so: ability to write well counts a great deal ( especially if
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by strlen 14y ago
I entirely agree with raganwald's point point: language trivia is useless. I'd go further and say if someone knows actually knows C, and has a grasp of using OO in a way that's not painful for others working with them (prefer composition ov
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by strlen 14y ago
There are rather basic (producer/consume queues) and as some have pointed out, are buggy. I'd highly suggest looking at Boost's threading library (for an example of an object oriented approach to threading, taking advantage of RAII -- much

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