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1171.
by strlen 18y ago
One interesting tactic that we had at Yahoo and have adopted at a start-up (which includes several ex-Yahoos) is the "stand-up meeting", where the idea is that we all stand (as not to be comfortable and not have the meeting drag on for hour
1172.
by strlen 18y ago
Bruce Eckel's _Thinking in Java_ (available free online, just as are his C++, Design Patterns and .NET books) is excellent, combined with just API references.
1173.
by strlen 18y ago
The discussion of epoll/select does talk about the event-driven scenario and there's the discussion of simplest web browser (one procession for all connections). Memcached is one example of a purely event driven application. Another example
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by strlen 18y ago
There's plausible elements of religion being an element in #8 The Soviet regime also did have a great amount of Nationalism built into it as well. The people who are also in the "religion kills" camp will also argue (and not without good ar
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by strlen 18y ago
This should be geographically equalized, but I can see there are still going to be outliers. Erlang, Ruby, Perl and Python are more desired in Silicon Valley than in Mid-West (and yes, this is a pure speculation on my behalf) while C and C+
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by strlen 18y ago
Should be a mandatory read for anyone who wants to talk about "scaling". There's lot of armchair discussion of this topic from people who have never looked at UNIX networking from a below-the-surface level (or don't even know about select()
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by strlen 18y ago
There isn't any pain. Best of all it's easy to setup hadoop on a single machine, or two machines here and there and then them into a large cluster: Here's a good tutorial that may help: http://www.michael-noll.com/wiki/Running_Hadoop_On_Ub
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by strlen 18y ago
Interesting article. I like the optparse example, I've always implemented these (Object oriented wrappers for getopt/Getopt::Opt) by hand in Perl (and re-wrote the code every time I went to a different company). I find it much easier to use
1179.
by strlen 18y ago
Move when you need to take advantage of something only SV (or other start-up hubs) have to offer. For now, use Amsterdam (cheap, existing network) to your advantage.
1180.
by strlen 18y ago
Depends on what you're going to use. Cygwin makes it easy. Using ActiveState + Native Win32 MySQL is going to be painful (I didn't have much success getting DBI/DBD::MySQL working in that environment, but that was a few years back).
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by strlen 18y ago
Setup the distro you'd like to run in production in vmware. Learn from there. Set this up in production. Fully understand that running your own server means carrying a pager (or your cell phone with SMS as a pager).
1182.
by strlen 18y ago
My undergraduate degree is in Computer Science, which at the time I attended the university was (if one was doing their degree in the College of Arts and Sciences vs. School of Engineering) in the math department. In the end I ended up goi
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by strlen 18y ago
Seconded. Moving from San Jose to Mountain View had been an enormous increase in quality of life. I'd leave Castro Street second only to Shattuck Avenue (in Berkeley) in terms of affordable, excellent ethnic cuisine. There's even a used bo
1184.
by strlen 18y ago
Two reasons: FUD and the fact that women are more rational (as someone said "more sensible"). Purely statistically speaking, you are more likely to do work that's both interesting and well paid if you go into medicine versus software engine
1185.
by strlen 18y ago
Yes. Much of what provigil and stimulants do is put you in a state where your body uses up more of your available energy (hence the weight loss aspect of them). This may be a totally illiterate statement, but generally speaking any substanc
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by strlen 18y ago
I can never quite concentrate in class: best thing I could do is carry a laptop and take notes on it, hoping to review them later, read the textbook and make use of all resources available to me. As far as concentrating on work/hacking, the
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by strlen 18y ago
emacs, but it isn't really an IDE I've used IntelliJ a few times as well. There is a lot that that it does that could be implemented on top of emacs. Had there been an attempt to build a 3G/4G ide on top of emacs (Intelligent completion, "q
1188.
by strlen 19y ago
<blockquote type="cite"> If you don't think you're smart enough to start a startup doing something technically difficult, just write enterprise software. Enterprise software companies aren't technology companies, they're sales compa
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by strlen 19y ago
enterprise can benefit greatly from smartness (which is why vmware is such a success story). but more than just a smart idea, enterprise requires perseverance and a longer term commitment (you can't just quickly build a site and see if it f
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by strlen 19y ago
You need contacts, but you don't need to market your business (or hope your business becomes viral). You can get contacts by starting off doing consulting work. You'd only need to hire (or have as a co-founder) a business/sales person, you
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by strlen 19y ago
It's definitely true, but most important is the last paragraph at the end. The best example is building enterprise vs. consumer applications. If you'd like a safe way to get rich off a start-up, creating a consulting gig doing something "e
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by strlen 19y ago
I've lost over 50-60 lbs since last year. Bulk of it (30-40 lbs) was within ~5 months. The way I did it was mostly through exercise: at the peak, I was doing an hour of cardio a day, 5-7 days a week. I began (in December of 2006/January of