systemizer

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by systemizer 15y ago
We developers are getting evermore control and power on the internet, which can be both a good thing and bad thing. Do we trust ourselves? Will we make the world a better place as a result of this power? I'm hesitant to answer this question
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by systemizer 15y ago
Do you really think Google could vanish? Google search has become such a necessity in internet culture today, and culture is very hard to change. Hell... "google" is a verb in the dictionary: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/googl
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by systemizer 15y ago
Apple's aggressive patent strategy is really turning me off; as it should for other people as well. I hope this is understand not only by the Tech community, but also average consumers. I don't know their claims, but given the past, this is
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by systemizer 15y ago
I agree with this, however, what constitutes a "designer?" Defining an engineer is easy: can build systems that optimize for function. Can build a UI that the user can understand to the point that the user can gain value. How do you quantif
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by systemizer 15y ago
Great post. I had this same realization not too long ago. I am a firm believer that HTML/CSS/Javascript will eventually take the role of all mobile applications in the future. While mobile applications do provide the benefits of interacting
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by systemizer 15y ago
I had a similar experience. This past Fall, I was interviewing with multiple companies, and I received questions that were very similar.... some being the same exact thing. I was nice, however, and told them out front that I had seen the pr
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by systemizer 15y ago
"...but they assume you can figure it out on your own if you need it or can apply what you've been taught in 6.00/1.00 to many scenarios and learn from that basis." But that is the problem. Most/all MIT students teach themselves how to code
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by systemizer 15y ago
I'm a student at MIT, and we would never see a course like this in the course catalog. I still haven't decided whether this is a good or bad thing, but I believe we need to find a middle ground: Do we take a theoretical approach or an imple
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JQuery 1.7 Beta 2 Released.(blog.jquery.com)
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by systemizer 15y ago
Sproter also 'created substantial developer friction,' Snyder added, because it required DBAs to write stored procedures for nearly every piece of site functionality—and created a bureaucracy developers had to go through to get functionali
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MIT Media Lab unveils (nearly) finished CityCar prototype(engadget.com)
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by systemizer 15y ago
Is this a social app? If so, you can win through the culture of the community that uses your app. Today, social is not as much about the technology or product, it is about the people that use it. For example, I use hackernews not only becau
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by systemizer 15y ago
I've had experience with both Java and Python, so I know how you feel. At MIT, most classes in CS are taught in Python for this very reason: the idiomatic-style and overly verbose syntax of Java detracts from learning pure CS logic. Sure, u
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by systemizer 15y ago
You're thinking in way too much detail here. What I proposed is such an abstract idea to interact with the internet, and you're talking about phishing attacks. Don't be so critical about crazy ideas; people who invent are only successful if
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by systemizer 15y ago
I wouldn't call this a next generation browser. What I'd like to see is a browser that eliminates the url bar. I don't know how that would be done and you'd probably lose functionality along the way, but from a UX standpoint, it sounds awes
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by systemizer 15y ago
I don't really see this as a problem. The economical downturn is an opportunity to excel. Sure, there are things you can't control like government policy, taxes, etc. But the fact that people across the board will be dealing with more probl
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by systemizer 15y ago
There are many theories out there, and this only targets one of them. For example, the multiple universes theory states that we live in multiple realities of spacetime, all of which are isolated. So time travel could be as easy as finding a
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by systemizer 15y ago
Again theoretical: you need to look at the bigger picture. If Facebook was a login service for startups, then ideally startups would have access to the social graph that facebook gives (via their api or a subscription service). So, if you g
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by systemizer 15y ago
CoffeeScript is a good tool for programmers who are first learning javascript. First-time javascript programmers oftentimes produce some nasty programming, and while it my work, there are often many problems with it. Among the list of probl
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by systemizer 15y ago
So here's one theory I believe: Facebook and other large social media companies today will evolve into universal login systems eventually. We've already seen it with "Connect with Facebook" or "Connect with Twitter" buttons, but I believe t
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by systemizer 15y ago
My problem with this is that when I see the box (e.g. Multiple Select), I perceive it as a text input. I'd be ill-surprised to discover on a site to (all of a sudden) have this protruding box appear out of nowhere. Better solution: on mouse
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by systemizer 15y ago
huzzah! http://mcqueen.mit.edu/tilt.html
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by systemizer 15y ago
I'm guessing that he built this computer based on some DIY project, which means he followed directions. In college, the most important things you learn involve not following directions. Instead its about teaching you how to "think" and foll
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Peter Diamond Withdraws from Fed Nomination(msnbc.msn.com)
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by systemizer 15y ago
I agree: piracy is a problem. But here's an even bigger problem to worry about: the government believes statisticians. I have come by so many stats that are clearly wrong, and no one (sometimes not even the government) will question the mat
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by systemizer 15y ago
In my own experience, SCRUM is only as efficient as the scrum master and product owner. For the scrum master, it takes leadership to motivate the rest of the team and provide help when there are blockers. For the product owner, it takes a h
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by systemizer 15y ago
Map/Reduce is about taking an operation that would be otherwise sequential and breaking it up into smaller, parallelized tasks. Then worker machines can concurrently process the operation. It's not about disk IO. I recommend you read the or
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Same difference. In a map-reduce framework, you don't need the workers to have multicores; they could all be single core machines. So in retrospect, it is addressing the same issue.
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by systemizer 15y ago
I completely agree with this statement. True intelligence is self-discipline, and it takes discipline to understand that you won't grow unless you try out new things. And oftentimes, these new things will make you feel uncomfortable.
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by systemizer 15y ago
12 hacks in 46 days. That's a rate of 1 hack every 3.83 days. And that means we can expect to see it get hacked again by Thursday this week. Everyone keep your eyes peeled!

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