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by tezka 12y ago
Kathleen Fisher et al. did some exciting PL oriented research on automatic tool generation for ad hoc, semi structured data in AT&T research a while ago. Take a look at their TOPLAS and POPL papers: The next 700 data description languag
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by tezka 12y ago
"Chronic lack of exercise causes people to sleep 9+ hours per day." Citation needed.
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by tezka 12y ago
An important yet neglected aspect of surge pricing model is that it fails to correctly account for decrease in demand. As such, one can probably argue that fixed prices capture the real market better in the expectation sense.
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by tezka 12y ago
useless truism.
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by tezka 13y ago
it was funny you felt the need to post your wisdom both here and under the actual post.
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The evil engineer's guide to patents(blog.joshuafox.com)
1 points by tezka 13y ago|0 comments
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by tezka 13y ago
Have you programmed in Smalltalk? Classes tend to do a lot more (well everything that can be done) compared to C++. Smalltalk has a clean design for the core parts so these hang together pretty well. Nonetheless, inheritance hierarchies are
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by tezka 13y ago
"Please refrain from feeding RT students. We are NOT monkeys." The sign on the real-time lab's window used to read.
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by tezka 13y ago
sorry to say this, but this is exactly why MG is dangerous for the society. Because people start perpetuating myths and fictions passed to them in entertaining tone as facts. They start narrating them to kids and gradually turn them into co
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by tezka 13y ago
you and others are ignoring the fact that the guy has been rejected more than a dozen times at technical interviews. He has demonstrated an inability to pass what's the bare minimum: basic programming, algorithms and data structure. If
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by tezka 13y ago
The bar for passing technical interviews is pretty low. All you need to do is to get reasonably competent in one or two mainstream programming languages (I emphasize reasonably, you definitely don't need expert knowledge), say Java or
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by tezka 13y ago
Another Relevant anecdote: I personally prototyped a complex data transformation in Clojure in about a week. I then had to re-implement it in C++ which took about three more weeks, but was actually able to perform near to the speed of the s
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by tezka 13y ago
because you probably don't know what to look at after all. Look at the predicated type declarations for example. It's a language with concepts built in.
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by tezka 13y ago
Facebook works for me very well because I don't quite use the news feed as a social networking feed. I have changed its push model to a pull model. That means, I have pretty much hidden all of my friends and use the news feed to only read u
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How Ontario plans to become the world’s top technology hub (venturebeat.com)
1 points by tezka 13y ago|0 comments
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by tezka 13y ago
knowing these are not going to guarantee good performance. But not knowing them is a clear indication of incompetence. A programmer who doesn't know basic algorithms and data structure is a bad programmer.
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by tezka 13y ago
" you're describing girls who want to get into a field full of cool people." No I am not. And you are grossly oversimplifying the process typically involved in vocational decision making. Seldom people go to a field based on pure passion, w
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by tezka 13y ago
"I agree that female teenage culture has a lot to answer for in dissuading girls from studying technical subjects" such as what? sounds like blaming the victim. Female teenage culture may happen to be just fine, and the techie culture is wh
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by tezka 13y ago
it's not quite a good analogy. Hermes bag is related to fashion. Starwars in unrelated to computer science.
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by tezka 13y ago
well, maybe the big part of what kills women's interest in programming/CS is the unnecessary nerdiness that comes attached with it. As if watching starwars or Dr. who or reading marvel comics is essentially related to competency in CS. Note
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by tezka 13y ago
"Someone's physicality (Let's move on from just thinking about sports only) can/does have relevance to someone's aptitude for CS, or, their ability to do well." citation needed.
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by tezka 13y ago
it doesn't matter what you saw there. the point of TFA is there are many equally (if not more) hardworking candidates that don't find their ways to these schools because of existing prejudices and non-transparent admission policies.
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by tezka 14y ago
no you shouldnt. look at any medical science, exercise physiology, psychology etc. papers. All you see is data gathering and basic statistic analysis (anova, t-test etc.). Basic stats is what they teach at the undergraduate level to scienti
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by tezka 14y ago
you use R?
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by tezka 14y ago
He is totally right and I have seen many many examples of it in grad school. The fact is, US's quantitative GRE is a joke even for mid-high school students in other countries. I take it that he says to become a good scientist in many fields
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by tezka 14y ago
full of crap. It sounds like when an office clerk in a publisher house demands abandoning latin words, puns, ironies figures of speech etc. because he is too dumb to use them properly. There are poets and there are mba-style bullshit writer
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by tezka 14y ago
it's a shortcut to learn basic network programming with sockets, without spending too much time on it. Anyone more than casually serious about it should consider looking at Richard Stevens books, Unix network programming and TCP/IP illustra
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by tezka 14y ago
what makes this stuff seem "high-performance" TCP to you? This is standard socket programming. High performance TCP server is when you actually roll out your own TCP stack.
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by tezka 14y ago
Felt like expanding a bit more: Note that this is a result of evolution in the language: What's referred to as modern style of C++ that has emerged from the works of people involved in the STL/boost tradition and for the large part informed
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by tezka 14y ago
none of the posts I read here mentioned the true advantage of C++ over other languages: It's the only language that offers enough flexibility to write 1) generic, 2) correct and 3) efficient code. With C you get only 3. With Haskell you ge

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