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by tom_b 16y ago
Just FYI . . . I work in a spot between clinical patient treatment and research (genomics and patient clinical trials). So I know something about EMRs from the day job . . . The biggest challenges I run into are quite similar to challenges
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Sure. Pausch had a connection to Fred Brooks, who founded and built the CS program at UNC-CH. And Brooks was on Azuma's (the article's author) committee.
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The statement that stands out most to me: "the group of people with a little bit of knowledge (likely due to ad hoc experimentation and intuition based on previous familiarity with another programming language or Unix culture or just copy a
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I'm guessing that programmer productivity research boils down to a bias against qualitative research. Most "pure" CS researchers (or software engineering for that matter) probably have backgrounds where qualitative studies don't score you
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Curiously, nothing more specific about data availability than "registration will open in 2011, after the launch of the Prize." Also, the competition is expected to run for approximately two years. They will require teams " . . . to be boun
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hristov is dismissing the point of the article rather than missing it. CS higher education is faced with deep challenges (not least of which is the continuing argument of how much CS should be software-engineering oriented). Ignoring thos
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It's carrying the large library around that appeals most to me. I'm attempting to solve the space issues around having many tech books around. So far, I find the Pragmatic and O'Reilly ebooks to be pretty nice on Kindle. Code examples don
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I started as a performance software person, from memory and cache conscious algorithm design in grad school, to network stack testing, to web server/db server/client-side performance testing and optimization. It is an excellent way to de
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CTM is fascinating to me. It was my first real exposure to the ideas of including different paradigms in a single language as appropriate. I seriously considered quitting my job or taking a leave so that I could spend a couple of months
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The link should probably be to: http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2010/11/tackling-large-scale-da... which is the full description.
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You know, you're right. Probably a sign of spending more time on HN and peeking around my local community of devs that reflection of a larger trend. A quick look around found that Java, C++, C#, javascript, and perl (?) are big in job list
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I think (hope?) that the next wave in hacking will be understanding programming paradigms better as hackers - the specifics of language choice will probably matter a little less. I like the idea of languages that support multiple paradigms
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Careful. What you say is somewhat true. But that side project/job doing what you really love is going to be increasingly starved for time. You may want to have a family or friends or hike or read or learn to play piano at some point. Yo
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Hi, I was lucky enough to be attend both days of the event and thought the talks about NOT using macros were some of the most interesting. As a total Clojure newbie with minimal Lisp chops, I liked hearing the "good vs bad" stories from Chr
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I'm also in NC and agree with the above. The following comments reflect what I hear/know about compensation in RTP. In general, I've heard very little buzz about jobs in the $120K to $150k range here that are permanent positions. The few I
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+1 for the comment "in a multi-billion dollar company, a $10 Million dollar/year new product line doesn’t even move the needle." I actually saw projects with 7 digit profits canceled because they were not viewed as growth opportunities for
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Raising (and properly training) a dog is wonderful opportunity for the trainer. You'll practice patience, creativity, empathy, and the value of having a long-term plan. These are maybe not bad skills to develop as a hacker or startup fo
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Any recommendations on PC based simulator setups?
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Seconded. Hard, scary math is well worth the effort even if you never, ever, use any of it professionally as a programmer in a direct way. You'll be forced to stretch yourself and get used to the idea and the time involved in working on h
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Link to the proposed SEC rule: http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed.shtml Look for 33-9117.pdf Interesting questions based on my reading from the pdf (see excerpt below, italics by me): If it's not currently practical to evaluate an investm
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um. Users (non institutional investors?) will download a program with the asset backed security information in a separate XML file, use that file to perform their own analysis of the possible performance and cash flow (called the waterfall
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I'd actually love to see more jobs that offered the opportunity to work with a small base salary but increased compensation levels based on measurable results. I'm really curious about non-startup work models that would encourage this. So
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As a gradually reforming software performance engineer, I spent a lot of time discovering type 2 items off in enterprise software. I think your background is similar. What is more amazing, is I think a number of projects I worked on as a p
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Not seriously. I like coding. But when I don't get to do it . . . I go a little nuts and have had thoughts about just getting out. This is usually related to poor working environment fit for my personality and personal goals. I think it
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To expand on this comment, I strongly feel that without deep domain-specific knowledge, new software engineers will mostly windup in IT dev/support roles in enterprise software shops - a tenuous choice for a long and satisfying career. For
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Ask HN: Hacking for the career, PhD for the fun stuff?
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Run for the hills. Take the first job you can get doing real work. You'll make yourself crazy otherwise. I'm at the point where I've had some good jobs and some bad ones. In every single one of the bad ones, I could tell you exactly the s
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I think it could make a difference. As a long time hacker (and BS/MS of CS degree holder), I think there are tremendous academic/"real world" disconnects between understanding the paradigms of programming languages, choosing appropriate i
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Don't forget - most companies that are interested in reporting this way probably already have an internal team tasked with this job. You need to market your services to high level decision makers and be adroit at negotiating the murky water
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I think about making a similar move all the time - every company out there has bits of data in different systems that need to be pulled together without a multi-million $$ business intelligence effort. If I was making a change in this direc

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