vchakrav

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by vchakrav 18y ago
Oh, I was just applying the principle of the quote to itself.
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by vchakrav 18y ago
That should be -- "Perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away."
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by vchakrav 18y ago
Actually, Google does have one major challenge -- how to motivate its people. I'm not talking about fresh college graduates, but rather people who are high up in the organization because they happened to join early on. Many of these people
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by vchakrav 18y ago
By your logic, one could have seriously hampered your self confidence by suggesting that your reasoning about this is faulty, and the only reason you beat your parents at chess was because they werent very good at it. I dont mean to be comi
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by vchakrav 18y ago
Actually, not only do you want to know the number of outstanding shares, you also want to find out what kind of liquidation preferences exist for the VC's. Depending on the liquidation preferences you could end up making $0 even if the comp
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by vchakrav 18y ago
I believe that the author makes one fundamental mistake: Assuming that there is one great filter, and that its common across all civilizations. It seems to me there are a large number of filters, some of which applied (to dinosaurs, for exa
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by vchakrav 18y ago
Well, you can pay people to praise you but the reverse doesnt hold.
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by vchakrav 18y ago
Actually, its a little strange that they would do this for a spreadsheet program. Spreadsheets are, by nature functional, and would yield themselves to approaches like quickcheck. http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rjmh/QuickCheck/ It would also
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by vchakrav 18y ago
A plane?
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by vchakrav 19y ago
Funny, because Science itself is a religion. See Foundation, Part I (Asimov).
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by vchakrav 19y ago
I would say that there are two important things to consider: 1. Understanding how a compiler works without getting bogged down by programming language details - This means that you should try and look at compilers written in Standard ML or
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by vchakrav 19y ago
The best non-database solutions I have seen are: 1. Google file system, and crawler cache 2. Lucene storage