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by vph 14y ago
Oh, he deserves a second chance. Just go ahead and stand in line, after those who have been doing their work honestly and still waiting for their first chances to come.
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by vph 14y ago
Final exam at the end of January? It's the right thing they boycotted, alright?
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by vph 14y ago
considering Bootstrap threatens the livelihood of many mediocre designers, this type of advise is understandable.
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by vph 14y ago
yes. This is a curious decision.
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by vph 14y ago
obvious question: how is this compared to Redis?
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by vph 14y ago
I don't think college was your biggest mistake. College is just an experience, and unfortunately sometimes it doesn't work out for some, you in particular. Your biggest mistake was not to quit when it was very clear that it didn't work ou
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by vph 14y ago
Call it depression or fragile mind or mental health. Whatever you call, it's probably the main factor. Truth is he has a girl friend. He wasn't starving. It wasn't clear if he would be found guilty. Even if he would be found guilty, go t
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by vph 14y ago
>I just think that being successful in a modern society requires a broader understanding of humanity and people, and the liberal arts and humanities are important ingredients This is what many of us subscribe to. Logical intelligence i
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by vph 14y ago
Teaching colleges of course take teaching seriously. Research universities place higher importance in research, but do take teaching also seriously simply because undergraduate tuition contributes to a big chunk of their revenue. >But
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by vph 14y ago
The author doesn't get what Bill Gates is saying. I doubt if Bill is naive enough not to understand what the model of measurement is important and never 100% objective. Bill is saying (1) teachers' performance needs to be measured; and (2
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by vph 14y ago
> I had to switch languages for a job in 2002, and I didn't deeply follow the web framework discussion in Python for quite some time Good Lord. This is like 11 years ago?
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by vph 14y ago
the reason why not many people know who Markov is is that sometimes he is hidden. And a hidden markov can be quite elusive.
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by vph 14y ago
The quote has lots of zing to it, but it ain't true. What it says essentially is that progress is an outcome of revolution. While revolution leads to big changes, progress is a product of evolution. And evolution has to be done in "reas
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by vph 14y ago
You are sounding as though in order to be creative one must break the laws.
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by vph 14y ago
Even if the prosecution could prove he's guilty, the sentence will be decided by a judge. There are cases in similar spirits to this case when someone knowingly commits an illegal act for a just cause. In these cases, even if they could
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by vph 14y ago
Seriously, the only tip for learning how to program is jumping in and just do it. That's it. You will figure out how to learn programming by doing that; and may be some day, you will write blog posts giving tips on how to learn programmin
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by vph 14y ago
Not only does he have a history of disobedience but also a history of unstable mental health. Frankly, you can't break the law even with just cause, kill yourself for being prosecuted, and blame the government for prosecuting you. Although
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by vph 14y ago
But that's the truth. He is pointing out that 6 month in jail is not 35 years in prison as portrayed by many sources.
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by vph 14y ago
EQ is that important. Simply because you don't live in a vacuum. You live and communicate with other people. You can be as technically capable as you can, but if you keep pissing people off, you won't go anywhere. Now in addition to thi
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by vph 14y ago
Aaron Swart is an example of people whose technical ability (IQ) exceeds their other ability (EQ). His technical ability allowed him to accomplish great technical achievements; it also let him get into troubles at work or with the law, whi
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by vph 14y ago
The bottom line is that MongoDB and MySQL are two different persistent data structures. MySQL is a more powerful data structure that can do more things. MongoDB is less powerful, but is more efficient at certain things. Due to pre-matur
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by vph 14y ago
Is there any other way?
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by vph 14y ago
Peer-reviewed publications (journals or conferences) are verifiable proof of quality. The higher impact the venues of publication are, the more qualified the papers.
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by vph 14y ago
>“Traditional universities proudly list the Nobel laureates they have on campus (most of whom have little to no interaction with students),” he writes. “Our university would list the great entrepreneurs, inventors, and executives servin
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by vph 14y ago
I don't have a good recommendation for your needs. However, there are a few books that might be close: 1. Programming Pearls by Jon Benley. 2. Programming Challenges by Steven Skiena. 3. Algorithmic puzzles by Levitin. The first two are
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by vph 14y ago
Yes, this is one of the best algorithms textbooks due to a few reasons: * It emphasizes rigor without much formalism. * Rich number of non-trivial exercises. * Conciseness of description of algorithms and strategies. If you look for a textb
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by vph 14y ago
It seems excessive to invent a new type of cameras just to take pictures of taichi masters. j/k
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by vph 14y ago
Based on your testimony, it seems the interviewer did not ask you a question about big-O, and you thought he did.
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by vph 14y ago
>My employer said he's cool with me working on side projects and that he has no problem with it. He could be cool and having no problem with your side job, and still claim ownership of it.
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by vph 14y ago
Years ago, I wrote and published a couple of Drupal modules, which are still being used from time to time. But I moved away from Drupal. With Drupal, you don't learn about building web apps; what you learn is "tweaking" a complex system.

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