awm

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by awm 10y ago
Ah, I see. I'm no expert, but I'd argue the response is "Maybe". I think this is what blaze and pypy try to do with python: they compile it so that certain things are optimized. The harder part is that you have to gene
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by awm 10y ago
> They can 'compile' in an 'optimized manner' using something else ... Thats actually the issue Julia attempts to solve as highlighted in the article. There are many languages that you can use to express ideas, but w
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by awm 10y ago
NIMBY is more "Don't use my road, use the road one block over" - in other words, road is the same but not in front of me. Thats a little different than "Don't use my road, use the road that has 3 lanes and no child
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by awm 10y ago
I've noticed though that the perspective matters. If somebody start complaining about how I parked in front of their house, a typical response is: "I can't believe how annoyed this guy is getting over me just parking here fo
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by awm 11y ago
Just to keep this thought from spreading, Yahoo reblogged it as well, so I'm pretty confident this is the real deal. [1] http://yahoo.tumblr.com/
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Accompani Wants To Be The Relationship Manager To Rule Them All(techcrunch.com)
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by awm 13y ago
I believe the only exception to this rule is Military property. Coronado (off of San Diego) beach is an example. Eventually you hit the navy base...
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by awm 14y ago
The interesting thing about a 'diamond' planet is that it would be a waste of time. Diamond's value is superficial - it can't actually be used for anything (except cutting), so mining this planet would essentially cause diamonds to become
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by awm 14y ago
May sound corny, but I'd have to say "Fostering." If you show interest in something, be it knowledge about a subject or field (or entrepreneurship), they will always make sure you have all the resources you need. Part of this (and has bee
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by awm 14y ago
Completely agree. The key point is not "applying" these traits, or treating them as "tricks," its simply that the professors there embody that ideal. As an undergrad, it was easy for me to grab 10 minutes of any professor's time, even if
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by awm 14y ago
Could you elaborate on what you mention is the MIT syndrome? I saw one definition (based on over explaining) but it seems like this is something else
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by awm 15y ago
Anybody know what opensource tools they used for game making? I'd be interested in helping out but would want to see what they are using first. Or perhaps its dojo-to-dojo?
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by awm 15y ago
Got that also, then keep getting: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host Looks fun too!
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by awm 15y ago
Another parallel I've experienced with going to the gym and coding is that its far more fun doing it with somebody else. You work out harder, and push yourself in a better way than doing it by yourself - something I've found also while I c
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by awm 15y ago
Any estimate as to the time of transcoded content? Also, does the term "video" mean # movies in, or # of streams (movie at certain bitrate/width/etc) out?
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by awm 15y ago
I'm assuming they refer to somebody breaking the encryption algorithm, not brute-forcing their way through them.
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by awm 15y ago
There are times where its handy to have readability, albeit in one-off situations. The most relevent one I recently encountered was working with a team and needing to get some numbers crunched - I had knowledge of scipy and was able to show
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by awm 15y ago
I agree this is an issue, and given that some of my smartest peers learnt English as a second (or third) language, I definitely don't want to make it harder. If I realize that they are not native english-speakers, then I typically give them
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by awm 15y ago
As somebody who has done numerous technical interviews, as well as given some, I have to disagree with some of the points he makes. 1) "I don't code out loud": neither do I, nor as an interviewer would I honestly want you too in a 'real' wo
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by awm 15y ago
My best bet is he just didn't want to have to deal with the DMV...
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by awm 15y ago
As per using amazon to scale, it depends on the services they use. EC2 is expensive, but you don't need that many ec2 instances to handle the streaming, outside of permission handling etc. As for transcoding videos, they probably have a fa
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by awm 15y ago
Already mentioned, but if you really like using a textbook I can't recommend Strang's book enough. Its awesome, and go really well with his lectures.
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by awm 15y ago
MIT (and I assume other top CS schools) doesn't teach coding 'skills' (6.00 aside, and its not required for a cs degree, or the first two weeks of 6.005), but instead teaches you knowledge about how to solve problems that a coder will enco
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by awm 15y ago
Technically, this class is intro to CS and EE; almost a third, if not more, is spent on EE subjects, and students should know python before this class. 6.00 is a class that specifically teaches CS and python.
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by awm 15y ago
I don't know about the validity of this, but that skull and cross bones was pretty fun.
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by awm 15y ago
I could be incorrect, but if you require administrative rights to install anything (so your users can't), wouldn't this solve the problem (at least in this case?) Understandably, this would require you to micro-manage all your users who wan
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by awm 15y ago
Theres another one in the stata center. Seeing it alone made me smile :)