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by cbo 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Toronto or Remote Student currently completing my final year at the University of Toronto. Very experienced in web programming, especially Java/GWT, with some personal work in Django and Rails. Multiple years of industry expe
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by cbo 14y ago
The Future Uses section certainly has a joke-y tone, but if it's an April Fool's Day joke, then NASCAR has given them a huge amount of leeway. Usage of NASCAR trademarks, hosting videos, and even linking to the video on their homepage. I'm
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by cbo 14y ago
Sure, I guess we aren't in a post-PC era. Yet. I don't even own a tablet of any kind, but the reasons the author gives for dismissing them are extremely short-sighted. The reason people still use PCs for email, office applications, and grap
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by cbo 15y ago
First, let's be clear that the term "brogrammer", tongue-in-cheek or not, is downright misogynistic. But equally problematic are the common beliefs that spawned the term in the first place; that programmers must always be obsessed with tech
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by cbo 15y ago
I don't know a lick of iOS or Obj-C, but this line is absolutely true: > The biggest boon to closures, for "regular" programmers, is the dramatic simplification of async code. Consider the way it's currently done in Java: listener
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by cbo 15y ago
Possible privacy implications aside, this is awesome. I am consistently astounded by how advanced AI techniques are becoming.
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by cbo 15y ago
Echoing rileya, GSoC was the shimmering star on my resume when I applied for my first internship two summers ago. Mine wasn't at Google, but at a startup that decided to keep me on and just got acquired, so it all worked out pretty well!
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by cbo 15y ago
If you want to learn the entire Linux ecosystem, I can't recommend Arch enough. From personal experience, don't try to install Arch on your machine unless you have another internet-capable device in hand. You're going to reach for ArchWiki
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Ask HN: Who is actually doing something with "Big Data"?
5 points by cbo 15y ago|6 comments
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by cbo 15y ago
Sure, they can complain. But if they're going to, they should just impose more restrictions on using their code. Maybe even a copyleft license. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
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by cbo 15y ago
I find Wikipedia's blackout to be lacking in expedient information, and I see those tweets as evidence. No where on that first page does it say "SOPA", "PIPA", or anything about censorship. I think the use of bigger, bolder text would've go
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by cbo 15y ago
I'm no expert on debates, but I was paying significantly more attention to your message simply because he was being so rude and obstinate. For your part, you did extremely well to not even acknowledge that he was trying to interrupt you at
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by cbo 15y ago
No one likes the tactic of interrupting every dissenting opinion, but without a doubt it's extremely effective. I know that having everyone at podiums or at a table is a very human thing for debates, making them seem like they're open discu
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by cbo 15y ago
I can't decide if the fact that I scored 10/10 means I follow startups too closely, or that I played too much Pokemon when I was younger.
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Salesforce to Acquire Rypple(salesforce.com)
4 points by cbo 15y ago|0 comments
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by cbo 15y ago
I love email and IM and all that of the reasons you stated, but... Picking up the phone gets all of the necessary information to both parties involved several orders of magnitude faster than email and IM.
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by cbo 15y ago
I agree, but I never see these kinds of posts stay up very long. If it gets too bad, it shouldn't be too hard to add some code that would accelerate their trip off the front page.
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by cbo 15y ago
It's impossible to know what you'll need in the future. No one should be wasting too much time trying to figure it out. How could Zuckerberg -- or anyone, for that matter -- have predicted the kind of rampant success Facebook has had? Who t
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by cbo 15y ago
Not just PEP8-compliant. Some of these are just plain bad. The first one I was greeted with when I opened the site was: > print eval('+'.join(map(str, [1, 1]))) If I ever saw this in production code, I would lose my mind. It's the kind
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Expected Salary by Major(simplystatistics.tumblr.com)
1 points by cbo 15y ago|0 comments
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by cbo 15y ago
I'm really not sure why this was posted without the link. Maybe it was just an accident. Here's the link to his review, though it's now over 10 years old: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3GSYXSKRU8V17 He has several reviews and booklists on
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by cbo 15y ago
> What is Google's core business? Advertising. While this is true, I think Google understands it well enough that they take it a step further: growing internet usage as a whole. Google will gain advertising revenue as long as it's used,
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by cbo 15y ago
"Save the world" is such a broad term. It really depends on what things about the world you find to be most important. If your primary concerns are safety from hazardous ocean-based weather, security of offshore energy generators and fisher
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by cbo 15y ago
This article doesn't really describe what the title implies. It states issues and concerns for several languages, names several that have large ML libraries written for them already, and even gives his own approach for how to implement new
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by cbo 15y ago
Warren Buffett once said (paraphrasing) that you should only invest in what you know. Most American VCs don't know all of the legal and cultural intricacies of building a startup in another country, which can both be huge factors. It's way
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by cbo 15y ago
They're two very different ideas, even if they're often shared by the same people. The singularity is all about AI surpassing human intelligence. On this front, I can tell you after having studied a lot of AI for the past three years, we ar
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by cbo 15y ago
At first glance, it looks like a good library for starting out with Vision. It's a very Pythonic library. I especially like some of the blatant honesty in their docstrings. https://github.com/ingenuitas/SimpleCV/blob/master/SimpleCV/... &
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by cbo 15y ago
It's the only book on programming that I can say changed everything about the way I code.
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by cbo 15y ago
If the only reason to do so is to become a "rounded, open, and engaged intellectual citizen", why not just read a few books? Advanced humanities degrees are great, if you're into advanced humanities.
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by cbo 15y ago
Building this bot should get a job for the right person. It's not only a coding project in its own right, but it's also a very clever form of lateral thinking that shows a certain cheekiness and savvy that can be appreciated by plenty of bu

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