connellybarnes

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by connellybarnes 16y ago
Actually sorry for my complaints. I thought about this more and realized being a professor is actually pretty good socially. I think being a grad student is just hard, unless you are very outgoing, and can get out of the lab. I guess I just
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by connellybarnes 16y ago
Well maybe those physics PhDs are a lot better at socializing than me. I remember spending years of my PhD trying to make friends, going to bars/rock climbing/dances/running clubs etc to try and meet friends, but never got any where, and ju
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by connellybarnes 16y ago
You can't eat prestige. Nor find joy in a life of isolation. Look at Rembrandt's philosopher if you want the true picture of the life of the mind. How history remembers you only matters after you're dead. Can you really tell someone to live
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by connellybarnes 16y ago
Hi this is Connelly I'm the first author on that paper. Adobe ATL's business model is that they do research and then put it in products. So Dan took the code I wrote for a summer internship (The paper you referenced. To be precise, we actu
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by connellybarnes 18y ago
"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world
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by connellybarnes 18y ago
The "corporate ladder" analogy is broken, because the ladder is tree shaped. It's statistically impossible to climb tree shaped ladders, because they get exponentially smaller at the top, and there are too many levels. "Climb the corporat
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by connellybarnes 18y ago
With a typical salary at a typical programmer job, you can make enough money in every year to take several years time off. But meanwhile, taking time off tends to cause isolation, depression, and other problems, since modern social interac
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by connellybarnes 18y ago
For much of my life, I lived in my mind, kind of autistically. I spent a lot of time figuring how to get away from people, because they wanted me to do things, and I wanted to go back to the castle in my mind. Only recently I figured out
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by connellybarnes 18y ago
My ex-wife left me for her WoW guild leader. It's a rather addictive game, but I wouldn't exactly categorize it as social, because the 'social' atmosphere evaporates as soon as you quit the game. Social as long as you keep playing, perhap
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by connellybarnes 18y ago
I'm not sure how many hackers could physically work in [law|business|medical|pharmacy|nursing]. My point was that because school systems are hackable, sometimes hackers will have hacked the signs of the costs involved. For example, my grad
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by connellybarnes 18y ago
One counterexample to your theory is that if bosses limit autonomy, then large universities should limit autonomy significantly; however, they're generous in autonomy. Now on the theory underlying your essays. If it's barbaric to work, then
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by connellybarnes 19y ago
My grad school pays $25 per hour. I paid nothing for undergrad. This isn't atypical.
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by connellybarnes 19y ago
Good point, and thanks for pointing out defaultdict(); I wasn't even aware of that class. I suppose one could use defaultdict() to gain associativity also (pass 'not found' variables through unmodified). I think I still slightly prefer re
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by connellybarnes 19y ago
I agree, with two objections: I disagree with rewriting one's program. If I rewrite a program to solve the same problem, then I'll end up having exactly the same code. This is useless. If I am solving a different problem, then rewriting
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by connellybarnes 19y ago
The string interpolation operator isn't ideal. It isn't associative, so you can't paste in a few variables, and then a few more later, and it raises an exception rather than simply putting a message such as "Missing variable: X" in the out
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by connellybarnes 19y ago
Actually, it's probably beneficial to encourage flames. Your users are hackers, and flamewars are the only form of public dialogue among hackers. Ergo...
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by connellybarnes 19y ago
Corvallis has Hewlett-Packard. And a couple smaller companies. I'm not sure if it could be called vibrant...I lived there, but I'm always rather out of it.
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by connellybarnes 19y ago
What's great about Wellington for hackers?
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by connellybarnes 19y ago
People who are programmers might not have as much respect for or interest in college, because C.S. tends to be a little watered down as far as standards go. If you want high standards, go into physics or math. Probably confirming this gene
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by connellybarnes 19y ago
Visual Basic was great. Maybe barely usable as a language alone, but great because it allowed you to do lots GUI-wise with little code. As far as great hackers having an effect on much of anything, as long as most corporations continue to
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by connellybarnes 19y ago
Or see http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/ . The point is, if you're not talking about games, Microsoft is basically irrelevant to the way that the majority of people use computers.
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by connellybarnes 19y ago
Wow, OK many of these comments are kind of like disrespectful to Paul Graham because they kind of indicate that many people have learned absolutely nothing from him. Wow. That's really depressing.
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by connellybarnes 19y ago
Microsoft will linger on as long as games are based on DX. They might be able to do some additional damage with their browser monopoly. But I agree: fresh air is blowing in the door, and programmers are getting a feeling that it at last i