randliu

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by randliu 15y ago
It took me until the 7th paragraph to realize this wasn't a competitor to Ashley Madison. The name of this article is really unfortunate and will probably mislead many readers.
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by randliu 17y ago
>database systems
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by randliu 17y ago
No, it's not ready to replace SQL, and I don't think it ever will. What are your requirements? If it's horizontal scalability (and you're actually hitting a performance wall) you should begin to think about it. Maybe also if you never do an
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by randliu 17y ago
I'd suggest Algorithm Design by Kleinberg and Tardos: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Jon-Kleinberg/dp/0321... , it's more readable than either CLRS or Dasgupta/Papadimitriou/Vazirani.
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by randliu 17y ago
I've been looking at buying a folder, and the main draw to the Brompton is the size of the folded bike. The minimum price is about $1000 though, and the cheaper folding bikes, usually American or Taiwanese brands, only fold in the middle so
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by randliu 17y ago
The unique location is the big plus, especially considering that the absence of geostationary satellites over the poles means this is likely the ONLY developer job on the planet that can't be done offsite, until they run fiber to Antarctica
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by randliu 17y ago
> The successful candidate will need to be physically qualified and willing to work at Polar and high altitude sites during the Austral Summer.
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Java, Postgres developer job. Location? The South Pole(icecube.wisc.edu)
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by randliu 17y ago
It's a jocular reference to the piece The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst.
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by randliu 17y ago
Happy holidays!
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by randliu 17y ago
He's spoken before at a conference at Harvard, and at least had some things interesting to say. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E_bYRZT5-E (part 1) Don't ask him how to make money though
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by randliu 17y ago
We can't afford a single skyscraper collapse, but we can usually afford to use bad software. The article sounds like Dijkstra in 1988. My bet is another 22 years won't change anything.
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by randliu 17y ago
I'm just saying that all the author is observing is that the students with the most to lose, work the hardest. Foreign students obviously have a lot to lose since they're coming overseas for an education. On the other hand, the American stu
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by randliu 17y ago
It doesn't explain any difference between American and other students, just that Babson's student body is different than most. From personal experience i've found the hardest working students to be those needing to get into professional sch
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by randliu 17y ago
Also keep in mind that the author teaches at Babson, which is a private college devoted entirely to business administration students.
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by randliu 17y ago
There's several companies working on sentiment analysis. The NYT had a roundup: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/technology/internet/24emot... Backtype is a YC company that probably does some NLP stuff on the backend. http://www.backtyp
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by randliu 17y ago
Computer Modern.
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by randliu 17y ago
Since you're in the bay area, you should look into regional meetups for people learning/using rails. There's one at Berkeley the third Tuesday of each month (Nov 17 this month) http://ruby.meetup.com/81/