I think the S/N is too low in those resume.
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That was an absurd statement. Why don't you rather tell us what confuses you about the login process?
"They give Brad and me bottled water during every commercial break. I think you can see where this is going if the machine starts to build a big lead."
You had to choose between MIT and UofIowa? Most of the people I know who are at MIT also got into other great schools. Did you get into anything better than UofIowa? What is your major? Did you graduate? If so, do you regret not going to MIT? Don't you think it would have made a difference in the long run to have graduated from MIT? This is really really interesting.
I read his book but I personally would kill to study under him and hang around with the students under him.
>education in general is out dated and overpriced. You will be in debt if what the college doesn't find you bright enough and worthy of investment. Most of these schools have immense amount of funding, but they are very wise in who they give it to. I was denied funding in my early semester but I proved to them that I was worth their money. I got it. Now that I am working, I feel it is the same. Unless I prove to them that I am worth their investment, not many bother.
>I think if you are a hard worker and you use your mind you can find other ways to do it that are cheaper and possibly more effective than the college route.
No. If you are all that and you can PROVE it, colleges are the cheapest way to get educated in that amount of time. You do have to take time to consideration. You dont want to spend a year doing Analysis if you could take the hardcore route in college.
>I am dropping out is so I can get out there where people are a lot more passionate about technology.
You should have looked for schools that had better programs. You should have tried to get some research experience so that you could work on hard problems in those schools. You should have developed a credential and ability that would make the school of your dream fund you without a blink of an eye.
Woah. I am a SE and I use Bing's image and travel search all the time!
No one denies the amount of information available. But it is the careful mentoring, vibrant environment, constant testing, presenting your ideas, convincing people that you are correct, discovering newer ideas with your colleagues and discovering more about yourself that made my college life amazing.
For example, I could list you 10 good operating systems book, point you to the projects that we did, exam papers that we had and even video recordings of our classes. I did all of that too. Actually I had read most of the books and I thought was well prepared for the course. BUT I cannot even begin to enumerate the things that I learned from the 3 months of the OS course that I took last sem. I am a LOT better system designer because of the professor and his guidance. I am a lot better team player because of the stressful project that we had to complete. I am a better problem solver because of the constant examinations.
Yes you could probably learn these things at your job and in your weekend. But wouldn't you rather just take some time off and really get into the fundamentals? Wouldn't you want to hear opinion of a concept from someone who actually discovered it? Wouldn't you rather learn the "art" and the "intuition" from someone who has been doing it for his entire life? Wouldn't you rather spend your time surrounded by people who are smarter than you anyone who you have met? Wouldn't you want to be surrounded by ideas and challenges?
Dude go to a good engineering school. I stress that go to a GOOD school. You will not regret it.
Nevermind, figured it out. Downloaded Amazon Kindle, moved the downloaded file to the kindle folder in the sdcard.
Most of us agree that some of the Mac computers are a benchmark for buying PCs. I personally think MacOS is a fantastic OS.
BUT the core argument here is regarding iPhone and what I think as a downside to buying it like its markets policies, objective-c, hurdle to develop an application in my PC. And why buying Android makes it more appealing to developers like me. I love my custom hardware, I love the ability to develop application that I want and just run it, I love interfacing Android to my Arduino, I love running my friends hacks on my Android.
1. You claim the reason why vast majority of proficient system designers use Apple because the designers would somehow not want custom hardware even if he is displeased with the product and would find such a task of customizing worrisome. The only user statistics you provide for such a claim is from the pool of your friends.
2. Then you go on to say Apple makes the "best tools out there" because "iPhone just works". Like they say define "works". I think no designer is all knowing to encompass every user base out there. That is why you have customizations, extension techniques and abstraction layers. The language layer extension is a amazing abstraction. You agree that "You can't run custom, unvetted code on there". For some of us that is a HUGE deal. My friends and I write apps all the time. Imagine a device that is packed with a good processor, a camera, bluetooth, touch screen, accelerometer, compass, runs on Linux and can connect to the Internet. It has an open source SDK, open source OS, open source VM. Fuck how could you NOT want to tinker with them? Sorry I degrade to emotional arguments. But seriously, this is a HUGE aspect of it.
3. "you can run on it does what it says on the can and does it damned well." Well so far what you have wanted it to do has been fulfilled and never had a need for extension. Maybe there were times when you thought of improving something but just let that thought pass. What it says on the can is a phone but we all agree it is more than that. It is a freaking powerful computing system.
4. You then argue for system reliability by comparing Macs with Dell PCs. I can't speak for either but can you make such generalizations on iPhone vs Android phones?
5. Then you ended up with what made me write this long rant. "Plenty of people don't get this. One day they will. Therefore this doesn't matter." I would argue that most of the people who buy iPhone would never be excited from the things I can do on Android. I would trade all of that "apple experience" to what I can do on Droid. Man you should really see what this shit is actually capable of. If you are still into hacking, you will have tons of fun.
I majored in electrical and telecommunication engineering in my undegraduate and I went to grad school in order to study computer science. I too understand the computer system abstraction layers and appreciate a good stack.
They will not replace Flickr. Anyone who cares anything about photo sharing or has slightest knowledge about sharing photography will not diminish the value of services like Flickr. First of all "just being able to view high resolution images" is not as easy as you think it is. Can Facebook truly scale providing support for it? Will people who share pictures on facebook even care for those things? Wouldn't you rather have ease of album creation over viewing exif data? Flickr and Facebook are different. I think Flickr cannot be replace.
They have the potential to become the internet ID but would you want to create a Facebook profile to have an ID? Many people would rather support things like OpenID. And would you want to login to sites using your Facebook ID, where the website could really scrape info about you?
They can compete with Skype just as GTalk is trying to or countless other messengers are trying to. But I am sure there are many who prefer Skype over these services in the offices and at home.
I felt strange doing anything on it because I felt people were judging me. It was like I had developed this persona of an educated and successful and fun person when I was on it because I hadn't made any new "friends" since beginning grad school and I was so stressed out, miserable and broke that I was never brave enough to admit it on my own.
After surfing through the countless photos of my friend's girlfriend or my ex gf, I honestly used to feel guilty with the voyeurism. I use to feel hurt seeing my ex gf happy, lonely seeing old friends enjoying themselves, smirk seeing my friend do something stupid. I hated when people tagged me for the same reasons.
I wasted tons of time friending people I would not even wish birthday. I spent countless awkward chat conversations that never went beyond "I had a great day". I spent useless time tweaking my photos and wall so that my family wouldn't see the language that I or my friends were using. I tried to post Go's result on my wall. It became less of enjoying the game than to acquire certain points so that I could post them on my wall.
I logged into Facebook when I didnt have anything to do, which happened a lot. I used to open Facebook like I opened my email and reddit. After a while I just felt too shitty.
I deleted the account. I share photos through Flickr. Not all my friends are there but those who are have taught me a lot about taking photographs. I joined Blip.fm. Not all my friends are there but those who are truly share the passion I have for music. I deleted all my contacts in the messenger and added only those that I truly feel comfortable talking to.
My girlfriend calls me anti social. But she too has come to accept that Facebook is prone to our weakest traits as humans. We love attentions. We love to think of ourselves as something we want to be. We trade our true feelings to be included. We want to be popular. We want our taste in music and art to be value. We crave for external success. It was like high school all over again.
"Racket is still a dialect of Lisp and a descendant of Scheme. The tools developed by PLT will continue to support R5RS, R6RS, the old mzscheme environment, Typed Scheme, and more. At the same time, instead of having to say “PLT's main variant of Scheme,” programmers can now simply say “Racket” to refer to the specific descendant of Scheme that powers PLT's languages and libraries."
Reference : http://racket-lang.org/new-name.html