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kunjaanon Is having a high IQ a prerequisite to being a great engineer?

I am not offended but it was just gratuitous.

kunjaanon Is having a high IQ a prerequisite to being a great engineer?

All those expletives made me squirm.

I have tremendous respect for what Google has done to the Computer Science community and the Programming community. From MapReduce to BigTable to Gooogle Files Systems to tools like Google Collections and GWT, they have contributed a lot to the community and made many of our lives simpler.

I use GMail exclusively for private communications. It just works. Period.

I love the Android system. It has bolstered my interest in smartphone development. And I think it is a good case study for VM developers and kernel developers.

Then there is Chrome, which is probably my favorite Google product right now.

tl;dr Thank you Google.

kunjaanon India: Facebook recruiting from the IITs; attractive offer

The base salary and the signing bonus is not so special to deserve a whole article.

kunjaanon Can you name the Programming Language if You Know The Creators?

Missed Groovy. No regrets.

kunjaanon 140 Google Interview Questions

There are apparently 5.7 million good piano tuners.

kunjaanon Google Beatbox

you forgot .pv

like .pv pv zk bschkpv zk ds

kunjaanon Introducing Google Earth 6—the next generation of realism

Wow. They have trees now. I should watch out for them.

kunjaanon What is the First Programming Language You Would Teach Your Child

JavaScript

kunjaanon UCF Professor Richard Quinn accuses class of cheating

Wait how the hell is that cheating? Shouldn't he be lesser predictable in the exams?

kunjaanon What the Average Person Doesn't Understand About High Paying Jobs

"Especially at Google, where a bottom 1% employee would likely be considered a top 1% employee at any smaller company."

What?

kunjaanon 25 Questions to Ask During an Information Security Interview

Here's a good set of security questions:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/noubir/Courses/CS6740/F10/proble...

kunjaanon Which programming language do you want to learn next?

Racket.

I have used Clojure for large projects and PLTScheme for a lot of academic projects. But I have not tried to write a large application in Scheme. In addition, I want to use all those libraries, typed/racket and mainly the syntax/parse macro dsl.

kunjaanon Design Without Designers

http://imgur.com/5KaU2.png

kunjaanon Guido van Rossum : Python Regrets (2002)

Is map and fold really that bad in Python?

kunjaanon Ask HN: What do you wish you'd known when you were 18?

This is a very very bad advice. I almost feel like hitting you for this.

DO NOT JUDGE HOMEWORKS. DO NOT SEPARATE knowledge into "base " and "tangential" especially when you are learning something in a course because many times th so called "tangential knowledge" is there to reinforce your "base knowledge".

I will take an example that you gave. If a student takes Algorithm design class, you would separate the class into the core design principles as "base" and the other as "tangential". However, the concrete algorithms are there to reinforce the design principles, to describe the abstraction layers that we have built etc. If a student doesn't work hard to learn about the working of the algorithm, he would probably miss out on important aspects like the power of invariance, the power of recurrence, the hurdle in analyzing the recurrence, the nonintuitive correctness of these algorithms. These are all implicit knowledges. The teacher would probably just mention it and move on in the lecture.

But the assignments, the problem sets, the midterm, the final exam are there to reinforce all these small lessons that would probably be missed. DO NOT JUDGE HOMEWORKS. As a student you may have no idea about what is important and what is not. Even if you feel you are not learning anything, do them, redo them, revise them and perform well in them. You never know the skills that you may pick up along the way that will make you a better computer scientist.

tl;dr

If you seriously doubt the purpose of the assignment, ask the teacher or the TA.

kunjaanon Peter Martin: Google does something really good.

I tried "I want to kill myself" and I still got a suicide prevention link. Pretty good.

kunjaanon How Facebook Could Beat Google

I think my friends recommendation to rank the serp if done intelligently would be great.

kunjaanon Ask HN: What do you wish you'd known when you were 18?

Also always read before the lecture.

kunjaanon Is The Silicon Valley Talent Shortage Getting Worse?

I am graduating this December and I am divided in between moving to the Bay Area vs. working in NY. Is it better for my career to stay around technology companies or is it better to burn harder in a financial company?

kunjaanon What It's Like to Work at Apple

Could you elaborate more on the system?

kunjaanon Google bug bounties: $500-$3133.7 for security flaws in *.google.com

How did they arrive at the figure 3313.7?

kunjaanon Home at Last, or, The Last Programming Language I Will Ever Learn

Wait what was it about Clojure that he really liked?

kunjaanon Ask HN: Clever Recruiting Techniques?

Maybe it's not the technique but you, your company, your employees, your location, your pay that is turning off engineers.

kunjaanon Asteroids JavaScript Bookmarklet to blow up any web site

Let's have a leader board for every site with Points accumulated/second. "Kunjan Killed this site with a score of 1700". Are headings and hidden fields worth more points?

kunjaanon Google Maps visualization of marijuana prices, with over 800+ entries so far

http://www.webehigh.com/city/detail.php?CITYID=2205

I visited my home country after 2 years and it has gotten better. You can actually rent out a nice room in an innocuous house. You can order your choice of movies and music. For $10, you can get weed that will last 2 for a month.

Come to Nepal man. Seriously.

kunjaanon Ben Huh offers to buy Reddit

All web entrepreneurs hurry up before the controversy dies. You too can profit from this mess up.

kunjaanon Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set

These seem to be a perfect graduation gift.

kunjaanon Hacker Monthly #3 [pdf]

This issue is amazing. Even though I check Hacker News almost everyday, I missed out on a lot of gem. Thank you.

kunjaanon Why I hate frameworks (2005)

Can you please explain what it means?