rhnet

33 karma · joined April 29, 2010

I'm a Computer Engineering student at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. I'm very passionate about technology and using digital electronics to solve problems. http://stephenholiday.com

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rhnet··on Python NLTK Sentiment Analysis with Text Classification Demo

I wrote an article on use the NLTK library for gender prediction http://stephenholiday.com/articles/2011/gender-prediction-wi...

It's quite a versatile library.

rhnet··on Google at GitHub

I like how people have already forked the empty repositories.

rhnet··on Java is the slowest of all

Well they didn't use StringBuffer in java...

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2000/jw-0324-javape...

rhnet··on Why Learn About Operating Systems?

Checkout this awesome post on Facebook's Engineering blog: 'The Full Stack' https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=461505383919

I'm in ECE and I'm taking OS right now.

rhnet··on Damn Cool Algorithms, Part 1: BK-Trees

I couldn't get the link to the Python version to work, but I wrote my own a while back.

https://github.com/sholiday/pyBKTree

rhnet··on How to build a data mining web app?

Thanks for linking to my Stack Overflow by Day post in the readme!

rhnet··on Poll: Do you get spammed by tech recruiters?

I'm still in school and only do internships/co-ops but I still get bombarded with calls and emails for fulltime. I have a canned response for the emails now.

I wish recruiters would spend a little more time looking at my resume to see that all my past jobs have intern in the title and that I don't graduate for a while. The 'Senior Hadoop Engineer' position doesn't really fit me...

rhnet··on Steve Jobs preps for an early TV appearance

Ooh, thanks for that, c/p malfunction. The one I really meant was: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2925845

This link is also interesting.

rhnet··on Is it too late to found my start up?

Being second is not the end. Many companies were not first.

Facebook was not first in social networking.

rhnet··on Review New Startup: LynxTo

Clickable: http://www.lynxto.com