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One way to rephrase this is... why commit to a one-time decision when you might be able to run away and never look back? -- reinvent oneself in a new land. Few legal constructs can…

Welcome to the future of CS. As technical fields cross into the phase of commonly understood knowledge, the ability to exploit imbalances rises. Opportunity exists everywhere, but …

San Diego County, California. M-F: 06:30 stock market alarm rings. I sleep in. 06:30-07:15 twitter alerts inform me of stocks to trade. 07:30 I get out of bed 08:00 showered, i hea…

self doubt will destroy you.

having read through a good majority of the peanut gallery, i'm compelled to say that your contract is your duty. having said that, ... get a good lawyer. the original contract migh…

damn near everybody is intrigued by that guy that's got one foot out the door. say you're a double-agent. the only thing that matters is if you're working against the common good. …

no ad-block unless in low bandwidth situation. always block plugins by default.

take a block of text, sentence, or paragraph. build 2 classifiers: #1 that classifies a sentence that contains the information you want, and #2 that classifies the actual data with…

12 years at one company. work was interesting. then we took on a project that just wouldn't quit. the work was remote and exotic. then it was repetitive and mindless. then it was c…

Funny how that was one of the first few things I had to teach myself, as distributed systems was something that only the biggest businesses had when I started school, and so, the c…

Yes. There's no denying that. I would not have studied finite automata, nor subjected myself to the horrors of compiler design, or even still, hardware languages such as vhdl or ve…

business decisions. a broadly supported and internally consistent scripting language. a compiled language that's dominant in the broader fields that you happen to share an interest…

If Google shut off only it's search in protest of SOPA, wouldn't they run into anti-trust issues? I know technically, there's still Bing, but since they command the majority of the…

Let's make the headlines read: "Hundreds of the largest web sites went black today in protest of SOPA" The more black sites, the more powerful the message. It really needs to be pe…

Your book selection is among the best.

Occasionally, I take 2-4wk coding breaks to re-evaluate something that's been nagging me each time I code. Is OO working for me? Do I like functional languages (I don't)? How's tha…

Developer here. I check back with the competency matrix semi-annually to re-evaluate where I'm at. Anything that I'm unfamiliar/unskilled with is fare game for the next 6 months. I…

Yes, but only with highly competitive markets, like the 4-function calculator. cough Think harder...

I implemented a lot of statistics functions to learn how to program in a language. Some of the things I've learned on include: * moving averages * linear regression * matrix operat…

In 11th grade (1999), I learned how to program in Javascript from http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/jsp . I went through every single one of those documents / primers. As zedshaw …

win7 not by choice

It boils down to the relationship you have with your money. For me, bigger bankroll = higher score. For my wife, a bigger bankroll = more shopping. The trick is to break your money…

I got to thinking, how would America's universities compare? It's an interesting thought: The best universities should have the most advanced reading level. I've published my findi…

I got to thinking, how would America's universities compare? It's an interesting thought: The best universities should have the most advanced reading level. I've published my findi…

I've done a lot of scraping and parsing. Your best option is to fetch the SEC's RSS, then fetch the hard-to-parse XML/Free-form and parse it. XBRL is great in its own regard, but i…