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I'm aware. I was trying to take a funny jab at Java and it didn't turn out so well.

I'm asking the same question, and you're not close to answering it. My question was "what problems in compiler optimization make it a thousand times more useful than protein foldin…

Yeah, closures and anonymous inner classes would really redeem Java in the eyes of the masses. Java is going, going, ...

I wonder if they submitted this patent application in crayon. The abstract reads like it was written by a third grader.

Who cares?

Thanks for the very detailed answer. Amazingly, I can follow the gist of it after over 10 years. But, you still don't answer the question. What problems in compiler optimization ar…

Then we are in the same club. I've published research on global optimization algorithms for protein folding. I'm not a biochemist, but I understood that protein folding actually ha…

Except that a biochemist learning Python to solve problems he/she has in protein folding research (or whatever) is a useful skill to get things done in his/her field. A programmer …

That would be good advice to your brother. Programming as a career seems like a dead end going forward, for whatever reasons. However, if he is in some other seemingly unrelated oc…

If you can bring a pretty woman with you, it works even better. My wife and I visited the MIT campus a few years back, and she attracted more attention to us than I would have alon…

When I read "fundamentally hard", I think NP-hard. What is NP-hard about twitter? Am I missing something or is this a reference to a systems development issue?

That's hard to say. One can make the argument for a price crash as speculators have flooded into the oil and commodities markets and bid up prices. There is a lot of fear of peak .…

Yep, a lot of us would have to adopt the hobo life and cut other people with our hobo knife.

Yeah for Plaxo! Lot's of acquisitions going on.

Interesting. CBIR was my dissertation topic and I haven't thought about it in some time. Brings back fond memories (and some kooky thoughts about what to with it now.) Thanks, nick…

Maybe it's just me, but I don't know if I could get serious work done at that Zurich office. I think it would feel more like working at FAO Schwartz.

Microsoft is acting like a desperate & spurned lover, Yahoo like the 30+ year old former HS cheerleader who thinks she still has what the boys want.

No way MSFT offers $33+/share again. Yahoo's pride/arrogance/stupidity cost their shareholders a lot of money.

Yahoo lost a lot of leverage when they flipped the bird at Microsoft. A $33/share offer was gold and they left a lot of money on the table. Yahoo is in a really tight corner now wi…

Does anybody know if there are more details out there for Feynman's buffer analysis using PDEs? Is this an example of probabilistic analysis like bin analysis, birthday paradox, et…

How much Objective-C software is written at Apple?

That is so freaking cool!

Don't get a PhD. Get a MS from a good school like MIT, Stanford, CMU, etc., if you really want a graduate degree with the most bang for the buck. A PhD is really only necessary and…

This definitely puts the spotlight on Yahoo to start performing PDQ. If they are the same track six months from now that they are on today, you can expect some real gnashing of tee…

Good one, but don't quit your day job.