Based on what my professor shared about his experience on StackOverflow, I started thinking about who participates in this type of community. People who know nothing but need reputation, so they ask questions and answer quickly and haphazardly. They don’t understand the StackOverflow community and don’t make an attempt to. People who are smart but [...]
Author Archives: Chet
M.Eng Project Planning
February 11 12
My big stress right now is trying to find a final project that I can really get excited about. I have a few options from my cloud computing course: Write a DropBox clone P2P MapReduce RAMCloud system All those sound pretty cool. What I really want to do is design a book search that leverages [...]
Quick Update from the Computer Lab
November 15 11
Cornell Engineering is incredibly difficult, so I don’t write much. There is, however, much to tell on the recruiting front as I have seen some amazing offices and companies. I will update my readers in December or January.
Thanks
October 6 11
Perhaps 2012 will be an end of something. This week we say goodbye to the greatest innovator in modern computing. I don’t think its too much of an understatement to say everyone on earth has been affected by Steve Jobs’ handiwork. It’s a wonderful thing to see someone who cares so much about what they [...]
Book Sale
October 1 11
I actually really love used books. The Ithaca Library System was having their annual sale and it’s quite something. I picked up Edward Tufte’s ‘Visual Display of Quantitative Information’ for $4.50 and a couple volumes of Plato and Virgil as well.
Rubik’s
September 19 11
I solved my first couple Rubik’s cubes this week, obviously while staring at algorithms for them, but hopefully I can commit these to memory at some point.
Recruiting Fair
September 14 11
I had a great time at Cornell’s engineering fair. It was incredibly humbling and a great opportunity and blessing to be in a room with such fantastic companies. I really enjoyed meeting the sizable Cornell Google Team. I got to talk to the Facebook team in private this evening which was a lot of fun. [...]
YCNYC
September 11 11
This morning I got my invite to YCombinator’s NYC meetup. I am super excited to network with a lot of people I normally would have a hard time getting to know. A lot of the hot NYC startups will be there, a bunch of potential angels and VCs, and of course, plenty of talented developers [...]
Bit Operations
September 10 11
I got into a discussion with a fellow student today who worked at Microsoft. His product manager told him not to use bit operations because it’s important to keep code readable. Code should be self-documenting. I agree with this, but when you can perform functions with a couple lines of bit operations, it can be [...]
Cornell
September 9 11
Well, I’ve been a few weeks here at Cornell’s M.Eng program and I’m loving it. It’s amazing actually being with some of the smartest an innovative engineers in one place. We have so many great resources here to use too. I’m currently taking AI, which I think will be good to brush up on my [...]
