Purdue has recently attained a new president of the university as well as a new president of the computer science department. Both new presidents have made a very clear show of intent to revamp a lot of cruft around the university. The computer science department has recently released a new curriculum which removes a lot [...]
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Posted 22 January 2008
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Like it or not, the distributed revision control model is here to stay. Brian Fitzpatrick, a Subversion and Apache developer, told a group of us Purdue students that SVN will indeed be getting distributed features similar to “the Mercurial model.” Many companies are already starting to use DRCS and the rest are on their way. [...]
As a follow-up to my reverse interviewing article, below is an outline of some of my theories on interviewing in general. Reviewing vs. Cramming Preparing for interviews is a smart idea but there’s also some things to be careful of. Preparing can be split into two methods: reviewing and cramming. Reviewing material which the interviewee [...]
In the first few months of my senior year of university, I’ve probably spent close to 30 hours interviewing for prospective employers1 and received offers from a few of them as well. With so much interviewing in such little time, it’s pretty easy to recognize patterns and potential motivations behind interview techniques. These techniques are [...]
I’ve started working on a research project with Prof. Vitek of Purdue University and some X10 researchers at T.J. Waston research center. I’m not sure how much I’m allowed to say about the project but we are working on a new programming language nicknamed Thorn. X10 should give you a hint has to what kind [...]