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I’m a bartender. At least 75% of my friends have been laid off. Not just bartenders, but servers, bussers, most cooks, managers, and everyone I know who works i
by cammikebrown 7y ago
I’m a bartender. At least 75% of my friends have been laid off. Not just bartenders, but servers, bussers, most cooks, managers, and everyone I know who works in hotels as well.
- ttul 7y agoI'm sorry to hear that. What are you going to do to pass the time while you are laid off?
- cammikebrown 7y agoI’ve been trying out various EdX classes on data science. Any suggestions?
- m15i 7y agoConsider the free PDF of Chollet's "Deep Learning with Python" and/or www.fast.ai
- disgruntledphd2 7y agoNoooooooooo.... I don't really have anything against Chollets book, but introduction to statistical learning is an absolutely fantastic introduction to the modelling part of data science. Start there to get better intuitions, then practice practice practice. It helps if you try to get data to answer your own questions, as there's a lot more motivation in doing that rather than Iris or MNIST.
- ithrow 7y agoJust curious, how does a bartender ends up staying reading HN?
- esaym 7y agoWas going to ask this too lol
- MivLives 7y agoSpeculation: - Could be they have a hobby of computers - Could be they are still in school Not everyone who cares about tech news is working in the tech field.
- ithrow 7y agoHN is way more geeky/nerdy than your regular tech news, hence my curiosity.
- Loughla 7y agoNot really, it's just slower moving. For every 1 real geek tech post, there are two or three days of regular news things. I came here based on the slower, more thoughtful discussion. I'm in higher ed, not even close to tech.
- kickout 7y agoNot in tech either, but I like reading and casually following the scene. Kinda funny watching the language flame-wars every so often
- minimidge 7y agoObviously, Haskell is the superior option here. Anything else is a travesty.
- danielovichdk 7y agoYou're WRONG. :D :D
- beckingz 7y agoClojure! Or was it PHP?
- saalweachter 7y agoYou're close, it's Lisphp, the Lisp built on top of PHP.
- siberianbear 7y agoThat's an interesting response. It seems to me that the flame level on this site is quite low in response to somewhere like Reddit. People argue here, of course, but usually it's in an informational sort of way and rarely devolves into "yer momma is soooo fat...." kind of discourse.
- thisisbrians 7y agoYeah, you're right. Civil disagreement is allowed here on HN; anything else gets downvoted into oblivion.
- erikbye 7y agoHow do you find HN compares to Slashdot?
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- franksvalli 7y agoDoing market research for the Ballmer Peak
- cammikebrown 7y agoI have a physics degree. It turns out a bachelor’s degree doesn’t help much, and I was too burnt out at the time to go to grad school. I took a few introductory programming classes and I’ve been trying to get back into it lately. Try talking to a bartender sometime, you may find out they’re not as dumb as rocks.
- pstuart 7y ago> Try talking to a bartender sometime, you may find out they’re not as dumb as rocks. AOC has done an excellent job in that regard :-)
- xster 7y agoThough sad that she's now taking marching orders from Pelosi now https://www.nationalreview.com/news/aoc-drifts-away-from-activist-left-toward-a-more-conventional-staff-and-political-strategy/ https://www.nationalreview.com/news/aoc-drifts-away-from-act...
- therealdrag0 7y agoI don't follow politics much. But I think it just underlines to get stuff done in many areas of life you need to be willing/able to compromise and build coalitions.
- khrbrt 7y agoThat article has very thin gruel for "taking marching orders from Pelosi": not endorsing some people and asking for civility in Twitter feuds. Be skeptical of anything written by the National Review about progressives.
- mostlysimilar 7y agoMy bartender friends are some of the smartest, most capable, most hard-working people I know.
- lb1lf 7y ago-Irrelevant, but I chuckled at your last sentence. One of the all-time smartest people I’ve ever met worked a bar in Bergen, Norway; autodidact in anything which caught his fancy, he could give you a lecture on what brought down the Scythians, serve a new guest and striking up a conversation on advances in semiconductor fabrication with him, picking up where he left off the lecture on the Scythians before heading out to see if any of the patrons outside wanted anything, having a quick word on the Poincaré conjecture with the math postgrad having a beer in the backyard... He had studied for a while at the university before figuring out that he’d have more time to study if he didn’t have to concern himself with exams, quit, kept his uni library card and got down to it.
- avip 7y agoIf you read this forum carefully you'll find it indeed contains constructors, truck drivers, firefighters, pilots, physicians, teachers... just to name a few from memory. All these "non-developers" are priceless when discussions pop up which require domain expertise (which we developers usually lack) [edit: they are also priceless generally speaking]
- demarq 7y agoha I tried to find out what people are on HN, but I didn't get any responses. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21484252 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21484252
- gazelle21 7y agoI use to read hackernews when I was working at Macdonald's non stop, it was the only thing that kept me sane.
- lackbeard 7y agoI took a year off once and strongly considered trying to get a job as a bartender for fun because I enjoy making cocktails.
- HeyLaughingBoy 7y agoI always found it interesting how many people have taught themselves programming. I was at a customer site a few months ago installing some test hardware and the guy I was working with was their welder, having been an auto mechanic before and we got into a discussion about programming in Python! The best interaction, however, would be the homeless guy I met who used to be a programmer.
- pbourke 7y agoI once met an unemployed software engineer who went door to door selling magazine subscriptions.
- karatestomp 7y agoReminds me of King Vidor's The Crowd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crowd_(1928_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crowd_(1928_film) (I guess that could kinda be a spoiler for an almost 100 year old film?)
- kls 7y agoLOL might be too dated, for this crowd but man that movie was a classic to those that worked thru that era.
- Spooky23 7y agoOne of the best Microsoft stack Sysadmins (AD/Exchange) I knew back in the day was a former diesel mechanic who got badly injured in an accident and transferred to do help desk work. He dove in and really mastered it. Just a great guy who was great at training new folks. Not programming but the other wacky transition was a Wall St guy who burnt out, started a subsistence farmstand in the country, married a hippie lady and sold vegetables, drove a school bus and plowed snow to get by. Really nice guy... when he died it turned out he owned a few buildings in NYC and was loaded to the tune of $20-30M, and his family had no clue.
- tonyedgecombe 7y agoMy plumber has written a ton of VBA in Excel to automate his business.
- dropit_sphere 7y agoAt one point I was working construction during the day and working on a visual programming language at night. Needless to say, I have little sympathy for those claiming a talent shortage.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoThat’s bad. My work hours got reduced to 32 hours with corresponding pay cut. Not a big deal for me but I assume a lot of these people can barely make ends meet even while working. Let’s hope the unemployment benefits in the stimulus bill really work.
- 01100011 7y agoMy brother tends bar at a golf course. They furloughed him until the end of April with pay. Hopefully he can go back to work after that.
- avip 7y agoIsn't it a tiny bit optimistic to assume this "will be over" by end of April?
- sjg007 7y agoGolf courses may be open to give people things to do as long as you maintain 6 feet social distance. In that case they may allow a bar to operate for to go drinks for the course. A lot of them have an attached kitchen as well.