Devthrowaway80

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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
One of the 4 founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital was addicted to both cocaine and morphine and was able to remain functional while addicted for the rest of his life. I think it's easy to mix up the effects of the illegality of certain d
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN_Courier
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
That's a rather optimistic take on it.
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
TL;DR: Yes, you'll get better. I'm reminded of a recent article about grandmaster chess players - when briefly shown a chess board with pieces that were laid out in a reasonable way, they were later able to recall them exactly wit
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
xmobar is helpful, I find. Beyond that I don't find any need for helpers.
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
Ah, I see. I misinterpreted your comment, apologies. Would you mind elaborating on what societal impact you think participating in torture has on the US? I'm curious to hear the viewpoint of an American on this. (From the perspective o
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
You don't object to innocent people being tortured to death? If there was no societal impact, would those objections be enough for you to oppose torture? "My main objection to driving drunk is not the whole 'running over pede
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
Torture has been shown repeatedly to not be "effective" - people will say literally anything to get it to stop.
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
The majority of applicants fail Fizzbuzz. It is a shitty question in the sense that it doesn't give you any information about whether you should hire somebody, but it does serve to send a very strong "don't hire" signal.
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
I could talk about this question for hours. You probably wouldn't want me building an autonomous robot or drone unless it was covered in pillows and safely contained far away from children and combustible liquids. Does this make you un
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
Yes, the communication aspect of it is huge as well. You might well be posed vaguely defined questions all the time in your work. If you get upset and/or are unable to start picking out the most important aspects of a question, that&#x
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
It might be frustrating for you personally because you know so much that you could talk for hours about what happens, from keyboard interrupts to DNS to HTTP(s) and what-have-you, but in the absence of a personal recommendation, interviewer
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
I'm an alcoholic who's been sober for about 3 months. I would have been ecstatic if I managed to get by for $10 a day. I'd easily drop a couple hundred dollars at the bar on drinks for myself in a single night. Even if I was
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
Honestly, any Debian derivative plus a decent window manager. As far as WMs go, in my recent-ish experience GNOME 3 was a gong-show and Unity was similarly terrible - it suffers from the same "my computer is a phone!" UI problems
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
A manager I had at Amazon met his new team/underlings for the first time, and decided that a good way to start things off would be to explain in detail the process by which people are fired. I suppose he was trying to "motivate&qu
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
Senior people at Amazon that I personally known and worked with have said they were undercompensated compared to offers from other, similarly-sized companies. Most of the good ones no longer work at Amazon.
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
A shortage of talent does not equal a shortage of applicants. I did a lot of phone screening and in-person interviewing at Amazon and the experience was nothing short of shocking. Applicants with 5+ years of professional experience who coul
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
Why is a low completion rate causing concern? I never completed the machine learning course by Andrew Ng - my schedule didn't always wind up aligning with the times allotted for homework, and to be honest, there was some laziness mixed
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
I liked this book: http://www.amazon.com/Walking-Softly-Wilderness-Backpacking-... . Reading through it might not be a bad idea. As for the actual "how to do it", I'd do some the following: * Do some research
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
From what the Dad said in the article, he seems aware of the need for kids to be kids - "too much computing at his age is not good for him," "I just want him to do his best in whatever he chooses", and so on. I learned t
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
Clinical depression is a physiological condition that produces irrational negative emotions that are largely unrelated to the sufferer's circumstances. Telling a clinically depressed person "buck up, things aren't that bad&
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
I would love to read more articles by Maureen Dowd about her experiences using ridiculously large amounts of any substance she's unfamiliar with and then quietly freaking out in her hotel room. The article you reference was unintention
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
I'd have to agree, this strikes me as confusing situational depression with clinical depression. When I was at my worst with my depression, by all objective measures my life was going just great - good girlfriend, lots of money, stabl
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
I think the whole problem is "it depends on your plan." I had to select a healthcare plan (an idea which I found rather strange) and spent many happy hours in October curled up with countless HMO/PPO/WTF policy books, lo
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
Not sure I'd call it a non-issue - having recently immigrated to the US from Canada, having "good health insurance" by American standards has still left me significantly worse off than I was when I had universal healthcare.
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
I had a job in university that involved picking up 20-foot-long sections of freshly sawn lumber (some of which weighed well over a hundred pounds) off of a moving set of chains and placing them in bins. That's it, for a 10 hour shift.
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
Thanks Morgan! It has not been easy as you say, but it certainly beats the alternative. :) I've had a quick look at the book you recommended and it's gone on my "to read" list. I'd like to think that I've gotte
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
Thanks Jacques! It's nice to hear from you, I've enjoyed your writing over the years. I've spent most of my life in Vancouver BC. I've recently relocated to California to work for a startup.
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by Devthrowaway80 12y ago
I am both a recovering alcoholic (hit 90 days sober last month) and am getting moderately severe mental illness (depression and psychosis) under control with medication. I have done degrees in pure math and CS and have worked as a dev at pl