GFKjunior

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by GFKjunior 14y ago
Yes I came in to say something similar. I would of absolutely loved to attend MIT or Stanford but went a shoddy 3rd tier state school. All this talk about research opportunities and connections with renown professors does not apply to stude
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
Your post specifically said SPEAR hunting. You do not hunt small game with a spear. Trapping is usually the most effective way of getting meat in the wild. Off topic but some of the best traps are large modern mouse-traps. Just make sure to
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
I love bow-fishing! But shooting targets as a child is hardly the same. Getting a powerful, accurate shot in itself takes a lot of concentration. But when hunting for sustenance it means getting up before dawn, tracking animals for miles on
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
You are severely underestimating the mental difficulty of spear hunting in relation to writing a couple of lines of code.
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
Exactly, I know a Columbia law grad who works in NYC. His firm hires nothing but Harvard, Columbia, and Yale grads. He said that it's not because a Berkeley or Texas grad isn't just as good it's because they have a certain culture and in ca
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
Here is German? site that does crowd-sourced pen-testing. I have no first hand experience but most testers seem to be from eastern europe. https://www.hatforce.com/
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
I have to agree. Part of my family was exiled from Spain for being heavily involved in the ETA, the spanish consider us terrorists for blowing up cars and refusing to speak spanish. In Mexico another part of my family lost many, many young
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
I think you need to know a little more technical stuff to get a job now in days. I think that an entry level developer should know a language and framework well. Enough RoR to build produce a few sample websites, pretty easy thanks to place
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
My favorite part: "Not all companies succeed, some fail to embrace change. This is the way technology in the free market works. The software industries success has not been driven by government regulation but by freedom and the basic human
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
Solid analysis, the only other online community I frequent is zerohedge and they have been calling it biflation for some time now. Things like housing, equity, and bond prices will deflate while commodity prices will continue to inflate.
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
That struck me as odd, like the author has not really traveled extensively. I spent some time in Sweden recently and was surprised by the the lack of warmth even by the customer service workers. I've been to several countries that do not "e
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
One on ebay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Android-Accessory-Development-Kit-2-...
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
I recently saw this episode and you misheard. He did say that he wanted a 6 figure salary to "live the L.A. life", and he repeated that statement more than once. I like the show but agree with a lot of your points, my understanding is that
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
I only want to point out the absurdity of your first sentence "recessions since the late 1970s" So the timeline for your analysis is ~30 years? That is not convincing to me, this current recession is already going on 4 years and shows no si
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
My grandfather was a welder and had a workshop in the back of his house. He took pride in being able to build anything and not buy it from the store, if anything he owned ever broke he would hack it himself. When I was a youngin, about 12,
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
Terrible comparison, I use the roads because there are no other, better alternatives. When given a choice I always pick UPS or FEDEX over the post office for shipping, and looking at the financial position of the USPS I am in the majority.
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
Well Steve is a programmer, and from the udacity classes he teaches he seems like a damn good one.
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
Do not learn C or C++ as a first language. Zed Shaw says it himself in the introduction to LCTHW. Start off with an easier language like Ruby or Python to be able to grasp the concepts. Learn the Hard Way series are available for both as is
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
Not a good choice for hunting. AK's have pretty terrible aim, sure you can throw them in mud or have rocks in the magazine and they will work but the accuracy is hardly worth it. I have an ak merely because it looks cool. If you must use a
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
I tried K&R but could not get into it after reading the first 2 chapters a few times over. I was close to giving up on C till I picked up "C Programming a Modern Approach" and Zed's "Learn C The Hard Way". They were phenomenal. After fi
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
I too would like to know. I want to move to the Bay Area a.s.a.p. and am looking for startups where it is one of the primary tools.
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
I'm an Arch Linux user and love it. http://www.archlinux.org/ Installation is not for the feint of heart though.
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
I think you should stay in school. I never say that to anyone but 1 more year at a good university will fly by, most american kids take 5 years for a liberal arts degree at a state school. Like the other poster said, startups come and go.
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
Very cool that this article interviewed a hn member. My understanding is that you still have to pay taxes for 10 years after terminating citizenship, is this true?
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
The 'low points' of the economy were in 08-09. The bottom of the market was hit around Feb 09. I use quotes because I personally believe it is still really bad. On another note, does anyone on here have multiple passports? I do and consider
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
I am a frequent visitor of zerhedge.com. It is a fantastic source for dense financial news and has great comments by several libertarian-leaning individuals in the finance community. The comments have gone down in quality recently but there
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by GFKjunior 14y ago
In California it was $50,000 for the 08-09 year. But if you read the footnote it states "since 2000-01, the average annual cost has increased by about $19,500." Almost a $20 thousand increase in 8 years, I'd hate to see what it is now or wo
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by GFKjunior 15y ago
I have to agree with you. I'm a texas grad finishing up in May but moving to SF and this sounds like a kid who is going purely off of word of mouth. But he did say he has only stayed in the South Bay area, it's worlds apart from SF. Palo Al
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by GFKjunior 15y ago
I don't have a lot of experience with systems programming but want to play around with Rust. Would the best route be to learn C then move onto the untread waters of Rust? I'm just looking for some guidance, this seems really cool to learn.
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by GFKjunior 15y ago
I disagree, he was simply posting comments about a professional athlete on his own twitter account, it's not like he was yelling it on the street or putting up billboards. Anyone can unfollow or even block his twitter, if you were even able

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