HarrietTubgirl

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by HarrietTubgirl 10y ago
CONGRATULATIONS
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by HarrietTubgirl 14y ago
I've come and gone with various vim config changes, but this is the one non-standard one I've stuck with: au! BufRead,BufNewFile * lcd %:p:h This makes it so that when you open a buffer, you cd to the current directory (only for that window
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List of fallacies(en.wikipedia.org)
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by HarrietTubgirl 14y ago
I don't see how this has anything to do with misogyny? Perhaps you mean something else, like stereotyping.
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by HarrietTubgirl 14y ago
You're not going to change this. Yes, virtually every great programmer or computer scientist is a male. So much so that we're all going to assume they're male, and when we see a female name (like "Leslie Lamport") we double-check to see if
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by HarrietTubgirl 14y ago
This is an awesome article. Here's an example of the usual non-explanation: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/everyday-tech/question1... This is how it was always explained to me. Yes, neutral and ground are the same thing. Why can't y
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by HarrietTubgirl 14y ago
An interesting article, but built on the assumption that until a certain age you won't have any exposure to software engineering which wasn't true even in 2000. As a middle-schooler my programming ability was ahead of my math ability and I
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by HarrietTubgirl 15y ago
I'll start out with the classic: "Introduction to Algorithms" a.k.a. "CLRS" http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Thomas-H-Corme... I think this is all (and probably more than) you really "need" if you want to know CS for programm
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by HarrietTubgirl 15y ago
Neat idea, although to be fair the examples are straw men. I think most people would indent their LISP much more readably.
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by HarrietTubgirl 15y ago
1) If you're going to build out an open office, make sure to invest in sound engineering to dampen noise. There is a big difference between hearing distractions in the immediate vicinity and hearing them across the entire office. 2) Then ma
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by HarrietTubgirl 15y ago
Sure, but here are some prejudices people will have about you going into an interview: - You don't want to work enough (~80hr/weeks). - You aren't familiar with new technologies or languages, and aren't curious enough to learn. - You think
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by HarrietTubgirl 15y ago
"In their right mind" or "reasonable" is not what "rational" means in discussions of economics. There also isn't as much of an implication of rational=good and irrational=bad.
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by HarrietTubgirl 15y ago
Here's the main thing that fucks this all up: there are a very limited set of brainteasers out there. This means that if someone gets your brainteaser right in an interview, there's, say, a 90% chance that they've heard a question just like
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by HarrietTubgirl 15y ago
I interned at Google back in the day, and when I came back to school, I can only remember raving about one thing -- the food. It was absolutely fucking amazing. I gained 10 pounds that summer (starting at 145, this probably wasn't a bad thi
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by HarrietTubgirl 15y ago
Thankfully we're nowhere near where intelligence itself is being displaced, only small subsets of work that were previously the domain of highly specialized experts [sidenote: Mathematica has been doing this for a while]. Nor will advances
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by HarrietTubgirl 15y ago
If it's new and you are pushing its boundaries, you will get screwed. Always. This goes for new major releases of MySQL just as well as MongoDB.
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by HarrietTubgirl 15y ago
Oof, it's hard to draw conclusions from this. - The stuff the subjects are doing bears only a passing resemblance to the work that most of us have to do. - Surfing the web is probably what those students are doing for breaks in work anyway