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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
It's a good idea, in principle; I've seen people who stayed too long in rest-and-vest environments become completely unable to function when the gravy train ended. The key questions you should be asking yourself is whether you&#x2
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> ...all it takes is one leak to end your monopoly I don't know about that. Most significant software packages require ongoing maintenance (bug fixes, security patches, compatibility with other software) and add new features over
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
Businesses could prevent that by requiring employees to agree to a separate, permanent contract not to release any code as part of the conditions for being hired.
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> CS students were completely lost with how to approach writing drivers and interfaces for the sensors and such. I thought that would be standard for CS. No, that would be standard for computer engineering, not CS. Try to have a conver
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
There are several Model 100s and 102s and even a PC-2 pocket computer. I can't say I've ever seen any of those at a thrift store.
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
Yup, this guy gets it. Slack and other real-time messaging apps should be treated as a phone call or a knock on the door; an intentional interruption for something important enough to warrant a real time conversation. Everything else shoul
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> The brain becomes relegated to the role of a cache instead of working as the whole of an individual's knowledge. I have a pile of physics textbooks sitting nearby but that doesn't make me a qualified physicist. Availabilit
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> The demonization of unions in the country is a pointless exercise and seems ideological. Ideological? A vast multitude of people have cited ongoing examples of misbehavior and abuse that they themselves have personally witnessed, wh
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
Rather interesting data points refuting the idea that butt-in-seat time matters for productivity and excellence matters, as some on HN have suggested: " In 2014, the social networking company The Draugiem Group used a time-tracking pro
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> If you only work a minimum number of hours within your field, you are unlikely to emerge as one of the peak achievers or thought leaders in your field. That's just because you learn more from experience, and working more hours gi
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> Anyway, back to the original question. Does anybody else come on here and feel overwhelmed? No, or at least not much. Most people have a specialization or two, whether it be front-end, back-end, mobile, application, embedded, games,
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> To make a difference in the world? That sounds like a grandiose rationalization used to cover up an abyss underneath it. A sentiment is a poor substitute for purpose and justification, a vacuous idol whose twilight approaches. What p
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> ...once you stop setting yourself impossible goals, lead a simple life, find humility, have a minimum amount of discipline, you won't be so unhappy. As George Bernard Shaw said, " The reasonable man adapts himself to the wo
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> Fixing the environment is an orthogonal issue. Not at all. If we, as a species, don't fix the environment, we aren't going to be around long enough for space exploration to become technologically and economically practical
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
Amen to this. TIS-100 is a puzzle game that happens to use assembly language as its means of expression. The barriers it puts up are wholly unrealistic and therefore it can't really to be said to "teach assembly language" i
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> It's certainly understandable, but it's also worth remembering that for almost any business the idea that they could call, say, Microsoft and get their bug fixed is pretty much a fantasy. If you believe that, you've ne
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> I don't know if it's true, but I was told once that bing means disease in Mandarin. Sort of but not really. It depends on the intonation and even with the right intonation (bing4 / bìng), the sound maps to several oth
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
Much as I would like to agree with you, that war was already fought and lost in the early '00s. Port 80/443 were the two ports that couldn't ever be firewalled because web browsing depended on them, so everybody rushed to cr
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> When your kids depend on your paycheck, this is not such a simple matter, and making trades for "a lot of money now" doesn't seem like such a bad deal. Sure, until the gravy train ends, and it always does (layoffs, reo
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> There's nothing stopping these veterans from going to a regular university, college, or community college and getting a real degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field. Nothing? Have a little empathy,
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> ...allowing access to a micro-programmable base... What you're probably looking for is something like Forin's eMIPS (extensible MIPS) project that includes a block FPGA cells as part of the execution pipeline to allow creat
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
Not that I know of. However, there's Avnet's Spartan-6 LX9 MicroBoard evaluation kit, which has a USB-stick form factor, is inexpensive, and is compatible with the free version of Xilinx's tools.
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> Not that I can do anything about it, my conclusion over nearly 4 decades is that we have failed to take advantage of the increasingly denser silicon to make higher level machines, in particular machines that recognise the difference a
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> The double slit experiment shows that light has properties traditionally associated with waves (as opposed to particles). Even for photons sent through one at a time? Nope. That's not behavior associated with any type of wave.
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> Is there any concrete evidence to believe in hypothesis 2 over hypothesis 1? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment . That's pretty concrete. Plus all those fancy quantum computers that people
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> As a friendly pile-on, yes, you do have to agree to the terms of the GNU license or cease using the software. That is incontrovertibly false and has always been false. Per the GPL v.2, clause 5 ( https://www.gnu.org/li
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
One good solid exchange of nuclear weapons would do it. Once the manufacturing chains are broken and international commerce is halted, the collapse of civilization would occur pretty quickly. Even among the survivors bent on preserving kn
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> I would never take a proctored test for an interview. ... Relying on testing alone is going to get you good test takers. A conventional interview is basically a set of tests already. A conventional whiteboard coding interview segmen
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
One option might be to take a training course for the PMP certification exam and the PMP exam itself, if you meet the qualifications. While the PMP has its detractors (and not without justification), it does enable you to "sling the l
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
For a longer exposition that also covers the historical context more deeply, Jim Baggott's " The Meaning of Quantum Theory: A Guide For Students Of Chemistry and Physics " covers Bell's Theorem in Chapter 4 and also requ

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