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by apohn 4y ago
>Yep plus early ‘discman’ didn’t have anti skip and battery life was terrible. I had completely forgotten about the development of anti-skip. And now that you've made me remember it, I suddenly feel old. I knew somebody (with very
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by apohn 4y ago
>I think I'm in the right vintage for that, but did cassettes ever sound good? Compared to CDs? Definitely not! Not to mention how many people listened to homemade mixtapes and copies, which made the audio quality even worse. Did
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by apohn 4y ago
So don't take this personally, but comments like yours are one of the major reasons I refuse to participate in any audiophile communities. There's always a hypothetical edge case for some audiophiles to claim that what they hear i
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by apohn 4y ago
>The fallout of the MoFi revelation has thrown the audiophile community into something of an existential crisis. Don't worry, the crisis will not last long. Audiophiles will find a way to get over it and buy some better cables that
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by apohn 4y ago
> You can tell by listening to the shimmer of a cymbal, or a plucked string fading to silence. I don't think this is true. A long time ago I was involved in the headphone audiophile community and people were always using the shimme
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by apohn 4y ago
I suspect this is an underappreciated comment. I think we all have qualities that are perceived as "negative" in the larger context of jobs, but if you come to terms to it and focus on the positive aspects of those qualities thing
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by apohn 4y ago
>Perhaps I'm mixing memories from different times. Or perhaps I joined the library soon after it was computerized. I think I experienced this as well, just in a different country. There was probably no email or website for a patron
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by apohn 4y ago
>They would then write or stamp the due date on the pocket of the card. One of my small joys as a younger person was discovering a book I was looking at hadn't been checked out for a long time. Seeing a 10 year old due date stamp,
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by apohn 4y ago
Unfortunately recruiters lie about "exclusivity" as well. About a year ago I was on the job market and multiple recruiters reached out to me with the exact same job listing, just with the company name removed. All of them claimed
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by apohn 4y ago
>COBOL devs are a specialized niche these days and they get paid accordingly. Tell that to all the people in outsourcing Firms (e.g. Infosys) who end up coming to the US from India to work on COBOL Mainframes as contractors. The large c
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by apohn 4y ago
>You need to have a final boss who will go to bat for you, unfortunately the Nobel laureate was 84 and more into playing slots at the Indian casino/fucking around in the lab than he was in advocating for my career. This is one of th
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by apohn 4y ago
As whymauri has illustrated, there's a ton of pettiness that goes on between tenured professors and outside of anything to do with the tenure process. It's nothing but people with big egos being a small fish in a small pond and t
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by apohn 4y ago
>If the pay isn't good, the culture and work should be. In academia, that's almost never true When I think back to my thought process when I was applying for academic and research jobs after my PhD, there's one thing I rem
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by apohn 4y ago
I'm a former SE. I was unhappy working in different "Engineering" roles for non-tech companies and got a job in the post sales services group of a large software company selling Analytics products. I was identified by manag
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by apohn 4y ago
>If you are considering Sales Engineering, here's my grain of salt advice: 1. Joining the right company matters. I want to echo this 100x. IME experience there are two major things to consider. At the end of the day your job as a S
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by apohn 4y ago
>Would it be right to secretly inform our customers of the situation? Am I being overly dramatic? You should just find another job. I wouldn't inform customers. I've been on the other side of this as a customer and I think you
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by apohn 4y ago
> But I was given every opportunity, had lessons for years, and didn't prioritise it. I just accept that it wasn't for me. I have a similar story to yours, just with clarinet and flute. Our school (outside the USA) had mandato
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by apohn 4y ago
>Those decorators are exactly what data scientists would do, while software engineers would be terrified. Actually, when I read the post I'd guessed this is what an ex Software Engineer who is now a Data Scientist would do. And loo
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by apohn 4y ago
>I think the field doesn't really matter, as much as the company you're working in caring about the people they serve. 100% Agree.
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by apohn 4y ago
>Or if you do find your job satisfying... I work for a Healthcare company (not insurance). I don't find my job satisfying or meaningful. But I feel like what I do in my job is useful to users and stakeholders. My management layer
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by apohn 4y ago
>A mentor has advised me not to become "boring" and wants me to try to stay entrepreneurial. I'm not sure what boring has to do with being entrepreneurial. There are people who are so work obsessed they seem 1 dimensional
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by apohn 4y ago
I wrote a comment about an Tensorflow on M1 comparison to some cloud providers. I imagine PyTorch on M1 would give similar results. I think the gist would be that the 3070 is going to be a better investment. https://news.ycombin
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by apohn 4y ago
A lot of people (me included) were pretty mad when Google announced they would be ending the free G Suite. Apparently Google has announced that G suite will still be free for personal use. You can keep Gmail with custom domains. You have
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by apohn 4y ago
>I can't believe I didn't think of it, but... I didn't realize that older throttles could get stuck. I had a 1991 Taurus SHO (manual) that did this. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the throttle assembly, but the cable
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by apohn 4y ago
> Edit: also our clients themselves were interesting and doing cool things so that helped. One challenge is that the "coolness" of projects are typically driven by the Product you sell. Do you sell a cutting edge Product doin
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by apohn 4y ago
I worked in PS for a few years. I also worked in PreSales got to see the other side, including how projects/services were sold to customers and how PS had to build what was sold. > Does your compnay have similar problems? Yes, and
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by apohn 4y ago
If you take the straight path of BS at 22, PhD at 27, and then add some post-doc(s), you're basically in your 30s before you earn the same as a 21 year old computer science intern. Add in any life event (taking a job for a few years a
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by apohn 4y ago
>And, with all that said, the UAE in it's (hopefully now in the past) passport seizing days was still far worse. Honestly, when I lived in UAE I had to submit my passport to a centralized system that held the passports of people who
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by apohn 4y ago
>No one confiscates passports, it is a nonsense. Confiscate is probably too extreme a word, but when I lived in UAE many employers held onto (e.g. in the office safe) their employees passports. At some point I think the government reali
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by apohn 4y ago
I know you're going to get downvoted to hell, but I'm going to give you an upvote. Many people who have enough leisure time to spend on HN and Reddit just don't understand the conditions many people grow up in. Not just Indi

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