arandr0x

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by arandr0x 8y ago
I know HN loves politics but I made my original post in the spirit of seeing replies like yours where it's less about ascertaining which side is "best" and more speaking about your lived experience and things you liked and di
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by arandr0x 8y ago
I don't know, I upvoted it... I think it's good other immigrants are giving their perspective. Personally I was a cultural mismatch and that's why I left... that doesn't mean nobody has these particular values or that ev
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by arandr0x 8y ago
It's great that you were able to do that, and I've been to Europe (not where the country I was referring to is located) and I agree with you about the degree. That said, it's just emotional on my part like I said in the OP. Y
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by arandr0x 8y ago
I just think people who come in late at the party because their kid was sick and they're mentally ill and they live way out in the middle of the country and there's no pie left should at least get a couple apples or something.
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by arandr0x 8y ago
1) Mom wants you to take the time to become an adult and find yourself 2) Dad wants you to develop the discipline of waking up at 8 every morning and cheerfully greeting your company president 3) [multi billion dollar corp] has 5,000 direct
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by arandr0x 8y ago
I saw this when I arrived in America, and it's the reason I left. I take the bus and seeing literally every day that there were people with families who worried and laughed and were kind who spent 2 hours a day transporting themselves
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by arandr0x 8y ago
Pretty much -- for example, I had definitely spent 10k hours each studying biology, chemistry and computer science by the time I reached age 21. But, all this thinking is in my experience pretty useless in terms of real world results (and I
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by arandr0x 8y ago
Well, I mean, what if it's just the way you work? So you're creative and you like learning new things, big whoop. Someday it'll come in handy when your task-focused colleagues need somebody who can rattle off the state of the
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by arandr0x 8y ago
This list kind of makes me want to work with you! And I didn't even work in startups... I guess that experience can be very widespread...
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by arandr0x 8y ago
it's only bad if you have symptoms, but a lot of people feel agitated/irritable even with a cup. I get the opposite kind of symptom where my principal problem is I can't stop at one cup! have stabilized around 5-6 which is OK
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by arandr0x 8y ago
I went cold turkey off that, I suddenly had to take a prescription med that raised my heart rate and taking it with any coffee left me barely able to think. I don't get withdrawals with headaches and pain, never have, but the first tim
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by arandr0x 8y ago
I mean, I've never succeeded in stopping, but I pretty much only drink coffee for the buzz and it actually makes me less productive so I'm still qualified to answer ;) 1. Usually people who use stimulants for productivity don&#x27
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by arandr0x 8y ago
I'm not sure where you live but mortgages where I live are 20 years. Graduating at 14 does not give one a paid-off mortgage-free home at 20, even if they were to be able to find a job immediately upon graduating. On another very cultur
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by arandr0x 8y ago
That kid is seriously cute, but it worries me that his parents/adults around him are apparently expecting him to have the patience and reward delaying abilities of an adult (he's constantly mentioning his lack of "executive f
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by arandr0x 8y ago
Do you mind linking your resume (Anonymize it beforehand if you wish)? 1 interview for 10 applications is low but not unheard of, but if you get cut for those because they somehow never noticed you're not senior, your resume itself may
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by arandr0x 8y ago
Do you get to the interview, or they don't even reply to your resume? Because if you get interviews you need interview practice not projects. Assuming you do have, like, school projects, and your PhD project includes programming. Other
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by arandr0x 8y ago
The Kaggle competitions are good projects, just don't expect to win. I like it because I don't like studying on toy stuff. I hear it can be a social thing for some too so maybe you will meet people in your area that know of jobs f
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by arandr0x 8y ago
Where are you located? You can apply to R&D roles (search for R&D engineer, research software engineer, R&D software specialist and similar titles) which are essentially software engineering roles that require grad school. A goo
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by arandr0x 8y ago
I have the reverse experience : I did tons of technically challenging greenfield projects that were pretty much using my IQ, and didn't start building skills and work habits (the stuff employers actually pay for) until after I was made
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by arandr0x 8y ago
That's not true -- I comment on HN but lurk everywhere else. The reason for this is, first, time commitment (I can really only be part of one online community at a time, although I do read other forums on occasion), and, second, I find
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by arandr0x 8y ago
It would be interesting to relate this to how stimulating the environment is. I walk fast in cities because doing so lets my brain "compress" the information from the never ending shop windows, people yelling, people walking, cars
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by arandr0x 8y ago
They have one, it didn't motivate me before I won it (I didn't think I had a chance to) nor after (it turns out the pleasure from winning such prize is less than the pleasure from somebody being spared mental suffering because I h
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by arandr0x 8y ago
Does it have to be nucleic acids? You can probably get a dataflow-like language using concentrations of various enzymes and substrates. And there are pre-existing models for molecular pathways that may help figure out the "key" fo
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by arandr0x 8y ago
I'm like you! And after I argued with someone on another thread here and they told me to watch CppCon talks I realized there are plenty (and plenty of new C++ features) that are not about template metaprogramming and that are useful...
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by arandr0x 8y ago
I've since taken the advice on the other threads and watched more CppCon talks -- I think my problem is I used to google new features and find talks on them, and they were features that were too advanced for my understanding, and that
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by arandr0x 8y ago
> I think if you want a long term career in this industry you need to dedicate at least ~5 hours / week of your own time to professional development on an ongoing basis. If you work with C++ on a daily basis then spending some of th
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by arandr0x 8y ago
I'm not a fan of the 2d graphics proposal, some for reasons specific to it (I think it's too like the HTML5 Canvas API) some for more philosophical reasons like 2D graphics is a big subject that may not be possible to standardize
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by arandr0x 8y ago
Thank you for replying in-depth, I didn't expect it. I actually agree with you re: 2D graphics(I was aware of it already), I just think geometry is different because it has wider applications. Your viewpoint is consistent though. Again
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by arandr0x 8y ago
You're being flippant, but your paragraph is the reason we have pharmaceutical sales reps, and the reason they are so well paid.
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by arandr0x 8y ago
I've read some of the drafts and the final spec of the APIs I care most about, for example, the concurrency API (which I like a lot... I'm not solely complaining!). Do I need to watch every talk on every C++ feature before anybody

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