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by arandr0x 8y ago
I enjoy Yossi Kreinin's blog [1] and The Old New Thing [2]. I don't read programming language books, which I usually find to have little good industry knowledge and to be too detail oriented and easily out of date. Although K&
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by arandr0x 8y ago
I'm not in games but my industry is adjacent and I have the same gripes with c++. (Which the author characterized very well.) Although build and debug times definitely are an issue regardless of the performance of the hardware. I find
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by arandr0x 8y ago
Quebec does have a huge problem with birth rate, so yes, they are. (They do take on immigrants but not at anything near the rate similar socialist economies with similar demographic factors do.) There's a cultural aspect. IMO Quebecers
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I also live in Quebec and I've been told by people that the education system (meaning primary and secondary education) has changed quite a bit, not for the best, since 1997. In addition, one of the measures in the study is hyperactivit
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I don't know if I'd call that talented though? I mean, I also got the right number in the IQ and motivation lottery, but not only is that like 80% biochemistry, it's not a differentiator in the sense of doing qualitatively di
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It's a bit hard to answer, because the most talented I know became more talented as they aged (so I'm tempted to answer their current age which is 30s or 40s because of my own age range) but they were definitely noticeably more ta
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I gave it up for 2019 -- I'm a social drinker, nothing bad, but I was liking my post-drinking sleep less and less. (It seems to have side effects on me in the aftermath even when I don't drink enough to actually get drunk... or I&
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Stay at home spouse would work, if you're flexible about the solitude. Some kind of religious order, if you're flexible about the "own projects" (there will be community service and other people's projects). In most
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This is interesting. Literally the one thing that prevents me from using social networks is the real names database. I refuse to give my real name so I don't get the full experience other users do. I would never use facebook, but I wou
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* Have a goal to the encounter (the goal can be laughter, good feelings, learning whether the conference buffet is any good...) * end conversations when they've ended. If you're at a networking event it's OK to have 5min conv
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by arandr0x 8y ago
Most cities you can get a job working on interesting problems as an barely competent undergrad student through the trifecta of showing up, accepting minimum wage and not requiring your office to let you have a nerf gun. Or you know, the sam
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by arandr0x 8y ago
I would like to agree with you from the opposite direction. I work with a team of basically all PhDs and write several patents a year. We have a regular scientific paper reading list. (I work developing commercial software, not in research.
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by arandr0x 8y ago
It's not mentioned in the post, but if you have suicidal ideation, consult a doctor. Otherwise, it's probably normal (and to be fair since something like 20% of the US population will have depression at some point, even long and&#
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Same, when out to dinner with friends, if I pay for everyone I will nag them to order the steak and every extra they might want, and if someone is paying for me I will try to pick something worth less than what they would have picked for th
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It's not that I actually think the company will go bankrupt. It's just I am more concerned about how others will think of my spending, than my own comfort. There are plenty of cultures where this is the case, and people feel uncom
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by arandr0x 8y ago
I'm not sure what it says about me or Friedman, but if I'm choosing to buy someone a gift I don't care about the cost but I will attempt to make it something they like, and refrain from gift-giving if I don't think I can
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by arandr0x 8y ago
Pick a report with lots of numerical columns that your company is currently having accounting or the CFO "interpret" into a go-no go decision. Implement logistic regression. There may be a way you can do some computer vision tasks
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by arandr0x 8y ago
I've been a software engineer 10 years. There is in fact no correlation between age started programming and programming aptitude, if taken for granted that the person can code at all in adulthood. (There is a great correlation between
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by arandr0x 8y ago
My husband reviews papers. He works a 40h/wk industry job; he reviews papers on Saturday mornings when I talk to other people or do personal projects, pretty much out of the goodness of his heart. There is no way he would ever have tim
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by arandr0x 8y ago
There will always be women (and men) who want a single partner and don't really care about value or whatever it is you're on about. It's just that, like me, by 25 they're married. If you're 35 these people are prett
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by arandr0x 8y ago
It's super common for women in your age range to be somewhat lonely (although usually they have kids, but they will be grown kids who are off feeling invincible). Do you date at all? Even if it doesn't work out with some it could
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Currently, I have a friend (and in addition family & romantic relationships, a small number, maybe a total of 5 people I really care about). These "inner circle" relationships are the best use of my time I have ever found. How
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I would like to see the statistics. I eat a high carb low protein low calorie diet because I like to fit my grocery bill in $15 a week. I would wager the opposite is true actually; if you're eating 1000 to 1400 calories a day and they&
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Was going to say this, most office offsites have alcohol. Drink coffee with it if it makes you sleepy. Don't have more than one drink with each course. Don't drink while actually in the office (!), if you socialize enough at the o
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You're exactly right, although cities have to an extent always tried to entice people to move there. It's just back in the day there were fewer self-employed people. As a city dweller though, I think my city(not Tulsa, no worries)
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No, definitely not (at least on the latter two; my school did say take home assignments had to be done independently, if graded. People did get help on the ungraded assignments, though I didn't). I wondered if bootcamps/online wer
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I work in CAD and my experience is similar to the guy who works in the games industry. I invent new algorithms pretty much all the time. It's a more conservative environment culture-wise. "Science programming" (when all your
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I'm curious, is it the norm for people who do online courses or bootcamps to get help from their spouses? Is it not unfair for those students that are unpaired? I was in university (and thus not really in the pairing off mindset) last
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by arandr0x 8y ago
Do you have advice on learning rhythm for the piano? (Aside from "use a metronome", I do do that.) Are there exercises? I also have trouble recognizing how long a note is "in the wild" without a metronome or having a goo
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Caveat, I'm an adult. I just bought scores... traditional/folk tunes tend to have easy melodies, then they have books of sheet music for beginner/intermediate levels at most stores that sell music books. Sightreading books on

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