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by aswanson 10y ago
He moved to Silicon Valley, where he lasted three months each at two different jobs. In a way, he felt tricked. When he was growing up in Albuquerque, everyone told him that if he wanted a lucrative and satisfying career, all he had to do
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by aswanson 10y ago
That implies a 2.4 percent rate of real growth in a hyperinflationary era, so assume a 4.4 real rate of return in normal circumstances. That is the number we should be basing projections on, as it correlates more closely to real dollars in
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by aswanson 10y ago
Understood, but when they stare at that COG sheet they should also have the prescence of mind to look for hidden costs. A toolchain and IDE with a C compiler is going to cost much less in the end to the project than a 8K chip with an assemb
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by aswanson 10y ago
Could not have said it any better. Embedded development is dominated by hardware engineers who make decisions very often without the software development teams input, placing embedded folk square in the target of management angst as well. C
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by aswanson 10y ago
Seconded. Low-level programming is not the future and the decreasing demand for said skill is reflected in the market/prospects.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Guaranteed 8% rate of return, let alone %12, violates historical data/mathematics. Anyone other than Renaissance Technologies advertising as much needs to be sued.
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by aswanson 10y ago
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0628/opinions-rich-karlga...
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by aswanson 10y ago
Facts. The baby boomer generation set up public commitments on the back of the taxpayer, from municipal to federal, that simply cannot be met. On top of that, after inheriting a system that allowed them to get a post-secondary education doi
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by aswanson 10y ago
I cannot keep up. I just started learning react/apollo/graphql and I'm already out of date.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Thanks for the quality response.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Tell us how good sales works.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Yeah, I think globalization has made products so commoditized, its more economical to throw them away than fix them. 4k 55' TVs for less than a grand; in the 80s that purchase would have been a projection TV for several thousand dollar
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by aswanson 10y ago
AJ is probably not crazy; I think it's rather clear that he does not believe what he says, he's just performing, and getting a solid income from it. It's sad most of his audience can't see through it; it's like watc
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by aswanson 10y ago
Then they literally give me janitorial work. What?!?
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by aswanson 10y ago
I think experience makes you humbler, at least it has in my case. You realize you don't know everything, it's always good to have someone to review/give alternate explanations and methods, and that things are not usually as s
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by aswanson 10y ago
Yeah, mathematics seems rather meta. If the universe/multiverse we live in turns out to be a simulation, if every scientific discovery turns out to be incorrect, etc....set theory remains. There is something incredibly powerful and bea
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by aswanson 10y ago
Thank you. I think I lean towards Transcendental Idealism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12709430
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by aswanson 10y ago
Its not really mindboggling; voters were looking for an outsider, and aren't really big on nuance. Trump merely took talk radio/Fox News talking points and repeated them to the nomination and WH. He had a free hand to say whatever
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by aswanson 10y ago
"Being surrounded by dreamers inspired me to dream bigger and set an example that hard work can make your dreams come true."
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by aswanson 10y ago
Same experience here. Math et al are technique oriented at that level. You simply have to practice to get good at it, no way around it. Just like comprehending a jump shot is no substitute for taking hundreds of shots a day if you want to g
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by aswanson 10y ago
My brother has a book that I think could be adapted to Netflix, etc. He's self publishing. What do you recommend I can do to help him. Here's his book: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Will-Seize-Doctor-Too-ebook/
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by aswanson 10y ago
I have indeed trafficked in overreaction and arrogance masquerading as intellectualism in my days. Probably will again. Such is life.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Ironic the the apex of decades of some of the greatest mental achievements of the last century (Von Neumann, transistor, IC, compiler design, nuclear war survivalable networking protocols, etc) has been coopted to create a planet of Eloi. Y
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by aswanson 10y ago
That Twitter feed sounds like a start up opportunity. Would it be easy to maneuver around hippa?
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by aswanson 10y ago
Im always amazed and in fear of bridges in terms of engineering. The Ben Franklin Bridge was built in 1923, before mass transportation, cars, etc. and routinely handles full traffic jams every day. The engineer could not have had that in mi
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by aswanson 10y ago
I mean, why not go full postfactual, in this day and age. Did you also see that comment in thread that says you can make $104000 a month working from home by just clicking the link. Why not give it a try?
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by aswanson 10y ago
"it has far greater negative implications on the world at present than any other current issue facing college campuses." I call bullshit. The price of college, the elevation of it's utility in our society, and the economic il
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by aswanson 10y ago
No mention of the ridiculous amount of wealth a university education costs, the lack of economic education in the formal track and how the academic class (of which the author is a member) is rendered mostly immune from forces most of their
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by aswanson 10y ago
I'm hoping the ggp did not intend for it to mean that, in good faith. It's probably a mistaken interpretation.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Those are awesome ideas, ones I never would have thought of! I was thinking more along the lines of using analog filtering for convolutional layers of deep neural networks, dropout layers and filter templates for 2-d features are just bandp

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