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by auxym 11y ago
Thanks for the tip, I'm also quite far into the process with a second company, and still making calls to friends at other places. I do have a question though. When asked about whether you are interviewing elsewhere, what should I answe
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by auxym 11y ago
As a fresh grad interviewing for (real, non-internship) jobs for the first time, I'm really surprised at how long the hiring process is. The article mentions 23 days average. I'm currently interviewing for a BigCo where I already
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by auxym 11y ago
For what it's worth, photos, age and marital status are also a no-no in Canada.
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Also, for those of you not used to wearing a jacket, please don't button up th last (lowest) button.
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by auxym 11y ago
I learned python at 14 (12 years ago) to get it to do my rote math homework for me. Seemed like decent motivation at the time.
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Modern, decent quality ball bearings have a high chrome content (not quite "stainless steel") and don't rust so easily. The primary reason for grease (oil in a few specific applications) is definitely lubricating the ball&#x2
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by auxym 11y ago
Re: state lotteries and education, I think John Oliver's segment is at least worth watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PK-netuhHA
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by auxym 11y ago
They do have a desktop client, however it has a well incompatibility with newer versions of libgcrypt on recent debian/ubuntu. They don't seem to care about fixing it. Plus, the desktop apps, on my laptop, spawns like 7 SpotifyHel
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by auxym 11y ago
>Lots of outdoorsy people move to places like Colorado, Montana, Wyoming for hiking, camping, etc. This one is interesting. I spent 2 months in a ski town in western canada this winter. The classic story of ski towns is that many, many p
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I have personally found Spotify's Browse>Discover feature to be be useful and worthy, I've found a lot of interesting music in there. My use case though is that I most often go on Spotify to listen to a specific album I had in
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by auxym 12y ago
Out of curiosity, why is the HN Folklore not fond of MMM? I mean, you don't have to take it religiously, but pouring over his blog made me think a lot my career plans.
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by auxym 12y ago
You make valid and understandable points, I think, but I'd still like to expose my point of view, as I read mostly "classics", interrupted by the occasional piece of non-fic. I'm not really into stopping my reading to ta
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by auxym 12y ago
It's not a question of surface area, but that the air you're paying to warm up will all go right to the ceiling. You can easily get temperature gradients of at least 5 C on a cold day with a two-story high open set up. That is whe
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by auxym 12y ago
The great thing about these people, I think, is that they're going to tell you what they think about you, no BS, but they also expect the same from you: you can be 100% straight up with them. Reminds me of a good friend and also of a r
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by auxym 12y ago
I'm also realizing the "Do what you love" thing is bullshit. No matter what you do, work will stay work. Some days you'll hate it, some days it's alright. One piece of advice I liked is to take the artisan's ap
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by auxym 12y ago
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain): A tale about escape, thinking for yourself and looking upon society with a critical eye. Plus, I find the beauty of the language, especially dialogues written in the characters' respecti
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by auxym 12y ago
I'm in mechanical engineering and love tinkering with stuff, and I also can't really find an excuse to get a 3D printer. In the research lab I used to work in, we had both a printer and trotec laser cutter (for acrylic and similar
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by auxym 12y ago
If you're wondering what to make, then pg's essay on startup ideas seems relevant: http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
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by auxym 12y ago
Torx is a pretty optimized drive [1]. Otherwise, yeah, it would likely be possible. Many vendors have been proposing semi-automatic structural optimization via finite element methods for a while now (for example, [2]). I'd assume it&#x
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by auxym 12y ago
SVG with lots of elements can often be larger than a even a pretty high resolution PNG. Happens to me often when exporting graphs with thousands of data points.
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by auxym 12y ago
I just graduated with an M.Sc.A. I feel the biggest thing I got out of it was the ability to take a vague project idea, and properly make it into something tangible, by myself. Analyzing previous work, modeling, designing building and testi
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by auxym 12y ago
Your milk also likely is labeled "homogenized", otherwise the fatty cream would indeed separate and float on top.
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by auxym 12y ago
Similar here, don't really want to do a full backup of all my personal files and such to dropbox. Right now I only do a local backup to a usb HD. However, I'm considering getting an amazon EBS volume and setting up a Ruby script o
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by auxym 12y ago
I really like LyX! http://www.lyx.org/ For beginners or people who don't know / don't want to learn Latex, it's great. It's a bit more clunky if you're more of a latex "power-user" an
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by auxym 12y ago
I like latex and use it almost exclusively for non-collaborative stuff. I've grown to despise word, although it is easy to make the argument that it's quicker for throwing up a short document. My main gripe with latex is debuggi
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by auxym 12y ago
If anyone's looking for a recommendation, I've found industrial antifatigue mats (found in machine shops and the like, mcmaster-carr sells some as would most industrial suppliers) surprisingly comfortable for standing on all day.
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Random other example: lab I worked in had a CNC milling machine that accepted FAT32 usb drives to load g-code from.
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>Where does the money come from to support everyone? In the context of an article on the mechanization of everything, the answer would be that economic value would be created largely automatically by computers and machines. In a capitali
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by auxym 12y ago
There's a few distros out there that are based on arch but come with well set up desktops. I've had a good experience with manjaro.

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