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Ask HN: What does the career of a SWE with a MS or PhD in CS look like?
3 points by baron816 5y ago|1 comments
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by baron816 5y ago
Hollow Earth Theory
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by baron816 5y ago
I’m betting the results will be skewed by being posted here and being on the front page. HN can produce a lot of traffic, but doesn’t represent a good sample of the population.
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by baron816 5y ago
It should just be like on Mac—you can go through the App Store, or you can download directly, but with a warning. I think that would be killer argument for Epic—Apple already allows you to download apps onto their devices that don’t go thro
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by baron816 5y ago
People sure do love lotteries and gambling. What else could this be used for? Getting people to vote? Setting up a 401K? Buying health insurance?
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Ohio sees boost in shots after it announces $1M vaccination lottery(nbcnews.com)
2 points by baron816 5y ago|1 comments
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by baron816 5y ago
Fromable[1] allows you take any Javascript iterable, transform it using .map and .filter, and then output it into a collection, without creating intermediate values. [1] https://github.com/baron816/fromable
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by baron816 5y ago
I think it's possible to go native -> RN -> native without the whole being a failure. You may have a product that hasn't gained the traction that it should have because you have to build everything twice and just don't
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by baron816 5y ago
$150k/yr would be taking home $8k month (source https://www.paycheckcity.com/calculator/salary/california/ ), so would have $60k/yr after taxes and rent at the end of the year.
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by baron816 5y ago
Couldn’t NASDAQ have included in their contract that a company would have to split if it’s share price rose over a certain level?
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by baron816 5y ago
What I think is lost in the conversation here is that people don’t really have organizations they can go to to advocate their political positions. People have their families, their jobs, and maybe a couple of friends and that’s about it. Th
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by baron816 5y ago
The proposed changes are wholly reasonable, and definitely not that different from 99% of the companies out there. The real problem is that they’ve spent years hiring for a type of person where this sort of thing is anathema.
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by baron816 5y ago
Yeah, let’s say your salary was $200k. They give you $100k immediately, you turn around and find another job after a month off at $190k—that means you’re making about $273k this year.
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by baron816 6y ago
Can anyone here recommend a good non-ultrasonic humidifier?
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by baron816 6y ago
It’s not just NIMBY-ism, and NIMBY-ism isn’t what drove these away. What it is is pretty much the minimum mage—housing has to meet a minimum threshold in quality or else it can’t exist. Never mind that people might still be willing to live
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Spooks are turning to superforecasting in the Cosmic Bazaar(economist.com)
2 points by baron816 6y ago|0 comments
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by baron816 6y ago
> The bans were not popular with many South Africans. Tobella says it felt like collective punishment, even against people like him, who just wanted a drink after a long overnight shift. I think it would be a good idea for states to issu
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Why South Africa Banned Booze(npr.org)
2 points by baron816 6y ago|1 comments
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by baron816 6y ago
AOL had me early. I think you know what happened.
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by baron816 6y ago
Easy solution: tax carbon emissions. Who cares if you’re using energy to mine Bitcoin? Or if you’re using it to play video games? Or to run the AC all day? If it you’re internalizing the cost of any emissions, then you’ll use those resource
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by baron816 6y ago
I managed to subscribe through DiscountMags at $50/yr a few years ago, and they allowed me to lock that price in permanently. It might be possible to get a similar deal during one of their promotion cycles.
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by baron816 6y ago
Inequality by itself is not a bad thing. Let's start from there. If 90% of the population had a (sustainable) lifestyle of current dollar millionaires, and the remaining 10% had a (sustainable) lifestyle of dollar billionaires, there w
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by baron816 6y ago
> it was good if you were in the union and employed, but was much harder to get work and join the union. This is my fundamental problem with unions—it helps the insiders and hurts everyone else. Amazon’s working condition are rough (and
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by baron816 6y ago
If I were to just look at the bookmarks in my browser, I'd get the impression too that frameworks are useless. They're all a bunch of sites that render pretty static content. But the app that I work on in my day job (that I don&#x
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by baron816 6y ago
Yeah, they don’t have a great reputation. Just give people money instead.
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by baron816 6y ago
I don’t think that would be awesome at all. Could you imagine a committee trying do decide what clothes are acceptable. All sorts of “buy American” clauses thrown in. Each Congressional district would have to have its own factory to produce
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by baron816 6y ago
> health care be a right If something is a “right”, it doesn’t imply the government should just take care of everything and it should be totally socialized. One might consider “clothing” a right, but I don’t think we’d want the governmen
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by baron816 6y ago
What we really need is for the Fed to enable micro transactions. Make transferring money so easy and cheap that Visa et al can be disrupted. Facebook/Google would also be disrupted—people would be willing to pay $.03 to watch a video o
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by baron816 6y ago
I don’t care if they know what a linked list is. I’d happily show them that part. Everyone I’ve interviewed knew what one was though. The thing I was looking for was how they were organizing their code and breaking down the problem. That’s
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by baron816 6y ago
I don’t have a CS degree and not everyone we interview has one. But judging candidates against who you went to school with seems like an odd strategy. I don’t understand your thinking there.

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