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by bcbrown 4y ago
In 2019 my employer posted the necessary H1B notices, and the new grad jobs were 115-130k. This was cash salary, and I believe the stock grants were minimal/nonexistent at that level. This was not a faang-level public company, nor a hi
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by bcbrown 4y ago
> Where are the nice people who are also influential? I wouldn't recommend taking this article, and specifically this quote, as a suitable basis for saying Wittgenstein wasn't a good or nice person. He was a tremendously compli
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It hasn't been updated in a while, but www.drinkboy.com is a nice site for learning cocktail recipes. The author also has a series of videos demonstrating how to mix various cocktails on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by bcbrown 4y ago
That's essentially the system I use. I have it set to turn the furnace on for an hour in the morning right before I wake up. Other than that, I manually set the temperature when I'm at home over the course of the day. It automatic
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by bcbrown 4y ago
For the bristlecone pines in California and Nevada, a primary cause of death for old trees is that erosion slowly exposes their root system over time until it kills them. So in a sense, they can outlive the mountains they grow upon.
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by bcbrown 4y ago
> Probably going to install an incinerating toilet That reminds me of one of my favorite sentences: "Yes, while some of you may think nothing of pooping into a mechanical box of fire, the prospect is a rather new idea for yours trul
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by bcbrown 4y ago
Seeing someone refer to any piece of software technology as a "trash fire" makes it harder for me to view them as credible. It's unnecessarily divisive and insulting, and it means it's unlikely they will have any appreci
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by bcbrown 4y ago
It's not scientific literature, but I got the inspiration from the book "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning".
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Perhaps this explanation will help. When I hear the word 'Sahara' I think of a physical place, in northern Africa. When I hear the word 'desert' I think of an ecological system, characterized primarily by low rainfall an
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> Personally if my bank was also in the business of spying on financial transactions commercially... I wouldn't feel super secure about my choice of bank. Are you aware that your (bank-issued) credit card purchase data is almost cer
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My office used to be right by the local art museum, and I was a member. Whenever I felt stuck, I'd go take a half hour to look at art, and usually a solution would quickly come to mind.
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To get to the moon, you first have to want to get to the moon. Literature excels at disseminating dreams and desires.
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by bcbrown 4y ago
I still disagree, but I think I better understand the disagreement now. I find it easiest to learn a new language by starting with the canonical beginner's book, e.g. the Pickaxe book for Ruby. I find it hard to learn tooling like CI&#
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I mostly disagree with this blog post. I think one of the most important things to do, if you're starting a job at a company that uses a language you don't have experience in, is to ask the hiring manager what recommendations they
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by bcbrown 4y ago
He, uh, says that he writes "with a pencil or a pen and a piece of paper". Not a typewriter. I'm not saying he's right, but I don't think he's fooling himself. I think his response at the bottom makes that clea
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by bcbrown 4y ago
Everything about software and software employment is kinda odd. The most relevant college degree is fairly irrelevant to the actual experience and skills necessary to succeed in industry. The field is the result of a merger between rarified
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by bcbrown 4y ago
> Back when I was a student, there was a professor emeritus of communications who liked to say things like "communication usually fails, except by accident". Are you talking about Osmo A. Wiio? https://jkorpela.fi&#x
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Ok, sounds like we agree. I phrase it as, people have their inherent political positions, and then they rationalize them post-hoc.
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> a narrative machine that creates who we are using words. That's a really interesting thought that I'll have to spend some more time with. It makes me think of an experiment I heard about[0] with people who had lobotomies. The
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> I sometimes think that persistence of experience is an illusion maintained by memory. That every time we lose consciousness then regain it, "it" is simply a new instance that is a clone of the old instance with the illusion i
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by bcbrown 4y ago
I've had a similar experience, but only once, and only induced as an accidental side effect by months of mental and physical preparation. About ten years ago, I spent three months where I almost singularly (outside of my software job)
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by bcbrown 4y ago
I was a little bummed that a site called nerdfitness was full of memes and cliches. I was hoping for something more along the lines of defining a model of the world; defining a goal to achieve; explaining how to build a system that applies
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by bcbrown 4y ago
Everything I said applies to resistive heating as well. Efficiency isn't the only relevant metric, and I was attempting to explain how another metric, responsiveness, is more important to me.
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by bcbrown 4y ago
Learn the vocabulary. Look up things like 409a valuations, 83b elections, NSO and ISO stock options, the difference between long-term and short-term capital gains, strike price vs exercise price (plus how and when taxes on options are trigg
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> My view is, accurate information should be the basis of all decision making, and the only way humans have found to come up with accurate information (about things like risks of global warming, causes of disease, etc.) is the rational s
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> The only lens that works when viewing politics (and altruism is a form of politics) is to assume people are miscommunicating their intended outcome. Could you explain what you mean by this? I'm intrigued.
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You can't use copper or aluminum pans on induction stoves, so you're not going to be able to have a pan that has both high thermal conductivity and low thermal heat capacity. This is important for cooking things that need to go qu
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You think saying "a really amazing case of a business [that executed] better than everyone else" is dismissive and diminishing?
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> [One super cool thing the man page mentions is that if you create a link named z<programname> eg. zsed, with zrun as the link target, then when you run `zsed XYZ`, zrun will read its own program name, and execute 'zrun sed X
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> May I ask if anyone has a technique for introducing new CL tools into their everyday workflow? Pick one tool a year. Write it on a sticky note on your monitor. Every time you're doing something on the command line, ask yourself &q

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