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by brational 11y ago
Most older cars and plenty of current SUVs/trucks still put off worse emissions. Should they be banned from use as well?
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by brational 11y ago
tea is pretty weak on caffeine and depending on the sugar you're + what's in the milk that would likely easily trump the caffeine effect. Caffeine increases lipid oxidation so you get more energy from fat. But sugar will be used u
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by brational 11y ago
Do you drink black coffee /tea? Or does you caffeinated beverage include sugar?
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by brational 11y ago
To add to it caffeine also. When I'm fasting and get hungry, anything that increase fatty acid oxidation (runnning walking caffeine weightlifting, etc) makes the hunger go away.
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by brational 11y ago
There's many studies that support that hypothesis though it tends to be in the 0-5 age range.
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by brational 11y ago
I think you kind of posed a question and a partial answer. If degree in related field (math, statistics) then yes you can pick these things up. If CS or no degree it will be much harder to pass resume filters.
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by brational 11y ago
> Or is the correct sitting position "sitting differently" every 30 minutes? Actually, yes. No sitting posture is one the body should be holding for extended time. We are supposed to move.
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by brational 11y ago
The problem is that most Americans are shocked by this. Almost all of Europe has 6-12 months? Canada has 12? So we act like it's crazy generous thing to have so much paternity leave. Good for MS & netflix. The sooner we have a wave
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by brational 11y ago
>Even today many doctors look down on nurses (as 'below' them; people whose opinions don't matter) Is that really about gender these days? As a patient, I see it that way too. But that's because the doctor has signifi
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by brational 11y ago
Yea and that makes sense for products that are actual necessities. It is bullshit if applied to an arbitrary "product".
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by brational 11y ago
What happens to the kids whose parents won't provide any leadership or input?
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by brational 11y ago
To be pedantic, those all build on linear algebra & functional analysis. At the end of the day it's all just math... just depends how far you want to zoom out the abstract lens.
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by brational 11y ago
> Undergrad probability and linear algebra is not a solid foundation in statistics. Are you trying to argue that statistics is its own field and not built upon mathematics?
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by brational 12y ago
> He needs to be clearer in what kind of math he thinks would be helpful to programmers and why it would help more than "normal" programming/computing courses. Agreed.
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by brational 12y ago
His words: This suggests that learning and doing mathematics might play an important role in educating future computer professionals. Your words: some amount of math is helpful. Do you not see how these are the same idea, abstractly? Also,
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by brational 12y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head. My two best college friends and I are all separated now but keep almost daily intellectual communication via gchat. I have to use my phone tho as I work for R&D for a big corp and chat is blocked. I
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by brational 12y ago
If you check out reddit /r/cscareerquestions and do some searches you will find tons of information about this.
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by brational 12y ago
> live comfortably for the rest of your life just on the interest from low-risk investment. 50-100k/yr is a comfortable life in most places. That's 1.2-2.5 million in capital. Definitely don't have to start a company of be
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by brational 12y ago
But the strong welfare state reduces the spread between lower and upper classes and reduces the delta required to be "mobile".
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by brational 12y ago
Yea, hopefully my post didn't indicate that I agreed with the process. You certainly listed plenty of counter examples why it can miss the mark. But my point was about Statistics. The HR warlords for all those defense/aero compani
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by brational 12y ago
I have a close friend that joined matasano about 2 years ago. While a good chunk of the readership here is familiar with some of those changes, I think your knowledge is an example of where the 'lessons learned' should be shared a
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by brational 12y ago
Yea. I and many of my coworkers are similar to you. BS&MS in applied math. Did some of the little programming courses but not the full CS path (though I did last summer work through all of this just to catch up some background http:&#x
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by brational 12y ago
> Not at Raytheon, or Northrop, or Lockheed, or Boeing, or any of the other companies I worked with during that period. All these companies require degrees, check GPA, and typically have managers that came from technical backgrounds. Wh
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by brational 12y ago
I wonder... is there a widely know list (even if small) of what companies don't do this? If it's even possible to determine that sort of thing, it'd be valuable to share and make glaringly public. Even if it has no influence
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by brational 12y ago
>and what likely isn't growing strong in 2014, is likely to continue that trend in 2015. Based on what?
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by brational 12y ago
> * High competence, low commitment... The strategy here is "We talk, you decide." Can you elaborate on this one? What do you talk about and how do you steer them to their own decisions?
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by brational 12y ago
If my boss would just let me devote 3 hours a week to whatever I want then I would never checked HN the other 37...
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by brational 12y ago
Not wrong - the poster above you probably means pure math in the analysis sense - real analysis, topology, functional analysis, algebraic topology. All of which are abstractions/generalizations (zoom out, if you will) from the real lif
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by brational 12y ago
@dsuth - that depends on country. Some employers in the US will take a new hire and call them an engineering intern if they require time and testing to reach PE status. That is not required and other employers will grant an Engineer title i
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by brational 12y ago
Since we're playing semantics, >When you get an engineering degree from a certified university, you are an engineer. That's not true. When you get a degree you have an engineering degree. When you get hired and employed as an e

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