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by brimble 5y ago
Can confirm, I bail if you ask any amount of time at all be put into a "weed out" exercise before even talking to a real person. If my resume's not enough to get you interested in a conversation, I'll look elsewhere. If
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by brimble 5y ago
> Not once have I applied a proof to solve a programming problem. There are people in this very thread insisting that proofs are extremely useful in programming. I dunno if I just picked up the same skills elsewhere (Logic? Philosophy? J
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by brimble 5y ago
I do not have the right background to be an authority on this, but from going through school myself and paying a fair amount of attention to math reformers over the years, it seems like they usually believe: 1) The problem with math in sc
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by brimble 5y ago
> I'm a little snarky, but you have a broken idea of what math is. I do not, which is why I explicitly acknowledged that what I want is not "real math". I don't care about math for math's sake, even a little. Not
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by brimble 5y ago
> Math is pretty fun, though, proofs and all, and I'd recommend trying your hand at it as a cool little side hobby! It can often help with "clarity of thought" :) (In many cases, proofs are just one or two lines that tell
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by brimble 5y ago
I started my journey on DOS. I'd put more hours into probably five or six other desktop operating systems, plus Android on mobile, than I had anything from Apple, before I finally gave OS X a real shot (around 2011) and, a couple yea
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by brimble 5y ago
I'll check those out, thank you!
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by brimble 5y ago
Heh, I have a long-forgotten-due-to-complete-lack-of-use-for-15-years-straight background in calculus. Solid, it is not. Thanks for the tip, though.
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by brimble 5y ago
Are there any "math for people who just want to use it" tracks in math pedagogy? I don't care a bit about proving any of it's true, or even reading others proofs of same. "Recognize which tool to apply, then apply t
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by brimble 5y ago
Your example is much easier to parse, and I know far less about that than about the industry in the HN title.
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by brimble 5y ago
I found it hard to tell which words were and were not part of proper nouns, and which were organizations or things and which were people, in this headline. It reads like gibberish.
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by brimble 5y ago
> If it seems like they have less bugs, it's because they do as little as possible with their software as they can get away with. This does not square with my experience of their bundled software being very capable, very respectful
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by brimble 5y ago
> On a pocket calculator, you have one keyboard layout, and you simply ignore the keys you don't use. Has this ever been a problem? Yes. There's a reason they sell basic stand-alone calculators, too, and it's not just pric
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by brimble 5y ago
The cure is using other software. It's almost all so fucking terrible—yes, even from FAANG—that before long you'll stop feeling bad about your own bugs. That's not an excuse to get lazy about bugs, but it ought to help you no
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by brimble 5y ago
Republicans and Democrats alike bought into neo-liberalism entirely, no later than 1990 (though, yes, it did start on the R side). The leaders and presidential candidates of the big two parties have consistently been on board with it, with
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by brimble 5y ago
> The manager tells his devs to just "make it work" for the most challenged user, to abstract away all these nuances of how a browser works. They use test groups to find out how my grandma expects a website to work and they bas
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by brimble 5y ago
> Somehow, these private schools offer better education for less money than that. They don't have as many "problem" kids who get one-on-one dedicated personnel, self-contained classrooms with two staff just for ten kids, e
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by brimble 5y ago
Around here the public schools give homework starting in 1st grade. Very little, but it increases pretty fast after that. Not new, really. I was assigned lots of homework in grade school, back in the early 90s. I just easily got all of it d
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by brimble 5y ago
Having X employees in a given city/county/state is often part of agreements for skipping taxes or even attaining grants for new office development, that's true.
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by brimble 5y ago
Bingo! Wanna bet upper management and board members spend some of their money buying up nearby or distant-but-commute-friendly property just before a new "campus" is announced? Not the actual land the campus will be built on, of c
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by brimble 5y ago
Sole employee![0] [0] (but sub-contracts work out extensively) Just about guarantee that's the situation.
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by brimble 5y ago
> I read this is relevant to the US, as Celts by and large settled the Appalachian uplands where soils were poor, and the population of the mountains has maintained a distinct Celtic culture and position in the US class hierarchy. These
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by brimble 5y ago
> People lie in anonymous polls about their voting intent. Political scientists have had to develop a separate category, along with methods to identify its members, in order to capture actual "swing voters", for related reaso
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by brimble 5y ago
> Paradoxically, working in tech is seen as somewhat low-class. Fussell (though writing about the US) may have some insight here. For one thing, working is kinda low-class; for another, being concerned about the latest-and-greatest of
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by brimble 5y ago
Discussing this is a mess for a bunch of reasons, including that no-one bothers to agree on a framework before starting to argue over it, and that there's overlapping terminology, and there are major differences between countries. So
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by brimble 5y ago
> I didn’t single them out; I highlighted this instance in my reply. Sorry, you're right. My reading wasn't as good as it could have been.
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by brimble 5y ago
Eh, leave it to the modders. There was no shortage of fan-made levels that featured some public figure widely regarded as an asshole as a killable enemy, back in the day.
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah, kids don't fail grades anymore but are just passed ever upward, and many schools have incompetent admin (of all the things I was wrong about as a kid, turns out school administrators are, on average, even dumber than I thought
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah, the ones around here have wait lists, and they're not impressed by daddy and mommy Mr. and Mrs. VP and MD, paying list tuition price. There are a dozen more where they came from. If they think a kid might make a few other familie
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by brimble 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Genius Though it looks like he's 15, not 13.

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