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by chenning 7y ago
Yes, I was referring to programmer (or related) for a university.
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by chenning 7y ago
You may want to consider looking into academia. Everyone knows the pay isn't as good, but that can be an advantage. Academia loses (or never gets) a lot of talented engineers due to the pay, lack of fancy perks, etc. There actually are
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by chenning 7y ago
What's really crazy to think about is how much flak Java took for YEARS upon YEARS from a rather non-trivial number of developers, managers, and media. It was ruthless at times. Looking back, it was pathetic. Now, all of a sudden, look
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by chenning 7y ago
I haven't read the entire article, but the title and first few paragraphs and images/tables are unfair and misleading. This looks like a stereotypical jab at Android that you would expect from a company like Apple Inc. If you want
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by chenning 8y ago
Would you classify someone like Linus Torvalds as a manager and an individual contributor? I see a lot of obsession with pigeonholing and defining roles with zero degrees of freedom. "A manager needs to stop doing ____ and needs to s
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by chenning 8y ago
I might be putting words into the op's mouth but, what I think the they were trying to say that this is what their life looked like right before experiencing a severe panic attack. So if you find yourself making decisions like this, yo
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by chenning 8y ago
In my opinion, Julia has everything you need to be productive in a scientific computing or academic arena right now. In fact, if you're in an atmosphere where there's a lot of chaining together various command line tools Julia act
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by chenning 8y ago
Yes. I didn't really consider that. I was thinking more along the lines of an expiring token. If you had to punch it in, someone who came around and Thermanator'd it would always be too late.
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by chenning 8y ago
How is it 2018 and I can enable 2-factor auth on Twitter but not where I withdraw money from my bank account?
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by chenning 8y ago
Fair enough. I shouldn't have used the word "always".
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by chenning 8y ago
I would also argue that a healthy dose of tech illiteracy (if that's what you want to call it) is precisely what we need in this situation. Tech minded people will always find a way to decide in favor of technology. They are loyal to t
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by chenning 9y ago
Netflix should validate the email account. But, also, when you get the email to update the invalid credit card information and you click on the link, shouldn't Netflix force you to Sign In? This kind of security step is already common
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by chenning 9y ago
I agree with this. I don't think these companies need to tap your phone to figure out how to choose an Ad for you. They can do an excellent job just knowing that someone is at your house looking up something specific. I suppose one c
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by chenning 9y ago
Nothing like a good feud to warm up credit cards. Wonder if sales are up today?
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by chenning 9y ago
be mern (sorry)
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by chenning 11y ago
Soooo... should people get recognition, or not? Re: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10838166