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by clusterhacks 2y ago
Doesn't this ignore the reality on the ground that Clojure is a niche (but wonderful) programming language that offers very few career opportunities? It simply isn't big in any specific domain. I also don't buy that you see m
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Ok, so this is kind of funny but I also want to know - did/do you feel productive with J for stats work? Did you ever switch to R? If so, how would you describe the two languages to a non-programmer?
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
One thing that has helped me relax is that my partner has a career that is very different than mine and we are a dual-income household. We have, for the most part, lived a life that can be supported on just one of our incomes. Our mortgage
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
To be clear, I am saying standardized tests (SAT and ACT) are useful for admission decision purposes today where the average high school graduate who applies to a college has a 3.5-4.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale. I am also being rather specific i
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Seriously? That just seems ridiculous. Is this an aging thing, where folks are worried about low testosterone or something?
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Wish I could upvote more "to increase the likelihood that they can get a good job or get into grad school." I taught as an adjunct at a great public university. Undergrads seem to think there are two grades - A or failing. But tha
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Share some numbers - I'm totally curious how many applicants you are getting for roles total/applicants that you easily identify as using LLMs. Even ballpark would be ok, "We got 40+ applicants for a senior software engineer,
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Now that's interesting - I haven't paid much attention to the HPC job market in years. Are you a HPC system administrator, HPC dev, or both?
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
When I was at IBM, the whole patent/publication process was intensely gamed. Most employees in my division weren't particularly interested but made efforts to patent/publish because it was part of moving up salary bands. A fe
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
You may be interested in looking at the current Taulbee survey[1] - it surveys PhD granting CS and CE programs and collects MS and BS degree numbers as well. I also found [2] that shows "computer and information science" graduates
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Honest question: What changed? A few months ago you commented on HN and said you made $190K on a 4-day work week? Did your company do a lay-off? Freelance dry up?
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Really? I looked up some data about working in the trades awhile back (so numbers maybe slightly higher in 2022 data than in my comment, but still close). The U.S. Census Bureau lists the annual real median earnings at $41,535 in 2020 for a
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
At Harvard, 28% of students receive no aid at all. So they pay full sticker price. Average net price by income in 2021-2022 [1]: Income Cost 0-$30,000 -- $5900 $30,001-$48,000 -- $3,002 $48,001-$75,000 --
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
"which I believe is due to bloated administration." In my state's public university system, the amount of funding provided by the state to that system per full-time equivalent student has dropped to its lowest level (in 2017
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
I taught an entry-level programming class in a university setting. There were weekly programming practice "labs" and a more involved independent project with several check-ins with me over the semester. I gave an open-book final e
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Apologies! Not invisible or forgotten!! Do you remember any rough numbers on started vs finished on the two CTF tracks y'all put up? FYI, the six stockfighter challenges were some of the most fun I ever had hacking around. I enjoy puzz
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Thanks!! No surprises here from what I read, but definitely appreciate your thoughts. Got a short list of companies in addition to Fly.io that are using a hiring process you like or love?
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Probably depend on staging for this disease? If I was diagnosed with pancreatic stage 4 (metastatic) disease, the ship has maybe sailed on meaningful improvements in 5 year survival. I would probably opt-in to palliative surgery to improve
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Totally agree it was a blast. I learned a ton about trading just reading various recommended resources (Harris Trading and Exchanges was a solid intro) and then solving the levels. I don't think very many players did all the Starfighte
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
It was fun! I did all the stock trading challenges but none of the embedded device challenges. patio11 once said that the code wasn't in an open-source ready state. There were some folks who went so far as re-implementing/duplicat
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
We use similar questions with the exception of #6 - our data sets are small enough that just getting a correct query is fine. We add a small relational design exercise to see if they understand data modeling 1-to-N and M-N relationships. To
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Yes, the financial trade-offs for getting a PhD versus simply earning median software engineer salary is extreme. So much so that most people should only consider the PhD if that trade-off simply isn't a consideration. Somewhat more pr
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
While it might be better if you better defined what you think the "academic career path" is, I'll throw out my experience . . . I work as a programmer at an academic/research institution. But the job is just normal IT an
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
"Business users often ask for things without an ounce of rationale." Deserves extra upvotes just for this statement. This has always been painful to me working in the data analysis and reporting space. When I get many requests for
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Sure, but UIUC total sticker price is $32K-ish. And approximately 36% of students pay that full cost if only 64% receive any financial aid based on: https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/q=illinois&s=all&pg=2&amp
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
I gave an honest floor salary to a company prior to interviewing. Their offer was 20% less than my floor. I think they thought it was my "best case" number despite very clear communication that it was my minimum to consider leavin
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
The article is like four paragraphs. I think the contribution is better identification of risk factors than were previously known? The most important variables influencing KECAN included 4 known risk factors(age, race, sex, BMI) and
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
I'm excited to see the docs for Rama. But I am also a little scared of the comment " I came to suspect a new programming paradigm was needed" from Nathan. It's not so much that I think the comment is wrong or anything, b
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Good take. We are questioning if it is even an average investment, especially the truly high-cost and selective private schools where tuition sits at $80,000+ contrasted with $30,000 at our state's well-known and respected flagship uni
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by clusterhacks 3y ago
Yep, I attended a lower-ranked state school for an undergrad in CS and had a wonderful experience. Lots of positive interactions with faculty in CS and math. My undergrad school was also attended by a large population of highly motivated st

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