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by decasteve 13y ago
If your heart is not in it 100%, "don't bother" is good advice. Photography is a profession for those who either "picked their parents well" or can't stand not to do it, i.e. your life's passion.
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Shifting Work(jarche.com)
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by decasteve 13y ago
In the process of shutting down my own company. I was bootstrapping a software startup with consulting gigs for the past 5 years. What killed it was my inability to expand, i.e. costly attempts to expand dried up my funds. Though I learne
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by decasteve 14y ago
"I think universities are completely obsolete. There’s very little that goes on at a university that can’t be done better otherwise. The biggest raison d’être for the present system is the security of the professor. Once you eliminate the o
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by decasteve 14y ago
Not sure about the rest of Canada but definitely standard operating procedure for the Maritimes.
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by decasteve 14y ago
My interest in learning Latin is to read Newton's Principia and Gauss' Disquisitiones in original form.
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by decasteve 14y ago
Similar trajectory here. Probably a number of HN'ers in the same boat? Phase I, 18-29. "Work, train (athletics), travel, and save money." Started working at 18. Never settled down anywhere, after 21 I started saving money. Also buildin
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by decasteve 14y ago
I picked up my first Lenovo (Y580), my first Windows based PC since 2007. Worked great but didn't care for Windows too much. It is now running Ubuntu 12.10 without too much trouble except for mis-reporting the battery life on occasion. Th
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by decasteve 14y ago
Another Canadian here (Maritimer). With temperature I find many people talk about the weather in Celsius but the temperature of their homes/thermostats in Fahrenheit. Swimming pools also measured in Fahrenheit. Gym weights, except in Olym
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by decasteve 14y ago
Analogous to this I found category theory gave me a better/different view understanding of modern algebra and set theory.
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by decasteve 14y ago
I am running 12.10 and disabled this right away in the privacy settings. Why not have it opt in instead of the ninja mode opt out? Explicitly prompt the user to enable this when first using Dash but disable by default.
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by decasteve 14y ago
Work for a tax-credit seeking company? I'm not sure of the situation in the US but in Canada we have something called: Scientific Research & Experimental Development (SRED) program, where the government will reimburse a company a percen
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by decasteve 14y ago
> ...if at any point one of the big three see Tesla as a threat they will put efforts into... They will pull every dirty trick in the book, i.e. Laywer up, before they build a competing car to the Model S. (see Tucker 1948: http://en.
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by decasteve 14y ago
Canada is still in deficit mode but our debt-to-GDP ratio still looks pretty good.
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All these articles are borne out of the same question: will MOOCs supplant the education system? None ask how can MOOCs and online lectures increase the quality of our education system? What would happen if universities adapt to incorpora
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Mount Allison University (Canada)
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by decasteve 14y ago
First hand experience. Almost identical background, self-taught teenager started working professionally at 18 with very little formal training. 33 years old now and almost completed a part-time math degree. (2-1/2 years to go) Advice: do