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by dikdik 11y ago
Yes, I am beginning to realize that a lot of people actually don't want to bang their heads against the wall regularly at work. I do, though :/ Solving an insanely hard problem I have struggled with for days, weeks, or months is t
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by dikdik 11y ago
This is a horrible comment. There is 100x more to a career than living a comfortable existence. Personally, I want to feel purposeful at work and that I am contributing to a better world. I also absolutely require regular challenges or I en
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by dikdik 11y ago
I wish there was a popular Rate my Manager site like Rate My Professor. Or companies at least took the time to poll people anonymously about their managers and took action against it. Managers make or break your experience at work. In my ex
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by dikdik 11y ago
Yes, but you forget the protestant work ethic is strong in America. The more you suffer and the less money you make, the better of a person you are. Fucking-A hiring managers, no one is here to be "the salt of the earth", we'
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by dikdik 11y ago
H1-B is supposed to be used when there are no qualified candidates in the US. The US is overflowing with throngs of people capable of being Level 1 computer programmers and working at the bottom of the fashion industry. No offense at all to
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by dikdik 11y ago
I enjoyed the program for the most part. I come from a life sciences background and found the biology based courses to be slightly boring/review. The CS courses were definitely challenging for me, I only had minor programming experienc
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by dikdik 11y ago
So I just finished my MS in Bioinformatics at Johns Hopkins University and completed it 100% online. The program is meant for working professionals and there were also students taking classes both on-campus and online, and students taking a
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by dikdik 11y ago
The problem is if this trajectory is allowed to continue, what happens to your kids and grandkids?
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by dikdik 11y ago
How about an iwatch app that tracks if two people meeting are attracted to each other? Location aware Tindr for your heart beat. There's probably pretty huge potential for fuck-ups if you don't get it right though.
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by dikdik 11y ago
Isn't that a self-fulfilling prophecy? Eventually women will have to take some leadership here and not expect men to say, "we're firing half our company and only hiring women who aren't even in the field anymore so we ca
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by dikdik 11y ago
Are we attempting to wash away history? It seems like this article and a lot of comments are insinuating women's rights have only decreased in the last 40 years. WHAT. My mother, born in 1955, was told by her father there was no reason
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by dikdik 11y ago
This just seems weird to me as a millennial male. I am obviously lacking some perspective, but my advanced and AP math and science classes in high school were always very split by boys and girls. The upper echelon of students in those cours
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by dikdik 11y ago
Don't forget to instill a sense of ingratitude into the renter class for disliking their falling quality of life. Point out to them that poorer people around the world are experiencing an incline in living standards, so they should be
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by dikdik 11y ago
Bioinformatics with extensive understanding of molecular biology. The reality is, you will have a hell of a time getting anyone to loan you tools for meaningful contribution without a PhD.
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by dikdik 11y ago
I have a few friends that are civil engineers. "being technicians with the tools we're given" is exactly there job title. They aren't coming up with insane new concepts for bridges or new mixtures for concrete to improve
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by dikdik 11y ago
That's how it is all across Indiana as well. It is awful. I was back there this summer to see a friend, had to find a new place to crash at the last minute because he had to go pull his brother out of a shed and let him detox at his ho
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by dikdik 11y ago
Best reasons I can think of is projection and pride. If I couldn't do this job without a PhD and 10 years of experience then of course NO ONE else could possibly do it without those credentials. Then there's the, if I HAD to have
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by dikdik 11y ago
I agree with everything you said, but want to offer an addendum. There is still a ton of potential out there for faster and more efficient horses. You won't be a billionaire or on the cover of Time, but you can become insanely rich and
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by dikdik 11y ago
I truly believe we've had a paradigm shift in how workers are viewed in this country. Even Paul Graham thinks if a labor union exists, there's opportunity for disruption in that industry. People are commoditized and anything but a
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by dikdik 11y ago
I had the same reaction, but then thought....there may be a small, but growing niche of people that want a 24/7 connected device allowing some of the 21st century apps without all the overbearing communication.
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by dikdik 11y ago
I'd rather have my mom back, but you're right! David Bowie would improve the world so much!
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by dikdik 11y ago
"47% have been asked to do lower-level tasks that male colleagues are not asked to do (e.g., note-taking, ordering food, etc.) 32% disagree that they have been asked to do these tasks." Biased reporting much? 47% of people have ha
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by dikdik 11y ago
I am more likely to take cabs now than I was before. With Uber and Lyft I often have almost a 50% over cabs 5 years ago. Additionally, it's a hell of a lot simpler, especially when half the cabs I used to take refused credit cards.
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by dikdik 11y ago
Not only pay more attention to them, but learn from them and incorporate them into our everyday lives. At some point (and I hope and pray that point is soon), efficiency as the end all be all of the world needs to die. It destroys humanity
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by dikdik 11y ago
There's some really interesting research out there on schizophrenia. "Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann found that voice-hearing experiences of people with serious psychotic disorders are shaped by local culture – in the Unit
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by dikdik 11y ago
Exactly. Increase taxes on homeownership to pay the teacher's salaries. If homeowners don't like this, they can cut out their NIMBY ideals and allow adequate construction of new housing.
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by dikdik 11y ago
"Any industry that still has unions has potential energy that could be released by startups." That is viscerally disgusting.
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by dikdik 11y ago
Instead of paying teachers a livable wage, we will meddle with the housing market and cause everyone else's rents to go up! HOOOORAY!
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by dikdik 11y ago
>If the problem is about lack of adequate education, opportunities, etc. then let's discuss those concerns directly. That is a large part of the concern and it is happening because of inequality. Funding for public education gets cu
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by dikdik 11y ago
We're on a website called "Hacker News." We have the ability to make innumerable improvements to the way governments work. There is no reason to pick 1, 2, or 3. We can have anything in between. We can make something new, we

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