doktrin

71 ms·

691.
by doktrin 11y ago
On a somewhat related note, the relationship between CMU's campus and SEI / CERT (another FFRDC) was somewhat strained recently in light of the recent Tor allegations. Traditional academia and government researchers will always ma
692.
by doktrin 11y ago
It could be both. It could also be that the two phenomena are related in more ways than one. I'm not a sociologist and this isn't my wheelhouse, but I can both imagine a world in which exposure to crime can jade law enforcement ag
693.
by doktrin 11y ago
> I'd defy anyone to tell me exactly which one of the rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html this his/her post is breaking I'm not going to hang out on algolia for an hour to dig up the
694.
by doktrin 11y ago
> I love that I just got down-voted for coming out to the community as both queer and victim of sexual assault! Do you really think that's why you were downvoted?
695.
by doktrin 11y ago
Agreed. The parent was making a fairly disingenuous comparison.
696.
by doktrin 11y ago
> Think of Perl5 and Perl6 as American English and British English This is a bit pedantic, but I think a better analogy might be Dutch and German - similar roots, but where fluency in one doesn't confer fluency in the other. Granted
697.
by doktrin 11y ago
> I am not following your issues with the versioning. As I understand it, Perl 6 is essentially a complete language overhaul. However, the sequential numbering implies an iteration. To me, that's unintuitive. At the risk of over-ana
698.
by doktrin 11y ago
> except that 3 does not fix as much as 6 On the logical flipside, 3 also doesn't alter nearly as much as 6. It was intended (and largely functions) as an iteration - not a backwards incompatible re-write. It's not an irrelevan
699.
by doktrin 11y ago
Naive question time. Is Perl 6 something that non-Perl developers should be looking into? This may be inflammatory, but it's my earnest impression : as an outsider, I really don't like how Perl's versioning was handled (5 v
700.
by doktrin 11y ago
I have ~4 years of experience and I make 60k, and feel like I'm worth closer to 35-40. Wonder where this industry will be when the bubble pops.
701.
by doktrin 11y ago
Gratulerer, dude.
702.
by doktrin 11y ago
Coding bootcamps screen for prior experience and/or aptitude
703.
by doktrin 11y ago
"Desperate to not drink socially" "Desperate to not volunteer for military service" "Desperate to not eat meat" These are all things that to varying degrees (and varying by locale) run contrary to social expect
704.
by doktrin 11y ago
"Desperate" does seem like a bit strong of a word to describe a goal that is achievable with 0 effort.
705.
by doktrin 11y ago
like what?
706.
by doktrin 11y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful contribution. I suspect the term 'safe space' has at least partially gone the way of 'hacker' in popular consciousness - but that doesn't have to stop anyone from using it.
707.
by doktrin 11y ago
I find it weird that such a seasoned academic researcher would completely gloss over the distinction between academia and an FFRDC.
708.
by doktrin 11y ago
I don't have much to add, but I just want to say this is my favorite comment in this thread. It's not confused about basic details (i.e. CMU vs. SEI), lays out some relevant history and touches on what is to my mind the single big
709.
by doktrin 11y ago
The SEI is funded by the DoD and many among its staff and leadership are former military. It's not really 'academia' in the way you're imagining it. Rather, think of it as a government contractor that only does R&D.
710.
by doktrin 11y ago
In this context, $1mm is chump change.
711.
by doktrin 11y ago
This is the truth. With little exaggeration, we're talking about the work of two engineers over the course of a year. That needs to sink in.
712.
by doktrin 11y ago
Glad to see someone pointed this out. It's a pretty meaningful distinction. To provide some additional context for other readers, the SEI is in the same category as Lincoln Labs & Los Alamos : managed by a University, but operated
713.
by doktrin 11y ago
This work was done by the SEI - an FFRDC - not campus researchers.
714.
by doktrin 11y ago
> they just aren't as patently absurd at face value Isn't that the entire point? It's not like all assumptions are equivalent.
715.
by doktrin 11y ago
I can relate to this. When you find a reliable solution, please let me know.
716.
by doktrin 11y ago
The movie was deeply satirical, but the book wasn't (either that, or the satire was well masked). For instance, Haldeman (the author of Forever War) is on record stating that Starship Troopers glorifies war, and he's not the only
717.
by doktrin 11y ago
That's interesting. Most people who I've seen share their opinion on this matter prefer the newer Lenovo keyboards to that of MBPs. Laptopmag also put out a fairly detailed comparison of Lenovo's "old" and "new
718.
by doktrin 11y ago
> I think that smaller languages have the potential to be easier to implement > Citation needed Uh huh.
719.
by doktrin 11y ago
This. I've been on teams that have straight up turned people down because of age (sorry, "culture fit").
720.
by doktrin 11y ago
This is fascinating. I work for a research lab and have a clearance, but we all make below private sector industry standard. I've never actually looked at defense contractors and thus had no idea what the pay scale was like.

More ›