eecsninja

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by eecsninja 8y ago
> If you can't find anything fun to do in the bay area but visit SF that doesn't require sitting in traffic on the weekends because everyone else had the same idea FTFY
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by eecsninja 8y ago
A further takeaway is to keep a hidden recorder when dealing with these academic authority figures. That way when they stab you in the back like that, you can expose them in front of your class. Just make sure you have a way out when they g
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by eecsninja 8y ago
I'm a Googler who conducts interviews. > It is my experience that interviewers from countries with rote-learning based educational systems ask canned questions and expect regurgitated answers. Interviewers from western educational s
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by eecsninja 8y ago
This is key. It's not that you're going to be third-world-country poor, it's that regardless of what you do, you won't experience the same economic benefits for the effort that you put in, compared to 30 years ago. This
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by eecsninja 8y ago
No. Just like we will not see professional graphic design, 3d modeling, circuit layout, or physics simulation on a mobile phone. Why? Because a phone is fundamentally a consumer's device, not a producer's device. Just because yo
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by eecsninja 8y ago
So what happens when you stay at your current job because you've just stopped caring for any of the software work out there? It's easier just to stay with your current company than to have to incur the costs of changing to a new e
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Good stuff. Makes me wonder how many programmers still think of pre-C++11, and all the tropes of what's wrong with the older form of the language, when they opt for using other languages like Java. SMH.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Cry me a river. I'm still waiting for the day when our productivity scales with computing power (or node size). [1] Until then, the drive toward smaller/faster/whatever-other-superlatives CPU's is just people running on
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by eecsninja 8y ago
This begs the question of what will be the next trivial game by this company that will be hyped as the next quantum leap forward only to fizzle out a few years later while revealing how naive the developers are about the implications of rea
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by eecsninja 8y ago
> And in fact vandalism probably goes up. I guess it's too much to expect Americans to act like the Japanese when it comes to taking care of public spaces.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
People go their separate ways in their 20s. There is less of the shared struggle that characterized college camaraderie. It also becomes harder to line up schedules to keep in touch with old friends. Back in college, at least everyone was o
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Maybe people on this forum aren't as open-minded as they'd like to think.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Thanks for sharing, and for pointing out that it's ultimately about self-improvement. I'd upvote you more if I could.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
> it seems academia really did fail you, as your argument just falls apart prima facie. the learned person would reflect on the wealth of the feedback that you're getting here rather than assuming that you've unsheathed some gl
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Anecdote: I remember in a scientific writing class in college, the professor told us that we should always give credit when citing someone. I asked her if that was just a good practice and courtesy, or an actual moral obligation. She just r
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by eecsninja 8y ago
> This does not apply to the majority of students going to college. Why should a tiny fraction of students be able to drag down the reputation of a college because they do not want to do the work that they signed up to do, paid tuition t
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by eecsninja 8y ago
> What about other artificial systems with defined rules, like sports? Is doping or other cheating permissible? If so, at all levels, or only professional levels? Actually you raise a good point. The sports system is like that too, it&#x
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Nice name. I probably wouldn't want to work for you anyway.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Dude I've been out of school for almost a decade. I didn't major in CS. And the only stuff I learned that was useful for my future career was through a project class where it was impossible to cheat or otherwise bullshit your way
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by eecsninja 8y ago
If you think the only important part of your children's education is what happens inside the walls of schools, then you're already setting them up for a life of mediocrity and servitude.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
These are real-world situations with real consequences on people's time, money, and lives. Honesty and ethics matter here. That's what licensing requirements are for. That's different from the academic system where you only u
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by eecsninja 8y ago
It is my belief that we should have checks and balances against that in other aspects of life where they matter. Where people's money or lives are on the line. Academia is not one of those situations.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Commercial fraud: > The theory of contract espoused here demonstrates that fraud is properly viewed as a type of theft. Suppose Karen buys a bucket of apples from Ethan for $20. Ethan represents the things in the bucket as being apples,
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by eecsninja 8y ago
> I don't know a clear distinction between "accomplish and explain" and "write answers" for academic study. In my undergraduate education, the most valuable class I had was a set of embedded systems classes. No t
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by eecsninja 8y ago
My point is that cheating is at worst a violation of rules/contracts. I'm saying there's a different way of thinking to understand why somethings are wrong -- not just that they are wrong, but the underlying reasons as well.
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by eecsninja 8y ago
> People who cheat their way to a degree, are lying to future employees about possessing a level of knowledge that they do not have. Not if they don't apply to jobs. > Being able to communicate, and think, in a clear and coherent
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by eecsninja 8y ago
Regarding that employee who outsourced his work: It's not that he didn't do anything wrong. It's that "cheating" is an artificial construct that should be done away with in our way of thinking, and instead we should
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by eecsninja 8y ago
You're right, actually. He hasn't proved trustworthy, but that's because he leaked confidential company materials. I don't get why this is being brought up as a matter of cheating rather than leaking, which is the big el
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by eecsninja 8y ago
I agree about the lack of ethics, but that's something to be screened by future employers or school admissions. I don't disagree with schools having penalties for cheating. But on the moral severity scale, it's really an infr
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by eecsninja 8y ago
From what I can see, the real problem was that he leaked confidential information to the outside world. Unless we can prove some harm to the consumer or the shareholder, I don't see why anyone outside of the company should care. I stil

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