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Ask HN: How do you become a rockstar programmer?
2 points by epiphanitus 7y ago|4 comments
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
How do we know her resignation is about hiring devs based in Russia/China and not about something else?
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
Anybody else remember when Halley's comet and Hale-Bopp were in the sky at the same time? It was one of the most amazing things I'd ever seen...
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
Impractical thought experiment: Leaving the capital expenditures for the data centers aside, what would it take to build an OS clone of AWS?
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
Honest question: Is there anybody here who regrets taking LSD? Is it really safe or are we dealing with a self-selection problem of the people who would regret taking LSD not being sane enough to bother being on internet forums? I'm no
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
RE: Item 2, I think that unfortunately genetics has a strong, though not absolute role. But on an more optimistic note I think the ability of technology to accommodate different learning styles will help unlock the potential of many people.
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
It would be really interesting to feed a csv with all of the various attributes into an ML algorithm and see if there are any statistical patterns. I bet a lot of the 'noise' could be accounted for by the meteorology of the surrou
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
Have you guys published a paper yet? I am fascinated by the subject and am really curious how you did it.
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
I recently changed careers myself. My advice is to look at positions that look interesting/are in high demand, check out the technologies that they are using, learn them, build them and put them on your Github. And make sure to put the
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
Seattlelite here. So glad to hear you found a better job! Those hell gigs can really crush you. Just to warn you it can get dark and rainy this time of year but there's plenty to do. Recommended: - The Underground Tour. A fascinating h
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
I love writing software, but I think there's something about the psychology of it that is really unnatural. Not long ago we were just hominids hanging out in small bands, and our psychological sense of worth and reward were tied to our
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. Society has it's fair share of flaws (and they absolutely should be fixed!) but all of the alternatives are way worse.
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
> GPS is also used heavily in banking and fiancee for timing purposes Fascinating. Is this to measure the lag time between ordering and executing a trade?
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
Not a hiring manager, but I just wanted to say your crowd simulation project looks really cool. Best of luck to you in your search :)
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
> WeWork leases office space and parcels it out to temporary tenants. But, what's to stop the management companies that already own the office space to do the same thing? Why pay a middle man? WeWork's business model kind of re
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
>> Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (literally the top of the list alphabetized by first name) spent $1.5 million on 9,576 ads, garnering 60 million impressions, mostly for fundraising, and it all started after she assumed office? And the ads
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
I would say that the divisions in America are more urban vs. rural in nature. The big cities in Texas tend to be very diverse and most of them are very liberal overall. However, the state is huuuuuge and there are a lots of people living in
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Ask HN: What is a good Graph DB technology to start out with?
1 points by epiphanitus 7y ago|0 comments
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
One of the things I learned when I took Intnl econ in college was that keeping a currency's value artificially low can boost exports, but will also put downward pressure on real wages domestically. Maybe that's playing a role here
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Dave Chappelle in Conversation with Maya Angelou (2006)(youtube.com)
1 points by epiphanitus 7y ago|0 comments
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
Is France also dealing with an opiod crisis? That might explain it
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
Switzerland is a relatively small country though. Here in the US, we have 50 states that are each very different from each other. Their economies rely on different industries, the natural hazards they face are very different and their cultu
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
"A final squeeze on the company is that it will lose its status as an emerging company under the JOBS Act by the end of this year, which would make the IPO process even more cumbersome. The act allows the company to use more lenient re
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
"Hey bud, we've got a new airplane for you to fly. Well, it's not really an airplane, its really more like a cockpit strapped to a rocket engine. Actually, it's more like a tiny cabin bolted to a super soaker of chemical
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
IT'S SHOWTIME TALK TO THE HAND "hello world" YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED Wow.
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
Maybe it would be a good idea to have an exception where an academic paper with a p-value that's right on the borderline can get published if he or she can find someone at another institution to replicate their results. At the very lea
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
I have a question that is tangentially related to the point you were making, but it's been bugging me lately, so here goes. Everybody says 'the robots are destroying jobs' but the unemployment rate (in the US at least) is ver
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
RE: commitment, is this a generational thing? I live outside of SF and I wonder this. Some of us have settled down sure but there seems to be more than a few of us just kind of floating around.
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
Yeah, wth is happening with Seattle? It's home to some of the richest people on earth, employment is high and business is booming. But every time I visit the city I always see at least two people on the street who appear to be overdosi
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by epiphanitus 7y ago
Yes, I've been wondering this too - especially the economic part of it. How is it that the same dynamic could be happening in so many countries that are ostensibly so different from each other? I am inclined think that this is because

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