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by framebit 9y ago
As for the memo itself, I think it's a bit of a Rorschach blot: people are seeing what they want to see in it, largely because the writing is so poor that the author fails completely to get his own points across in a coherent manner. T
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by framebit 9y ago
I'm about 70% of the way through Charlatan by Pope Brock, a non-fiction book that tells the astonishing story of a dangerous medical quack in the depression era who transcends medical quackery to infiltrate entertainment, politics, and
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by framebit 9y ago
Jared Diamond discusses western US wildfires in his fascinating book Collapse. Interesting perspective for anybody interested in this topic.
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by framebit 9y ago
That is horrible and beautiful, well done. I'm going to go listen to Mission Statement now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
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by framebit 9y ago
I bet they leverage Watson to ensure cognitive compliance for strategic solutionings. Fixed it for you.
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by framebit 9y ago
I wish I could find this again, but I saw a similar thought somewhere out there about teaching elementary school kids with terrible home lives in rough areas. The sentiment was something along the lines of, "How am I supposed to teach
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by framebit 9y ago
I had a summer job at Hobby Lobby roughly a decade ago. The founder has an autobiography for sale by all the registers that we used to hate-read in the breakroom over our depressing, windowless lunch breaks. Our favorite bit was the part wh
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by framebit 9y ago
Another reason blue color jobs might be stricter about attendance policies is that many rely on someone's physical presence. If there's nobody there to make the sandwiches, the sandwich store can't open. If I'm not there
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by framebit 9y ago
Down here in the South, Publix is already pushing a concept like this that's obviously a response to Blue Apron and others. Just the other day I saw a store manager walking the aisles pitching it to customers.
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by framebit 9y ago
Depression is a serious disease and very rarely can you "do better try harder" and actually conquer it. Treat your mental state like your injured back: you need time, rest, self care and possibly professional help. Maybe this is &
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by framebit 9y ago
I think that's all true, but keep it can also be the opposite. From couch potato to rock climber, etc.
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by framebit 9y ago
As a sidenote to your question, you may want to consider Data Engineering. It's not a sexy as ML, but it pays well and it's in high demand because somebody has to pipe all that data around so that the ML folks can do their thing.
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by framebit 9y ago
Mismanaged landfills can have some unpleasant effects on the surrounding environment, like smell in the air or seeping pollutants into groundwater.
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by framebit 9y ago
Chris Arnade has a lot of first-hand experience witnessing this modern despair. He writes, "What I saw was huge parts of US, more than reported, was filling with drugs. And where there was drug there was despair." Source: https:&
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by framebit 9y ago
I still have an account because of an IRL social group that likes to do event planning through FB Events, but that and using Messenger to communicate with one person are the only reasons I still have an account. FB and Instagram were only c
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by framebit 9y ago
Interesting and relevant paper on the end of Moore's Law: ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/dburger/papers/ISCA11.pdf
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by framebit 10y ago
I enjoyed Frank Nothaft's talk about ADAM at Spark Summit East, cool to see y'all in the wild :) FWIW I'm at a Scala shop where we use SBT exclusively. There's things about it that suck, it's definitely symbol-happy
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by framebit 10y ago
Tanis! OMG Tanis. Found it through a recommendation from Reply All (which is also great). It's a serialized docudrama about mystery, conspiracy, mythology, so much. Give it a shot, it'll hook you.
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by framebit 10y ago
A number of other commenters have addressed this, but for emphasis: 1. Many commutes around the city HAVE gotten a lot worse since the bridge fell. Anybody who has to get on 285 for anything is feeling the pain. 2. It's Spring Break fo
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by framebit 10y ago
In episode 5 or 6 (hard to keep track during a binge listen) Brian Reed has a brief moment in which he describes his reasoning for digging into parts of the subject's life. I'm realizing as I'm writing this that I can't
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by framebit 10y ago
"To draw a firm conclusion, however, would take a clearer understanding of the direction of causation. While games improved since the turn of the century, labour-market options for young people got worse."
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by framebit 10y ago
Film industry, mostly post-production but not exclusively. Mix of music-oriented projects, documentaries, corporate gigs, other random stuff.
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by framebit 10y ago
Kinesis Freestyle2 Blue for Mac: https://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle2-for-mac/ My coworkers make fun of me for it, but it really helps my posture and wrist issues to have a split keyboard. I thought it wou
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by framebit 10y ago
Fascinating how two different HN Post titles for the same article have produced _vastly_ different reactions.
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by framebit 10y ago
Stability, good pay, interesting work. Software is a second career for me, my first one was a lot more sexy but a LOT less stable. I am thriving with the stability of working in software and getting paid quite well for it. To me, it's
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by framebit 10y ago
Your career does not have to be the great love of your life. It's okay to have a job that's just a good day job and let your real passion live outside of it: family, hobbies, volunteering, maybe religious practice if you're s
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by framebit 10y ago
This is a stale thread now, but I have to share this. At my first programming job (certainly not my first job, but first in technology) I had a female manager who was incredible. She and I were the only women in the group with 15 or so men.
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by framebit 10y ago
These are excellent suggestions! In so many words, use AWS to learn the kind of infrastructure and practical ops stuff that you won't learn in your coursework. Also when you get comfortable with administrating AWS stuff from the consol
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by framebit 10y ago
I'm a non-traditional convert from a totally unrelated field to CS. Having walked the road you're walking now, I can say with confidence that you can do it! Don't let the youngsters get you down. Your maturity and experience
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by framebit 10y ago
YES. This is why interviewers ask experienced devs to do FizzBuzz. It's not an insult, it's a safeguard.

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