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by freyr 12y ago
I did a ten month stint as a postdoc while I wrapped up some research and looked for a job. This was common for people in my program at the time, i.e. graduating from a top 20 school (but not top 10) in a weak job market. That was a few yea
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by freyr 12y ago
The idea that any identifiable subculture could be composed of nonconformists seems obviously false. The subculture as a whole could represent a break from the mainstream, but it could only be identified as a subculture once its members hav
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by freyr 12y ago
that was an interesting article, though i dont understand the grave tone. Most likely, the grave tone is intended to be ironic. The article adopts the perennial complaint that "the new generation is the worst generation." But Ad
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by freyr 12y ago
Yes, excluding outliers, finance has always paid better. I'd guess the brief migration from finance to tech was simply because finance became very unfashionable for a little while. Meanwhile, headline-grabbing IPOs were making it seem
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by freyr 12y ago
> Lots of people try, they tend to fail. And with enough people constantly trying to predict the market, inevitably some get it right. They make a lot of money, they're heralded as geniuses, and we hear about them in the news. We d
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by freyr 12y ago
I apologize, "still" came off as pejorative. My post became a little muddled there, but had my thoughts been clearer, I would have focused on just one group: programmers who currently use C++ even though they would prefer to swi
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by freyr 12y ago
I'm confused by your comment. Does it take extensive experience and multiple use cases to assess a language? Or a couple hours writing a small service?
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by freyr 12y ago
It's not clear how much experience the author really acquired with each language, and whether that experience was sufficient experience to justify his statement: Go felt that way to me — it was good at everything, but nothing grabbed
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by freyr 12y ago
Yes, transmission is triggered on-chip That's irrelevant. That's merely one of the possibly ways that triggers transmission, but not necessarily the only way. Do we know that remote triggering over the network (perhaps impleme
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by freyr 12y ago
Science is hard work, and not always high reward. If a kid has a natural aptitude for numerical thinking, logical thinking, etc., but no strong affinity for science, they may just be smart enough not to enter that field. Very often, being r
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by freyr 12y ago
There's loads of kids going to graduate school to become servants for mediocre, yet politically-connected scientists. Then, once they have spent the X years and $Y in opportunity costs to get a PhD, they have to figure out a career fo
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by freyr 12y ago
* then shared and posted across the Internet. * On Twitter, specifically. He tweeted his article about not using Twitter. Maybe he just wants people to engage with the @alex_gaynor #Brand.
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by freyr 12y ago
Bootstrap 3 still supports IE8. You can still use Bootstrap 3, or even Bootstrap 2. But it makes little sense to develop new tools that support IE8 at this point. By the time Bootstrap 4 is released (probably many months from now), IE8 usag
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by freyr 12y ago
This is cool technology, but I wonder if it's solving any problems for the consumer? If I cracked my phone's screen, it would be great getting to replace it without having to pay for an entirely new phone. I suppose it might be ni
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by freyr 12y ago
> When the market for premium streaming matures it's going to effectively be what we always wished cable was. Which is what, exactly? A la carte programs? Netflix isn't that. A la carte channels? Netflix isn't quite that
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by freyr 12y ago
And as long as we insist on catering to them, they won't be compelled to install a modern browser.
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by freyr 12y ago
I tried an early version, and I was impressed, but my app relied on an CSS transition that was causing an issue with React. It looks like they've improved on that with ReactTransitionGroup, so I'll check it out again. Thanks!
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by freyr 12y ago
Yeah, this is the approach I've transitioned to. It's certainly better overall, but there's still an issue of maintaining some duplicated code on the server side and the client side. There are some projects that specifically
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by freyr 12y ago
That hits close to home. I recently built a single page app with Backbone and SEO traffic is non-existent. So now I'm dynamically generating pages on the backend, and serving them along with the javascript app so there's some some
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by freyr 12y ago
> [You're] implying I think "art criticism as a whole must be invalid". Curious that... I really despise people putting words in my mouth that were never there. Weird, I wonder where I got that notion from? > so ther
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by freyr 12y ago
SQLAlchemy is great, but SQL is also very expressive.
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by freyr 12y ago
So since you (an admitted neophyte who knows "next to nothing" about art) can't discern good art from great art, art criticism as a whole must be invalid? It might be, but that's surely not evidence of it. You tout your
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by freyr 12y ago
If he now, as a public figure, disappeared, it would be headline news and people might assume the U.S. government eliminated him, potentially making it look more sinister, validating his claims and turning him into a martyr. So exposure pro
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by freyr 12y ago
> I'm honestly not sure what Prof. Flower's view is here ... The best MOOC courses I've done are highly produced and thoughtful Keep in mind, this article is 2.5 years old. While there were some good MOOCs at that point,
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by freyr 12y ago
One specific example he provides is developing better digital textbooks. Specifically, digital content that is more than just a PDF version of a paper textbook. Some options: * Use multimedia effective (video, animation, sound could all be
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by freyr 12y ago
> Inspiration and community are the best parts of school, and they are nowhere to be found. Yes. Other things not found: * Program structure * Incentive for passing your courses (i.e. getting kicked out of school) * Brand recognition a
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by freyr 12y ago
> 2. How much does it cost to record a class, create a couple of self-grading exercises, reuse old powerpoints and PDFS, and then throw the whole bundle up online From the article, "We have spent about $40 million over 10 years.&q
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by freyr 12y ago
MIT had $100M to define new tools, new content, and new directions for education, leveraging all the advantages of current technology. They chose an alternative: record some lectures, and put a slew of course syllabi and homework assignment
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by freyr 12y ago
Who is the fool here? It's tough to say, as it all remains speculation. But Google has only proven very innovative in terms of introducing products that do not generate revenue. It's success in search and e-mail have subsidized
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by freyr 12y ago
I risk playing into the annoying stereotype (I quit Facebook and I can't stop telling everyone about it), I have felt an increased pull back to the service lately. Not because I have any renewed interest in the site itself, but becau

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