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by geebee 7y ago
We're programmers, and I am aware that I need to keep that in mind. But I think reliability vs. hackability is a false dilemma. Personally, I worry about having to fix something when I'm incapable of fixing it. That's why it
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by geebee 7y ago
And yet, google has induced millions of families to spend their limited computing budget on a "non-programmable" OS. Was it really beyond google's capabilities to make this a more open, perhaps linux based environment?
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by geebee 7y ago
I've reflected a lot on this, as a parent. I can't quite get behind the "no computer screen" thing, because a bit part of me wants to get my kids into unix, python, and interesting electronics projects from an early age.
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by geebee 7y ago
I'm a little disappointed with chromebooks as well. I was one of the kids who was a little disappointed when the first MacOS came out. Where was the command line? Where did I wrote code? The commodore64 did a lot more for kids who want
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by geebee 7y ago
This topic always makes me a little suspicious. Are we trying to meet an industry demand, or are we looking for a relief valve for an excess of PhDs? Doctoral students are such a good deal for universities, I can see why they’d want lots of
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by geebee 7y ago
That’s a good guess/intuition - you’re correct that it wasn’t a binary tree strictly speaking. It was a situation where each node could activated by conditions on sub nodes, with a cost associated with activating each node. Also, in di
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by geebee 7y ago
They’re certainly well paid enough for their land lord to live comfortably.
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by geebee 7y ago
Really? Cause it seems, based on my interviews, startups couldn't care less about my background in leading customers through beta demos, collaborating with scientists, participating in sales presentations and outreach, writing document
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by geebee 7y ago
Very interesting response. The thing that keeps me from entirely agreeing (with an admission that I don't have a background in the science you mentioned[1], so I can't really understand it) is that the number is pi - the 55 decima
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by geebee 7y ago
very small, or arbitrarily small? ;)
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by geebee 7y ago
Good example. It's amazing how quickly you leave the rationals, even with a square, you almost immediately need numbers that can't be expressed as the ratio of two integers... historically, was that the first encounter with an &qu
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by geebee 7y ago
Love it. I remember reading (might have been here) that math and art both get difficult at the same moment for the same reason. When you're a kid, you live in the rational world. By this, I mean numbers that can be expressed as the rat
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by geebee 7y ago
There is a big difference though in that H1B workers do have a right of exit from the US. They can seek employment in their home country or other places with skilled immigration programs. I’m fairly confident people who read my above commen
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by geebee 7y ago
I think it's a little more complicated than that. A pool of 1000 workers won't necessarily earn less than a pool of 100 workers. With higher specialization, they may well earn far more. However, this assumes that employment is flu
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by geebee 7y ago
I'm generally suspicious of the H1-B program, mainly because I don't like programs that empower corporations to decide who is or isn't allowed to enter and work in the United States. That's bad. And I despise programs th
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by geebee 7y ago
I agree. LinkedIn is actually a good example about how stricter boundaries in one area can lead to a relaxing or loosening boundaries in another. I've received linkedin connection requests from people I have only met for a couple hours
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by geebee 7y ago
Deadly? Coffee? "Can be" leaves you plenty of room, but c'mon. Here's the Mayo Clinic page on caffeine. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...
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by geebee 7y ago
Why do you think this is? I fully invite speculation. It's... interesting. If paying tech professionals more is the way to win, then it's surprising the market doesn't eventually move in this direction. I can think of a few p
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by geebee 7y ago
Interesting observation. Coding could be comparable to using the photocopier, or it could be comparable to very advanced electronic legal research. I'm not in law, but I do work with physicians and health care researchers who often nee
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by geebee 7y ago
I'm sure you're correct that ideas are more fluid than gender, and this is a major aside... but I'm not convinced ideas are quite as fluid as they seem. Have you felt life would be a lot easier if you didn't believe some
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by geebee 7y ago
I'm actually not terribly surprised to hear this. Bret Weinstein may have been (and continue to be) a lifelong liberal, but from what I know about him, I wouldn't expect him or professors like him to discriminate against conservat
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by geebee 7y ago
ah. Yes that’s an issue. My biggest lament is the pave over of the external front setback (yard), as this is the really destructive practice on s large scale. When the practice becomes widespread, The loss of soil filter really does harm to
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by geebee 7y ago
Without a reason, they shouldn't. But there's an ambiguous area in there. For instance, my house in SF actually shares a foundation with the two neighboring houses. This was an issue when I wanted to remodel to get better ceiling
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by geebee 7y ago
San Francisco's budget is an interesting thing. In some ways, I think it goes back to the city that fits into the box and the city that is trying to burst out of it. I think SF still thinks of itself as a small, scenic city of 850000,
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by geebee 7y ago
Good article. I think I'm seeing the kind of breakdown that can occur from excessive zoning regulations in my own mainly SFH neighborhood in SF. I live in a neighborhood south of 280 near a bart station. Historically, it was a middle i
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by geebee 7y ago
I’m glad to hear that, and I genuinely hope it stays that way. I have been, twice in the last years. Spit on and punched at (the attacker was frail and tweaking, disturbing and menacing but physically unable to hit hard). Other good friends
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by geebee 7y ago
It was the same for me. I was in Manhattan two years ago, and I was amazed with how much worse the problem is in SF. This was a sharp contrast to the mid 1990s, when I lived in New York. I found aggressive panhandling to be more prevalent i
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by geebee 7y ago
Super late responding, but I enjoyed your comment and code. Unfortunately... yes to both your questions. Yes, it is certainly covered in basic undergraduate "Data Structures and Algorithms." And yes, I would have trouble writing w
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by geebee 7y ago
As another anecdote, I encountered some fairly aggressive panhandling in Nashville. I was there for a convention but got out into the city a bit. At the crosswalk near music row toward the river, a man asked for change and heckled me until
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by geebee 7y ago
Wow. That's a hell of a loop. That said, this does seem like another reiteration of the "senior engineer couldn't write fizz buzz" story, though this particular example is amusing. I can write fizz buzz. Hell, I've

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