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by geebee 7y ago
Grad school can be a very, very dangerous trap. An M.S. isn't necessarily a risky thing to do, though, since they an be completed relatively quickly, and from a reputable CS or Engineering school, the grads are employable. At state col
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by geebee 7y ago
Has this always been the case? I remember hearing way back in the 80s various (and probably hyperbolic) stories about how the dollar value of the land in greater Tokyo was greater than the dollar value of the all the land in the entire Unit
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by geebee 7y ago
I think it’s extremely important to know how many homeless are profoundly addicted and in a state of total collapse vs how many ar employed but at too low a salary to obtain stable housing. I don’t think this disctinction exists purely to j
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by geebee 7y ago
There is an ambiguity in the term "homeless" that can obscure discussion. I believe the term "homeless" was adopted in part to avoid more pejorative terms like "bum" or "vagrant". However, there may b
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by geebee 7y ago
Got a link to the methodology? I'd be interested in knowing what timeframe they use for "lived here". 3 years, 5 years? Also, how long were they housed, and what kind of housing was it (public assistance, private room rental)
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by geebee 7y ago
I think this is an important essay. The advice at the end is good: these tests are inevitable, and if you want to stay in the biz by applying for dev jobs at companies, you must accept that you will retake you college CS exams over and over
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by geebee 7y ago
I can write fizzbuzz and while I don’t code in JavaScript I could take a guess at sleep from ruby, python and java. I’ve interviewed lately so I’m trained up and could print all paths in a binary tree or all permutations of a set, or detect
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by geebee 7y ago
And eventually, perimeter ;)
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by geebee 7y ago
It makes me nervous. Public schools and attempts at mandatory attendance have been weaponized against ethnic and religious minorities in the US. I think it’s fair to say English only laws and corporal punishment for speaking languages other
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by geebee 7y ago
I think it's ambiguous. At what point is there a refusal, and what degree of insistence is required? Someone initiates a request for service in French, the response is "no, no, no this will be in English". Has that person ref
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by geebee 7y ago
I agree, but I also believe stem majors are more likely to take upper division humanities courses than the other way around. Gen ed requirements are sufficient to take an upper division history course, whereas upper div stem courses typical
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by geebee 7y ago
That's a very important observation. It's been almost 20 years since I was an undergraduate, but at the time (I went to UCSD), general college requirements were overwhelmingly tilted toward the humanities. Specific requirements va
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by geebee 7y ago
I am curious - how old were the houses that were getting demolished in Minneapolis? A lot of the houses that would be torn down SF are nearing 100 years old. That probably sounds comically young to people from Europe, but SF's neighbor
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by geebee 7y ago
Hard to say. SFH owners typically own the dirt beneath their house. A lot with the right to build a 3-story block of 3/2 flats might be worth considerably more than a lot with a single 3/2 SFH.
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by geebee 7y ago
Some of the top US universities do take far more students, they just don't show up at the top of US News rankings. UC Berkeley, for example, enrolls 30,853 undergraduates and 11,666 graduate students[1], but isn't in the top 20 on
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by geebee 7y ago
This is a pretty good write-up: https://blog.udemy.com/correlation-coefficient-interpretatio...
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by geebee 8y ago
Good point. If I'm going to discuss use of government force, I should distinguish between civil and criminal action taken on the part of the government. This discussion does take me past my knowledge boundaries, though I believe failur
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by geebee 8y ago
The problem is, it also allows folks who would never qualify for a 100k loan otherwise get 100K into debt. I read an article about how artists are struggling in the high cost San Francisco Bay Area (sorry no link, because it was really an e
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by geebee 8y ago
I disagree that “a heavy dash of stats is obv better than calc”. Not saying there’s no case for it, but it isn’t obvious at all. I also don’t think the line about everyone thinking their kid is a genius is productive for this discussion. I
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by geebee 8y ago
Thanks for your reply, and for the links. I followed them and read through them, but I did it quickly, I'll take another look later. I don't think the data supports the change as an unqualified success. The article you posted (aga
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by geebee 8y ago
I read this article with a lot of interest a while ago, since I have a kid in middle school in SFUSD. Having been through the system, I think the whole thing is pretty stupid. People, seriously, the problem with math achievement in SFUSD is
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by geebee 8y ago
Huh. Anecdotally I’ve heard from friends who took a scenic train from San Francisco to Denver and San Francisco to Seattle and found it a pleasant experience. I think this was specifically a train for fun and scenery. The destination is par
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by geebee 8y ago
One big factor in performance is whether a process can be parallelized. It can be an interesting computational problem, and these techniques has really gained relevance lately now the the barrier to clusters has dropped (cost and technical
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by geebee 8y ago
This particular blog post did a fine job articulating the benefits of Rails, and these remain good reasons to use rails in 2019. I think there's another side of this discussion. There are reasons why rails itself is worth using, and
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by geebee 8y ago
That makes a certain amount of sense. I'm not too surprised seagulls would be ok in the presence of cats. They're large, fairly powerful birds. Crows also seem more common in SF than they were in previous decades, and again, I&#x2
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by geebee 8y ago
That's interesting, I've heard similar things about Rome (where I've never been either). My big worry about maintaining a large population of roaming cats is the impact on the bird population. I'm interested in hearing d
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by geebee 8y ago
That is a serious question, worth asking. I'll try to summarize the arguments I've heard for justification for a government backed guarantee. 1) There's a widespread social benefit to having more highly educated citizens that
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by geebee 8y ago
Maybe so. But you know, my impression is that it's stronger in the other direction, at least in tech. By and large, tech workers don't seem to think the world owes them a job, where they want to live, on the projects they'd l
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by geebee 8y ago
I believe that any large scale immigration program that denies would be immigrants the right to participate freely in labor markets is pretty much hopeless. All this discussion about requirements of “market pay”, limitations on skills that
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by geebee 8y ago
Why not just have immigration? Full and free citizens who have the right to pursue a job or career in response to personal interests and market signals? If people prefer to work a accountants in Cincinnati rather than devs in the valley, th

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