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by geebee 8y ago
Much of this is very good advice for people working in tech. It's interesting that it arises from survival tips for women in tech (more on that in a moment). "Document your work" is very, very important. And be very careful a
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by geebee 8y ago
This is a really important comment. I started my career in scientific computing, went over to software/web development for a while, and am back over to scientific computing. I've been involved in teaching efforts lately, mainly fo
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by geebee 8y ago
"You are using a straw man" Huh. I think this is a pretty good illustration of why sarcasm is often not constructive in complex and nuanced discussions. My use of the phrase "magically increase overnight" was in direct r
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by geebee 8y ago
I think your argument is that the workers aren't available at any salary, and that you're communicating this sarcastically through the clearly false claim that if you raise salaries, the population of network engineers will magica
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by geebee 8y ago
I agree, that's a very good point. If one profession's median salary is higher, but employment is overwhelmingly concentrated in a high cost area, then it's possible that the profession with the lower median salary on a natio
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by geebee 8y ago
Here's the review of Registered Nurse from US News Best Jobs. Salary infor is based on BLS data. https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/registered-nurse The median salary for a nurse, nationally, is $68,4
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by geebee 8y ago
Working with scientific researchers and data analysts. I was a big fan of ruby, and doing web development, so the pressure was on to learn javascript, which I really wasn't enjoying. Only partly the language, mainly the framework churn
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by geebee 8y ago
I haven't done a full survey, but my overwhelming impression is that most universities do require very substantial humanities coursework for all students, including STEM student. I went to UC San Diego - check out the requirements at R
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by geebee 8y ago
I'm kind of glad these appear to be targeted at collectors rather than wave riders. $1500 is a high price for a surf board, though plenty of off the rack longboards or large wave can crack the $1000 barrier. Wonder how a Tesla board wo
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by geebee 8y ago
Yeah... this article defended libraries on the grounds that they are simultaneously a great place for kids to have story time, a safe place for teens, and a place where 2/3s are homeless, struggling with addiction, or recovering from a
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by geebee 8y ago
That was a downside of the angle this article took. It makes the case for libraries on the grounds that they offer a place for addicts and homeless to be safe and sheltered and get basic support in accessing services. That's valuable,
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by geebee 8y ago
I'm largely in agreement with this Vox piece, but I think there's much more to say in defense of libraries as well. I have a friend who found a red envelope with some money in it in a book that he'd checked out of the library
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by geebee 8y ago
I think that "Graduate School in the Humanities - Just Don't Go" is a gem of an essay, because it does a good job explaining why students still enter these programs when the data screams out that they shouldn't. https:&
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by geebee 8y ago
I have a masters degree, bailed on a phD, and even then I didn't realize it quite quickly enough. My MS program at Berkeley was quite flexible, and it was easy enough to get the requisite math. I dropped courses like Intellectual Prope
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by geebee 8y ago
Just to get this out there from the start: I don't like cars much, and I view them not just as an expense to be minimized, but a life unpleasantness to be minimized. Cars are horrendously expensive and I don't really like parking
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by geebee 8y ago
Could be. But there is a much lazier laptop sticker demographic. It is by far the lowest effort way to tell one MacBook from another. The people who do this with stickers they got at a meetup are the same demographic as healthcare researche
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by geebee 8y ago
That's a great point. The top companies are succeeding in spite of a practice developers say they despise. So isn't that evidence they're right, and the devs are wrong? Here's the thing - how many industries rely so deep
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by geebee 8y ago
Here's what I posted three years ago on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9760414 Is it time to get depressed yet? This has been a topic for such a long time. It was in peopleware in 1987. I thought I di
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by geebee 8y ago
That's a decent point. I want to be clear that I'm open to the thesis here, that the class system in Silicon Valley has caste like elements to it. However, this particular article doesn't investigate this thesis. Instead it a
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by geebee 8y ago
I'm interested in really understanding this phenomenon. The reason is that businesses seem to be acting irrationally. That may indeed be the case, but I have found that when you dig deeper, you often will discover at least some rationa
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by geebee 8y ago
> I totally agree that writing code is a guaranteed way to enhance logical and critical thinking skills but the same is true of studying logic directly, or physics, biology etc That goes well beyond "simply a lucrative trade"
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by geebee 8y ago
Interesting, but I still disagree. To the extent that code is a tool, it's as fundamental as a pencil and paper. However, I believe that it runs much deeper than a tool, even a very fundamental one. I was a double major in literature a
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by geebee 8y ago
I would agree that coding is no replacement for literacy. However, I see coding as more than a lucrative trade. I think it is increasingly a way of reasoning about data, not just a set of techniques for manipulating data. I think the abilit
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by geebee 8y ago
What's so interesting is that the same companies that do this will tell you that there is a very serious shortage of software developers. And they'll say this, with a straight face, with absolutely no mention of the pay, as if sup
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by geebee 8y ago
Yeah, this is happening, we had to know it would. Imagine if real estate transactions weren't recorded publicly - a small number of real estate agents would create a private database of all transactions, while everyone else would be li
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by geebee 8y ago
Underpaying based on an information advantage, as a strategy, seems very self-defeating. The reason is that engineers who figure start to suspect that they are overpaid are unlikely to go confront their managers about it - they will first t
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by geebee 8y ago
You’re absolutely correct, f(almost_1,almost_2) should not be “times” in the calculation I described. Or alternatively, it should be a massive number times a tiny number rather than almost 1 and 0.
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by geebee 8y ago
It seems like we have an equation with a bunch of variables that are either extremely close to 1 or extremely close to zero. And really, these variables seem to group together into two essential variables, which are either almost 1 or almos
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by geebee 8y ago
ah, so different penalties depending on whether it's an individual or an organization, but same statute. thanks.
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by geebee 8y ago
Interesting, thanks. One thing, the penalty listed here says: (b) Any organization that commits any offense described in subsection (a) shall be fined not more than the greater of $5,000,000 or 3 times the value of the stolen trade secret t

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