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by geebee 9y ago
You could end up getting fired, though.
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by geebee 9y ago
Yeah, there are degrees of early. I think it's fair to say this one is meaningfully early, rather than a statistical slight of hand.
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by geebee 9y ago
No, not young, I do agree with that. The average life expectancy for a 65 year old is 84, so in that sense, Ed Lee died 20 years before you'd expect him to. A healthy 65 year old (which is what Ed Lee appeared to be as far as I kn
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by geebee 9y ago
I discussed this on HN a long time ago with one of the original creators/proponents of NoSql, and I believe this is what was intended. Sounds like a term that really got away from them.
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by geebee 9y ago
That's a really good point. I have, certainly in Rails projects[1], seen the strangest databases. They are SQL databases that are useless outside the rails application. You actually can't query them in a relational sense, you h
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by geebee 9y ago
Yeah, what a disappointment. In the early days of NoSql, a lot of dev were still shoehorning graphs, objects, or giant look up tables into SQL database, and yes, it turns out that there are some wonderful databases to store and query this s
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by geebee 9y ago
Pavement vs Lawn is a bit of a false dilemma, though. Nobody in SurfRider's "plant don't pave" campaign is advocating lawns. In fact, they advocate against lawns. There are low (or no) water, drought resistant, ofte
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by geebee 9y ago
I have reservations about this program even though I hope it is a success. The program provides partial funding and reduced permit fees if homeowners arrange for at least four houses on a block to remove the concrete. Citizens are encourag
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by geebee 9y ago
The San Francisco board of supervisors and most of the voting public would almost certainly declare themselves to be progressive and environmentally friendly, and I don't think they are cynical or manipulative here. They really mean i
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by geebee 9y ago
San Francisco has a similar problem to the one described in Pittsburg. We use an old, single pipe, gravity based system that carries both storm water and sewage. When it rains heavily, the system backs up at various bottlenecks. Unfortuna
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by geebee 9y ago
That's interesting - but it seems like the absence of kids playing outside is very recent in US culture. I grew in, in SF west of twin peaks, and all kids played outside unsupervised for hours. This had been true for generations, goi
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by geebee 9y ago
Is resistance to zoning changes economically motivated? I'm not absolutely sure it necessarily is. In San Francisco, I actually think that nimbyism may not be the result of a desire to maximize the value of an asset. Here's why
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by geebee 9y ago
Bit of a nitpick, but I'd rather we organize like actuaries rather than lawyers. A rigorous exam is fine, but I think it's important to keep multiple educational paths open. I'd hate to see a single accredited degree path a
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by geebee 9y ago
We probably disagree about the extent to which need blind admissions, on its own, addresses the problem of low enrollment from income students. One factor here is that high achieving, low income students apparently are often unaware of the
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by geebee 9y ago
I feel somewhat ambivalent about this. I'm glad that Brown wants to eliminate student debt, and I'm glad that low income students at ivies often pay no tuition. However, this doesn't change their essential model, which is t
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by geebee 9y ago
I finished grad school in 2000 and started saving then. We haven't had 7% returns for 2000-2017, even with the recent increase in the market. 40 years is a long time, and I'm talking about a notably bad start and end date (though
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by geebee 9y ago
I agree, that is the message from the US right now, and it is harmful. I also feel strongly that the H1B itself is a pretty horrendous program. The amount of corporate control over the immigration process, the power to decide who is allowed
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by geebee 9y ago
Part of the problem is that programming is supposed to be "fun", as in "fun and games", not as in a serious topic that you enjoy so much you call it fun. This is why a lot of programming is taught through graphical games
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by geebee 9y ago
It's hard for companies to give you access to feedback because of potential legal repercussions and also because it is very hard for them to deal with back and forth that would inevitably occur Although I agree with this point, it on
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by geebee 9y ago
Thanks for your response. Based on what I've seen from your site, this does look like an improvement. An interviewee can prepare properly, and take the interview once prepared, rather than doing this at arbitrary times that may be very
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by geebee 9y ago
This is a good comment. One thing I'd like to point out is that people often defend technical interview exams on the notion that if someone can't write a factorial function, that's a bad sign. Well, sure, but my experience h
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by geebee 9y ago
Largely agreed about certs. But the actuarial exams aren't worthless. We may need to look to a new model.
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by geebee 9y ago
Great question, when will we decide enough is enough? I actually don't have a problem with the data structures interview exam inherently, my problem is with how it's administered. It doesn't bother actuaries have to take exam
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by geebee 9y ago
Could be. I'd be interesting in knowing if there's a big difference between sub 3.0 STEM GPAs and humanities. The problem with humanities is that there's just no need to consider you, they are already going to reject a large
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by geebee 9y ago
That was a red flag for me, too. Though honestly, the first big red flag for me was that he wanted to open a restaurant because he loves to cook. This is a little surprising, the way people don't distinguish between the art and the bu
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by geebee 9y ago
I understand wikipedia isn't an absolute source, it's a summary of opinions and research. And what follows is my own opinion, though I'm linking to wikipedia for background and context. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by geebee 9y ago
Do you think the grant could go directly to fund research, with the university then funding a grad student with the grant money as a condition of how the grant is used? Or does it have to go through the grad student as a reportable tuition
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by geebee 9y ago
Now that makes sense - PhD students may be paid out of grants that come from a source other than the university itself or the student. So that would be a source of income lost.
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by geebee 9y ago
Right - so my question is, why not just set a PhD student tuition of zero? They don't make any money off this, so why charge it and always waive it? Why not just get rid of it. That would remove the option to occasionally charge the
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by geebee 9y ago
I wonder if this is the first salvo in a renewed attack on universities from the right. Sentiment toward universities shifted very recently, with a majority of republicans now saying that universities are, on the balance, bad for America.

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