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by geebee 9y ago
This is interesting. Universities with extremely large endowments (Stanford, Harvard, quite a few others) don't really need to charge tuition, even at the undergrad level. And as far as I can cell, most PhD students don't pay tu
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by geebee 9y ago
It sounds, though, that people used their speech - at a time when their speech was constitutionally protected but neither popular or safe, to change your mind. I think this, among other things, is what Biden may be referring to in his recen
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by geebee 9y ago
I'm afraid that the TDD movement went to far. The proponents became so convinced that they were right that they started comparing themselves to people who argued that washing hands was important in early surgery, and that those who qu
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by geebee 9y ago
yes, exactly, they found a way to monetize a product other than their framework, and they used the OSS framework to draw attention to the non os project. Whether that was deliberate or unintentional, I don't know, but it certainly wor
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by geebee 9y ago
Yes, that's true. But that does describe Rails. A pure Python web framework, integrated, with a python to javascript transpiler is very likely to emerge, but I can say with almost total certainty that it will have to be open source.
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by geebee 9y ago
I've been programming for about 16 years. Started with C++, doing my own memory management for routine tasks. Later, started abstractions like garbage collection, jdbc, and servlets. Of course, the day comes when the high level abstr
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by geebee 9y ago
Hmmm... would you be willing to identify some of the neighborhoods you think should be razed. I personally think there's historical value in many of the marina style houses built in the 1920s, which may (I'm not sure) be what y
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by geebee 9y ago
Overall, this is overwhelmingly true, to the point that I feel slightly embarrassed to want to discuss edge cases. But here we go. We already know that prospects for humanities and social science PhDs are extremely grim[1]. However, econ
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by geebee 9y ago
I agree with you that it's possible to stop using Facebook. It isn't like food or water. However, Facebook really is, at this point, a clear monopoly. The reason I use facebook is because that's the social network that ever
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by geebee 9y ago
You bring up a very good point, but I'm not sure I see an inconsistency here, Tax records are records owned and controlled by the government. It's information that has already been collected, and is accessible by some institution
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by geebee 9y ago
Yeah, but not with names, and not for every employee (ie., including non H1B workers), right?
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by geebee 9y ago
But then why not just post the salary range? The truth is, employers are willing to pay $180k, but if someone would work for $110k[1], they'd rather find that out in advance. Btw, I've had a recruiter from GooglAmaFaceSoft tell me
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by geebee 9y ago
I'd prefer to see this go in the other direction and make all salary information public. Right now, employers have far more information than employees, and I don't think this law will do much to change that. To me, it's simi
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by geebee 9y ago
That certainly appears to be the case. I'm not quite so willing to give up on the original definition, though. "Agile", for instance, eventually came to be widely (though by no means universally) known as something requirin
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by geebee 9y ago
This is different from how I understood the term... here's something closer to what formed my understanding. https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/codelabs/your... "Progressive - Works for
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by geebee 9y ago
Where do you live? Is it SF?
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by geebee 9y ago
I would like this CEO to tell me this one employee's pay grade. How is this worker high enough on the org chart to be capable of this sort of impact? A chief surgeon doesn't blame the lab tech when a patient dies, lead council do
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by geebee 9y ago
I've thought about this a lot. I've always lived in an unfashionable part of San Francisco - I grew up west of twin peaks in the 70s when it was considered foggy, boring, and square, and I now live south of 280, where mission isn
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by geebee 9y ago
Fair point, I had that thought myself. If you'd permit me to add another couple letters, though, I might call them YIMAYBY (yes in my and your backyard).
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by geebee 9y ago
Lots of companies outside the tech industry still have to recruit CS and other tech majors. The demand for specifically English majors outside tech doesn't come close to balancing things out.
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by geebee 9y ago
I think this article is very insightful http://www.chronicle.com/article/Graduate-School-in-the/4484... I was once an underemployed English major seriously considering applying for grad programs in literature[1].
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by geebee 9y ago
I don't think it's nonsense - I don't entirely agree, but I would agree with a milder version of the statement. I do know an English majors who is a director at at a top tech company, so I would agree that many companies wil
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by geebee 9y ago
"I have never been aware that such a competition between datastore designs exists" Good! There certainly shouldn't be. Wish I could say the same. Magpie developers, people who want to seem edgy and forward looking, people
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by geebee 9y ago
Registered nurses, at the median in SF, earn about $133k a year (check US News "Best Jobs" for a roundup of regional BLS data). I'm absolutely OK with nurses earning good salaries but I do think people are often surprised to
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by geebee 9y ago
I believe average GPAs are much lower at Berkeley and UCLA than they are at ivies though, is that correct?
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by geebee 9y ago
There are a couple of things going on here. First, there's a difference between malpractice and a mistake, even a serious one. The problem with the rolling stone incident, as I understand it, was that the editors failed to take the mo
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by geebee 9y ago
My guess is that this is true of a lot of finance and law jobs as well. Actually, I once talked to a dermatologist who said he wished he got to use his mind more often (he said this on hearing that I was a programmer! I guess he thought i
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by geebee 9y ago
The base salary mentioned here, 151k a year, doesn't bother me at all. I'm a little alarmed that enough overtime is available to make $156k more (do we have a bleary, edgy, sleep deprived guy with a badge and gun going into tense
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by geebee 9y ago
I think that bootcamps actually can work well for people who already have highly honed analytical and logical reasoning skills, but for whatever reason haven't gotten involved in programming. For instance, a linguistics or philosophy
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by geebee 9y ago
My kid has been to a couple of camp Edmo where he does some programming for Minecraft, etc. He enjoys it, though most of his summer was outdoors stuff. I haven't looked at the actual code produced in these camps, so I couldn't t

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