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by hendrix 15y ago
It doesn't matter. I'm in a similar position to yourself (although i have graduated college w/ a non EECS degree) and have chosen c++ for the challenge. It depends tho; if you want to do webapps by all means learn ROR/python, if you want
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by hendrix 15y ago
Not going to happen until the college experience ceases to be ingrained in the American Dream.
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by hendrix 15y ago
I am in a similar position to the OP, although I am learning c++ as a first language. It seems like most of the open-courseware type programs are either scheme (old mit)/java (stanford)/python (new mit). Seeing as what im interested in (c
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by hendrix 15y ago
Old, but it got me to think - wtf did he try to do something like this at MIT of all places? I doubt BU or xyz state U has nearly as much security...
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by hendrix 15y ago
email sent...
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by hendrix 15y ago
something like "s" "query".
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by hendrix 15y ago
mint supports the MATE desktop (gnome 2.x fork). whilst the diverting of royalties is a quite morally sketch, distribution of MATE takes precedence IMO since it is providing sanity in the world of the unholy mess of train-wreck desktop en
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by hendrix 15y ago
Culture in the USA is not that different from the UK/Ireland/other 1st world English speaking countries. So you have a $109k/year position in SF and a $61k/year position in Dublin. Microsoft figured this out years ago. http://www.glassdo
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by hendrix 15y ago
give it 3-6 months and the current crop of android tablets will be outdated, and available for peanuts.
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by hendrix 15y ago
This. "How do we get more women in OSS?" is the same as saying "How do we get more male nurses"? If men want to become nurses, then they will become nurses, if women want to become open source software developers they will become OSS deve
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by hendrix 15y ago
Hah, looks like they got bribed by google to start running ads. Never mind that ABP breaks google's business model David and Goliath style. FF should add ABP or similar as default and destroy 20% of google's ad-revenue, that would be the
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by hendrix 15y ago
It does not matter what women want if the government is going to helpfully step in and make it impossible to function. Consider the federal law in regards to descrimination of women: [i]Sex Discrimination Title VII's broad prohibitions aga
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by hendrix 15y ago
If you are not at the office what differentiates you from someone in china/russia/india/europe? Why should you be paid 150k/yr for something when people who are also not present would do the same thing for 30k/yr? There are people who spe
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by hendrix 15y ago
A modest proposal = satire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal .
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by hendrix 15y ago
usenet & ssl + nzbmatrix = no more problems.
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by hendrix 15y ago
Let them enroll in community college then. Here in WA it is possible to get an AA/AS as you graduate HS, and not attend the last two years of HS. IMO the first two years HS is very, very necessary for a somewhat decent social development
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by hendrix 15y ago
same here im looking to move to the bay area come next year.
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by hendrix 15y ago
This is oh so true. Wtf are you giving out your bank history and info to a website? If they get hacked…lol oh shit. (let the downvotes commence)
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by hendrix 15y ago
What kind of finacial modeling software? Some people http://www.stocktrak.com/ (i have no affiliation with that site) have already done something similar.
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by hendrix 15y ago
I'm in a rather similar situation (23/m/just finished Molecular Biology/Business degree). Personally, I'm still interested in the life sciences, but the flexibility and salary of for-profit business is much more attractive than the academi
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by hendrix 15y ago
Guess I'm just not ready to leave the task bar behind.
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by hendrix 15y ago
How does it compare to seattle or boston?
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by hendrix 15y ago
seattle, wa
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What would happen if the ice caps melted (Antartica Without Ice)(johnstonsarchive.net)
4 points by hendrix 15y ago|0 comments
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A derivation of the heat equation (CUNY lecture note)(docs.google.com)
1 points by hendrix 15y ago|0 comments
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by hendrix 15y ago
What is the big deal? This is a reddit post in the feminist subredditum.... IMO this is just fear-mongering and exploiting the sensitivities of the (mostly male & slightly nerdy) tech workforce. The point is that women are NOT being
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Microsoft plans to get its Office software suite on the iPad sometime next year(thedaily.com)
2 points by hendrix 15y ago|0 comments
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by hendrix 15y ago
Lulz at the history major needing adderal/Ritalin to write papers/gpa. Most likely he was procrastinating all night too, and using the drugs as a crutch to be coherent at 3 in the morning. Many people have survived ochem/thermo/analysis w
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by hendrix 15y ago
The general public will be limited to typing homework problems into wolfram alpha...
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by hendrix 15y ago
What are they going to do for labs/dissections? What are they going to do for exams (or equivalent)? This is still a very interesting idea/class and I hope it succeeds 100%.

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