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by jowiar 8y ago
Look at Code for America. Also, look at positions at your local governments. Some city and state governments have been getting things together.
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by jowiar 8y ago
See a therapist. Do explore a bit. Play with your baby. Pick up some hobbies. Particularly creative ones. Make music, art, sing, dance, act, etc. Re "my first child was born in the past year"... If you're like any other new p
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by jowiar 8y ago
My concern with most research is that it often attempts to generalize/control for "type of programming language" with "a specific implementation of that type of programming language". At least in my experience, the
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by jowiar 8y ago
Depending on your social circle, the event invites are the problem that dragged me back. I don’t care much about the photos and updates, but: “Hey! I’m throwing a party”... “Oh shit, I need to go out of my way to make sure so-and-so gets an
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by jowiar 8y ago
The social tie-ins of FB make it much “stickier” than Google. Google has a ton of power, but very little of it locks an individual in. The “chase you around the internet” bit is a problem, but addressing that is not that complicated. The se
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by jowiar 8y ago
8 years ago a friend of mine bought a perfectly serviceable house in a nice, safe, convenient neighborhood in Pittsburgh for about 90k. Generally, here’s what I’ve seen gets you equivalent size/convenience/safety: 1m in NY 500k in
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by jowiar 8y ago
In theory, companies pay dividends, and the price of a stock is effectively the time-discounted value of all future payments (including any final sale). Separating that from the “bitcoin” part of a stock’s price is, of course, the major que
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by jowiar 8y ago
That unions make startups unviable says something about the startup industry...
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by jowiar 8y ago
If you’re working alone, fine. But when working with other people, getting everyone to do the same thing, and have that automatically done for you / enforces is incredibly valuable. It’s such a massive win that any deviation from “my p
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by jowiar 8y ago
To me, discrimination based on where one was born is fundamentally immoral. There are legitimate logistical difficulties with open borders, but we need to identify solutions, rather than use them as excuses.
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by jowiar 8y ago
The difference is the cost to yourself, or people you care about, when you want someone dead. Popular sentiment turned against the Vietnam war in the US because Americans were coming home dead, not because of the Vietnamese that we were kil
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by jowiar 8y ago
[Citation needed] -- Not saying this to be glib, but I'm just wondering what is an actual "huge open-source group". From what I can tell, most open source projects are heavily maintained by a single-digit number of people at
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by jowiar 8y ago
> I don't post much because that's usually a waste of time That's the particular problem that they're trying to figure out, with a broader version of "waste of time". Either "asking a question is met wi
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by jowiar 8y ago
Overall, the fundamental career decision is whether your goal is to join "big tech" or to be at a startup/small business/non-tech firm. If the goal is to be at Google/Amazon/etc, I'd probably suggest an ov
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by jowiar 8y ago
A physical "terminal" is a piece of hardware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100
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by jowiar 8y ago
Would love to see a citation re: Odersky (or if he'd chime in here). My general assumption is that if Scala was intended to be category theory, implemented, something along the lines of scalaz or cats would have been built into the lan
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by jowiar 8y ago
I disagree with that. Haskell is category theory as a language. The Scala community got invaded by Haskellites trying to turn Scala into Haskell, but there’s a particular style of OOP/FP hybrid that requires a language like Scala to us
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by jowiar 9y ago
VC Money is a helluva drug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWccN_uu0gY
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by jowiar 9y ago
I interviewed with a bank recently, and was blown away by the level of professionalism I experienced compared to everywhere else in tech I've been. My mental image of finance was "bros a'broing", but the reality of the e
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by jowiar 9y ago
I don't really trust a 23yo software engineer either... Heaven knows my 23-year-old self wasn't worth a damn. And yet the Thiel's of the world fetishize them...
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by jowiar 9y ago
http://setosa.io/bus/ is my favorite demonstration of this.
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by jowiar 9y ago
General rule with Amtrak in the Northeast: - Acela is pretty reliable - NE Regional and Keystone are a bit less so (Acelas seem to get priority when things are going sour) - All bets are off for everything else (i.e. anything not going from
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by jowiar 9y ago
Those symptoms strike me as altitude sickness-esque -- they're what a friend of mine experienced when we went to Bogota. A quick google seems to indicate that altitude sickness from flying is a thing for some people. https:/&#x2F
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by jowiar 9y ago
The pencil is a game changer for many things. For students, doing math/physics/thinking spatially anything that isn't fundamentally "typing". For teachers -- grading/marking up assignments.
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by jowiar 9y ago
Jesse Kriss did an awesome talk along these lines a couple years ago that focused on “Human Scale Technology”: https://medium.com/@jkriss/human-scale-technology-75da763eb0...
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by jowiar 9y ago
Tasks like "plan a menu for the week" or "go grocery shopping" are the sort of thing where it's a relatively fixed amount of time whether you're shopping/cooking for 1 or for 4 -- i.e. there's an econ
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by jowiar 9y ago
It’s not about “just buy some produce”. It’s “decide what I want to eat, go to the store, find the ingredients that turn into said meals, wait in a 15 minute checkout line, haul things home”. For me, Blue Apron lowers the time commitment of
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by jowiar 9y ago
A $20 Retro 51 rollerball is a fantastic "It Just Works" pen that's a step up from Bic disposables -- Looks great, feels great -- I've gotten a ton of compliments on mine, but it's not expensive to the point where y
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by jowiar 9y ago
I know this is possibly going a bit too far, but learning the basics of typography/design goes a long way. https://practicaltypography.com is a pretty nice introduction on the topic, but overall, if there's any one maj
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by jowiar 9y ago
The canonical problem isn’t “a couple of houses as part of a diversified portfolio”. It’s “entire net worth is effectively tied up in one house”. We saw what happened with this 10 years ago. Houses are only reasonable stores of value if the

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