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by jurassic 13y ago
Since we're talking about insane job ads, I saw this one recently: http://www.splore.com/content/jobs "You should be ready to make this startup the primary focus of your life"
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by jurassic 13y ago
I know things were terrible for everyone during the dot bomb era, but just wanted to say that PhD holders often have a hard time finding the right position even in good times. They are highly specialized and believe they should command a h
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by jurassic 13y ago
Meh, there is a wide variety of rigor and selectivity in these programs. While I admit there are a lot of junk grads from junk programs right now, hiring from the top third/half of the more selective bootcamp programs (e.g. App Academ
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by jurassic 13y ago
Seems like a neat project, but they definitely need better endorsements than Deepak Chopra. My bullshit detector is on red-alert.
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by jurassic 13y ago
> You know what? Forget it, I don’t even want to comment any more. It was a dumb video anyway. I went through this exact process and thought ("screw this, ugh!") several times before I just decided to stop hanging out on youtu
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by jurassic 13y ago
> Here's what future career paths very roughly look like for new grads (based on my own perceptions, not glassdoor) This sounds reasonable to me. Most people never have the experience of tripling or quadrupling their salary in a si
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by jurassic 13y ago
> As somebody who is about to start grad school, blogging about papers publicly sounds like an excellent idea. Eh, maybe. Publicly criticizing the work of others in an informal venue where you don't have the benefit of editing&#x2F
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by jurassic 13y ago
If the OP was able to run his homework files just by monkeypatching a few classes, I think that shows requiring Matlab for the assignment was massive overkill. Unless you're using the toolboxes (which they weren't), what does Matl
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by jurassic 13y ago
The 5 year gap in your resume is not easily concealed.
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by jurassic 13y ago
I would be surprised if your professor's research tab is partly covered by the university unless they are using startup funds as a new faculty hire. The universities I've been at all (Caltech, MIT) have a significant "overhe
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by jurassic 13y ago
I definitely agree that early work in a McJob is not a good experience or a good use of time for middle-class kids who don't need to work. I have a younger sibling who wanted to work for some extra spending cash and my parents encoura
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by jurassic 13y ago
> The general principle is that an employee has to cost less than the money they bring in. That's not strictly true. If you have two programmers, one produces $80 in value per hour and the other only $40 in value per hour you can s
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by jurassic 13y ago
Do you know about bang searches to search specific sites? "so! <your query here>"
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by jurassic 13y ago
My main feedback based on playing one game is that "End turn" shouldn't be visible, even faded, if it's not my turn. I found myself clicking that a lot during my first game because I wasn't sure if I'd passed
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by jurassic 13y ago
I had the same issue with the tutorial. Looks very polished, too. Congrats on launching.
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by jurassic 13y ago
Sounds like the parent comment was the interviewee, not interviewer.
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by jurassic 13y ago
If I recall, Pandora has a relatively gentle onboarding. You can start a new station without being logged in and it's not until you interact with the site further (to rate, skip, etc) that they start pester you to sign up. I don&#x27
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by jurassic 13y ago
My 2004 CS class was Visual Basic. The instructor didn't know anything, but its hard to hold that against a guy making ~$40k/yr at midcareer. Instead of a competent teacher, we had textbooks that we were expected to work through
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by jurassic 13y ago
Running a research group is a lot like running a small business from the professor's point of view. You have employees (grad students, lab managers) and equipment/supply/rent(overhead) costs that you use to produce a product
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by jurassic 13y ago
Yeah, but rent costs go up year after year while your mortgage is locked in at the purchase price. What will SF rents be in 2030? The mortgage payment on your 2013 house purchase might not look so bad in comparison, and often for a lot m
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by jurassic 13y ago
Yeah. My old department at Caltech cut 15% of the support staff, including some who'd been on staff for decades and nearing retirement. They barely took any new students this year. So it's being felt at even the highest levels.
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by jurassic 13y ago
Foreign-borns returning home seems like an oversimplification. It's true Americans aren't leaving in droves yet, but it doesn't surprise me that a lot of young researchers are willing to do whatever it takes to stay in scien
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by jurassic 13y ago
I've been looking into this but haven't taken the leap yet because I decided I wanted an external monitor and keyboard. A standing setup with a laptop seems less than optimal from an ergonomic point of view. Isn't it better
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by jurassic 13y ago
The T42 was a really solid pre-Lenovo ThinkPad that had significant mindshare among tech nerds when I arrived at MIT. It was my machine in college and the keyboard was amazing. I'd probably still be using it if one of the fans hadn&#
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by jurassic 13y ago
From these humorless responses it seems the hyperbole of my last sentence has been lost, but I stand by the sentiment that educating yourself about healthy eating and then executing a varied and healthful diet (including the fully loaded ti
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by jurassic 13y ago
800 calories for one of his two daily meals is not bad. And I'm curious what you think he should be eating for calories as a vegetarian (he said he didn't eat meat) if fat and starch are both off limits. A raw vegan diet is the
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by jurassic 13y ago
What's the big deal? What this guy is eating already is definitely above average in quality. A Chipotle burrito bol (fresh whole ingredients, sans tortilla) is a legit meal. Other than dental impacts from the carbonation, health hys
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by jurassic 13y ago
This seems like a clear message to the houseless (!= homeless) population of Palo Alto to GTFO. Sad, but can't say I'm surprised.
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by jurassic 13y ago
pg addresses this in his essay "Keep Your Identity Small". I think this is the root of the problem. http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
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by jurassic 13y ago
This response tells me you've never been in the science trenches. I've never heard of a postdoc making anywhere close to 60k, even at elite schools in high COL areas. The financial opportunity cost is staggering.

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