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by linguae 3y ago
I first encountered similar advice when reading the slides of David Patterson’s talk “How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia” as an undergraduate in the late 2000s who was planning a career in computer science research: https:&
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by linguae 3y ago
What happens when one gets laid off, disabled, changes careers, or faces some other circumstances that cause incomes to fall below what’s needed to service debt payments? That’s why living below one’s means and saving the rest is prudent.
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Ask HN: History of Industrial Research Labs Outside Xerox PARC and Bell Labs
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by linguae 3y ago
Have you considered teaching computer science? If you are based in California and you have at least a bachelor’s degree with extensive work experience or a master’s degree, you are eligible to teach at the community college level. Compute
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by linguae 3y ago
Not everybody in tech, not even those working in Silicon Valley, make $200K+ per year and have six figures of RSUs. Even in Silicon Valley there are plenty of tech employers paying low six-figure or even five-figure salaries without RSUs.
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by linguae 3y ago
I used to love macOS in the 2000s and 2010s. I never made a Hackintosh but I was always intrigued by them. Before WSL was introduced, the Mac was the best platform for people who needed to use proprietary software packages such as Microso
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by linguae 3y ago
I also wholeheartedly agree: Windows 2000 was the pinnacle of the Windows NT line before Microsoft merged the consumer line (3.1/95/98/Me) with the professional line (NT) beginning with Windows XP, which unfortunately added a
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by linguae 3y ago
I do agree that we need more public benefit companies; not every company needs to be a multi-billion dollar enterprise. However, I disagree that Silicon Valley “lost the plot.” In fact, I believe this has been the plot of Silicon Valley s
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by linguae 3y ago
This is true; one doesn't need a university affiliation to do research in many fields. In Einstein's case, he famously worked as a patent clerk during his day job while working on his research during his spare time. However, the
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by linguae 3y ago
This is true, but what makes academia attractive is the idea of being paid to do research. One doesn’t have to be in the NBA to play basketball, but there’s a world of difference between playing at the local park versus being on the Gold
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by linguae 3y ago
Even in academia the freedom of inquiry is circumscribed by performance expectations by peers and administrators, especially pre-tenure. While tenure-track professors do not have managers telling them what to research and how to go about d
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by linguae 3y ago
This is really interesting; it’s really cool to think about the “statics” and “dynamics” of programming, and I while I have a basic understanding of functional programming (both the dynamic world of Scheme and the static world of languages
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by linguae 3y ago
I have the same dream. A part of me wishes Richard Stallman set out on making a Lisp OS instead of making a Unix clone, but this was the mid-1980s and thus I understand the technical limitations and the social environment of the time. The
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by linguae 3y ago
Land values play a major factor in home values, but there are other factors that could lead to the increased cost of building homes, such as the price of raw materials and the price of labor. Higher interest rates are also having an impact
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by linguae 3y ago
PostScript does more than markup and presentation; it is an entire 2D graphics engine. At one point PostScript served as the graphics substrate for the Sun NeWS and NeXT Display PostScript-based window systems. While I agree from a securi
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by linguae 3y ago
X has long had critics from Unix fans. There’s an entire chapter devoted to X in The UNIX Hater’s Handbook , and the author of that chapter, Don Hopkins, is a major advocate of Sun NeWS. On the Unix side of things, alternatives to X incl
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by linguae 3y ago
There was a major environmentalist and neighborhood preservationist movement in California during the 1960s and 1970s that helped fuel anti-growth measures. While they weren't strictly leftist (there are right-wing slow- and anti-grow
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by linguae 3y ago
Yeah, I should’ve clarified regarding Apple, which wasn’t in the Lisp workstation market. Apple’s departure from Lisp has little to do with the AI winter (though Hacker News commenters lispm and mikelevins may have a lot more insight given
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by linguae 3y ago
Rust requires people to learn how to adapt to Rust’s borrow checker, which can be challenging for programmers coming from other languages, yet this hasn’t stopped Rust’s rapid adoption in systems programming. In fact, Rust’s safety feature
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by linguae 3y ago
Common Lisp once had plenty of backing from major companies like Symbolics, Xerox, and Texas Instruments, as well as smaller companies such as Harlequin. Even Apple owned Macintosh Common Lisp at one point, and SK8 (which could be consider
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by linguae 3y ago
1. I wanted to drive a zero-emissions vehicle. In 2022 gasoline prices in California reached record-high prices, and I believed it was a good time to look at alternatives. 2. I live in an apartment complex that lacks EV chargers. My lan
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by linguae 3y ago
Yeah, I purchased a brand new Mirai in late 2022. I was excited about hydrogen, but the past year has been very rough, with dramatic price hikes on fuel as well as station reliability issues. Thankfully in Silicon Valley (where I work) I’
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by linguae 3y ago
I don’t want to sound alarmist, but in recent years I feel that the post-WWII way of life in America is undergoing severe stress. The cost of health care, higher education, and housing have reached their breaking points. To speak in more
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by linguae 3y ago
I actually own a 350MHz “Yikes!” model, though I purchased mine in 2009 for just $40. It’s a very nice machine and is one of the easiest desktops I’ve worked on. Mine runs both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X Tiger; while I own faster PowerPC Macs
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by linguae 3y ago
I concur. I have a 350MHz Power Mac G4 that I purchased for only $40 in 2009 from a couple who couldn’t figure out why it stopped working. It turned out the hard disk and the CD-ROM drive didn’t work, and its internal battery ran out; rep
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by linguae 3y ago
Four years, which is the typical length of a bachelor's degree program in the United States, is long enough to where economic conditions could change substantially. When I was a freshman at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 2005, the advice
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by linguae 3y ago
I believe Microsoft Research is the closest thing to the old Bell Labs or the old Xerox PARC that exists today, but I’ve heard that even MSR has changed (though this is just hearsay). I’ve heard historically researchers at MSR had a wide d
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by linguae 3y ago
"A bigger question for the present is: why are the universities failing so badly? Their incentives have not changed, but we don't get the kind of innovative research we got out of Bell Labs." In my opinion, professors at re
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by linguae 3y ago
I remember this for the Japanese language back in the early 2000s when I started learning the language. Nowadays Japanese websites mostly use UTF-8, but back in 2000 there was a mixture of JIS, Shift-JIS, and EUC content, and sometimes bro
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by linguae 3y ago
There are some HP laptops that offered FreeDOS as an alternative to Windows. This might be limited to business-line laptops as opposed to consumer-oriented laptops, and it might not be available in your country, but it’s worth investigatin

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