mc-lovin

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by mc-lovin 13y ago
I'm biased because I thought of about making an app similar to twist, but I think this is a great app, and not just something that appeals to "techies" or whatever we are calling nerds now. In fact, I think it has the potential to reduce r
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
It seems that some of what you are saying is not that different to the claims I was replying to, but with a different interpretation. E.g. you consider weakening the power of legal bodies, the media and the military to be bad, but from thei
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Log base 10 would be a good compromise with the ridiculously vague "N figure salary" descriptions. Makes for much more accurate boasting: "they were offering me a 6.3 figure salary, but in the industry I'm in, it's no big deal"
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Excuse my ignorance in the following, I am trying to understand the situation based on very little prior knowledge: What you say makes a lot of sense, but can you comment on how this generally "good" government seems to be using excessive f
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
"religion-free" is a highly ambiguous term. Can you clarify? I think that a person has a right to wear whatever clothing they feel appropriate, assuming they aren't committing indecent exposure and they don't have giant spikes protruding f
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
You should also look into the "door to door searches", that was a more serious issue, especially since there is a real danger of a slippery slope for this particular policing strategy.
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
I was in a similar situation to the author: largely self-taught, very little formal training or knowledge of the "big picture" ideas. It's a bit like learning a language. You can learn a foreign language without formally studying grammar,
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
While I'm very sympathetic to Allen's viewpoint, it seems that there was, and still is, a large class of problems where C-like languages (where the programmer does the optimizations) are better than high level languages with optimized compi
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
I agree that you want to ensure that the coursework is of sufficient quality. However, I wouldn't avoid terminal masters degrees with no financial support in themselves. E.g. Stanford's MS in CS falls into this category. Edit: not that the
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Yeah, that also struck me as very odd. Assuming all the other claims are true, my best explanation is that this guy's research is coming out of left field, and so he is not very familiar with how the industry works, and so he can't be certa
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
>This is probably the most "echo chamber" friendly statement of any I've seen here. And what does the fact that all the replies disagree, and the post was down-voted, tell you about the existence of an "echo chamber"? (Remember to avoi
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
And I think many in the valley are sick of your false egalitarianism. Some people smarter than other people. And those people, on average will get paid more. I don't see a whole lot of rage when people talk about how it takes good people s
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
You are making a lot of assumptions, which seem taylored to bolster a particular worldview, rather than be based in fact. In particular, you assume 1. People differ vastly in their innate ability to follow societal rules. 2. The justice sy
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
In my experience, employers care more about research than you might imagine (for reasons the other replier has mentioned). That said, a coursework MS will make you generally much more attractive to employers. It's just that they will inter
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
What I meant was that the amount of wealth redistribution would be a function of your income, not the fact that you really need more money to do a particular thing. So if I decide it would be really life assuming to quit my job and become a
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
What I meant was that when designing rules for bankruptcy etc., but also for how education is funded and other things, society has high level goals which are guided by morality. My point was that when society considers what it's goals are,
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
As a consumer your only duty is to obey they law. However, moral duty is relevant when it comes to how society should think about debt. Everyone has things they would like to do if they had more money. Society should not be arranged to gi
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Having an MS on your resume is worth it for itself, let alone all the extra knowledge you can get. So the real questions is: can you handle the coursework? Only you can answer that. If you can pass the degree, and it is from a decent schoo
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
It seems like your objection is to the fact that undergrad-like course loads are branded as MS degrees. But the question here is what is best for the poster. Assuming he can pass the MS degree, a future employer will give much more credit t
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Most companies are willing to negotiate, especially when you have a counter-offer. So in general, it is good advice. Most companies do not have the attitude of "I don't care how much money you would make at an other company, because you w
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
He sighed. That's the confession we need.
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
The best thing about functions with no side effects and no output arguments, is they often get optimized out by the compiler.
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
I would also add that econometricians are highly focused, almost exclusively focused in fact, on finding causal relationships. This means that descriptive work such as clustering, dimension reduction, is often either ignored, or considered
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
My take on data science, and what makes it distinct from other fields, is that it combines a knowledge of the business logic (i.e. software engineering) with knowledge of statistics. For example, a statistician might wonder exactly what a
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
This is a free version of the book "Mining Massive Datasets". Basically statistical methods that work with big datasets, which is the core of data science. http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds.html
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
It's a new loophole: guilt them out of exercising their rights under federal law to get pregnant on your dime.
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
You will have to hug him. But he's alpha, so it won't be creepy. Learn the difference.
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
Now that the issue of "discrimination" has reared its ugly head, no one can give a straight answer to your question. By that I mean that any explanation of why people over 30 really are worse programmers, will be interpreted as "discriminat
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
You characterize the situation very well. It reminds me of the parody of the academic left in sci fi such as the novels of Neal Stephenson and Vernor Vinge. And the parodies of religion and philosophy are even worse. It certainly came as a
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by mc-lovin 13y ago
mine is a regexp

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