murph-almighty

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by murph-almighty 9y ago
>improvement in educational technology I'd like to point out that there's also plenty of utterly crappy educational technology that only exists to nickel and dime students for licenses. See MyMathLab.
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How does one start a municipal ISP, or advocate for the creation of one?
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
Hi, what is market signaling?
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The way I like to think about it is this: Kansas has low taxes, but no one's dying to move there.
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
It's interesting that you bring this up, because she gave a quite politically charged speech at my graduation ceremony (CMU '17). She made a lot of subtle jabs at the Trump presidency by referring to their dishonesty towards the p
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
Their argument was that corporate interests and lobbyists would have proposed amendments that didn't serve to benefit the citizens of NY. Given that Citizens United is a thing, I can't blame them.
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
There is a movement for a constitutional convention via state conventions floating around. I had a lot of trouble figuring out their agenda though. Given that Citizens United is a thing and that Bob Menendez somehow wasn't convicted in
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
At least by me, housekeeping is usually paid in cash and presumably under the table. It's not really going to help Uncle Sam, but I imagine it's helping people who need it stay afloat.
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
This is why you tell people about the consequences of no net neutrality. Ask people if they like being more-or-less forced to use some companies over others, or if they like paying a premium for online gaming. Ask people how they'd fee
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
NJ resident and I believe that's still the case. I'm planning on writing my assemblypeople and the governor's office come January.
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In the US, ID card policies were and still are often used to disenfranchise minorities from voting. The policies behind them are often inconsistently applied and sometimes require large bureaucratic efforts to rectify. Obtaining a copy of y
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
I work remotely in NY for a team in Virginia near DC. I make it a point to take Amtrak because of the carryon limits. Of course there's other perks, e.g. no TSA, less people, more seat room. At the end of the day I'm technically n
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
Possible hot topic: should the politics of unconventional job locations scare me from moving there? Take Kansas. If in theory I'm making 100k and we're playing the "low taxes" game I'd probably be fine financially,
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
> For example, I contribute much better in an audio conference or Slack (just text) meetings, than in a video conference or a face to face meeting. In the former case, I am more relaxed and am able to focus on the problem being discussed
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
>>... have been learning C since 2010, and graduates don't seem to be any worse off for it. >[Citation needed] https://www.cmu.edu/career/about-us/salaries_and_destination...
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
I was an ECE and now regret not taking Intro To Functional Programming (I almost typed 150 by instinct). I was put off by the horror stories, and perhaps also by a lab I saw once that was basically a longform story about "pleasing Senp
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
The Happening much?
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I was an ECE major at CMU. C0 basically served as an introduction to C, with contract annotations. The contract annotations were used to enforce more thinking about your code (i.e. proving your code worked via pre/post/loop condit
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
>But a lot of bootcamps these days are partnering with large companies to learn what sort of skills are needed and going with income-based payment, something like X% of your income above $N for Y months expiring in Z years. I wouldn&#x27
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Does this mean we can develop using some not-Xilinx proprietary crapware?
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I think it has to do with it being on a reserve
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Something tells me that even that will get a little shaky as the public cloud grows, unless they nab a contract with Amazon/Microsoft/Google to provide servers for their cloud services.
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
I suspect internships are filling that void. My company (and quite a few others) only offer internships to juniors to increase the new hire pipeline.
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
>People just aren't going to move across borders because of politics But they'll move across borders because of the effects of politics. My parents are looking to move from NJ after they retire due to the high tax obligation- n
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
>Washington already won me over [partially] due to not having a state income tax and yet having infrastructure comparable to my previous high-tax state, although Seattle is working hard to change that. Just curious- how does Washington g
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
I feel like University of Phoenix, a for-profit university, is a bit unfair of a comparison to a not-for-profit university. Especially when a significant portion of for-profit universities aren't properly accredited, and actually repre
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
>WAMU still plays old Car Talk shows on Saturday morning, a couple of years after one of the brothers died. I occasionally listen to the syndicated podcast. I know next to nothing about cars. Minus the 'forwards from grandma' s
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
Basically why I loved it when we started using Slack.
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by murph-almighty 9y ago
I currently use Lync for Mac, but we're "transitioning" to Skype for Business. I'm saddened to learn that it doesn't make a difference.