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by myegorov 8y ago
The irony is that AT&T's agents have to pirate the content in order to track down the pirates. Pirate Party is the answer, and VPN in the interim.
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by myegorov 8y ago
What could transpire within a week _outside of_ weekly work or tasks that could influence your reports' career trajectory or force them to re-evaluate it? To put this in context, I'm attending such meetings but really see them as
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by myegorov 8y ago
This is a common misconception. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_ethnic_divisions
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by myegorov 8y ago
What fraction of apartment buildings in California have double-pane windows? What fraction of commercial buildings in SF/East Bay have operable windows to take advantage of natural ventilation?
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by myegorov 8y ago
I think the concept of "bullshit job" is intuitively familiar to everyone. It's what you experience when you're just whiling your time away at work or in school. Can easily become the rule ( khalyava in Soviet Union[1])
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by myegorov 8y ago
I personally favor thin books that present what really matters after having digested it first. Not that there's no place for thick books on my shelves (CLRS among others). I find HaskellWiki/Hoogle better serve the use case that t
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by myegorov 8y ago
I suspect few physics students would agree with you about the didactic value of LL. The audiences for the two types of books couldn't be more different.
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by myegorov 8y ago
Not to start a flame war, but imho this is my definition of a "terrible book". Of the everything and the kitchen sink variety. By contrast, I very much enjoyed LYAH, not least for its self-effacing humor. Hutton was too dry for me
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by myegorov 8y ago
As someone who came to the US as a refugee, the differences are far more nuanced than the food you eat or the language you speak. An insular community may legitimately feel threatened by the influx of outsiders. I've witnessed first-ha
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by myegorov 8y ago
A citizen of any country would be well advised to first and foremost guard their self-interest. One might argue that accepting immigrants is against the self-interest of the native born/legal resident majority. Speaking as a refugee fr
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by myegorov 8y ago
The price you quote is the cost of yearly subscription for just a single program (per station). An architect or engineer will use ~5 such programs on a daily basis for various modeling/analysis tasks.
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by myegorov 8y ago
All valid points. I think there's a more fundamental hurdle though: money as the instrument of coercion, with the state monopoly over defining its legitimacy, distribution channels, taxation. I can't fathom how the incumbents coul
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by myegorov 8y ago
Going to college might not be financially rewarding for many, but neither are trades. I worked in the construction trades for about two years before switching to engineering, and later software. In retrospect, switching careers paid off sev
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by myegorov 9y ago
I found it quaint that NYC buildings skip the 13th floor.
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by myegorov 9y ago
My wife found a bristle in her burrito last year. Luckily, she noticed it before swallowing. The place kindly offered her a free burrito as a consolation :(
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by myegorov 9y ago
It is correct that you don't qualify for federal aid for a second undergraduate degree. You can still receive financial aid as a graduate student. I'd strongly advise you to consider getting an MS. This may require taking on loans
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by myegorov 9y ago
This scenario is clearly not in the interest of the incumbents in the world of currency (US$, Euro). It's conceivable, however, that because of geopolitical wars some other state -- with enough clout and whose income can be ensured by
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by myegorov 9y ago
Sincere question: It appears that it's crystal clear to everyone where the distinction between fake and real news lies, or who should be allowed to post (mis)information (serve ads, if you prefer) on the interwebs, or how to identify t
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by myegorov 9y ago
A structural engineer in the US, at a minimum, requires a Professional Engineer license. The licensing requirements are similar elsewhere in North America, and in Britain. In some states (such as California), to practice structural engineer
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by myegorov 9y ago
A construction project is overdetermined to a degree that few other enterprises are. In terms of compensation, an hour of a practicing structural engineer (aside from Calatrava & co.) is worth about as much as a carpenter's (who&#x
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by myegorov 9y ago
I've personally worked at different times as a carpenter (residential projects) and structural engineer (long-span bridges, tall buildings). I mean it quite literally.
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by myegorov 9y ago
Coming from the profession, I often think that the problem is quite the opposite -- that there're too many engineers with an outsized ego. In almost every way, aside from schooling, the structural engineer's trade is no different
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by myegorov 9y ago
This comment is right on point. In building construction, the structural engineer is typically the architect's client. The challenge is always to seek the compromise that promotes your partner's agenda, without compromising the st
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by myegorov 9y ago
Might be worthwhile to add conditional risk to it, to generalize it to the minimum risk classifier. That way you'd also distinguish it from, say the scikit-learn implementation.
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by myegorov 9y ago
Seing that "people at the top" hold a non-negligible fraction of world's assets lends some credibility to cryptocurrencies.
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by myegorov 9y ago
In the US (Chicago), the invention of the elevator led to progressively taller buildings. Today, elevator technology is still one of the limiting factors of how tall you can build.
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by myegorov 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_insurgency_in_Western...
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by myegorov 9y ago
What about continuous data (real numbers, strings)? Your approach has rather limited application. On a different note, merge/sort approach (O(n log n)) is in general less efficient than the heap approach (O(n log a)), and may be imprac
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by myegorov 9y ago
For perspective, the going wage for a skilled (journey level) carpenter in the SF Bay area is essentially the same today as it was in 2005 (the last time I was part of the labor force). This is from a quick survey of Craigslist ads. If anyt
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by myegorov 9y ago
Your career path (and its determinants) mirror mine to an uncanny degree. Nonetheless, I disagree that there's a long-term shortage of skilled labor in the US in general, or that any short-term shortage has its root cause in underdevel

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