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by pisteoff 6y ago
> a rate that's so much higher than STEM education that it makes sense to divert tens of thousands of dollars to a humanities major instead of a STEM one. Likewise, your argument doesn't support diverting funds in favor of STEM
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by pisteoff 6y ago
This represents so much of what is wrong in the US right now.
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by pisteoff 6y ago
> people are learning how to value educational degrees based on what they'll actually yield financially and making decisions accordingly. So why bother learning about the basis of human thought and culture when instead we should be
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by pisteoff 6y ago
> From what I can tell, there's very little enthusiasm for online education, on the part of either professors or students. Pretty much everyone is eager to get back to normal, and I'm fairly confident that this is exactly what
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by pisteoff 6y ago
2001 called, it wants its shitty "Windows Sucks!" article back.
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by pisteoff 7y ago
I stand corrected. But in all honesty, that smacks of privileged elitism. Do these pop quiz, brain teaser interviews really prove the person can be successful on the job at Google?
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by pisteoff 7y ago
> Depends on what you do at Google. I imagine they have multiple PhDs working on those projects. For your bog standard SDE these interviews have very little to do with the day-to-day job.
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by pisteoff 7y ago
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan A beautiful book about waves, love, writing, and living a good life. As a surfer, skier, mountain biker, and overall risk taker, this book affected me in the same way "Walden Pond&quot
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by pisteoff 7y ago
Fair enough, however the I would counter that the JMT can be sectioned, though not necessarily as day hikes. Other than the permit requirement it is way more accessible and less difficult than the Enchantments (don't get me wrong, they
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by pisteoff 7y ago
Yellow Aster Butte is a reasonably accessible day hike that can be completed by just about anyone who's fit enough to hike. Yes, the last pitch to the butte is a bitch, but just about anyone can do it. The Enchantments, on the other ha
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by pisteoff 7y ago
Even so, I bet it's better than Teams.
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by pisteoff 7y ago
Not great. Monitoring my mental health is critical for me. I caught a severe TBI 8 years ago and things have never been the same. I hate the way my brain works now. I hate not being able to concentrate, not remembering a lot things, having
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by pisteoff 7y ago
ha It's always fascinating to me how language evolves. For some reason I thought this would be about hunting and skinning coyotes, as in the varmints I hunted as a kid, not people smuggling folks across the boarder. I read the URL as c
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by pisteoff 7y ago
Blah blah blah. While I appreciate the skepticism, this is BS only for the sake of it (as so many HN comments are). You instantly lose credibility with this line: "I bought a Giro Atmos over a decade ago and never needed to upgrade bec
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by pisteoff 7y ago
Personally I think the photo of her holding the book "Are We Alone?: Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life” is rather telling - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/us/po
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by pisteoff 8y ago
I make at least 30% less than any systems related industry job out there, so no I don't think my salary demands are outrageous. I think it's a combination of ageism, having a family - hence not being willing to put in insane hours
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by pisteoff 8y ago
I'm a systems engineer in WA state in my early 40s and this is exactly why I gave up trying to find a "real" DevOps job. I know Python, Puppet, Docker, Azure, etc. very well, have a liberal arts BA as well as a good chunk of
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by pisteoff 8y ago
My local trail building and mountain bike advocacy group.
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by pisteoff 8y ago
Plant lots and lots of Azolla. Like a lot of it. In addition to all the other stuff that people talk about.
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by pisteoff 8y ago
Keep on living to work, brah. I'll feel less guilty clocking out early knowing you're there to keep things running. I bet you'll feel differently on your death bed.
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by pisteoff 8y ago
Someone took Metaphysics 101. It turns out reconciling science and philosophy isn't so easy. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/is-scientif...
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by pisteoff 8y ago
> being told that once the kid comes out thousands of years of evolution magically hit you in the back of the head This is true, there are studies out there that have shown men go through physiological changes in the brain, similar to wh
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by pisteoff 9y ago
"The enthusiastic replies on this thread are understandable, but disappointing to see: we all need to be less credulous regarding the lay science press, and especially the lay medical press." So fucking what? I suffered a moderate
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by pisteoff 9y ago
Don't be so serious.
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by pisteoff 13y ago
I think this is exactly correct. I've used ExtJS exactly once and it was for building an internal, administrative app. It's also correct that building an administrative interface with Rails or Django is much easier. In the case of