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by pmb 13y ago
I have been a lunch "interviewer" at Google. I was never asked to provide any feedback.
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by pmb 13y ago
Yes it does! That is the code that creates the entire poster - including the code at the bottom, the title, the author, the year, and the cc-attribution-nocommercial graphic.
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by pmb 13y ago
Ulam Spiral. I'll immodestly refer you to the Ulam Spiral I made the bottom of which is the source code for the program which makes the poster. https://web.archive.org/web/20111215052134/http://impro
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by pmb 13y ago
Minimum guaranteed income can not get here soon enough.
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by pmb 13y ago
It really depends on the FCC's definition, but yeah, I concede the point that they are only just independent enough to make the FCC happy.
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by pmb 13y ago
T-mobile is actually officially independent of Deutsche Telekom because the FCC has the same rule.
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by pmb 13y ago
Nobody can explain to a dedicated C++ programmer why a new language is better than C++. I have tried for more than a decade many times and all I have ever gotten across has apparently been a "wah wah wah" noise like the adults in
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by pmb 13y ago
It does put people in buckets, but places no restrictions on the quantities that must reside in each bucket.
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by pmb 13y ago
You can't hoard transit. It's a service, not a good. You can, however, use it. Which is a good thing (a social good!). Even more, transit capital is allocated by use, not by profit. More people using it should (in a non-stup
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by pmb 13y ago
If they are a public good worthy of subsidizing, then yes! For NYC, it has been estimated that every car driving in lower Manhattan incurs ... goddammit I can't find a reference so I'm going with memory here ... at least ~$3 in so
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by pmb 13y ago
Answer to the postdoc one: You can't. People looking for postdocs almost always have a specific sort of funding and it is attached to the credentialing.
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by pmb 13y ago
PhD programs in CS have a 30% completion rate. (No citation, but true of the program I finished and all others I know) It's not that safe.
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by pmb 13y ago
Sousveillance here we come! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
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by pmb 13y ago
If your numbers are going up, it means you are having more fun! http://radgeek.com/gt/2006/04/28/antieconometrix_comix/ It's too bad that game that need more lookahead - Tetris, etc, are not amenable to this approach.
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by pmb 14y ago
Dangit. I really liked shopping at the new JCPenny. Every price was rounded to the nearest dollar (and usually the nearest 5 dollar) and included tax. I could walk in, try the things on I needed, hand the cashier exact change, and get ou
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by pmb 14y ago
Almost every R-1 institution has them. But the difference I was articulating here is the difference between being required to teach 1 or 2 classes per year versus teaching 7 per year.
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by pmb 14y ago
It's actually a lot rosier on the CS side in my experience. I got my PhD from a middle-of-the-pack school (i.e. not CMU, MIT, etc) and received a tenure-track job offer (at a 4-year liberal-arts college) before I had defended. After worki
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by pmb 14y ago
Definitely. But the thing that convinced me that this driver meant it was that he previously was dispatched by both radio and Uber, and then chose to go Uber-only. As a sample, it's prone to survivor bias, but it definitely argues that my
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by pmb 14y ago
What percentage of professors who teach offline courses think their students deserve credit?
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by pmb 14y ago
The Uber drivers I have asked have also all been very positive. I asked one whether he was dispatched by anyone else, and he said that he used to be, but no longer - now he was Uber-only and he was glad he could ditch the dispatcher model.
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by pmb 14y ago
Although it sounds like you are joking, I just want to note that this can be quite a dangerous approach. Depression isn't just "very sad, needs help to cheer up". Depression is a neurochemical problem possibly caused by or exacerbated by
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by pmb 14y ago
1pt is a unit of length. One point is 1/72 of an inch. It should be the same height now that it ever was, even on old monitors.
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by pmb 14y ago
Writing a grant proposal is about as hard as writing a paper. So if they apply for three grants and also write three papers in a year, then yeah - that's 50%.
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by pmb 14y ago
Nothing wrong with sending your resume around. The order of execution matters a lot. Get hired for a new job, then quit your current one. In the worst case scenario, you still have your current job.
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by pmb 14y ago
Only the first 90ish fibonacci numbers fit in a 4 byte int. Use a lookup table, make it O(1).
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by pmb 14y ago
The UK system is reputed to be far less abusive than the US system. The US system put me through the frigging wringer.
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by pmb 14y ago
The whole trick of designing institutions is to make sure that when they act for their own self-preservation (as they will and do) they will simultaneously be achieving the goal we want them to be achieving.
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by pmb 14y ago
Make every sentence work with the whole in moving the reader towards your intended goal.
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by pmb 14y ago
People posting here should name names of their negative experiences. How else can we learn who the problem actors are?
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by pmb 14y ago
The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends away from stupid.

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