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by pnathan 7y ago
Maybe. But, you'd have to be a certain kind of person. And, if you are, that is totally cool. Most programmers I encounter thirst for the New Thing.
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by pnathan 7y ago
I think it'll be pretty good career until some kind of tipping point is hit. My suggestion is to become excellent at CS, get an internship, then specialize in a fascinating area of forward-looking work (don't study COBOL. :) ). al
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by pnathan 7y ago
> The 737 Max is doomed without the MCAS, the entire reason it exists is to keep the same type rating the same to keep pilots from needing to re-certify. I would suggest at this point, the ...creative documentation... that Boeing's
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by pnathan 7y ago
Strong agree. Also having a Masters, and also being a very serious independent learner, there is simply no equivalence. Similarities, but no equivalence. Different pros, different cons, different approach, different result. Still get to l
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by pnathan 7y ago
> Believes that protesting your own employer [snip] Unions would like to have a word. They started, in modern form, in the 1800s.
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by pnathan 7y ago
The solution is simple: extend the public school system to the newborn. It's widespread, the background check system is in place, the logistics are in place. The only question is funding and the legislation mandating it.
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by pnathan 7y ago
> Political scandals happen daily under this administration. The president has tweeted about nuclear war. He becomes more erratic under pressure. How will the next bout of nuclear war tweets be handled? Whom, if not the CEO, are those de
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by pnathan 7y ago
Understanding the purpose of having a construction and the call into the human soul to demand a narratival and binding meaning is something that is simply inadequately done in this long afternoon of Modernity. Trite answers don't suffi
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by pnathan 7y ago
This was, roughly, the design of the University of Washington NICU about 3 years ago. We really liked it. We did not consider the nursing to be understaffed at this point in time - we consider the NICU staff and facilities to be some of,
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by pnathan 7y ago
I have a policy of never allowing a MDM policy on my phone. I use the web portals for calendaring, email. Notifications for calendar events are usually parlayed into SMS notifications. There's also questions about "IP" law he
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by pnathan 7y ago
That's been my take for a while. Idly curious what they are, but I'd rather not be extra-horrified at whatever they are.
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by pnathan 7y ago
The 40s-50s in the USA had an amazing number of absolutely astounding ideas, which are still seminal in their fields. Much of the effects went public in the 60s-70s and completely shook the prior society in nearly every area. My thesis is t
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by pnathan 7y ago
Nice idea. I've been sharing my salary history via email for some time now to help equalize it - this just takes it public. BTW, I would probably suggest qualifying the income by location to set the context. SV pay isn't always, e
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by pnathan 7y ago
A lot of the narrative structure reminded me of child musician almost-prodigies. People who are feted, but sigh, and in the mid & late teens, move on to other things. The obsessiveness of the skill acquisition makes me link late childho
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by pnathan 7y ago
the only reason I don't shop at Costco anymore is because we could almost never buy goods in quantities small enough to be feasible for our living space and rate of consumption. Great store, otherwise.
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by pnathan 7y ago
Nothing I do in my ordinary routine full-time engineering work for the past decade has required or does require anything outside the ASCII character set or, alternatively, plain bytes. The use cases my users present to me does not include
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by pnathan 7y ago
The Py3 string handling was beyond frustrating prior to 3.6. For what I do, Unicode complexity is not required. Having to stuff it into everything was more trouble than it was worth.
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by pnathan 7y ago
> I think I'll totally drop cynicism about politics when we get a real progressive in the Oval office, or if Biden doesn't win and Warren or Bernie does. Just the fact of the progressives beating the establishment would totally
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by pnathan 7y ago
In the circles I watch and hang around, we've moved from a cynical nihilism about government (nothing matters, elites always win) to a reckoning that we have to invest time and energy in our governance to get it to work for us. That ag
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by pnathan 7y ago
My general impression is the Media Lab is sort of framed as the successor to the old AI lab, a kind of research crown jewel of MIT. Ito is its director and thus shares in its glory and builds on it. I've seen a variety of press release
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by pnathan 7y ago
well, it's one thing if you did so unknowingly. but if you have a close and long running relationship with a proven creep (of different flavors), your moral compass becomes suspect, and after it becomes public knowledge, it becomes a q
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by pnathan 7y ago
> And why can't the LA Review of Books employ a Korean to write its 'Korea Blog'? Why do we always have non-anglophone countries being "explained" by anglophones? I was wondering the same, myself. I'm sure t
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by pnathan 7y ago
The writer has an interesting slant on SK (I flipped through a few of his other essays). I don't know enough about South Korea to distill it, but it doesn't feel right . Something vaguely exoticiszed... Maybe .... "snotty ex
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by pnathan 7y ago
strong agree: a committment to working through ones library can yield great things. also you can unload poor books that are taking up space now!
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by pnathan 7y ago
Hi, I wish you the best of luck. The market skews so hard to seniors, and certain locations prioritize certain schools, it's really amazing. I hope you expand into Seattle soon.
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by pnathan 7y ago
Yes, my WAG is that I would be studying tax law in relation to forex investing before claiming crypto is somehow different....
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by pnathan 7y ago
Eventually a toddler gets over the guardrails, except for the ones which are materially disabled. I have deep and profound doubts about the notion of guardrails for general intelligence; without even considering the ethical concerns, a ge
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by pnathan 7y ago
This is my strong takeaway on China economy articles- most are enormously wrong in their predictions, and not simply in a few random details; fundamentally they have been wrong about the China system collapsing for years and years and ye
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by pnathan 7y ago
I periodically go through and back up my Kindle to Calibre. I have a fairly enormous ebook library, and I don't care to have it exploded due to, e.g., some error in the kindle software api.
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by pnathan 7y ago
Seattle job search in 2018 revealed almost zero companies who did remote work. Butts in seats appeared mandatory. Kinda weird. I personally think it reveals a generally weak management culture, along with issues with employee development an

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