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by rdouble 13y ago
Maybe it's a generational thing. It describes my dad and all his doctor friends to a T.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Being a line cook in most restaurants is very repetitive and doesn't require much skill. You basically just enter a zen state and become a sort of robot for whatever kitchen station you are manning. That said, the restaurants where bei
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by rdouble 13y ago
Maybe they were from Canadian, TX.
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by rdouble 13y ago
what about totally electronic music that's of a kind that can't be played live in any meaningful way? Electronic music is actually one of the best ways to make money as an individual artist because you can play both huge clubs a
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by rdouble 13y ago
The games he wrote were a bluetooth enabled card game and simon says. (check the link) These would use different iOS APIs but are not complex and do not require low-level graphics programming skills. The bluetooth card game is actually a tu
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by rdouble 13y ago
The electronic hordes are much crazier now than in the past. That "Scooby" bodybuilder guy got doxed by 4chan the other week. In addition to the usual relentless stream of obscene online hate comments, they sent minions over to p
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by rdouble 13y ago
I wonder where you live. Golf is very unpopular with most tech people I know.
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by rdouble 13y ago
In the negative sense of the word, 'populist' is often used to suggest that 'the people' have been manipulated into promoting something that is actually not in their best interest.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Once systems get as large as the ones at Google, it can feel like the piece of the puzzle you are working on is inconsequential. This leads to boredom and ennui. There are currently a lot of opportunities to get paid well while feeling like
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by rdouble 13y ago
But what's the value or the point? What am I missing? Why would I want to, say, have a serious 1:1 with my boss in a Romance Room? Every early stage startup in San Francisco has an employee who is a combination secretary, HR person a
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by rdouble 13y ago
In rural america often times the only doctors are Indian or Pakistani.
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by rdouble 13y ago
My sister migrated to regional Australia and it's hella expensive. Bananas in Arizona are $0.57/lb and they were $12/k when I lived there. Apparently there was a banana shortage at the time but the usual price was still 4-5x
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by rdouble 13y ago
I hate to break this to you, but airplane systems, medical systems, banking systems, fuel pump systems and a lot of other systems all run on Windows.
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by rdouble 13y ago
This is how that "standard progression" actually happened in my town: 1. There was no bakery a few blocks away. Maybe there was in 1850, but not in my lifetime. 2. There were two grocery stores, both of which sucked. one sucked wa
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by rdouble 13y ago
You don't need to know very much music theory to read this book. You do need to know some, though. If you don't know any music theory, like what chords and scales and rhythms are, it won't make much sense. That said, the b
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by rdouble 13y ago
Did B&N really kill off a lot of bookstores? In my experience, there weren't any other bookstores in the areas where B&N opened up.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Barnes and Noble is an inconsistent experience. For example, at the Roseville, MN store, the technical book section is usually on par with, or sometimes even better than Powell's. However, almost everywhere else, even at other location
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by rdouble 13y ago
It's a very nerdified take on music theory which is only popular with "computer music" researchers at universities. It would be a poor way to learn music theory in the way that musicians think about it.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Also, one thing I forgot to add, is that PA school is very expensive. For example, at the University of North Dakota, the PA school tuition is $34,287 per year, with no discount to in-state residents. In contrast, the medical school tuition
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by rdouble 13y ago
There isn't much barrier to entry besides the extra school. It's just that nobody really wants to be a dentist.
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by rdouble 13y ago
It means that charity can only provide a temporary fix. The countries receiving aid need to sort these issues out themselves or they'll return as problems when the aid is gone.
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by rdouble 13y ago
One unmentioned upside to being a doctor is you make a good salary anywhere in the country. A GP can make $180K in a town where an engineer would be lucky to make $40K, if any engineering jobs existed at all. PAs are mostly in the same boat
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by rdouble 13y ago
WeChat has 300 million users according to Wikipedia.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Bodybuilders were traditionally very healthy. They are basically responsible for "health food," gyms and diet and exercise awareness in general.
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by rdouble 13y ago
How many iOS users even bother with iMessage? Over 250 million. 2 billion iMessages are sent per day.
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by rdouble 13y ago
In the fridge?
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by rdouble 13y ago
It's pretty cool, actually. If you're entrepreneurial it's good to know that even hackers will fall for anything provided it's being marketed by someone who seems like a hacker, too.
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by rdouble 13y ago
What's less usable? I was suspicious initially but after using it for weeks usability seems about the same, if not a bit improved. It does need a lot of polish, and some of the built in apps are uglier, like clock and notes.
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by rdouble 13y ago
Guidestar is best for that but sadly the reports are very expensive these days.
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by rdouble 13y ago
apache bench

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