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by rifung 9y ago
> They're not singling you out. Seattle people don't talk to random strangers on the street or transit unless there's an actual reason. This aspect of the city is well known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by rifung 9y ago
> I don't have time. I want to teach electronics and stuff because I want to help people who are marginalized to have the opportunities that frankly, I didn't deserve but I wish everyone had. But I also have a lot to learn firs
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by rifung 9y ago
> This particular firm has twice as many Seattle U. grads as Harvard grads, so clearly being a local carries substantial weight. You can't come to that conclusion unless they have an equal number of Seattle U applicants as Harvard a
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by rifung 9y ago
> Nobody treats you like a human being if you're in tech. That sounds depressing.. I've lived in Seattle for ~3 years now and can't say I really relate. Where did you move from and where are you now? Although I'm curi
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by rifung 9y ago
> had a concussion for 3 weeks afterwards Should this be "a concussion with symptoms which lasted 3 weeks afterwards"? I thought a concussion was the traumatic injury itself. Either way I hope you are ok!
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by rifung 9y ago
I write Go at work but have never heard anyone say this. Can you explain why you would prefer no generics to this dumb junior engineer who wants to be enlightened?
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by rifung 9y ago
What about things like applying for grants though?
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by rifung 9y ago
> Did it even honk the horn? I don't disagree with what you're saying but 3/3 times I have honked my horn as someone was backing into me and they still hit me. Another time I was a passenger when it happened.
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by rifung 9y ago
> If you truly want to get into research, grad school should sound like a dream (at any school with a decent program, not just top schools). You'd be surrounded by likeminded people, get to do crazy science stuff all day, and you&#x
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by rifung 9y ago
But isn't the Apple watch useful? I definitely see the appeal of being able to see notifications without having to take out my phone. I don't think it's worth the cost for me, but for those who just enjoy using technology and
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by rifung 9y ago
Well I suppose my fingers normally stay around the home row because that's how I was taught. I suppose it's my mistake for assuming that's how others type! Nevertheless, esc is still super far away from all the letters which
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by rifung 9y ago
I don't think it'll matter? I think it will just drive adoption of Ctrl + [ for vim users which is arguably better anyway since it's closer to the home row
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by rifung 9y ago
I admit I don't know too much about cryptocurrencies but how are those unicorns? Aren't those all currencies and not companies?
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> If such a bias does exist it won't be eliminated because they aren't allowed to ask a single question. Agreed. > Most research I've seen show that it's the women who are failing to take initiative in asking for r
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by rifung 9y ago
> Except for the fact that male and female pay for the same job, and experience level are statistically the same and there is no actual pay gap. Sure, but if women have a harder time getting promoted then they also have a harder time get
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by rifung 9y ago
> This makes the law seem even more ridiculous to me. Why is it more ridiculous? We already have laws against discrimination based on gender. If the issue isn't being solved, while being hands off, it seems natural to try something
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by rifung 9y ago
> At the dawn of the computer age ATT, IBM, and other companies taught people how to program from scratch. Early on because there were no college programs to do so and later on because programs didn't graduate nearly enough people.
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by rifung 9y ago
> I'd be more impressed if they committed to hiring employees that don't already have the skills they are looking for and doing on the job training I work for Google and I find there's already a very large amount of on the
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by rifung 9y ago
> I can't help but suspect that Jobs would have been happy to leave the iphone US exclusive if it had not been for the gray market of jailbroken phones. Why wouldn't he want to sell it worldwide and make Apple significantly mor
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by rifung 9y ago
I work at Google.. I am just a lowly engineer and know nothing about this so I have nothing to say. I miss the days when I could comment and people would think I was just a person with an opinion.
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by rifung 9y ago
My concern was not about the administrative burden of publishing but of the difficulty of actually finding results which are publishable. I'm not sure which the original comment though.
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by rifung 9y ago
I never said it's a rational fear! I have never walked home alone after hanging out nor gone out to play alone except in our backyard.
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by rifung 9y ago
> But do parents think they're protecting kids by driving them instead of letting them take the bus? They're going to get bullied mercilessly as soon as they get to school anyway. Not a parent but I wouldn't expect to driv
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by rifung 9y ago
I don't think there's the concept of first author in theoretical CS? All the papers I've seen there follow the same practice as in Math, where authors are just alphabetical.
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by rifung 9y ago
I keep my car and house keys in the same key ring thing.. isn't that basically a cable?
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by rifung 9y ago
> i and ESC I think i and Ctrl+[ is better? It's more in line with the idea of keeping your hands near home row.
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by rifung 9y ago
Is that really true? I was under the impression when people talk about the cost of healthcare they aren't talking about the cost of insurance. Unless you're saying the taxation somehow subsidizes healthcare in addition to providin
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by rifung 9y ago
I don't think there was any implication that the example is what should be done but rather it was just meant for illustrative purposes.
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by rifung 9y ago
Apologies for my ignorance but I was under the impression that residents of Tokyo live in extremely tiny apartments due to cost. Is that wrong?
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> I find it interesting that in the span of 3 comments it’s gone from “this company is only looking for the best of the best” to “beggars can’t be choosers”. Why is that weird? The "beggars" I was referring to are people lookin

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