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by rmk 5y ago
Most of the books suggested here are rather heavy for a holiday read. I suggest The Code Book by Simon Singh. A very readable introduction to Cryptography. Another one that I'd recommend is the Go Programming Language, a concise but ex
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by rmk 5y ago
For people who come from tropical climes, such as Hawaii, Singapore, or subtropical Australia and India, the Bay Area does indeed have "seasons". But the majority of Americans and Europeans hail from places that have much more del
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by rmk 5y ago
The writer had some expectations and was used to things being a certain way in his native Poland, but was disheartened to find that they were different in CA. Ultimately, he could not / did not adjust, and decided to move to NY. Main c
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by rmk 5y ago
Wow. It's interesting that Robinhood brazenly lets unsophisticated investors trade options, solely because they will take a beating on revenues if their options trading volume is harmed. I'm curious as to whether Robinhood has bee
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by rmk 5y ago
You will tire of it a few years in. The culture is heavily ageist and having to play second fiddle to people with much less experience gets old real fast. Stick with your current career but maybe look at moving to another industry if you fe
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by rmk 5y ago
Is this the only way to reduce homelessness? How come other states haven't taken this route? Are the governors of the other states morons? Newsom is being recalled, so he is flailing and throwing cash around to secure his position, pla
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by rmk 5y ago
You are assuming that your rental payment > mortgage payment based on current market value of the property. That's absolutely not the case in the majority of situations (which is why people choose to rent vs. own: you can live in a
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by rmk 5y ago
No doubt that is almost certainly true, but if you read the article, you will find that she was intending to become a nun when she fell in love and started a family. It sounds like she practically postponed her dream of becoming a nun and g
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by rmk 5y ago
What a remarkable, long-lived life! It's common to turn one's attention to spiritual pursuits in one's old age, but a full third of one's life is very long and unusual indeed. An excellent human interest story!
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by rmk 5y ago
Why not? You are not asking to be reinstated or hired, but only for reasonable costs arising out of a verbal offer of employment to be recovered.
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by rmk 5y ago
I wonder how this works in, say, the Marines, or the Navy, which I believe are much more diverse than tech. Are people discussing politics endlessly at work? Is there a code of ethics/conduct that explicitly bars such behaviors? Tech
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by rmk 5y ago
Have you tried https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/ Lots of good resources there.
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by rmk 5y ago
Presumably because the money set aside was miniscule and was presumably 'narrowly tailored': After convening several virtual meetings, the civic leaders proposed a bold and novel solution that state lawmakers approved in July. The
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by rmk 5y ago
It's an American writing for what's presumably a mostly American audience (he was a reporter at the New York Times). It's unfortunate that despite his use of "Great National Misery", links to graphs depicting the pa
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by rmk 5y ago
The optimism around the mRNA vaccines should be tempered: there are reports of coronavirus vaccines causing heart inflammation (particularly in youngsters); and causing substantial changes in the immune responses. These admittedly infrequen
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by rmk 5y ago
Do you program for a living? If you do, perhaps you should change jobs and look for new challenges.
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by rmk 5y ago
No. Look around you in any tech organisation and see how much value is generated by the people who code vs. data scientists, and how many software people there are vs data scientists. ML is very popular and the startup ecosystem has latche
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by rmk 5y ago
- An M1 Macbook. It's really good. It's a bummer I can't run virtualbox on it yet. Otherwise quite satisfactory. - iPad Pro. Great for watching television. The sound quality on this is much better than the old (2013) iPad I h
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by rmk 5y ago
I always thought that surds is short for 'absurds' :) Nice to read the etymology of the word!
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by rmk 5y ago
That ain't happening with C++ unless you have a very good understanding of the bazillion things C++ lets you control. Just deciphering the STL errors when you compile is a headache. C++ gives you way too much rope to hang yourself with
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by rmk 5y ago
Bootcamp grads haven't been in the workforce long enough, so whether they can weather the fickle winds of the technology landscape is an open question. That's where the CS degree shows its worth: technologies change but fundamenta
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by rmk 5y ago
If you claim to be very experienced in JavaScript but then say that you are ignorant of closures, then that's definitely a red flag. That language relies heavily on closures, more than others, and almost every programming pattern in th
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by rmk 5y ago
The main thrust of the article is that companies should be open to hiring junior devs with no conventional credentials (degree, specific work experience). This is somewhat reasonable on the surface. But it ignores the question of how much t
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by rmk 5y ago
I believe ETOPS was developed to help make the 767 a viable twin-engine option for long flights over water (ETOPS-120). That subsequently led to ETOPS-180 etc. Now there's ETOPS-330! ETOPS-N: N number of minutes over open water, roughl
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by rmk 5y ago
There are so many large issues that this could be spent on: 1. Pushing pension funds toward solvency (perhaps the rising stock market has helped a bit there already). 2. Reducing fire hazards by burying power lines. 3. Improving the dire ho
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by rmk 5y ago
The pols who shout from the rooftops that 'billionaires should not exist' and stuff like that are being disingenuous at best, liars at worst. All that is rhetoric, pure and simple. It's trivial for billionaires to defer incom
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by rmk 5y ago
The big thing that has been slipped in is the yearly granting of shares. This means that people with the risk appetite will no longer have a shot at possibly higher upside. This also gives employees incentives to hop on the leetcode bandwag
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by rmk 5y ago
Billionaires are not paying their fair share! Everyone who makes over $400k will now pay 45% total tax to fix this (never mind that you could have written the law to specifically target people with assets > $1B. Who has time for that?)
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by rmk 5y ago
A lot of these tax codes have evolved over time and accumulated a lot of handouts from whoever was in power to the people who put them there. The US federal tax code is filled to the brim with all sorts of exceptions inserted by a congressm
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by rmk 5y ago
Code reviews sometimes seem like a micro-management tool: they often boil down to quibbling over things that are quite superficial, while simultaneously ignoring or missing big problems that lurk under the surface. Without some sort of auto

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