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by smeyer 12y ago
"The only junior developer jobs" seems a bit extreme. I'm in Cambridge MA (not exactly the middle of nowhere) in my first year after college at a company frequently interviewing junior people, even if we talk to more senior p
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by smeyer 12y ago
Maybe some people would like this, but I would find it so annoying. Regarding "one is rarely annoyed by the sounds of one's own typing", that doesn't mean I'm not annoyed by a lot of sounds. For example, I freq
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by smeyer 12y ago
Leak seems to imply unintentional. A third option is that they could have sold your data. I assume you checked that your email isn't publicly listed anywhere obvious on a profile or anything?
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by smeyer 12y ago
> http://www.vividads.com.au/ What does this link have to do with anything?
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by smeyer 12y ago
I'm not normally one to harp about these things, but that design was really frustrating for me as a reader.
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by smeyer 12y ago
>2 working on projects related to said design Why is this included? If two people are working on the back end for a widget, and the designer spends 3 days changing the colors of buttons and types of sliders on a widget, why does this mea
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by smeyer 12y ago
>Multiply that by how many team members involved in the meeting Are you multiplying the full three days by the number of people in the meeting or are you just multiplying the hour of meeting by everyone in the meeting? The 4300 figure wo
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by smeyer 12y ago
Why do you think this? Self-driving cars seem reasonably close whereas there doesn't seem to be anything resembling what you're proposing. Also, aren't autopilot systems successful in commercial air vehicles because they ope
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by smeyer 12y ago
On the subject of cars, I recall seeing lots of tv ads for cars that featured options that were non-standard.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I think the answers to those two questions are roughly yes and yes. I get the impression a lower percentage of people here go to private schools in general (and could be totally wrong), but many do. There are also plenty of other opportunit
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by smeyer 12y ago
Nope, I don't think that has anything to do with it. Harvard's policy is pretty similar to Princeton's described by hkmurakami. You can check out the calculations at [1], but the basic idea is that it's free up to 60k fa
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by smeyer 12y ago
I don't have statistics on hand, but my experience as a Harvard undergrad (class of 2013) was that the less wealthy students at the school were more economically diverse than the more wealthy students. Any efforts by Harvard to increas
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by smeyer 12y ago
Do you think that it's rare that the poor are the most capable? Presumably, if the poor are underrepresented at these schools, they're missing out on a lot of potential people who are very capable. I studied at Harvard and certain
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by smeyer 12y ago
What do you mean by "officially" in this sense? I'm a native English speaker and all, but I'm not sure what you're implying. How would you unofficially be Matt? Or unofficially not be webkike?
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by smeyer 12y ago
>I know it's very complex story, but I would invest a billion on this! Just for perspective, GM spends something like 7 billion USD a year on R&D. I'm not saying you can't make progress with a billion dollars on the pr
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by smeyer 12y ago
>Most devs run with the idea that if you purchase version 2 you get version 3 free, and so on. I'm not convinced this is true. It seems pretty common for mobile apps, but charging for upgrades is also pretty common, particularly fo
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by smeyer 12y ago
There are people doing very advanced and difficult things in classical mechanics, even if they aren't the problems or topics that show up in a freshman physics course. There are also trivially easy quantum mechanics courses out there,
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by smeyer 12y ago
Thanks for the link (it's one of PG's I hadn't read yet.) That being said, I really didn't like the part where he implied that if 1 line of Lisp can replace 20 lines of C that it also means that a feature can be develope
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by smeyer 12y ago
In what way is "slut-shamed" the appropriate term here?
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by smeyer 12y ago
There is not a black hole at your center of mass. Protons and neutrons (let alone atoms) are not dense enough to form a black hole. In all likelihood, your center of mass is empty space between a nucleus and some electrons.
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by smeyer 12y ago
This is blatantly false. I work on the east coast (Cambridge) and know lots of people on both coasts with tech jobs that didn't involve demonstrating a "passion" for hobbies that "revolve around stereotypical programmer
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by smeyer 12y ago
How do you plan to net 1 USD per computer per hour? On Amazon EC2, 2XL on demand instances are only about 0.50 USD per hour. These are probably more powerful instances than the computers many of your potential users would have and also have
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by smeyer 12y ago
Not really. It just sounds like a referral bonus. They're shipping a real service and offering bonuses to get other employees. The main way to make money as an uber driver seems to still be driving, not referring other drivers. I&#x27
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by smeyer 12y ago
Unless they've changed their web page, I wouldn't really call this fine print. It's in the FAQ and it looks to be in massive print at the top of the Fees page.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I doubt that all buyers are in a position where they "need office equipment pronto." I'm sure many are, but building out a new office can take months, leaving plenty of time for negotiation with multiple sellers. Some purchas
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by smeyer 12y ago
Yes, you were incorrect. He underestimated how much revision his books would require and how long it would take, but that doesn't mean he owes you.
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by smeyer 12y ago
Decisions can be motivated by lots of things other than maximizing tax revenue. For example, political beliefs/agendas of various relevant parties, lobbying, bureaucratic lock-in, and so on.
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by smeyer 12y ago
Try the net price calculator here: https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculat... . I was Harvard class of 2013, and I received some financial aid from Harvard even when my family had an income well ab
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by smeyer 12y ago
You can look at Harvard's stated financial aid standards. The rough guideline last time I checked (I'm Harvard class of 2013) was that if your family income was under 60k a year, you got full aid, and from 60k to 180k per year you
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by smeyer 12y ago
Do you have a definition for the word todle? I can infer from context but not find a definition online.

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