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by sn9 3y ago
I keep seeing these salary negotiation posts, but aren't the recruiters and people hiring also reading them?
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by sn9 3y ago
Atheism isn't a solely Western thing. Not all meditative traditions require belief in a God. See Hindu atheism for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_atheism
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by sn9 3y ago
Again, "need" is a bit strong. Successfully working through those books will have prepared you for the toughest math undergrad programs in the world, so it's a bit overkill, but the road is there if you wish to take it. As an
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by sn9 3y ago
I think print debugging is great, but if all of your colleagues use a debugger, you might work in a context where that's a useful superpower. You actually have an opportunity to learn how to use a debugger well right now and you should
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by sn9 3y ago
Harvard's CS50x on edx is probably the best free and online introduction to CS and programming. It will give you an incredibly strong foundation. [0] teachyourselfcs has a solid list of canonical resources that are common across many u
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by sn9 3y ago
If you produce beef in a lab at scale , you need an immune system (or something at least as effective). One pathogen can ruin an entire isolated mass of tissue. If you want to grow meat at scale, this becomes a lot harder and is currently
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by sn9 3y ago
12 years of Swift experience, too. The competition is tough in this job market. :P
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by sn9 3y ago
Actively looking for work while currently employed is totally normal. Just remember it's a numbers game. If there's a 1% chance of getting a job, that means you should expect to apply to hundreds of places before starting to give
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by sn9 3y ago
Study math or physics.
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by sn9 3y ago
I would continue working but start applying elsewhere. Unless you can afford to go without income.
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by sn9 3y ago
Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything is great.
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by sn9 3y ago
Related: NBA player Joel Embiid taught himself to shoot by watching white guys on Youtube, which he recounts in this article he wrote: https://www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/joel-embiid-its-s...
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by sn9 3y ago
Skiena posts recent semesters of lectures on Youtube as playlists, as well. Going through them at 1.25-1.5x speed, a lecture per night or every few days, is extremely helpful.
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by sn9 3y ago
Rutger Bregman recently twote about a "Hogwarts for do-gooders" which is an incubator for charities/non-profits for problems that are important, neglected, and tractcable [0]. Because there isn't a profit-incentive, ther
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by sn9 3y ago
Houston in particular is one of the most humid cities in the country, with 100% humidity a common and inevitable experience for its inhabitants. The last few months have been even hotter than usual, so combined with even >70% humidity, i
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by sn9 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature Without air conditioning, it wouldn't be surprising for the heat and humidity inside the trailer to surpass the human body's capacity to maintain body temp
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by sn9 3y ago
Just block off regular times to do the math you want to remember a few times per week at least. Maybe even 30+ minutes per day. Solve problems. Prove things. Etc.
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by sn9 3y ago
Asian as a category represents literally over half the entire human population. It's the most linguistically, ethnically, and religiously diverse bucket imaginable.
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by sn9 3y ago
His non-academic work is an unbroken continuation/extension of work he started as an undergraduate student writing about productivity for students before he was ever a researcher. Your comment reads like he was just another researcher
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by sn9 3y ago
Here's an old educational experiment that supports the idea of literacy before numeracy: http://www.inference.org.uk/sanjoy/benezet/three.html
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by sn9 3y ago
John Cook actually goes into the math of that here: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/11/19/crinkle-crankle-ca...
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by sn9 3y ago
Have him go through this tutorial at the start of every week until it's second nature: https://learngitbranching.js.org/?locale=en_US Having some visual intuition of what the commands correspond to really helps.
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by sn9 3y ago
Wooden fences tend to be only a plank thick, so there's no savings like there are with brick walls where the savings come from getting to build a single layer thick.
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by sn9 3y ago
Those prep classes can only increase scores a modest amount. A mediocre rich kid is still gonna get trounced by a smart poor kid on the SAT. The data presented in the article shows how, after controlling for test scores , the wealthiest ch
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by sn9 3y ago
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/01/09/terraform-indu...
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by sn9 3y ago
My mother payed two different astrologers to predict my future. She reported two mutually exclusive predictions. She did not see what that implied. She has a graduate degree in statistics. Woo is a mindkiller. Astrologers are grifting charl
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by sn9 3y ago
The things you didn't have time to do when you had to work full time. You could travel, study a field deeply, read books in their original language, teach or mentor, etc. You don't have anything you've always wished you could
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by sn9 3y ago
If wedding photography had a high risk of death from heat stroke, I'd be happy for you to have to deal with local regulations putting some boundaries on how you abuse your employees while risking their lives. Sorry about the inconvenie
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by sn9 3y ago
The OP mentioned SICP more because it's famous, but the core of their desire is to improve as a self-taught programmer, and I've heard from even experienced developers that the design recipe and systematic techniques taught in HTD
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by sn9 3y ago
How much do you code in your free time? Like average hours per week? If it's zero (and no judgement from me if it is; plenty of other things to focus on), then it shouldn't be surprising that someone for whom that number is (specu

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