souprock

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by souprock 8y ago
The law says you bike in the road, but most people can only bike at sidewalk speed. We'd need to change the law.
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by souprock 8y ago
I can tell you that the salary can be ridiculously wrong. For a high-experience specialist position in a high-cost city, Glassdoor has a salary number that is well below what we would pay for a freshman college intern in our lowest cost-of-
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by souprock 8y ago
No, that is nonsense. According to Glassdoor, my workplace supposedly pays highly specialized engineering talent about the same as they'd get flipping burgers. The claim is $44,000 for experienced cleared vulnerability researchers in S
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by souprock 8y ago
My area almost qualifies. Right now there is a home on 1.16 acres going for $275,000 that is 7 minutes away from my employer and 10 minutes away from a rather large employer. We have sort of a specialist tech hub here, featuring stuff like
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by souprock 8y ago
It makes perfect sense as is. It is almost my experience. A coworker of mine bought 11 acres. (That's one more than 10. These lots go to 11...) He has sheep and goats and chickens, and he can shoot his AR-15 in his yard. Interestingly,
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by souprock 8y ago
You can get those with a startup. I sort of did, for some definition of "certain environment" and "specific technologies" and so on. I still do actually, post-startup. Notably, I got what most software developers would d
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by souprock 8y ago
The article mentions "rigorous Advanced Placement courses". The test for Computer Science AB hasn't existed for years, and it has been even longer since the tests used a language without garbage collection. The available test
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by souprock 8y ago
Melbourne, FL. The cheapest house on the market is going for $30,000 and the median is going for $157,100. Throwing some randomly into a calculator, it looks like $50 to $100 per square foot for real suburban-type homes. Prices are the same
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by souprock 8y ago
The places that pop into mind are Lexmark, Big Ass Fans, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Johnson Controls. There are lots of smallish places doing factory automation, particularly near the Toyota factory. Salary seldom keeps up with
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by souprock 8y ago
It can test many things, especially if you physically sit together. I used to have a coworker with an unusually severe fart problem.
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by souprock 8y ago
Usually my suspicion is that the code is just a cloned repo or similar. I have however dug into github code that seemed legit, with the candidate claiming to be one of the primary developers of a popular Xbox360 emulator. I surprised him by
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by souprock 8y ago
That doesn't just increase supply. It also reduces demand. There may be a billion people who would move there now if they could afford it. The additional units required to get things into the affordable price range would degrade the ex
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by souprock 8y ago
In college I think one is unlikely to be spat upon, slammed into a locker or urinal, purposely tripped, etc. A school for gifted children may be better, especially if not co-located with a normal school, but it will have other downsides. It
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by souprock 8y ago
Some things to bear in mind: The portion of the population that typically bears children before 18 is not randomly selected. High-risk behaviors are common in that population. Fetal alcohol syndrome (from abuse in the previous generation) r
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by souprock 8y ago
The standards for pre-college education are pretty low. When I compare what my kids get in college with what I did in public schools circa 1990, 7th grade is enough. Education is shockingly inefficient. If you can write a paragraph, you&#x2
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by souprock 8y ago
It's not that crazy. My kids aren't terribly far behind him. I have a 7-year-old studying AP Chemistry for the test in May 2020, and if she does OK then she'll start college at 9. The older siblings started just a few years l
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by souprock 8y ago
It can be made good. I used it for parsing /proc/PID/status keywords at a very high rate to support "top" and "ps". You'll have to change the generated code, which likely means that you use gperf duri
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by souprock 8y ago
I'm homeschooling a huge family. Neither unschooling nor pre-packaged curriculum seems right to me. At first I make math worksheets, have them read out loud until they get perfect smooth-and-fluid phrasing, and have them write in cursi
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by souprock 8y ago
This is pretty sad. For at least decades, maybe even centuries, there have existed compasses that let you rotate the "north" indicator to match the current local magnetic declination. Adjusting as you travel is no different than t
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by souprock 8y ago
We'd be stealing those economic benefits from those other countries if we take their people. That isn't very nice. Maybe those countries would be amazing if we stopped taking their people.
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by souprock 8y ago
Well, do your duty. No excuses! My 12th is due at the beginning of summer. If you are a capable software developer or better, you can afford this. It only takes one income of that type. You might need to trim back your expenses, but you can
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by souprock 8y ago
I don't know that the graph tells this story. It could be that the very slight decline in spending for the lower quintiles is from getting help that isn't counted (free preschool for example) or from products being more affordable
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by souprock 8y ago
Southeast USA including: Virginia (Arlington and Dulles), Maryland (Annapolis Junction), South Carolina (Greenville), Alabama (Huntsville), Florida (beach east of Melbourne), Texas (Austin and San Antonio), Pennsylvania (State College) and
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by souprock 8y ago
Rust I can see. Python is deeply troubling. It is a regression from FORTRAN and COBOL. Long ago, we invented compile-time type checking. The benefits for software quality have been enormous. There isn't really a downside here, as there
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by souprock 8y ago
How did GeoText do on mine? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18358038
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by souprock 8y ago
For true remote with employees at their homes, security failures become far more likely. There is a middle ground. One can open up small offices in small cities. For example, instead of 1000 people in a city of 5,000,000 people, it could be
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by souprock 8y ago
The "metric ton" is really just the megagram, with standard abbreviation Mg.
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by souprock 8y ago
It's better than I expected, with C as an option. You seem to be missing everything else I use: assembly, linker scripts, machine code (bare hex opcode bytes).
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by souprock 8y ago
There shouldn't be many all-day interviews. If you are honest on your resume and there is a phone screen, your chances with the interview should be pretty decent. The company doesn't like all-day interviews any more than you do. M
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by souprock 8y ago
Well, it isn't "figured out the world over". Hospital births are not the norm, generally and even in some developed countries. It isn't even desirable that hospital births should be the norm. Besides the financial cost,

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