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by souprock 8y ago
Non-metropolitan areas can be nice. I suppose bit twiddling is specialized. There are fewer jobs, but also fewer people seeking those jobs. That relative lack of competition goes in your favor. High-level developers (Java, JavaScript, Go, P
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by souprock 8y ago
"realized I was way behind the times. I was a C/C++ bit twiddler." Say what? We pay good money for that. The other stuff is of almost no value to us. Heck, I almost never touch C++. It's plain C, assembly, or raw opcodes
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by souprock 8y ago
I just checked a proprietary VMX driver. It fully disables VMX before turning interrupts back on. If I remember right, it works fine with VMWare running on the same machine, so they must be doing likewise. I think I recall problems with Hyp
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by souprock 8y ago
Dextrose is sugar just like cellulose is sugar.
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by souprock 8y ago
To avoid crystals, maximize the variety of sugars. For example, if you had 20 different molecules, they wouldn't pack into crystals very well. If you are being a perfectionist, I think you'd want to do this by molar proportion rat
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by souprock 8y ago
They were correct, in an informal way. I clarified that, though evidently not well. (C is for Cyber, S is for Solutions, I is for Inc.) The only comments ever posted by philibuster are in response to me. It's sort of a stalking thing,
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by souprock 8y ago
It isn't secret, but notice how many words it takes to explain things. That becomes half the job post and looks ridiculous. If I don't go into that long-winded explanation, and maybe even if I do, people are going to make some ver
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by souprock 8y ago
Although informally correct, this is highly misleading. There really isn't much info about the company on the internet, the stuff that shows up in searches is laughably wrong, and it is really important to understand that "Raytheo
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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
That is interesting. It goes against the usual belief that a second language makes you smarter.
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by souprock 8y ago
I'm not really sure. Many reasons seem to contribute to it. My wife is hard-core Catholic. Her uncle fell apart mentally after losing his only daughter, so having extras is sort of a backup plan. Kids can be fun. Having kids is pretty
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by souprock 8y ago
Heh. I have a family of 13. The kids can get generic AA degrees at the local community college, because that is only $80 per credit hour and they don't need dorms or dining plans. Scholarships do not exist for normal kids.
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by souprock 8y ago
Never! This is great for work/life balance. I'm not tempted to even be aware of work when I am at home. I can devote my time fully to my family. I will admit to a few other things that help productivity and work/life balance:
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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
I'm at 11 kids now. The struggle and burden is real, though most people wrongly assume that it is a linear function of the number of kids. It isn't so bad. The first one upturns your life. The second and third are much less troubl
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by souprock 8y ago
A popular trade-off is to work for a government contractor. You can get that kind of money as a salary, and the trust issues are all taken care of. Having a real salary is helpful if you want to get a loan to buy a house. It evens out your
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by souprock 8y ago
Well, he only has two. I have 1.1 decachildren. Most blokes don't have more than ten kids, but if we need that extra push over the cliff...Eleven. One louder. I managed to be an open source contributer with kids. It slowed down shortly
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by souprock 8y ago
"if you haven't made it big at 40+, that means you worked on a lot of failed projects" Say what? No! The project gets done, the customer is happy, and you move on to the next project. After a couple decades of this, I have a
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by souprock 8y ago
Clearly "desirable metro area" is the problem. Some would even call it a self-contradiction. The increased salary of an expensive area does not normally compensate for the increased costs. It might if you are content with a studio
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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
I'd gotten a job as an RTOS kernel developer, gotten married, and had a kid due in a few months. Advice: Take the evil mother-in-law's threats seriously, and just move out of the state ASAP. Don't let a romantic wife crack yo
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by souprock 8y ago
I have 11 kids. The first is the worst, because now your life is restricted by a child. The second has a small impact, because now it takes two parents to chase the kids. The third has a small impact, because now they can run in 3 different
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by souprock 8y ago
This matters. I write emulators. (join me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17442484 ) If you want to run something like Windows 10 in a full-system emulator that is something like valgrind, performance matters. For each
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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
Please no. We like our culture just fine: I have a coworker with a house at the edge of a swamp. He likes to go out in his airboat and shoot alligators. He likes to set off explosions. I have another coworker, from San Francisco actually, w
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by souprock 8y ago
This works. Be sure to try different compilers and optimization levels. You can become a better programmer this way. You start to get a real feel for what the compiler can and can't optimize. For example, you can see how a do...while l
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by souprock 8y ago
as a contractor
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by souprock 8y ago
Cutter is "A Qt and C++ GUI for radare2". There are more alternatives to IDA Pro. Hopper Disassembler is one. Binary Ninja (binja) is another. Here is an independent review of Binary Ninja: https://www.trailofbits.com&#
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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), and possibly others, all ONSITE.
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by souprock 8y ago
They do account for that. Normally, they assume you are a person with average desires. The more complicated cost of living calculators will let you enter in your actual expenses to produce a personalized adjustment. If you aren't weird

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