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by stormbeard 6y ago
What about something like Kerbal Space Program? Orbital mechanics can get pretty dry, but a game like that can allow us to “play” with concepts and build intuition that we would otherwise have to do problem sets ad nauseum.
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by stormbeard 6y ago
> No, the author claimed that NC A&T was "a damn good one [school]". > The author was trying to put it on the same level as Duke/UNC in order to paint a picture that the only possible reason for the perfunctory trea
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by stormbeard 6y ago
I’m a really big fan of that company (interviewing.io), the platform, and the studies they do. They have a very interesting blog.
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by stormbeard 6y ago
I can understand why one would think this. That assumption is part of the reason I shared the story. If that were true here, the A&T students would have had the experience of the Duke/UNC group.
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by stormbeard 6y ago
Check out the Dan Luu blog linked in the first paragraph of the article [1]. He tackles exactly this and does a really good job at explaining it and citing sources. I might butcher this, but there’s an excellent part in there where he takes
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by stormbeard 6y ago
You’re making a wild guess with no citation to any studies, but I’ll just go with it. I’d hazard a guess that the homogeneity you’re trying to reference is not limited to _racial_ or _gender_ homogeneity.
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by stormbeard 6y ago
I think you’ve ignored the context of the article. He says that to mean he doesn’t look like he’s going to start the next Facebook or Twitter to VCs, because he is black. They will not entertain the idea that he COULD BE the next Mark Zucke
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by stormbeard 6y ago
This is resolved by going somewhere within an hour of the office location. It’s a good idea, but not everyone wants to be forced into traveling for work.
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by stormbeard 6y ago
Any idea where most of them went?
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Who gets invited to the party?(medium.com)
418 points by stormbeard 6y ago|401 comments
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by stormbeard 6y ago
Lyft is still hiring generalist SWEs after laying off 12% of the engineering staff.
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by stormbeard 7y ago
Can somebody comment on why the exposure of public keys is a problem?
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by stormbeard 7y ago
That sounds exactly like what Nutanix does.
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by stormbeard 7y ago
It doesn't matter if you game or not. AMD is crushing Intel on every dimension w.r.t. consumer and HEDT CPUs. Just look up the benchmarks.
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by stormbeard 7y ago
I believe you're being unfair. Extending the chords is fair and so is voicing them to be close to each other. Neither of those count as "changing" the chords and the musicians in the audience knew this.
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by stormbeard 7y ago
I believe they're aware and were making a joke.
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by stormbeard 7y ago
Diane Rehm has spasmodic dysphonia, which affects the way she speaks. She's not just old.
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by stormbeard 7y ago
He's getting that experience through the window manager. i3 offers the features like tabs or horizontal/vertical splitting.
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by stormbeard 7y ago
It’s definitely possible to make some other contribution, but not as a “programmer”. I can’t imagine giving a task to someone who can’t construct a basic for loop and a conditional statement.
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by stormbeard 7y ago
Do you also have trouble keeping focus through the free Udacity or open courseware classes? If so, paying for classes seems like it would be a waste of money. It would probably be better to spend some time understanding why you can’t focus
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Technically Speaking: We Can Do Better(medium.com)
1 points by stormbeard 7y ago|0 comments
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by stormbeard 7y ago
Nutanix and VMWare have been doing that pretty successfully since ~2012.
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by stormbeard 7y ago
This is a treasure trove of information; however, it's not what I would call concise. Did you run across anything else to supplement this during your program?
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by stormbeard 7y ago
I don't see why a student should be measured differently when the developers with full-time jobs are excused with "maybe they just have a life". Some students have jobs outside of school or obligations/hobbies that take
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by stormbeard 8y ago
To me, this looks like an analogy for the state of software interviews.
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by stormbeard 8y ago
They’re most famous for their hypervisor and virtualized desktop software.
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Database as Filesystem(youtube.com)
2 points by stormbeard 8y ago|0 comments
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by stormbeard 8y ago
What planet do you live on? What do you think embedded/realtime systems, signal processing, graphics, and kernel developers are supposed to use? Also, what do you think these memory-safe, garbage collected, runtime environments are wri
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by stormbeard 8y ago
I think what you gain by reading is exposure to someone else's way of thinking. You won't get that by sitting in a vacuum. If you're impressionable, you just assimilate the author's way of thinking without any criticism.
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by stormbeard 8y ago
"Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? A: Because Keynote Speakers Make Bad Life Decisions and Are Poor Role Models" James Mickens https://www.usenix.org/conference/us

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