theparanoid

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by theparanoid 8y ago
I'm switching careers from tech to nursing. Being older--mid-thirties--hasn't been an issue. It helps that healthcare has less of an age bias than computing.
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by theparanoid 8y ago
California has many many clear-cuts. Just not directly on I-5.
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by theparanoid 8y ago
I used linux.org to learn about Linux way back when I first started 15 years ago. Sad to see they let the domain expire -- https://twitter.com/kitlol5/status/1070845707756625920
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by theparanoid 8y ago
The vast majority of bugs aren't are due to corner cases that the programmer didn't think about. Quickcheck and related techniques expose many more bugs than eliminating OOM bugs.
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by theparanoid 8y ago
Universities do have courses that require contributing to an Open Source project. I saw this when working on Servo a couple years ago. I was disappointed in the students. The average university student is not very motivated. If the course i
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by theparanoid 8y ago
It's not wishful thinking. RedHat could have remained standalone.
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by theparanoid 8y ago
Women love bad boys e.g. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179107/James-Holme...
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by theparanoid 8y ago
Every ABET accredited engineering school in the US is required to give a class on professional ethics as part of the degree. Doesn't seem to have much effect.
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by theparanoid 8y ago
> race here is an an unwitting proxy to income, so disaggregate by household per capita income Poor white students do better academically than well off black students. So splitting by race is more informative when discussing academic per
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by theparanoid 8y ago
Contrary to the article most people shouldn't try to be professional mathematicians. All the people I knew in a mid-ranked program switched into software afterwards to make money.
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by theparanoid 8y ago
The programming subreddits aren't as good as HN. I follow quite a few local subreddits (my city, Yosemite, etc).
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by theparanoid 8y ago
I feel let down, GAWK would have been a great name.
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by theparanoid 8y ago
Males are more variable in a wide variety of traits than females. Any cognitive test yields more men on the far left of the curve than women and more men on the far right. The Slate Star Codex article is a good reference http:/&#x2F
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by theparanoid 8y ago
Doesn't work in a Sacramento suburb. Tried cafes and restaurants.
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by theparanoid 8y ago
I suspect Sierra Pacific [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Pacific_Industries
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by theparanoid 8y ago
As someone who finished undergrad classes as a teenager. I totally failed to live up to my potential.
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by theparanoid 8y ago
You need a decent resume. I graduated with a math degree and couldn't get a software engineering job until going back and getting a CS degree. I'd already been programming for years. There was another guy from my class that had to
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by theparanoid 8y ago
This was my experience in a low-tier US master's program. Most of the students from India were doing it for the second chance at making engineer money.
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by theparanoid 8y ago
I used to use Mint. I'm not an impulsive spender so there was minimal benefit. It doesn't require software to figure out most of my disposable income goes towards housing, health insurance, and car expenses.
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by theparanoid 8y ago
The US lifespan is decreasing due to opioid overdoses. Similar to Russia in the 90's with alcohol.
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by theparanoid 8y ago
"why are so many women maids or professional housekeepers?" Same reason so many men are janitors.
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by theparanoid 8y ago
I suspect hard work and smarts. I've made money in sports betting and it's mostly grinding through looking opportunities and avoiding bad bets. The smarts part is avoiding bad bets. If you don't know who the sucker is, you&#x
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by theparanoid 8y ago
I feel for you, being convicted of a sex offense makes you persona non grata in the US. If nothing works you can freelance via Upwork, it can pay OK for US workers.
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by theparanoid 8y ago
The legal liability is the same.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
A succinct summary is that mathematics is about understanding a thing and computing is about describing a concrete process.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
> My first honest reaction: it does seem fairly incestuous. And then I'm not even getting into. well, let's say more diversity would be a great thing here. To play devil's advocate, Marie Curie was worse. She, her husban
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by theparanoid 9y ago
You're correct, they should be more paranoid.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Jon Blow said--I believe--in a tweet that he decided against academy when reading grad students' papers proving the optimality of some algorithm where, in practice, caching was of prime importance (or something to that effect).
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by theparanoid 9y ago
I'm doing an internship in a long-term-care facility (one resident has Huntington's) and there's no easy way to accommodate the profoundly disabled.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Computational processes have picked up where mathematics stops.

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