theparanoid

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by theparanoid 9y ago
Regehr is beating around the bush. In my MS it was about 65% Indian BS students and 35% local students (various backgrounds). The local students were working professionals and the Indian students just wanted the credential. The cause is sim
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Go's "pseudo-assembly" is not a plus. Everyone ends up learning both the architecture's assembly and the mapping to Go's pseudo-assembly which isn't actually portable because each architecture has architectur
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Honestly, not much. Mostly, it's reinforced my switch from programming.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
I thought Latex was superior to Word in every way than I had a colleague that knew Word. Word if you learn it is just fine generating a ToC or autonumbering sections, figures, and tables. In practice, Markdown is better than either for do
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Probably more important, with retention, are working conditions. If a company has a high turnover rate, women aren't going to stick around just because they're 20% instead of 10%.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
BitWasp has had security bugs.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Guess I'm getting old. C used to be the language for game development. I learned it from the book "Programming Linux Games" by Loki Software (remember them?).
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by theparanoid 9y ago
The "real" author was a contractor--it's common to see app development contracted out on UpWork. I wouldn't read much into the wording since he's not a native English speaker.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Money
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by theparanoid 9y ago
A nice read on the hubris of unsustainable development. Having grown up in area with fights (legal and physical) over water, the tragedy of the commons is all too frequent.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Desalination is not economical for agriculture. Crops like pomegranates, grapes, etc requires large amounts of cheap water.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Unlimited is more of a code word for none.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
It's a way to be cheap. And honestly hiring through Upwork is a terrible idea.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
The missing data point is how many Greeks have switched to vaping.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
An equivalent (but more so) case was the Russian decline in life expectancy during the 90s for the same reasons.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Brings back memories of the flamewar when it was created https://blog.codinghorror.com/has-joel-spolsky-jumped-the-sh...
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Uptalk https://youtube.com/watch?v=pPZMy_JWsOU
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by theparanoid 9y ago
A male pelvis is more narrow than a female pelvis.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Every job I've had wanted to work me to the bone. I'd violate my personal ethics for stress-free work that'd pay my mortgage.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Just look at Miami in the 80s.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
I'm in a suburb and had the seat stolen off a department store bike.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Fred Wilson's post is informative http://avc.com/2013/02/venture-capital-returns/
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by theparanoid 9y ago
It's possible to switch careers. Medicine was appealing to me.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
I'm not aware of any widely used product (os, browser, ide, ...) that was developed with agile.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
FWIW, it worked for my RSI with semi-crippling pain when typing.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
The way to do remote is contract work. If the contract works out they can offer to hire. I've never successfully landed a fulltime remote job besides contract work.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Title should be "Linux Graphics Demystified (2014)"
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Contracting can be a backdoor to remote work. If you're specialized it's not too difficult to find companies that need help. There's more risk (no benefits, no steady income).
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by theparanoid 9y ago
The third possibility is men aren't sexually attracted to older women.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
I actually did this for a guy on upwork. It was fun, but not a sustainable business. Security audits are where there's money.

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