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by throwaway1979 13y ago
Actually, it isn't that hard. Canada pays for healthcare costs out of taxes. That's a bargain I like. Canadian society explicitly does not let you opt out. I don't hear masses of people saying this is tyrannical. Basic necess
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
What pains me is that some of the people I personally know who are affected by this have jobs. Heck, some have two jobs! Several causes: minimum wage, part-time jobs pay too little, having two or three kids is expensive, housing is relative
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
Looks unbalanced to my eye ... I'm untrained though.
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
How about an MBA?
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
Same here. Surprised to see it has more features than MS Paint! The UI is so simple. As a non-professional, Photoshop feels way too intimidating.
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
Specifically, a place where DBs use bloom filters is distributed joins. This isn't a common scenario IMHO. Found a good description here: http://www.coolsnap.net/kevin/?p=19 P.S. Loved the tutorial.
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
Here is some unsolicited advise from an old timer. As a backup, do one of your internships in a dev shop. It can be Google, Amazon, Facebook, whatever. The key thing is ... it has to be non-research. It is far easier to do this kind of expl
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
Talking to european grad students, it appears they have lives during grad school. People talk about it like a job with fixed hours. The average systems PhD student at a top US or Canadian school lives in the lab.
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
I wish the opp cost was made more clear cut in some way. Maybe a rite of passage where you take a picture of a house and burn it or something. These days when an undergrad can pull 6 figures, a PhD is very, very costly.
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
I'm curious what you plan to do after finishing your PhD? Have you considered doing/working at a startup? I assume post-doc is off the table since you are not interested in the tenure track grind.
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
I've been researching Toronto for the past few weeks. Rents seem cheap compared to condo prices. I can consistently find 1 beds for 1500 and two for 1800-2000. As a reference, I paid 2K for a studio in Manhattan and thought I was lucky
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
My point is never say never. A sane person might give up a tenured position for a variety of reasons.
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
Matt Welsh? He is quite sane and gave up tenure at Harvard to go work for Google.
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
Presumably, he already had tenure.
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
I'm curious if people have first hand experience going back. In some occupations, professor jobs and researchers at labs, going back isn't trivial.
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
What LDAP implementation would you use? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/663402/what-are-the-diffe...
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
Cool ... best of luck. As an intermediate/expert programmer in one language, it would be great to get access to an expert in language B. Certainly worth $100!
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
Great idea. Is this focused on developers or newbies?
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
If someone from startup school is following the comments, can u focus the view on Balaji's slides? He has a lot of material on there.
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
The Office Hours/YC interview where PG decided to accept the team on the spot was freakin epic!!!
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
Has the live stream started? I'm getting nothing here.
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
The Internet brought value but also competition. Frankly, we live in the age of hyper competition, and I don't see us ever going back. There is saying, if you can make it in NY, you can make it anywhere. That quip is related to competi
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
Ummm... no. How much did you spend on accommodations? If you commuted, the answer should be zero. In four years, someone who paid for a dorm racked up a 40K tab. I commuted and yes, I did not have the "animal house" experience. I
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
Best post I've read on HN in a while! I think there is a fundamental difference between building hardware+system software vs. building web services and apps. In the former case, you have to get it right and then release. In the latter
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
"This stuff about having to walk in with a lot of detailed knowledge, learned on my dime and time, just as needed by Facebook for just an 'employee' position in a big company, that is, an organization that in a few years migh
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
It has nothing to do with dev tools costing money. It has everything to do with Windows costing money.
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
In case it came out wrong ... I'm not complaining about novelty. I'm merely wondering if I missed something given that so many news outlets are talking about it :)
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
I asked the same question yesterday ... how is this different from Tiny Circuits? I got a set of these and Tiny Lily at Maker Faire this weekend. Those seem to be the same size. There is no ethernet shield for Tiny Circuits but is there a f
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
I've seen a human scale version of this done with the Kinect. An artist in NYC was doing it quite a while ago and had a showing in 3Dward. I saw the digitizer at Maker Faire this weekend and was impressed at the quality. I'm guess
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by throwaway1979 13y ago
How does this compare with Tiny Circuits( http://tiny-circuits.com/ )?

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