throwawaysalome

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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
never apply again as an IC ever again! You're already at that stage. Lean into the fact that you're only considered valuable as a go-between, and before you know it you'll be the next Satya Nadella or Sundar Pichai.
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
can a mentally disabled person learn college algebra? Can a paraplegic play college football? I don't get your insistence on catechising the obvious.
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
I have no expertise on this topic but it seems some people are smarter than others. It's a sign of the times that a person with two decades of experience as an educator needs to heavily qualify an obvious fact.
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
You're painting with broad a brushstroke. Both good and bad things emerge from the public and private sectors. Despite often falling into the "worse is better" trap, self-interest is our species' most potent innovator,
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
Did I lose a B? Close to it. But I bet I gained 2B in wisdom. -- Russ Hanneman, Silicon Valley (2019)
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
I deleted my earlier post when I realized maths is your second choice. I also neglected to consider UIUC biases in favor of out-of-staters for money reasons, and that many green high school students -- those who aren't olympiad winne
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
if you avoid the obvious (long lines) That you believe your editor obviously can't be expected to deal with long lines shows objectivity isn't a concern. And no, emacs29's performance is still lousy on many long lines co
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
Angel investors are 90% people giving to causes they care about (usually helping a family member), and 10% delusional people thinking they'll hit it big. If you're in the 90% it's not hard to google 2-3 outfits who are scrat
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
Monopoly. If the player elects not to buy the property he lands on, it gets auctioned to the other players. This oft unfollowed rule makes the game 100x more fun when followed.
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
Your love be real. I can't imagine reading TCMC more than once, and you've read the abridged at least once, and the unabridged at least twice.
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
What exactly are we going after? Money. And lemme tell you, have lots of it is totally awesome.
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
You're a college student with a college student's job. Your ability to read research papers has absolute no bearing on school or work. It only matters in graduate school.
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
When video compression and home broadband converged to make porn consumption a quotidian pastime.
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
I pitch, and he catches.
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
This reminds me of Seinfeld's observation about people who "think they want to go into acting." The statistics are so skewed against success that any wishy-washiness guarantees failure.
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
The strobe and accelerometers cost more than five dollars.
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
You accomplish absolutely nothing by saying "Don't promote the new guy" at your exit interview. One usually outgrows the instant karma hero mentality by one's late 30s, so you've that to look forward to.
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
I'm scared to show it to anyone for fear of them running away with it. Given how amazing your idea is, your fear is well-founded. I'd keep this dragon egg under wraps and silently hope it one day sprouts wings and flies you to M
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
The chance, however minimal, that you might get laid is reason enough to attend.
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
It's like competing against the Japanese for best sushi knife. Typescript is a Microsoft invention, to say nothing of Emacs's complete lack of financial incentivation.
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
Now that it's gone - I'm incredibly discouraged It'd be one thing to have been defeated by a competitor, quite another to have never even gotten off the ground. Incidentally, losing money trading options is in no way a fai
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
Won't matter until you have a product to sell.
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
You sound like planner of plans. Programming is largely a one-person job. Hire me.
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by throwawaysalome 4y ago
So it's come to this. Programmers are the new squeegee guys.