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by vbtemp 14y ago
> Of course it's wrong; all scientific theories are provisional approximations There's always a margin for experimental error, but I think scientific theories are much broader than just "provisional approximations". I think the key here
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by vbtemp 14y ago
Note to OP, I'm really not a huge fan of people posting links to their own blogs... And in response to your essay, which by and large was tldr, I don't think many people run around saying that CS is math. Many computer scientists, as I'm q
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Well, my friend, money can't buy happiness, but a lack of money will sure as hell buy you a lot of misery. Have you ever experienced struggle paying for rent and basic medical care (and living in pain, or with someone in pain, while scrambl
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by vbtemp 14y ago
Please don't post an exact copy-of-a-copy of a blog post that was already an HN headline yesterday.
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It's great you get out on Saturday nights, but I hope one day you don't wake up to find yourself sad, lonely, bored and trying to figure out what it's all for...
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Unless of course it's C++ </personalopinionwithouttryingtoinstigatereligouswar>
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by vbtemp 14y ago
Heh - probably. But I'm far too self-conscious to have a real blog for people to read, especially considering how harshly I judge other people based on their blogs... and think how it makes them look like arrogant pricks who I'd never want
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by vbtemp 14y ago
Eh. I have a measely 150 rep on stackoverflow, have a long-dormant github account, and I don't know what Quora is. But I've worked on some interesting R&D projects over the years, and have written some fundamental code that will stay at
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by vbtemp 14y ago
Heh -- Good way to flip it around.
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by vbtemp 14y ago
> If they want to become an Engineer help them. I'm trying to understand what you mean... Yes, you're right. when you sign up for a job you acknowledge the change in lifestyle it may cause. My point is that from the perspective of the o
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by vbtemp 14y ago
I'm not sure if it's the "office environment" per se. It's the lifestyle built around the daily routine. The problem is, in big organizations, it isn't really fair to everyone. A receptionist, for example, has to be there during work hours,
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Point taken, but I do with I had a European's vacation allotment
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by vbtemp 14y ago
Quite simply, the best way to strangle your productivity and toss it in the bay is to work at an office with a regular 9-5 weekly schedule. For innovative types (e.g., software engineers) and people with my temperament, what ends up happeni
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by vbtemp 14y ago
For heaven's sake! If I worked 2 or 3 days a week my productivity would shoot up dramatically! With a lifestyle based around communiting to work 5 days a week 95% of the year for a relatively good salary and very modest annual raises, there
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In some ways being a european cog is better than being an american cog. I wish Geneva, Brugge, Rejkjavik, and Madrid were weekend destinations for me! I also wish I had a european-cog vacation allotment!
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by vbtemp 14y ago
This isn't a direct answer to your question - but why not work on obtaining a better background in mathematics? I guarantee you it isn't as hard as you think. Until you are at the very highest levels of numerical analysis or meta-mathematic
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by vbtemp 14y ago
Oh, again already?
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by vbtemp 15y ago
> I decided I definitely did NOT like being poor "Money doesn't buy happiness, but having no money can sure buy a lot of misery." On a related note, it really grinds my gears when I hear well-to-do young adults from middle class familie
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by vbtemp 15y ago
"It certainly is worth thinking about whether you really want to go the CS route, but don't write it off because you feel like you can simply learn it all along the way." Thanks for this comment. Many developers who don't study CS tend to
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by vbtemp 15y ago
I'm not in silicon valley, but just a question for your question: If you want to do any kind of hot-shot software development as a career, why would you study systems engineering and physics? It seems like an oblique way to go, kind of li
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by vbtemp 15y ago
Upon very politely declining an offer from a recruiter on Linkedin, I was very surprised to find a response saying "send me your resume, the offer expires tonight. one day you will be on the job market again, and I will not help you". Unbel
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by vbtemp 15y ago
Countries with smaller populations would naturally exhibit a larger variance than larger countries that would tend to clump toward the middle. However, no one would say it's just the luck of the draw that papua new guinea is a undeveloped b
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by vbtemp 15y ago
I was pointing out that your statement "programming seems so easy compared to some other jobs" is incorrect. Programming (really, the whole pipeline of formal modeling, followed by algorithm and system devlepment) can get immensely difficul
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by vbtemp 15y ago
Right, it's so easy (too easy, even). That's why Internet Protocol suite was programmed in two weeks in the 1970s after Vint Cerf and his team thumbed through a graph theory textbook on the shelf. And on that note, it's also why the MRI rec
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by vbtemp 15y ago
Honestly I thought it was quite prescient when this guy wrote: "Hey inventor, I need a drone that will pick up mice (but not other animals), locate my ex-girlfriend and drop them on her head. Give me a budget and a time estimate." For a goo
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by vbtemp 15y ago
Hm.. Interesting. Thanks for the response. I think her company in the end paid for something like 10% of the degree.
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Ask HN: Salary Raise after MS degree
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The thing I love about youtube is that there is never any problem loading the pre-video commercials for Cox internet or whatever. They always come through in HD and without any lag, ever. And then more often then not, I have to turn down
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by vbtemp 15y ago
Cool, but, ouch. My eyes really hurt after looking at black-text-on-green-background.
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by vbtemp 15y ago
Nitpicking: To schlep comes from the German verb "schleppen" - to drag. In yiddish it refers generally to a commute or journey that is in some way quite aggravating - for example, I consider my daily commute in which I'm stuck in traffic a

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