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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
I'll be honest, I've read the article several times. I'm way too dumb to get what the author's point is. I think the video opens up more interesting lines of discussion. There are two points I think the video has that ar
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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
The “crossovers” all studied engineering. I think that makes this an incredibly biased sample. At best, I think one can say that those who studied engineering apply the engineering design process they learned in other engineering fields to
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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
If you have a textbook you're interested in studying from, you can usually find courses from searching on Google that use that text. If you're lucky, they will make the homework and answers available online. If you search long eno
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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
Agendas are critical and so is the purpose of the meeting. Is the purpose of the meeting to inform, decide, workshop, or persuade? If it's to inform, it should be an email, but some people do not read them, so you need to sometimes rea
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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
Has EJMR changed and started moderating? I stopped going to EJMR because it was far too much trolling, shit posting, racism, and other bad takes.
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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
I think it depends on what you mean by advanced and what exactly you're calling engineering. As you've pointed out in other engineering disciplines, there are researchers who are pretty deeply immersed in the academic papers and h
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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
I didn't know PowerPoint allows you to navigate that way. I've always used either hyperlinked text or little navigation icons in a corner of the slide to quickly navigate to the relevant back up slides.
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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
I was keeping it consistent across the translators and went with Fagel for both Homer and Virgil. Perhaps the translation style changed from Home to Virgil? I'm not sure, but Virgil spoke to me.
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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
Slightly off topic, but I couldn't get through Homer. It feels too long and drawn out. I felt guilty for not finishing Homer, but I was pulled into Virgil's Aeneid instead and couldn't put that down.
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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
Cambridge not Oxford. And I guess honors is true, but that's underselling graduating as "Senior Wrangler," the top graduating student in math.
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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
I think there is some middle ground. I used to work in manufacturing. During the slow periods, employees with nothing to do were reassigned to projects to improve safety, productivity, quality, plant maintenance, and to help the employees w
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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
Yes, I think it's still relevant. It doesn't adapt all of the project management jargon from the certifications, though. I read this 5 or 6 years ago and I learned a lot. I didn't realize how large the blog has become. https
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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
I enjoyed “Making Things Happen” by Scott Berkun. You can start with the blog [1] to see if you like the style and probably get a good overview without needing the book. Other than that, there is the standard set of PMP prep resources, but
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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
The fine article… or pick your preferred f word.
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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
MIT seems to offer an ScD as an alternative to the PhD in some fields. https://oge.mit.edu/graduate-admissions/programs/doctoral-de...
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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
I've found using the search bar at the bottom of HN (or https://hn.algolia.com/ ) to usually give quite a few questions and random comments with resources.
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by wheelinsupial 3y ago
Do these high pay, unsexy jobs exist in Canada? And what am I repeatedly doing wrong? The highest paying jobs I see are at the FAANGS. Other than that, the jobs all seem to be within a few percent of each other. Many employers in my area st
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by wheelinsupial 4y ago
I think a lot of it is margin. There is a furniture company where I live that advertises a 45% off as an employee discount perk. I’ve seen employee discounts usually priced at cost plus 5%.
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by wheelinsupial 4y ago
They could just implement a reciprocal legacy status instead for your children.
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by wheelinsupial 4y ago
"In the United States, legacy admissions in universities date back to the 1920s. Elite schools used legacy admissions to maintain spots for Anglo-Protestants amid fears that Jews, Catholics, and Asians were increasingly taking spots at
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by wheelinsupial 4y ago
Is this a rebranding of the career jungle gym promoted on Forbes in 2013? https://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2013/03/14/why-a...
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by wheelinsupial 4y ago
I skimmed your blog posts and logs, so apologies if I missed it. How many problems or exercises did you work through in the book? Did people put in any additional time individually between sessions?
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by wheelinsupial 4y ago
I have explored technical writing a little bit. There are actually a fair amount of people that have majored in the humanities or literature of some sort. They complain about how they have to write in a dry, passive voice. If some of them h
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by wheelinsupial 4y ago
I haven't played those games, but it does happen in real manufacturing facilities. A facility I worked at started off in low volume, high mix manufacturing (a job shop) and eventually moved into more high volume, medium mix manufacturi
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by wheelinsupial 4y ago
Where I am, engineers have a discipline which is their undergrad major (e.g., mechanical, electrical, civil) and a practice area which is on the job specialization within the discipline (e.g., HVAC, pressure vessels, pipelines). Software en
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by wheelinsupial 4y ago
https://mitocw.ups.edu.ec/courses/mechanical-engineering/ It's available, you might need to search for it and look for the flow charts to see which courses are missing from the other departments. The challeng
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by wheelinsupial 4y ago
I'm not sure how Apple does it, but when I was working in manufacturing we were not told what steps to use or given finished samples by the customer. In general, there is a quote phase before the contract being awarded. In this phase,
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by wheelinsupial 4y ago
Are there any stories you can share?
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by wheelinsupial 4y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I was having a really tough time understanding your response. I thought you were saying you hadn't heard the dictionary definition that lazide was quoting, and were saying lazide made that definition up and you h
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by wheelinsupial 4y ago
Are you talking about "accountability" or "falling on your sword?"

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