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by wufufufu 8y ago
Yea, the opinion that you can only use your brain in an office job is wrong, but that opinion is somehow is imprinted on everyone. I know people who work(ed) construction who are actually very smart and they constantly belittle their own in
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by wufufufu 8y ago
I wish physical movement was somehow integrated with software engineering more. Weak solutions like standing desks don't make it the cardio equivalent of something like a cleaning job. It's sad that we sacrifice health for more mo
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by wufufufu 8y ago
What's more shocking to me is that Netflix is worth more than Disney. Just look at the list of Disney subsidiaries[1], then look at how bad the average Netflix original movie is and then tell me if the market caps makes any sense at al
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by wufufufu 8y ago
Can someone smarter than me try to write a formal proof that you can only have 2 of the following: distributed, fast, secure?
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by wufufufu 8y ago
But you can optimize those things. Google's current logo is now 305 bytes. Also there's caching. The internet is not built on proof of work.
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by wufufufu 8y ago
Be a ski instructor. You can take a coding job later when you need to support your family that you started during your ski job. Your degree is not going to expire. You can't take your SWE money to the grave. You have real passion for s
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by wufufufu 8y ago
Why? What purpose do you have for textbook physics? Think of what you're going to do with that knowledge. Are you going to become a physics teacher? Do you just want to impress "a bunch of folks on the internet"? The time in
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by wufufufu 8y ago
Why not peanut/almond butter instead of butter?
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by wufufufu 8y ago
The study described (albeit in mice) eliminates that confounding variable.
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by wufufufu 8y ago
Read the last 7-8 paragraphs. The talk about "the power of love" cheapens what is otherwise a resonating piece. No where else does love (apart from "loving" war) come into play.
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by wufufufu 8y ago
I find it ironic that he talks about the power of love after ditching the Vietnamese girl he was going to have a future with "the way all men betrayed the women who helped them through the war".
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by wufufufu 8y ago
VideoStream has also successfully played every filetype I've thrown at it. My only gripe is that it will lag on high bitrate videos (e.g. 9GB for a 2 hour long movie).
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by wufufufu 8y ago
> For example, you could just not nod, and not smile. And only pretend to clap after the next announcement. And if everybody does this, it adds up without anybody being a target. This is hilarious and terrifying.
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by wufufufu 8y ago
Maybe if you're smart enough to do that, you're smart enough to care about your health in other ways and thus you should still fit into the price model that the insurance company uses ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by wufufufu 8y ago
> Once I realized I could literally just lie in bed for 8 hours and be OK, I was able to let go. I think you still need REM cycles to be OK. edit: Ok, I guess the purpose of this thread was to make everyone feel better, but technically I
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by wufufufu 8y ago
> If nobody did any of those jobs, Mr Smartypants, you’d be dead in a gutter somewhere because you can’t take care of yourself. Are we talking about doctors or plumbers?
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by wufufufu 8y ago
Good points and informative response. You're definitely an outlier, though. > Professors are the worst and are not well paid at all Not from the professors I know (engineering fields). That information is also public in many cases.
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by wufufufu 8y ago
Comparing these occupations has been entertaining. A truly successful business owner is the best IMO -- it's the only one that isn't capped in the amount of money you can earn, but society is jaded by people who have "Entrepr
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by wufufufu 8y ago
You can make 250k/year until your vesting period ends lol
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by wufufufu 8y ago
That's not true. Doctors have more process to go through to become legitimate (college, med school are both strictly required), where as you can become a SWE without those. You can be a successful SWE with only a high school diploma. T
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by wufufufu 8y ago
I was just thinking about this. Even as an engineer (which I consider to be a trade job where it helps if you go to college), my social status won't ever approach that of a seasoned doctor, professor, and maybe lawyer. Even if I get up
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by wufufufu 8y ago
This isn't the max population though, is it? It'd be interesting to see neural nets play this game given different win conditions.
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by wufufufu 9y ago
I've seen senior candidates fail coding interviews, get hired anyway, but then do OK on the job as far as I can tell. I believe it's more likely for new college grads with a few internships to pass coding interviews than senior ca
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by wufufufu 9y ago
For anyone wondering what the "Is this loss?" meme is about, this provides good context http://nymag.com/selectall/2015/11/longest-running-miscarria...
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by wufufufu 9y ago
So what? If I didn't have access to any news outlets for the past 2 years, my life wouldn't have changed at all. Let's say there's a percentage of the population X% which is capable of being tricked by the current level
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by wufufufu 9y ago
Quite the incriminating patent title, and it's not even necessary. Couldn't they just title it "group classification based on user features"? It's like FB is trying to push us in the direction of China[1] and they d
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by wufufufu 9y ago
Bitcoin miners work fine as heaters too
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by wufufufu 9y ago
Gold mining is wasteful also but it's not fundamentally necessary for gold to exist. I think the problem with bitcoin waste is that it's proportional to how valuable it is.
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by wufufufu 9y ago
It irks me that the wastefulness of bitcoin is proportional to how valuable it is, and I don't think that changes even when miners are only competing for transaction fees. edit: Waste might even be exponentially proportional to bitcoin
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by wufufufu 9y ago
Quote from Dave Chappelle: "I say this with no disrespect. We’re all Americans, and we can all agree that America has a huge body count all over the world, but nowhere more than Asia. Literally, if you look at history recently, we have

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