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by ylee 3y ago
Computers have been a hobby all my life. I well remember the epiphany I felt while learning Logo in elementary school, at the moment I understood what recursion is. I don't think the fact that the language I have mostly written code in
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by ylee 3y ago
>Three men developed and created the Cheers television series: Glen and Les Charles ("Glen and Les") and James Burrows, who identified themselves as "two Mormons and a Jew." I served my LDS mission in Nevada. One day,
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by ylee 3y ago
> So, not so much that Ivy League athletes out earn their peers, but that they are more likely to prioritize money and choose careers that pay more in the first place. I have only read the abstract, but does the paper control for network
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by ylee 3y ago
>Presumably you're also paying a tens of dollars a month premium on your cell plan (compared to an equivalent "sim only" plan) which is subsidising that? You presume wrongly. As I said: >I have basically the world'
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by ylee 3y ago
>If Apple hadn't been an AT&T exclusive in the US and had adapted to the way people bought phones independent of carriers in most of the world, Android wouldn't have had a chance. I disagree. Even had iPhone been available
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by ylee 3y ago
Not just BlackBerry. The entire phone industry was caught flatfooted by iPhone. I helped cover Apple for a large investment bank. The day of the iPhone announcement in January 2007, I saw a press release from Motorola come across the wire,
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by ylee 3y ago
>Although I have my own domain for some mail, I've been using pobox.com for this and other reasons since 2009. It's quite cheap and safe redirect since it now belongs to fastmail. Same, both in owning my own domain name and usi
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by ylee 3y ago
When I covered IT hardware companies on Wall Street, I heard Apple's CFO say that his company could release a $799 computer "but we don't want to". Around the same time, at an investor dinner with the Dell CFO, an attend
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by ylee 3y ago
I had just joined a large investment bank and was in NYC for training when I heard that the XPrize flight had succeeded. Although finance has been my career, I grew up wanting to be an astronaut and closely follow space science. I also expe
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by ylee 3y ago
I well remember the epiphany I felt while learning Logo in elementary school, at the moment I understood what recursion is. While I have never worked as a professional software developer, computers have been a hobby all my life. I don'
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by ylee 3y ago
>Abstraction solves a lot of hard problems, but it is also costly. This may explain what happened to me. Of the various standardized tests that I have taken in life (SAT in 8th grade, SHSAT, PSAT, SAT, ACT, LSAT, GMAT), the LSAT is the o
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by ylee 3y ago
>Nothing like "coding, the hobby". I can relate; I chose Wall Street (the finance side, not the IT side) and now work for myself. While I used and use my tech skills every day, I have never wanted to write code for money. <
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by ylee 3y ago
When I graduated from Columbia in 1999, I interviewed and got offers at various tech startups, but entry-level jobs on the "PM track" for those without a CS/engineering degree didn't formally exist at the likes of Micros
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by ylee 3y ago
I am self-taught with computers in the sense that I read every computer book I could find before my first computer at the age of 10, a Commodore VIC-20; everything else came from that. Elementary-school classes on Logo, AP Computer Science
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by ylee 3y ago
I've been using Emacs for more than a quarter century, 99.9999% of the time text-only (whether Linux console, X terminal console, xterm, or SSH client) on a remote server. My email client is VM, written in Emacs Lisp. I've used it
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by ylee 3y ago
I've been on Usenet since the 1990s. All those terminally online who claim that Trump (and Dubya before him) "ruined America's reputation abroad" are, of course, idiots. The online left back then hated the just as much a
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by ylee 3y ago
>I had to use Macs in college. They crashed just as bad as the PCs. I also used Macs a lot in college, and had the same experience. People who never used pre-Unix MacOS have no idea how unreliable it was. Windows 95 and 98 weren't g
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by ylee 3y ago
I helped cover Apple for a large investment bank. The day of the iPhone announcement in January 2007, I saw a press release from Motorola come across the wire, in which the company announced yet another phone with a keyboard. I felt pity fo
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by ylee 3y ago
My salary as a first-year analyst at Goldman Sachs in 1999 was $40K. In 2000, to compete with dotcom companies, salaries rose to $55/65/75K for first/second/third-year analysts.[1] The compensation scale remained despite
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by ylee 4y ago
In the US, CS departments are about 50/50 spinoffs of math departments and spinoffs of EE departments; how do the latter fit into this? Quoting my 2019 message to the cctech mailing list: ---- Adam Thornton says: > The genealogy of
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by ylee 4y ago
I wrote the below in 2006. < https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=178846&cid=14824754 > >I moved from NYC to the Palo Alto area in May 2000. That's right, just one month after the start of the long stock-mar
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by ylee 4y ago
>I only use Google as a secondary account now I've never had Google as a primary email account. I do have a few Gmail accounts, but that was to reserve them with my name, as opposed to ever giving the addresses out. >I use pobox.
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by ylee 4y ago
I well remember the epiphany I felt while learning Logo in elementary school, at the moment I understood what recursion is. While I have never worked as a professional software developer, computers have been a hobby all my life. I don'
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by ylee 4y ago
I am self-taught in the sense that I read every computer book I could find before my first computer at the age of 10, a Commodore VIC-20; everything else came from that. Elementary-school classes on Logo, AP Computer Science in high school,
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by ylee 4y ago
>On the other hand they were writing what is ostensibly a concurrent application on an operating system with no protected memory and no pre-emptive multitasking, so the whole thing was using hand-rolled cooperative multitasking via C lon
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by ylee 4y ago
>There were similar articles when Apple launched the iPhone exclusively on AT&T. We can clearly see now that a) Apple had no interest in controlling the network provider (many people thought they would eventually launch their own MVN
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by ylee 4y ago
>The second article in this issue of BYTE has a delightful mention of Logo (the programming language). Hacker News discussion of BYTE 's special Logo issue: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28603556 > &gt
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by ylee 4y ago
While learning Logo in elementary school, the moment I understood what recursion is. While I have never worked as a professional software developer, computers have been a hobby all my life. I don't think the fact that the language I ha
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by ylee 4y ago
Currently actively reading: The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War by Clark The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History by Mikaberidze An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp by Chassell The Girl from the Channel Islands by Lecoat
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by ylee 4y ago
The appeal of free stuff is eternal. While working for a large investment bank, I attended a presentation by a video game company. I well remember the huge crowd of people afterwards surrounding a table with goodies; very, very well-compens

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