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8 years agodiscuss

Is compensation really strictly less with a 20% pay cut? I'm from the midwest and I have a hard time wrapping my head around the compensation differences. Google-able "cost of living" calculators give me an 80k range for my midwest city salary, that works out to 35-62% cut.

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8 years agodiscuss

I worked at a dining hall at a state university all 4 years, just graduated this spring. Some food was really good, some was mediocre, never inedible. If the hot line didn't have anything good there were always well stocked sandwich/salad bars and flat top grills open to students. I definitely ate better then than I do now.

As far as pricing went, it worked out to about $9/meal. Kind of high, but also unlimited spinach/quinoa/berries/fruits/yogurts vs. burgers and panda express.

I heard they nerfed some of the benefits, but as a "student supervisor" I got $9/hr and 15 meals/week for working 15 hours/week.

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8 years agodiscuss

Naively, wouldn't a blank check for a semester ecourage universities to raise prices even higher?

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8 years agodiscuss

Do they have Docker? Jupyter maintains a few docker images with various parts of the scientific stack.

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8 years agodiscuss

Reminds me a bit of the quote:

"A classic is something everybody wants to have read, but no one wants to read." --Mark Twain

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8 years agodiscuss

I think they would definitely also want to send ~5 seconds of the plain audio. Freely available speech to text probably wouldn't recognize local business names. But either way it's pretty inconvenient to ring a doorbell and wait ~30 seconds. You never realize how valuable a receptionist is until you don't have one.

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8 years agodiscuss

This is the approach I've taken, albeit at the "top level" of the program. Since I know I don't have to deal with Windows I much prefer simply piping to parallel instead of xargs, or calling make -j8, or similarly letting some shell wrapper handle it over dealing with the overhead inside of python, especially multiprocessing.

However, where I think having this stuff available inside of python is useful is that it's cross platform and consumable from "higher levels" of python. A library can do some mucky stuff internally to speed computation but still present a simple sync interface, all without external dependencies.

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8 years agodiscuss

There is an extension called "I don't care about cookies" [1] that takes care of those.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...

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8 years agodiscuss

Now if only there was a CLI tool to convince my coworkers that storing secrets in git is a bad idea.

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8 years agodiscuss

I Grew up near a rez in ND, my dad worked at the tribal college for as long as I can remember. Open enrollment does help. A sizable chunk of the local public school population lived on the rez. The tribal highschool looks more like a prison (not a single window on the outside) and teachers rarely last more than a couple years.

On the note of the sad state of diversity initiatives, I recall a particular quote from a local restaurant owner: "If their last name has a verb or an animal in it I throw it in the trash"

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8 years agodiscuss

I had a similarly titled class at a no-name state school. I think the professor mentioned something about ACM recommending/requiring the course, so it should be pretty widespread.

On a more discouraging note, there was normally single digit attendance out of triple digit enrollment in the particular course I took. I'd say average engagement was ~6 hours total over the course of the semester... Including a movie. I don't know anyone that didn't get an A. There were a few from that class that went onto big names, and they weren't among the regular attendees.

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8 years agodiscuss

I see where you're coming from, and hey, the thing works. Not everything is perfect, but the Stream API could definitely be better.

I agree it would be nice to have a consistent interface. The problem is it's neither consistent nor an interface, it's an inconsistent hierarchy of subclasses. There's always fuss because everyone is going to get bitten by it at some point. It's just a poor abstraction, and it leaves a bad taste in your mouth as a library (well, framework) consumer.

Microsoft promised me that they gave me a thing that had certain features and capabilities using industry standard terminology and knowledge. There's a contract. If you go out for a car loan that says "0% APR for 12 months!" You expect that to be the first 12 months, not "0% APR only on days divisible by 7 during leap years, up to a total of 12 * 30 days over the course of the next millennium, otherwise 7.5%"

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8 years agodiscuss

First job out of school my coworker was talking about how nice dotnet Stream API was. I had a Stream. Streams have Position. A GZipStream is a Stream. A GZipStream does not have position. Countless hours of Java style "OOP" indoctrination flashed before my eyes and I realized that even something as big as Dotnet could do such a thing. It made me feel like a kid that just realized their parents aren't infallible.

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8 years agodiscuss

Anecdotal, but I remember ~4 years ago working at Walmart as a summer job. The handheld scanners (telzon/gemini) you see employees with would boot to SUSE. A lot of back office software like employee schedules and permissions with those handhelds were still managed with what looked like curses based stuff.

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8 years agodiscuss

I think GP is referring to the Gnome Virtual File System (GVfs) [1], which has a number of pluggable backends, one of which being Google Drive. I've used it lightly and it seemed to "just work."

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs

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8 years agodiscuss

Damn. My bad for not reading the post carefully. One would hope there would be other recourse than negative online reviews.

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8 years agodiscuss

It'd be really shocking to me if this happened in the US without some prior history/grounds for eviction. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I'm pretty sure most states have pretty pro-tenant laws when it comes to these sorts of things.

OP- if this is nothing but 3 days late on rent, check your lease and your local laws. I can't imagine many places in the western world allow eviction from an actual residence over something like this.

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8 years agodiscuss

Were you searching for things like "powershell -filter"? That would exclude every result containing "filter" [1]

[1] https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en

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8 years agodiscuss

I really wish I had enough karma to downvote this. Sure, using "free" ad funded services doesn't cost any money, but a price is still paid. Do you really think there is 0 possible consequences of every step you take both physical and virtual being persisted and replicated and mined ad infinitum? People think they pay with their attention, but they also pay with their privacy. Not the "my interests include fantasy football and romantic comedy" kind of privacy, but the "on June 4th I visited a gay bar 6 hours from home so no one would recognize me" kind. Then since you scrolled through Facebook while you were there, they start suggesting other people there as friends, and showing you ads based off of their interests.

Knowledge of who you associated with and what you do when no one you know is watching might not seem dangerous to you now in the western world living through the longest period of peace in Europe since the fall of the Roman empire, but that shit gets people killed. You don't have to look far back. You don't have to look far away either, shit happens today. How many people lost their lives in communist/fascist revolutions over the past century even, if only because "they associated with the enemy"? Can you imagine what the SS could have done with the kind of data that modern ad companies have?

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8 years agodiscuss

> Syntactic complexity is linear with expressive power

Have you taken a serious look at a lisp? You might be pleasently surprised. Everything that can be said about lisp has probably already been said, but I'd argue that sexprs have a much higher expressive/complexity ratio than say the C++ grammar.

Somewhat relative xkcd[1]

[1] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/224:_Lisp

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