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The primary goal of a PhD is to provide training for independent research, and honestly it really does require 4-5 years of dedicated work to achieve that (I have a PhD in computational biology). Teaching is different altogether and absolutely does not require a PhD. Proving that you can perform independent research really does require many years of training.
I don't think so, I think he is spot on. If you have more skills, you do something else.

I had some great recruiters to work with, but they move up fairly quickly.
Replaceable with what?

Some lab-based process that produces the same products at the same volume with less impact on the land?

Would that be such a bad thing?
One thing I've done that has helped is after a single introductory sentence, list all my questions with numbered bullet points. Only put the actual question here. Any supporting info can be described in paragraphs below, numbered similarly. Aggressively edit your writing to remove all unnecessary words and information. You probably don't need 40% of the words you wrote.

If your question has multiple parts, break them into separate, sequential questions.

Lastly if the question is so complex that this doesn't work, and for whatever reason you can't talk to them in person, present them with what you believe the answer is and let them critique it. This won't always work for every scenario but it might be worth trying.
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We have a large monolith rails app and are gradually moving the front end to Vue. And as we start to seeing those “lightening-quick page transitions” it makes me want to devote more resources over to the change.

The method in the article seems like a very non-conventional way to go about it with no added benefit.
> It would matter more than my (non-existent) vote in bitcoin would.

You don't have to use it though.

> So to be clear, your problem isn't that the fed is centralized and btc is decentralized it's that btc is regular and the fed can be irregular?

Both aspects are problematic. It's not only the FED that is centralized, the banking system itself is. Bitcoin is Peer-to-peer without trusted third parties.
Thanks! Fixing that right now.
Its good to be cautious. I did some research to come up with this upper limit as an amount to take on a given day, and also wouldn't be worried about taking this daily for a week since I live in Minnesota and am chronically deficient.

"Taking 50,000 international units (IU) a day of vitamin D for several months has been shown to cause toxicity. This level is many times higher than the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for most adults of 600 IU of vitamin D a day.Feb 5, 2015" (https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...)
Yes. One day a week my Logitech USB mouse is not recognized or powered by the MBP. Which day it will be is a crapshoot.

If the Woodway treadmills at the Palo Alto Equinox had the same uptime as my Macbook Pro, I don't think certain Apple execs would be happy.
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I think the guy was out of line. I'm an engineer. I had to put at least a decade of my life, 1/8 if stats are right, into freaking hard work to earn the right to use the title, and the skill-set to not kill people while doing it.

That guy is a slap in the face to every engineer who had to work for their credentials instead of "name it and claim it" in the name of "free speech".

This is like shouting "fire in a theater" - it causes harm. Claiming to be an engineer, and driving public opinion based on that false credibility, is dangerous. Setting a precedent for it absolutely and without a single doubt has already cost many people their lives (look at Mexico deaths from earthquakes) and absolutely and without a doubt stages for more people to lose life and substantial property.

If one falsely claims to be a police officer, and extorts a fine, it is a crime. I see this as being on the same order of harm to the society.
I think once the 21 million (or whatever, too lazy to look up the actual number) coins are produced the mining fee will adjust to compensate for the utility of verifying blocks.

Probably won't be profitable to have a whole warehouse full of nodes but I'm sure there will still be folks willing to make a couple bucks to keep the network up and running.
To flip that around, if an issue is so politically unsavory that it could not pass on its own, then should it pass at all?
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not matter how pretty you format your CV you'll sit at and interview wondering why the interviewer is looking an mangled up piece of paper which turns out to be your CV.

Also recruiters that have a form with 10 textareas (for you to fill out career history) are the worst.
I'm not sure how saying your opponents are frothing at the mouth or calling them a fringe base of extreme voters who hold their reps at their mercy is any more cooperative.

The intent to marginalize the opposition and justify ignoring their concerns remains the same.
It's also not as decentralized as intended in the white paper in regards to transaction. First sentence in the abstract: "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."

http://nakamotoinstitute.org/bitcoin/#selection-37.4-37.173

Most people trading BTC atm are not trading BTC, but trading ownership of BTC using a traditional database.
>hell left lane campers.

It's 2017. We have cameras, "repeated failure to move right for faster traffic" should not be a hard ticket to write to a high standard of proof.
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If the price goes up by another factor of 10 before it crashes, you could end up in serious trouble.
"The man behind Pandas, a reasonably important Python tool in data science"
The problem I see with that law, and I believe it is possibly the same issue in the U.S. with many state laws is that, as well defined as it is, if I mix and match the terms from the definition then someone with an economics degree from an engineering school needs a professional license to do their own taxes...

"The practice of professional engineering means... any act of evaluating that requires application of engineering principles... and concerns economic interests."

It's not quite a bullet-proof concept. I doubt the U.S. Supreme Court is going to take this issue on at the time. But if I had a background in engineering and law and considered these laws in context, they seem a bit stupid. Most B.S. engineering graduates aren't professionally licensed but obviously are qualified to work and designate themselves as some type of engineer, at least on LinkedIn.

In any case, it seems the term to be protected is "Professional Engineer" or "Licensed Engineer" and not the generic title itself, and the scope should be limited by specifying what jobs require that license instead of a blanket statement. For example, "all bridges on public roads require work to be certified by a professional licensed engineer."

Edit:

In the earlier discussion, there was some debate about whether measuring the hypotenuse of a triangle is legal in public in Oregon.
Which photo? The header photo at the beginning of the article with a man working on apple laptop is not Wes McKinney. That is a stock photo of "a man works at his computer at the Airbnb office headquarters in San Francisco" [1]. There is a portrait of the actual Wes McKinney a little ways down the article.

I don't know why QZ thought it is a good idea to start a "Meet the man" article with a large photo of a man who is not the titular man.

[1] https://www.citylab.com/environment/2017/09/lab-report-shari...
I've added a note before the pricing plans emphasizing the free plan.
HR is not 'like any other job'. Google's internal analysis of what HR practices yielded top tech performers strongly disproved most longstanding HR maxims, like hire from the best schools, with highest GPAs, etc. AFAIK, very few of the HR services used by most large corps have integrated much less acknowledged this sea change in tech HR nor integrated some of those lessons in their daily practices. Their hallmark MO continues to be: grep for keywords.

So I'd agree with only the middle of your last sentence.
This is really good stuff.
Ambrosia's Escape Velocity (pre-Nova, pre-Override), coupled with Bungie's then Mac-only Pathways into Darkness & Marathon, fell into the category of "games I could play in the school's Mac-only computer lab."

Pathways into Darkness is particularly cool. From memory, it actually used the filesystem as an inventory manager.
Re: "The stereo type of old man having there pants pulled up to their armpits has a practical origin."

That's one of the signs pants have outlived their usefulness. When you are young your hips are wider than your middle, making it easy for pants to stay up. But when your middle gets larger than your waist, the physics of pants don't work, and you have to either resort to torturous belts, or pull them up so high that you have camel-toe.
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I despise one page resumes. I want detail so I can figure out whether to bother with you or not. The only time a short resume is ok is when you have big names in your employer list, or major awards, or something. If you have Google 2005-2015 or something, you really don't need to say much more beyond what languages/technologies/libraries you used there. But for the other 99% of people, I want to hear what you worked on, in detail. I can skim through a 5 page resume just as fast as a one page resume.

edit: After reading the article fully: This person is the opposite of me. I've read hundreds of resumes, and I want depth and detail so I don't waste my time. Reading resumes is the cheapest part of the process. Just make sure your HR is sending you anything remotely decent, they should only be a very light filter.
One page CV, not more not less than that!
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Fair enough. I don't need much else from a code editor that already started out pretty great.

I mean, by your standard, how much has vi changed over the last 35 years or so? Is vi dead?
thanks for pointing out, I'll update the resume this weekend.
It's really amazing how many resumes I see that have basic spelling and grammar mistakes in them. Like on the order of, damn the squiggle underlines in Word, full steam ahead.

I mostly try to stay away from the more aggravating and useless of grammar pedantry, but it's just not a good signal about diligence and attention to detail.
What is the difference between the two dashes?
I'm sorry but a standard t-test is like the most basic thing in statistics after means and variances. It's not like they want you prove the CLT or something. To me it's more like a statistics fizz-buzz.
If your react/vue codebase is isolated to client end, how is your server going to render react/vue code?
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Job description:

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It's not just incident numbers, when you get two slow drivers/semis blocking the lanes you have a large number(10+ cars) that tend to tailgate way under safe following distances. I've seen 5 cars all stacked together under one car length on many occasions.

All it takes is one stupid/wrong move and you have a massive pileup.

Most of the speeding accidents I've seen along I-5 tend to be single car unless they cross the divider.

Whenever I see it happen I usually double my following distance and let all the idiots sort it out but most people just tend to put themselves in a position where they don't have an exit if something goes wrong.
If you intend to spend any time in China, and your friends are intelligent and decent people, your friends are probably already censoring themselves (even outside of China), fearing it may have repercussions toward you.
> First, to get to the phone screen many companies now use some form of automation to weed out applications. Less words simply means less chance of an automated match against the job description criteria.

Came here to post this. A lot of modern ATS systems (especially if you're jumping through a recruiter or applying to a large enough company) will screen for keywords.

I've always maintained a 2 page CV, one page with the relevant experience pieces/qualitative info, and another page with "Skills", which is essentially keyword fodder. Granted, especially earlier in my career, I got invited to interview for roles that were well out of my league.
Buy an insurance in another country. If you have a big health problem (meaning many $$$), go there, make some tourism, get treated, and everything will be cheaper than what you would pay in the US.

Better yet, find the way to not have any disease. Physical diseases are the last consequence of energy imbalances in your being, be them emotional or spiritual.
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I have had this happen with 10.12 and 10.11 on rare occasions. To my knowledge, I'm not doing anything different on the occasions that it does happen.

It wasn't Slack-specific as I've only started using Slack recently.
So weird to have seen this before it was flagged off the front page yesterday... pure coincidence?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15876509
"Branching lines of thought are very difficult for most people."

This is something that I hadn't thought about but now that you mention it, it does seem to match what I've experienced.

Nice catch.
Bitcoin isn't better as a currency, that use of Bitcoin is long gone. It's a store of value and the backbone of the cryptocurrency market place at the moment. Most cryptocurrencies are paired with BTC.
> The problem is not that we are paralyzed with despair; the problem, more likely, is that we haven’t really internalized what’s in store for us. The problem is that our species is already delusionally optimistic by nature.

> Not all of us, mind you. Some folks perceive their contextual status with relative accuracy: they’re better than the rest of us at figuring out how much control they really have over local events, for example. They’re better at assessing their own performance at assigned tasks. Most of us tend to take credit for the good things that happen to us, while blaming something else for the bad. But some folks, faced with the same scenarios, apportion blame and credit without that self-serving bias.

> We call these people “clinically depressed”.
The life of an engineer is a life if sacrifice and 7 days a week work for five days pay. Often you never have a partner so you're the most highly taxed people in the country especially in California. While you often work triple time you're rarely if ever paid for overtime it's taken for granted that you're not ever compensated for 3/4 of the hours you work. Nothing can happen without you but sales people get a piece if the business they get normal business hours and can have a life and a family don't learn to code learn to sell this is terrific advice. At least you get commission and not worthless options in exchange for living off half the sleep a normal worker gets and continuous change and upheaval so you never get to have a life outside of work. Also continual layoffs and churn and then extra taxation when you are unemployed all told the life of an engineer is like the life of the slaves who row the cars on the Viking ship lol.
I would suggest you use chat platforms like slack instead of email. The flow of conversations is more obvious that way. You can then ask one question, and work parts b and c into normal interaction.

Once that's done, you can ask if they have the time to answer another question, and continue with the interaction.
I don't think there is much reason analysing lucky successes. Real success happens by getting a little lucky here and a little lucky there, learning over time how to keep the good fortune once acquired, and then stacking one success over another. Analysing FarmVille and Flappy Bird is like analysing why a lottery winner chose the right numbers.

And in both cases the surprise money is gone just as quickly.
I was top 1% in school and I still dislike reading, because very often, it's unnecessary verbiage.

As a senior PhD student, the advice I give my younger peers and master students regarding academic posters: you should be able to read it from across the room, or printing in A4 and held at arms' length. Most posters are horribly over-cramed.

I see the same things in academic papers. The length is limited, but many people find a way around by including tons for mathematic, which is much denser. When I take the pain to go through it, I usually find all this math to be unnecessary (but it does give the paper the halo of serious research).
Well, yes, just like the emergent consensus that US dollars are worth real goods and services.

Nothing is “worth” something unless people say it is. There are plenty of problems with Bitcoin as a currency, but the fact that its value is derived from speculation is not one of them. All currency is like this.
The Titan cards were not intended for the gaming market, though some gamers who wanted every last ounce of (severely diminished return) performance certainly tried nonetheless. I really don't see the issue.

Sometime early next year Nvidia will announce the Volta enthusiast cards (GTX 1170, 1180?), priced in line with the current-gen enthusiast cards (GTX 1070, 1080).

If you want the new shiny right now, you can, but as always you can get 85% of the same gaming performance for 25% of the price by waiting a few months.
Or just pay more to move your money into a country that doesn't care about such things, then buy it truly anonymously.

Or mine it if you have access to cheap electricity and can afford the equipment to be near the top in hashing speed.

In either case, you can see how Bitcoin wealth is biased to people with lots of fiat to begin with. I question if there could be any new currency that would not suffer the same inequality.
And everyone should also believe in God, because I say that God is real.

Bitcoin only has value because a bunch of nerds put a lot of real money into it and are convincing themselves and other suckers that it's actually got some sort of value, honest. At least other fiat has the backing of the economy and military of whatever nation backs it - at the end of the day, Bitcoin is a ticket you get stamped proving a bunch of electricity was wasted verifying the ticket with absolutely no backing if the whole thing goes tits up, and the fact that the prices are constantly in insane flux is all the proof needed to demonstrate that it's not a consistent store of value.
>Very small children understand and recognize property, since it is a natural right.

they also tend to shit when and where they want (would you say that "it is a natural right" too?). The point of upbringing in civilized society is to put under control the "natural" instincts. And what you mentioned is an instinct, not a right. The notion of rights comes later as the rules that the people with developed "bladder control" agree upon in order to live together and cooperate.
Uniformity is a major advantage of CDSs. Bonds are idiosyncratic- every one will has its own maturity date, coupon payments, and lots of minor details in the bond covenants. That makes bonds hard to trade. CDS are far more uniform- they trade with standard terms and maturities. Bonds are primarily a way to provide companies with funding, CDS are primarily an instrument for financial companies to trade.

Could a company "insure" a bond by writing a swap with a bank? Sure, a bank would be happy to write a bespoke swap with you, but they're going to charge more than a CDS would cost, and you're not going to be able to trade the swap to someone else.

CDS actually make it easier for companies to raise money. If you can hedge your weird, illiquid bond with a nice liquid CDS you're more likely to buy the bond in the first place.

FWIW I'm not a specialist in fixed income, so don't take this as gospel, but I think the general point is right.
And also the centralization + how easy it is to join a new Discord channel. It used to be very annoying to have to run vent/mumble and skype while playing a single game because of different groups/teams preferences. Not to mention, people had problems configuring vent/mumble all of the time. I've had times where my own configuration would randomly stop working. In, I guess about 2 years of using it, I've never had an issue with Discords voice.
And at that point is the added complexity worth not just rendering with rails?
One thing that really bothers me in long emails is redundancy. Something like "Only one single widget is alone on the shelf" instead of "One widget is on the shelf."
> it's pretty much only the big reserve holders that matter

We're talking about the entire BTC ecosystem. You can't compare that to a 16% sliver of the entire gold market because that fits your argument better.

> Most gold by weight is effectively illiquid, while every Bitcoin is equally liquid.

Which was basically my point, is that BTC-to-gold is an apples-to-airliners comparison and is at best a strained analogy.
I'd be interested to know if anyone has attempted to research that. I'd imagine it might be hard to accurately measure levels of "conformity"
I just force every application to use a standard reliable transport library. Didn't realize I built a service mesh startup by accident...
> "One widget is on the shelf."

Where are the rest of them then?
I used to hit the Shift key to manually triple-verify keeping my laptop 'alive' during long videos/presentations but have since switched to the Ctrl key. Thanks Sticky keys!
It appears that Privacy Badger blocks kickstarter.com completely. I don't know why it has that default but you can just set it to only block cookies.
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Yeah, it is worth remembering that things are very different now, they get many times more applications for every job than used to be the case.

It's like direct mail marketing - expect a very low response.
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Turbolinks is the official Front-end part of Rails and it works very well, but there is no mention of it in the article neither in the hackernews comments, so i think it is under-used.

There's also turbolinks-ios and turbolinks-android, I built my mobile apps with minimal knowledge of Swift and Kotlin.
>>We charge 5%, in addition to any fees from our payments partners.

Does it mean they are costlier than Patreon?
People who are new to Bitcoin don't realize that there has been a growing grass roots movement to promote Bitcoin all over the world for years.

I realize that it may seem to have come out of nowhere, but the recent popularity is the culmination of years of hard work by people who are genuinely excited about it.
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Hi jackmott FYI you are "hellbanned" which means nobody can see your comments. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. The mods on this site are overly strict and quick to employ such a harsh tactic, IMO.