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MollyR

2,460 karma · joined February 25, 2015

If you don't understand my distaste for colleges money sinks read this : alot of these are suicidal kids with degrees who did everything "right" by the authority figures they trusted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/comments/1yktjp/are_the_poor_and_unemployed_supposed_to_kill/

https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/4ogbv9/been_almost_2_years_without_a_job_honestly/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/18/college-drove-me-to-the-brink-of-suicide/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3695613/Student-23-university-hanged-flunking-degree.html

Money, degrees, and productivity are not metrics of a live well lived. There are metrics such as self-reported happiness, marriage and divorce rates, birth rates, and other things that paint a much fuller picture. You need to figure out what is good for you.

Some advice to other women developers. Take the money from silicon valley, then run to a cheaper place to live. Invest it well, and relax.

ex. Buy a duplex, and rent one part of it out to pay your bills.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

— Confucius

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MollyR··on NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments
Well I was thinking the hackernews model is better than the reddit model.

I'm still researching how important is it for companies to have control over their own site.

MollyR··on NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments
With all the sites getting rid of comments. I wonder if a market is opening for something like hackernews in other niches ?
MollyR··on Robots will soon replace human fruit pickers
Once mainstreamed, I wonder how this will affect the immigration debates, probably in favor of more closed borders.
MollyR··on I Hire Engineers at Google--Here's What I Look for (And Why)
When google recruited at my university 5 years ago, they asked for high school SAT scores. I thought that was weird.
MollyR··on Peter Thiel Tries to Pivot His Personal Brand to Privacy Hero
I don't think really think he's a privacy hero, but his points about gawker and denton seem spot on.
MollyR··on Nvidia stuffs desktop GTX 1080, 1070, 1060 into laptops, drops the “M”
I ran into this same issue. I've been quite fond of the idea of external gpus for this exact reason.
MollyR··on Pair Programming Is Not a Panacea (2014)
I found pair programming great, when another developer and I were architecting the foundations of business app. After that we were able to split of portions of the app such as various worksheets type pages, to ourselves and junior developers pretty easily.
MollyR··on Why professors, pundits, and policy wonks misunderstand the world
It's working intermittently. The first time I clicked it, it worked, but not the second.
MollyR··on Lake Nyos suffocated over 1,700 people in one night
Wow, the lake turning red and so many people dying sounds like a biblical style event. It's great to have a scientific explanation of what happened.
MollyR··on DjangoCon US 2016 Videos
I didn't go this year. Were only 17 lectures recorded ?
MollyR··on PEP 526: Variable declaration in Python
It's optional until the lead developer at work forces you to use it.
MollyR··on Ask HN: How many professional developers contribute to open source?
I used too, but I'm not interested in being pulled into the increasing amount of politics involved or public scapegoating involved in social media.
MollyR··on WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's murder
Wikileaks has always been political. If someone leaked the rnc's emails, those would probably be out too. Let's not forget Cablegate in 2010.

I walked around in Philadelphia talking with DNC protestors, during the DNC. Most of them were democrats, who were glad to have evidence of corruption and collusion between the DNC and Media. Most of the protesters I talked with, only had good things to say about wikileaks, and assange.

I think wikileaks knows what they are doing, and are gaining mindshare among the alternative left and right.

MollyR··on Harvard Study: Biggest Factor in Divorce Is Husband's Employment Status
Stress doesn't absolve you of responsibility for your actions. Most marriages being degrees of unhealthy doesn't equate to most marriages having affairs in them. If my husband had an affair, child or no child, It would be an instant divorce. I could never trust him again.
MollyR··on Harvard Study: Biggest Factor in Divorce Is Husband's Employment Status
That doesn't sound like a healthy relationship.
MollyR··on Harvard Study: Biggest Factor in Divorce Is Husband's Employment Status
I was wondering why men tie their identity to employment so much. Is it because society expects them to be providers, and ridicules men who don't ?
MollyR··on Q&A with Jack Dorsey
That makes sense. It seems like when people I talked with were expressing dislike of the "mainstream media",but they meant establishment controlled media.

A lot of the people I talked to expressed disgust with vox, vice, slate, and salon as becoming establishment not just the washington post.

MollyR··on Q&A with Jack Dorsey
Not just conservatives and libertarians. I talked to a bunch of protesters/bernie supporters in philly who said they don't trust the mainstream media or twitter after the dnc leaks was censored by so many media outlets. I think there is a huge opportunity for a non establishment media on both the right and left.
MollyR··on WikiLeaks Has Officially Lost the Moral High Ground
No it hasn't. The DNC leaks will be remembered as historic. I talked with the protesters in philly, and the vast majority had pro-wikileaks signs or were pro-wikileaks.
MollyR··on Nintendo NX is powered by Nvidia Tegra technology
Cool. I wonder how well this will compete with new cell phones and 2.0 versions of the xbox one and playstation 4.
MollyR··on Tech Companies and Diversity Hiring
Just to add an anecdote, Most of the companies I've worked for screen out non CS degree's except for exceptional portfolios. Not sure how wide spread this is.
MollyR··on Ask HN: Best daily practices u've come across to design-code faster and better
drawing prototypes on paper
MollyR··on An open letter from technology sector leaders on Donald Trump’s candidacy
So a bunch of ceo's, co-founders, and elite types are against trump. This plays exactly into his hands.
MollyR··on Nintendo Developer Portal
I'm not so sure. My nieces and nephews all under 13 don't talk about nintendo, the way kids in the 90's did.

They talk about call of duty, minecraft,playstation 4 and various ios android games. I asked them if they wanted me to buy them a wii u, and they said no. They wanted a steam gift card instead.

Personally I think Nintendo is losing relevance with the new generation.

MollyR··on Whatever happened to 3D printing?
I've used a 3d printer at my local hackerspace, and liked it a lot. I made a custom case for my raspberry pi.

However I don't feel the need to own my 3d printer right now though.

MollyR··on Tech job listings are down 40% on several job boards
I have a few friends, who can't seem to find any developers on the east coast too.
MollyR··on Autopsy reveals Debian founder committed suicide
I had issues with stress and problems sleeping from university. I was prescribed benzo's, While they helped, before I knew it, I got addicted with a tolerance quickly. Breaking that addiction was one the worst experiences of my life. It would have been impossible without the support of my family.
MollyR··on End of Cycle?
I was a doubter until I got a free samsung gear vr with my phone. Some of the apps are just amazing, and turned this doubter into a believer. Everyone I've let use it, thinks it's amazing especially The avengers demo.

The few people who liked it but had to stop, had issues with nausea.

I think we are maybe a generation or two away from a vr explosion.

MollyR··on How to Make an RPG
This is interesting for 2d rpgs, Does anyone know of something similar for a 3d/VR compatible version ?
MollyR··on China Wants to Build a Deep Sea 'Space Station'
I think there are more accessible natural resources for cheaper acquisition in the deep sea. We don't need the tremendous equipment needed for lift from the atmosphere. The oceans play a more critical role in survival here on earth, and yet we dont know much about the deep sea. Personal Pet Idea, I'm also hoping undiscovered deep sea organisms could give us technological and medical breakthroughs.
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