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I agree. Salary is paid for work, returns are paid for success (or speculation). But while it is a component, work != success.

I'd say people need to recognize that the role of tourist and activist are different, and don't combine well. Know why you're there, and take the appropriate precautions for your role, and you're probably going to be fine. But don't show up as an activist and expect to be treated like a tourist.

There are lots of good thoughts here. If the only thing is to make you more marketable, then consider if there isn't something else less time and money consuming that would give you more.

I think college has more to offer, but it really depends on what you want out of it and how hard you want to work.

At the moment, the economy is booming. You could always go back to school during the next downturn. When it's raining soup, put out your bowl and all that.

I have seen professional doors shut because of a lack of a degree, or a lack of a masters, or a phd. It all depends on what you want and what tradeoffs you're willing to make.

Haha, I remember them. (sighs)

Well, now that I keep my driver's licence and one credit card in my phone case, and have to make a point of carrying another card, any but a favorite shop loses out to someone who takes amex.

The Republican party used to have a brain, soul and guts, even if it was wrong on a number of issues. Now it's just mouth and a bad attitude. Both Lincoln and Reagan would be disappointed.

This has certainly worked for me on smaller scale, but when things get big, it seems to break down. In theory, you should be able to look at subsets, but I've rarely seen things well factored enough that this worked well in practice.

I like to keep this kind of info on 4x6 index cards. Easy to reorder, toss, review. Group them into a few categories, like how to, questions, that's weird, diagrams of how things fit together, etc.

Then set aside time to go through them on a regular basis. Make scripts from them, checklists, docs...

It's a good series. Too bad people didn't take a look at the others before dragging it down.

I think this thread overestimates how much people care. Social and virtue signaling mean people have to be sympathetic when it's brought up, but I don't think most people actually care. Anyone who struggles wants their struggles to mean something, but the world doesn't care.

Chip8 is a good one to cut your teeth on. Very simple, good examples, does not take too long, but once you've done it, its much easier to see how more complex ones could work.

Absolutely! I'm not said it isn't impressive, and it will have great research value. I'm just wondering what might be achievable with different assumptions. Instead of 1 6.5 meter telescope, how about 20 1 meter telescopes?

I think one reason that the Arianne and James Webb are such a good fit are because they are designed on the same model. What would a telescope designed around a SpaceX model look like? Self assembly in orbit? Networked independent telescopes? Ariannes are pets, not cattle. What would it look like if we rethought that?

It appears that moviepass is mostly an arbitrage play,where amazon is not....

I think advertising "work with X" is usually a problem if people don't care about your domain. Domain first, then the tech can be a nice to have.

In the military they are called After Action Reports.

It is in the bay area.

I'd always hear it was derived from Save Our Ship, but in reality, it's a backronym, and was chosen simply because it was easy and clear to transmit in Morse Code.

https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/07/01/sos-mayday/

Also on the Clojure SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/8c1j0l/clojure_on_...

That's surprising. All the times I've been to Turkey, I've only seen a couple of squat toilets. I saw far more in Japan.

This course was excellent. After years of self study it really pulled everything together for me.

I found kubernetes up and running really helpful. Kubernetes the hard way was really useful, but a painful weekend.

Agreed. De-risking non core competencies is very rational, especially while iterating business strategies.

100% use of nearly anything is over use, not just because of peaks in load, but because it must both be done and perfect.

Think of a bookcase. 100% means you can never add more books, and it also makes it very difficult to reorganize anything.

Docker Inc. bought a unikernel startup a while back. Presumably they see that as a possible endpoint.

Or suddenly the volume jumps.

I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator as a warm up to writing a NES emulator. Then I decided I didn't want to write an NES emulator. I do recommend this as a starting point, though. You'll learn a ton.

A friend of mine, born in Iran, emigrated to England and got citizenship. A few years later, he emigrated to the US and got American citizenship. Genuinely curious, I asked him why he came to the US once he had EU citizenship. His response: "In Europe, you stay where they put you." Of course, this was 15 years ago. Things can change.

I read years ago that outside of inexperience and illness, (being very young or very old), your likelihood of an accident scales linearly with miles driven. So, unlike flying, distance increases risk in statistically meaningful ways.