theparanoid

California has many many clear-cuts. Just not directly on I-5.

I used linux.org to learn about Linux way back when I first started 15 years ago. Sad to see they let the domain expire -- https://twitter.com/kitlol5/status/1070845707756625920

The vast majority of bugs aren't are due to corner cases that the programmer didn't think about. Quickcheck and related techniques expose many more bugs than eliminating OOM bugs.

Universities do have courses that require contributing to an Open Source project. I saw this when working on Servo a couple years ago. I was disappointed in the students. The average university student is not very motivated.

If the course is an elective it's probably better (more motivated students).

It's not wishful thinking. RedHat could have remained standalone.

Women love bad boys e.g. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179107/James-Holme...

Every ABET accredited engineering school in the US is required to give a class on professional ethics as part of the degree. Doesn't seem to have much effect.

> race here is an an unwitting proxy to income, so disaggregate by household per capita income

Poor white students do better academically than well off black students. So splitting by race is more informative when discussing academic performance.

Contrary to the article most people shouldn't try to be professional mathematicians. All the people I knew in a mid-ranked program switched into software afterwards to make money.

The programming subreddits aren't as good as HN. I follow quite a few local subreddits (my city, Yosemite, etc).

I feel let down, GAWK would have been a great name.

Males are more variable in a wide variety of traits than females. Any cognitive test yields more men on the far left of the curve than women and more men on the far right.

The Slate Star Codex article is a good reference http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/24/perceptions-of-required...

Doesn't work in a Sacramento suburb. Tried cafes and restaurants.

I suspect Sierra Pacific [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Pacific_Industries

As someone who finished undergrad classes as a teenager. I totally failed to live up to my potential.

You need a decent resume. I graduated with a math degree and couldn't get a software engineering job until going back and getting a CS degree. I'd already been programming for years. There was another guy from my class that had to do the same too.

This was my experience in a low-tier US master's program. Most of the students from India were doing it for the second chance at making engineer money.

I used to use Mint. I'm not an impulsive spender so there was minimal benefit. It doesn't require software to figure out most of my disposable income goes towards housing, health insurance, and car expenses.

The US lifespan is decreasing due to opioid overdoses. Similar to Russia in the 90's with alcohol.

"why are so many women maids or professional housekeepers?"

Same reason so many men are janitors.

I suspect hard work and smarts. I've made money in sports betting and it's mostly grinding through looking opportunities and avoiding bad bets. The smarts part is avoiding bad bets. If you don't know who the sucker is, you're the sucker.

I feel for you, being convicted of a sex offense makes you persona non grata in the US. If nothing works you can freelance via Upwork, it can pay OK for US workers.

The legal liability is the same.

A succinct summary is that mathematics is about understanding a thing and computing is about describing a concrete process.

> My first honest reaction: it does seem fairly incestuous. And then I'm not even getting into. well, let's say more diversity would be a great thing here.

To play devil's advocate, Marie Curie was worse. She, her husband, her daughter, and her daughter's husband all won Nobel Prizes. Marie even won it twice in two fields.

You're correct, they should be more paranoid.

Jon Blow said--I believe--in a tweet that he decided against academy when reading grad students' papers proving the optimality of some algorithm where, in practice, caching was of prime importance (or something to that effect).

I'm doing an internship in a long-term-care facility (one resident has Huntington's) and there's no easy way to accommodate the profoundly disabled.

Computational processes have picked up where mathematics stops.

Regehr is beating around the bush. In my MS it was about 65% Indian BS students and 35% local students (various backgrounds). The local students were working professionals and the Indian students just wanted the credential.

The cause is simple, an MS is very advantageous when applying for an H-1B.