drewmassey

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by drewmassey 3y ago
Oral exams are terrifying but preparing for one will be an incredible learning experience and give you a ton of confidence later. Source: those 90 minutes I was grilled by the entire Harvard music department faculty in 2006
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by drewmassey 3y ago
This is true; my father was - and my husband's parents are - all professors so I know that small town academic life (for tenured faculty) is one flavor of the American Dream. And pursuing your dreams is important. But I've also se
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by drewmassey 3y ago
As a former music history professor who now works in tech, I think the adjunctification of American universities is one of the the worst "best-kept secrets" out there. The sheer number of blog "exposés" of adjunct teachi
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by drewmassey 4y ago
I’ve heard it said that it only exists as a word so that there can also be “offboarding” when people are let go. I do not have a strong opinion about this.
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by drewmassey 6y ago
Oh man I've seen Hart making the rounds. The obvious privilege of being a tenured Ivy League professor aside, a few things jump out - Yes it would be nice if drugs were decriminalized ... but they aren't ... and the supply chain f
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by drewmassey 6y ago
I earned a PhD in the humanities before going into tech. I loved it, and it was a tough slog to make the pivot. I know there is a lot of advice encouraging folks to “optimize their human capital” but I spent my 20s full time making my mind
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by drewmassey 7y ago
Why don’t you just ask them? Not in a confrontational way, but like “hey what are you up to this week?” I’ve worked in orgs from 10-30,000 people and have always been able to at least get 5-15 minutes with this level of management.
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by drewmassey 7y ago
I don’t remember if it was chess or tennis or something else: “The good player is always lucky.”
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by drewmassey 7y ago
With all this discussion of revival of old styles in this thread it is worth noting that France saw the revival of chant itself in the 19th century, which is in many ways an echo of that enchantment with the past. The musicologist Katherine
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by drewmassey 7y ago
I’ve handled one of the bay psalm books. It’s very magical even if the object itself is quite humble. If you want to get laughed out of Houghton library ask the staff to page the Gutenberg for you, as one of my friends did in their first ye
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by drewmassey 8y ago
I was 34 when I switched from historical musicology to professional services. It can be done! All the advice in here is great. Software skews towards being merit and results driven (at least to getting hired)... the first step is way less d
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by drewmassey 8y ago
I actually used a large screen for a while but have enjoyed the focus that my Mac Book Air requires. Just sublime on full screen. Also, your setup is then uniform if you travel a lot for work (as I do) so there is no context switching overh
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by drewmassey 8y ago
“Get to know your problem so well that fixing it by writing code is a last resort” I love this stance.
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by drewmassey 8y ago
I work at a startup that is using AI to reduce emissions in industrial and data center contexts. I like the big sky approach of this post but so much savings / reduction is an execution question. We are hiring so DM me if you would lik
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by drewmassey 8y ago
Ah perhaps I have stale information then. Last I heard retail truvada will run you north of $1,500 per month in the us.
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by drewmassey 8y ago
Yeah this is true. The cost of generics is so low but in the United States it remains quite expensive if you don’t have insurance.
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by drewmassey 8y ago
For me the biggest surprise in the article is that there are 180,000 men in the United States on Prep. Given a back of the envelope calculation of 4.8m out gay men in America (3% of population) that means adoption is itself around 3%. Someh
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by drewmassey 8y ago
After several weeks of swimming upstream on a greenfield EKS project I switched gears to GKE. The paradigm just felt way better. For large enterprises that need IAM integration on EKS I suppose that wouldn’t have been an option but GKE just
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by drewmassey 8y ago
I’m a huge admirer or well crafted cli apps, they can massively boost the effectiveness of a team. An oldie but goodie here: https://eng.localytics.com/exploring-cli-best-practices/
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by drewmassey 8y ago
GramLabs | Software Engineering (DevOps) | Boston or Washington DC | Full Time Gram Labs is a strongly capitalized AI startup with breakthrough technology that is already making a difference at some of the largest companies in the world. We
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by drewmassey 8y ago
I compiled a works list of the composer Virgil Thomson, who wrote two operas with texts by Stein. I don’t think it is that hard to understand the politics of certain modernist artists given their impulses towards utopia, comparative naïveté
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by drewmassey 8y ago
I actually think the author is really smart to point out boredom as an ingredient in the mix. I’m friends with a pretty successful writer who told me a couple of months ago how hard it was to get bored in the modern world, and yet, if you a
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by drewmassey 8y ago
This. I transitioned from a (non-STEM) PhD and am now working as a "real" engineer. It is called a "practice" for a reason, you will get better with time as long as you are self-reflective about it. One practical tip - t
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by drewmassey 8y ago
GramLabs | Software Engineering (DevOps / Front End) | Boston or Washington DC | Full Time Gram Labs is a strongly capitalized AI startup with breakthrough technology that is already making a difference at some of the largest companies
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by drewmassey 8y ago
I don't disagree that the cost of living and FAANG brain drain will likely challenge the hegemony of Silicon Valley in the short term. What interests me is whether software engineering companies will continue to focus on geographical c
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by drewmassey 8y ago
I mean a real connection between the history of opera and programming is the conflict between opera as a courtly art (Eric Raymond’s “cathedral”) and its life as a public spectacle (“the bazaar”). There is an excellent essay by Richard Taru
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by drewmassey 8y ago
I think there is a difference between “owning stuff” and “owning assets” that this post is clouding. It is the owning of assets - that are worth more than what you paid for them - that seems to form the backbone of American entrepreneurship
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by drewmassey 8y ago
- how to start a startup podcast(Altman and co) - The lean startup - the twenty two immutable laws of marketing. - getting to yes After a couple of books though I would say it really comes down to just digging in and fighting it out. It is
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by drewmassey 8y ago
Interesting. There is a kind of obvious conflict between cloud resources and hardware intensive applications like ML. The zeitgeist is obviously swinging.
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by drewmassey 8y ago
This is statistically true, one of the curious paradoxes of PhD work is that students continually consider themselves to be an except to the statistics. I say this as a recovering humanities academic who now works in tech; I am really grate

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