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by freework 2y ago
Here is my question to those who understand this "paper": How does the discovery described in this paper help engineer something the world has never seen before? As an engineer, I'm always looking for some new thing to make.
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by freework 3y ago
"Theoretical computer science" is garbage. Of all the scientific fields, computer science is the one that is mostly closely related to fields where theory is most worthless. If you have a computer science theory, then write some d
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by freework 3y ago
> "doing the science" means "writing the text of the paper" The point is to show your work. You film yourself setting up the experiment to prove that you actually did the experiment. You also film yourself collecting
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by freework 3y ago
In my opinion, the solution to all of this is to get rid of the whitepaper system all together. From now on, all scientists who want to publish science, they publish their work in the form of a video. They film themselves doing the science
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by freework 3y ago
There is something about this article that kind of annoys me. It's my understanding that back in the year 1006, the entire world was not using the same calendar. Each of these observations would not have been recorded as simply "M
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by freework 3y ago
Here is a drawling of what they think this tablet says: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:YBC_7289_sketch.svg It's just a bunch of numbers scribbled onto a tablet. For all we know it could just be some guy w
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by freework 3y ago
How is this different from seeing a fuzzy video of some lights in the sky and then coming to the conclusion that it is definitely a UFO? If you're so convinced that this carving definitely proves that the carver was intending to expres
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by freework 3y ago
I've seen this tablet before, and an not convinced that it is actually the Pythagorean theorem. Its just a tablet with some tick marks inscribed onto it, along with a circular looking thing. It's very much a stretch to say the per
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by freework 3y ago
The solution to this problem is to require the submitter to include a unit test that demonstrates the problem along with the CVE. If the unit test succeeds in DDosing or whatever, then the CVE is published. If your unit test fails to produc
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by freework 3y ago
> We'll probably see something similar happen with "Tankie" and "CCP" and "Moscow shill" Those terms are all specific to political discussions. The Dunning Kruger effect is known across every single cro
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by freework 3y ago
> In that sense the update wouldn't be "here's another thing I see all the time" but "here is the absolute maximalist claim I can make about a person's character." Well, the text of the law states that
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Ask HN: Is it time for the internet to update Godwin's Law?
2 points by freework 3y ago|6 comments
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by freework 3y ago
> https://xkcd.com/2030/ I really hate this attitude. This is a very common belief held by non-technical people. They believe that it is impossible to have perfect security, and that every single piece of software
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by freework 3y ago
If you ask 10 different people why they are depressed, you'll get 10 different answers. This illustrated why I think the scientific method is the wrong way to go about understanding the human mind. Also, if you ask a depressed person w
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Island of Stroma(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by freework 4y ago|0 comments
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by freework 4y ago
I feel the same way. Imagine if Harvard had the ability to enroll one billion students per year. There would be no need to use either grades, SAT score, personal essays or anything else to reject students. They would be able to accept every
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by freework 4y ago
My high school started at I think 6:45. I would set my alarm for 6:00, but would hit the snooze button a few times until about I think something like 6:20 when I had to absolutely get up. I knew that if I got out of bed at 6:21 or 6:22, I w
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by freework 4y ago
I live in Santa Fe, and have gone by this campus many times since theres a pretty cool bike trail that runs behind the campus. I got curious once and looked up what it's like to study there and discovered the "great books" cu
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by freework 4y ago
> you don't get a paper retracted for criticism, you get it retracted if there was scientific malfeasance. Why would somebody criticize a scientific paper for something other than to point out some kind of scientific malfeasance? If
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by freework 4y ago
> it was hard for me to understand some papers in closely related sub fields, and that was with working experience in that area. I've noticed this too. The reason why I think this happens is because if you're an employed scient
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by freework 4y ago
> the construction rate is all time high. Not in my area. Where I live, there are about 4 or 5 housing developments, and every time I drive by them, I never see any progress. Occasionally I may see one truck and maybe 3 or 4 people worki
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by freework 5y ago
There's a couple things this author didn't mention that is important when you analyze the software developer labor market. First off, the overwhelming majority of developers are senior developers. If it takes X years to transition
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The notion that the senior developer market is not oversaturated is absurd(medium.com)
1 points by freework 7y ago|0 comments
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by freework 7y ago
Domain knowledge can only be leverage if your domain knowledge is rare. The examples you cited (React and Go) and not rare.
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by freework 7y ago
> It's very expensive for a company to find that 1% Not if the market is oversaturated. They may get multiple people to reach that 1% stage. Then none of them have much leverage.
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by freework 7y ago
> If you know that the company just spent 10/100s of hours reviewing, interviewing, and culling lots of applicants, but you made it through their obstacle course and they want to hire you, this means it's very likely a good fit
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by freework 7y ago
They usually either ignore me after telling me they won't hire me, or they'll say something like "We've received many qualified applicants, and have unfortunately decided to go with other candidates"
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by freework 7y ago
> No real proof of any of these claims here. The proof is my own personal experience. If programmers were truly scarce, then every time a programmer passes a programming puzzle interview, then they'd be offered a job. I can't t
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How to negotiate salary in the software development market of 2019(medium.com)
12 points by freework 7y ago|35 comments
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Show HN: Recordings of phone screenings for employment
34 points by freework 7y ago|25 comments

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