grigjd3

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by grigjd3 7y ago
This is largely true in any field.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
I mean, know what you're walking into, but if you have that, then yeah. My family makes me risk averse. No complaints. Happy as is, you can chase after whatever, as long as you're vaguely relevant in the field.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
I don't get it. This guy can feel free to not listen to podcasts. It's not killing music by any stretch of the imagination. I still find plenty of bars and restaurants that annoy me with having a local band play that I don't
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by grigjd3 7y ago
The difference is the supporting documents found by Qualcomm during discovery. Internal Apple documents stated that Apple was actively trying to portray Qualcomm's patents as inferior by going to other providers.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
Where do you work, so that I know to avoid it? Documentation needs updating as things change.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
Maintaining checklists in documentation for software design reduces mistakes dramatically. Writing step-by-step exacting build instructions for one of our core products reduced the annoying requests for help I got dramatically.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
I'm glad you found the writing style pleasant. I found it grating and self-indulgent.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
A shrink-wrapped version of the instant API that could be installed on a server would be a good product.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
Associations came very late to Mathematica (version 10 if I remember right) and the whole of the tools in Mathematica had to be converted over. The result was incomplete.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
I don't know what planet you live on, but there is plenty of publicly owned property that I have no access to. If you think otherwise, just try randomly walking onto a military base that does not allow visitation. You may argue what yo
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by grigjd3 7y ago
The lack of comments is a problem. The rest seems whiney to me, but sometimes I need to leave notes for other developers as reminders.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
Your health insurance company listens to you? Mine just constantly tries to wriggle out of paying.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
Don't know why someone is entitled to a particular career. Change can be hard but I certainly wasn't ever promised an easy life.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
I have my doubts. Maybe a bootcamp can prep someone to make apps (though I know very little about mobile app development), but at least in my job, I need a pretty in-depth understanding of how technology works. It's not enough to have
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by grigjd3 7y ago
You were able to find documentation? Where do you work?
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by grigjd3 7y ago
So I've worked with AWS and with our internal clusters as a dev. My experience has been that I have to make work-arounds for both, but at least with AWS, I don't have to spell out commands explicitly to the junior PEs. EDIT: I sh
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by grigjd3 7y ago
I was particularly entertained by the tax forms this year. The 1040 is now only half a page, but there are several other required forms that didn't exist last year.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
So I work in a cheaper location for one of these companies and while I get paid a bit less, it's so much cheaper to live here that I can pocket a lot more.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
I find Big O to be useful when designing solutions just to be able to quickly decide what data structures are appropriate for a task, though, admittedly, this doesn't come up that often.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
I think the worst experiences are always what stands out in peoples' minds.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
I find Google to be a useful index of documentation. I'll often search something like `java documentation <name of class>`.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
I worked in numrel before and was even offered a tenure track job focused on teaching. I didn't want to work 70 hour weeks though. Now I focus on my family and data pipelines seem like a nice hobby.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
So I strongly suspect that for people who will leave over the open office, there already exists better reasons for them to leave.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
Presumably, the demand the business sees justifies the cost of workers. Of course, layoffs happen.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
Open offices aren't about worker happiness or efficiency. They're about decreasing costs.
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by grigjd3 7y ago
You can hear toilets flushing? Yuck.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
The visual simile is, of course, not perfect, but the simile is not provided for people that knowledgeable on the science in the first place. If you happen to find a more appropriate simile that people follow, please make it known.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
So, avoiding the discussion of what constitutes best practices, it's important to recognize that you don't know everything (which you seem to get), but also identify the things you don't know and learn how to research them en
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by grigjd3 8y ago
So the natural sciences aren't universally bad. My PhD advisor in relativity was a terrific guy to work with and I saw him as a friend and mentor. The problem is that the supply of people seeking PhDs, post-docs, and tenure track jobs
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by grigjd3 8y ago
Certain fields have an easy path to the private sector, like computer science, but a lot of academic research is done by academics because the private sector would never pay for it. Certainly when I left academics, I didn't see many em

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