hungrygs

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by hungrygs 4y ago
>or claimed to already know how to program. This was the key fact. They knew how to program Pascal from Computer Science AP and got 5's on the AP exams and came into UT Austin with abundant confidence but when presented with hardco
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by hungrygs 4y ago
Dijkstra had a lot of influence for some years on the UTCS undergraduate program, whose first undergraduate course for much of the 1990s was taught in Haskell and was a brutal weed out, at ~70% attrition for the first year courses. However,
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by hungrygs 4y ago
I worked at a Radio Shack in 1986-87, sort of a dream job for 18 years old. Now I know what it would have looked like if I showed up for work one day on LSD!
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by hungrygs 4y ago
Umm, no thanks.
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by hungrygs 4y ago
Just anecdotal, but my life observation of DK is often highly intelligent and competent people in a particular field who then generalize that to pontificate and proclaim, directly or indirectly, superior understanding to certified domain ex
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by hungrygs 5y ago
It's baffled me for years that Russia is making such an obvious geopolitical mistake by not becoming an EU style country aligned in that direction. Culturally, Russia and China are dramatically different and Russia is going to end up a
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by hungrygs 5y ago
Look on Youtube- the power and internet are still on. There are live streams still.
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by hungrygs 5y ago
Not stealing any credit - this should embolden the Ukrainians, if they are indeed getting this level of support from the USA. As I wrote, speculation as this stuff would be top secret. Don't you think we have stealth (to radar) drones
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by hungrygs 5y ago
Not a German, but their official language on "turning point" is very precise. The close relationships between government and industry means everyone has accepted to take their medicine. Germans are better at doing this than others
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by hungrygs 5y ago
The speculation is that the CIA has stealth drones that are hitting key Russian targets at night. There is also incredible intel filtering down to Ukrainian command and control. Ukrainian special forces now behind enemy lines are likely do
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by hungrygs 5y ago
It's true that condos as a class don't appreciate but if you buy one in the right gentrifying area they can be a fantastic deal. Some condos in Austin Texas have increased 400% in price in the past 5-6 years. Particularly in zips
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Hot Cyberwar Russia vs. USA – EU. Risks?
12 points by hungrygs 5y ago|3 comments
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by hungrygs 5y ago
If Vancouver overall is as dense as SF then 4 plexes won't matter much. But there are many other cities - even LA - where I would think it would. Yet LA has vast amount of low rise commercial on 4 lane streets with bus lines that coul
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by hungrygs 6y ago
Come on, Ajit Pai was regulatory capture at its worst. Now, as he always planned, he gets to go somewhere and collect his millions per year already furtively promised, until the next Republican administration.
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by hungrygs 6y ago
Will this type of move inevitably trickle down to the best public CS undergrad programs? Berkeley and UCLA CS are almost entirely Asian (east and south) with a sprinkling of mostly Jewish Americans who fill the "white" category. T
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Amateur programmer to paid professional in 60 days. What lang/stack?
9 points by hungrygs 6y ago|10 comments
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by hungrygs 7y ago
I'm quite sure Taiwan will last longer than the CCP in Beijing. The end game is PRC becomes democratic eventually and then Taiwan can "unify" - meaning, China becomes a federal republic with Taiwan as one of the states/p
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Internet Visionary Saw the Future in 1992(youtube.com)
1 points by hungrygs 8y ago|0 comments
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by hungrygs 10y ago
Fighting gentrification is stupid. Cities with growing populations need new housing supply and the market will put resources (to build) where it meets consumer demand. Unjustifiable barriers to new housing supply will only make prices go up
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by hungrygs 10y ago
That's strange that new development wouldn't have commercial ground floor space, even more so if the torn down building had it. Everywhere in the USA that has urban gentrification strongly encourages retail on the first floor an
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by hungrygs 10y ago
It's going to take quite a wall to stop people from catapulting over it, onto an airbed-like structure.
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The most dynamic cities in the world – and they’re not the ones you’d expect(weforum.org)
1 points by hungrygs 10y ago|0 comments
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by hungrygs 10y ago
The general direction of the Trump plan regarding H-1b is the way to go. The lottery needs to be replaced with a demand system where the highest salaries get slots. A floor of $100,000/yr should exist and adjust for inflation. Next,
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by hungrygs 12y ago
"Dude, give me a Kaypro 64 and a live dial tone and I can do anything!"
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by hungrygs 12y ago
Yes, but if you hire software engineers and label them as computer programmers (see my post here), employers completely side step the "meet or exceed prevailing wages" requirement. In fairness, blue chip US tech companies don&#x27
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by hungrygs 12y ago
You call tell how much the H-1B system is being gamed by the Indian in-source companies. They basically never hire software engineers but only "computer programmers" and the ubiquitous "analyst." Look at this (Salaries