joeldg

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by joeldg 2y ago
I mean... This guy must not have kids in school—because to be a teacher, you have to be nothing but a ball of caring because the job sucks the life out of you at every step. No money, half the country thinks you want to turn their kids in
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by joeldg 6y ago
What he is saying is literally the basics/first week in "Art 101" and addresses the OP who was asking about "learning".
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by joeldg 6y ago
Biden is great... maybe not as progressive as other Dem's would like but I am moderate (D) -- and here is the thing, most voters want to pay their bills and not think about politics. I got really turned off by some of the things Bernie
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by joeldg 6y ago
Not a dumb question at all. I am 46 now and am a Senior SRE at at large company here in the valley and have been where you are, I went the startup route for a while but in the end this is a better fit for me. There is an old saying that &qu
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by joeldg 7y ago
Guys with hemorrhoids swear by them.
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by joeldg 7y ago
In related news: "People don't understand financial markets ... AT ALL"
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by joeldg 8y ago
Long ago, I had applied for a software position at Google and they brought me in then said "We are going to interview you for a systems position" and I was like "umm, but I applied for a software position and am not prepared
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Let’s write a cryptocurrency bot(medium.com)
5 points by joeldg 9y ago|1 comments
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by joeldg 11y ago
spellcheckers use them, any time you see a company with millions of users let you know your email address was already registered, domain name registrars use them -- basically anything with a large search space where you need to know if some
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by joeldg 11y ago
In my experience it goes exactly like this just about everywhere: job: here is your macbook pro, welcome! you: <install homebrew>
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by joeldg 12y ago
One issue with SMI and what is known as "The Control Problem" is that you are trying to come up with rules for something that is not just smarter than you, but is 'vastly' smarter than you, and in fact the entire human r
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by joeldg 12y ago
you should do Khan Academy stuff on programming, read up on data structures and why they are used etc. honestly you would have been in way over your head if you had managed to get the job.