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by kernelbandwidth 10y ago
We're an enterprise software shop, which necessarily means we do a lot of custom work, but we're careful to consider what we'll do. My mentor is an old hand that been through multiple exits, and in every meeting we have, he h
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by kernelbandwidth 10y ago
I did #2 for a time on the south side of Chicago while I was in graduate school. We founded a non-profit; begged, borrowed, and stole computers; and wrangled a lease for $1. Paid for internet and power out of my and my co-founders pockets.
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by kernelbandwidth 10y ago
Oh this is very cool. Glad to see Bozhi's work getting some attention. A friend of mine is co-mentored by Bozhi and my graduate advisor, and was working on some very neat experiments using this technology to trigger specific responses
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by kernelbandwidth 10y ago
As always, it depends. For the use-case here, on a server, I think the answer is currently no. We're writing our back-end in Rust, but tried Swift first (fewer languages in the stack!), but there were just too many gotchas. Personally,
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by kernelbandwidth 10y ago
We actually decided on remote early on as a way to expand our potential talent pool, when it became a key part of getting our first hire on-board. We've recently made the decision to start doing our major work in Rust after it had a st
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by kernelbandwidth 10y ago
Maybe not the same source, but V.S. Ramachandran's book, Phantoms in the Brain, covers his use of a set-up like that to help patients recover from phantom limb syndrome. Shockingly effective for what is, essentially, just an illusionis
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by kernelbandwidth 10y ago
There's a lot of variation, both due to school and due to department. When I did my PhD, I found the Biosciences department to be rather brutal. Drinking and misery poker (and Magic the Gathering) were the standard pastimes, and long,
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by kernelbandwidth 10y ago
I bike to/from work (on a regular bicycle) over a few hills. I enjoy the exercise in general, but I would still like a electric bike for the summer; a sunny Texas day with 98+ Fahrenheit weather is rough.
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by kernelbandwidth 10y ago
Agreed. There's a recurring theme with drugs that mixing X and alcohol is dangerous. Don't get me wrong, I like good wine, craft beer, and liquor. But the common link is generally the "and alcohol" part. It seems pretty
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by kernelbandwidth 10y ago
An anecdote from the other side: I trained in Mathematics before I ever did any serious programming, and have taken only a handful of proper CS courses from a theory-heavy institution in math-heavy areas (i.e. they were math classes first,
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by kernelbandwidth 10y ago
Same boat here. I've repeatedly thought about going to UU events, but they're still too New Age for me. I've long been somewhat envious of my Jewish friends for the strong community aspect of the culture, which requires too m
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by kernelbandwidth 10y ago
Wat. I didn't realize Uber was the Tech Capital Kingmaker.