monaghanboy

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by monaghanboy 7y ago
Do / can expats just hang out with each other?
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by monaghanboy 7y ago
Can and do the expats just socialize with each other to mitigate the problem?
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by monaghanboy 8y ago
> It's something they decided to give him after it was decided that he should lose his job over the credible allegation of sexual assault. Is this true? This is propagating spin, which the authors of the article made quite liberal u
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by monaghanboy 8y ago
>I expected something juicier What does the quantity of employees have to do with the discussion?
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by monaghanboy 8y ago
I'm a software engineer that has an MS in Math (ABD actually). I was good at analysis and differential geometry. Any parts of the codebase/deployment I would be best suited to contribute to?
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by monaghanboy 8y ago
Digression: Terry Tao wrote a book on analysis? That's awesome! Recommendation: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Analysis-Dover-Books-Mat...
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
I think your ideal exists in backend/SRE roles.
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
Another major version was again released? Seems like literally just a few months ago when, just after upgrading my team's codebase to Webpack 2, Webpack 3 came out. Why do front-end application frameworks (e.g. Angular, and even React)
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
fremont ave., stevens creek trail, sunnyvale saratoga, homestead, and stevens creek blvd. are what I frequent most. I'm never on the road (going somewhere on my bike) for more than 25 minutes. for safety, i guess i just try to follow t
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
I bike everyday to work in the South Bay, Silicon Valley area. Everyone I talk to here can't imagine life without a car, but I haven't had any issues; lots of bike paths here, and all groceries and the gym are just minutes away. S
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
As a small example, I met someone at the gym the other day who told me living in the South Bay without a car would suck. I was surprised; I've never learned how to drive, nor have I owned a car, and I consider this a blessing. I bike 2
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
No, I left a couple of years after my MS degree, while I was starting to do work on my dissertation. While I do think that CS isn't as intellectually satisfying as math, it's definitely more lucrative, so I have zero regrets.
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
Would you mind sharing what kind of software you write? This is interesting to me, since I'm self-taught and seem to have done well in my career so far (4 years in), but now I'm going through core CS books and courses, worried tha
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
I would recommend https://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Modern-Approach-2nd/dp/... . There's specifically a section on organizing large projects IIRC.
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
What prompted you to review? Does this somehow indicate that you weren't using the course material in your job(s)?
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
I've gone through the first few chapters of this book, it's fine. The exercises are somewhat lacking though, in my opinion (the last course I did was nand2tetris, which was project-based, so perhaps I have unrealistic expectations
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
So far it hasn't harmed me, and I haven't had an active account in 8+ years. I believe this actually helps me, though I can't really quantify or prove it.
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
I wouldn't recommend Spivak for self-study and a first exposure to analysis. It's known to be notoriously difficult even for good students. I learned from this Dover book[1]; I think it's pretty good. From there you might mov
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
I feel the same way. Intellectually it seems like it's been all downhill since leaving grad school :).
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
Have you found any meaningful correlation between "talent" (engineering or otherwise) and tenure at a well-known tech company? From my experience, and based on people I know that work at Facebook, e.g., getting your foot in the do
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
I haven't been on Facebook in over a decade; I didn't see that it had any positive effect on my life (quite the contrary), and I'm definitely not impressed by their lack of social conscience. Despite the excessive pay and &qu
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
I just signed up. Going meta for a second, this only works if you make using Helix a habit :).
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
Is there a "long-term" view for Helix where you can zoom out and see a map of your activity? Kind of like GitHub's contribution graph. I'd use this, looking forward to a V1.
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
They're completely different in functionality...I've never been able to get quick-scope working FWIW and not sure what the value add is for it (after reading the README many times).
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
Thanks for the reply.
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
How do you know the suggested paths are equivalent to a CS major?
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
Explains it here: https://blog.yangmillstheory.com/posts/vim-snipe/#is-this-a-...
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Show HN: Vim-snipe – Targeted linewise motions and edits(github.com)
4 points by monaghanboy 9y ago|4 comments
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
i'm self-taught, ph.d. dropout in math. i work for a unicorn in silicon valley; i've done full-stack development and lately devops and cloud infrastructure. learn enough python/java to go through the entirety of http:/
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by monaghanboy 9y ago
Mine was sadly much more...

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