peterbessman

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by peterbessman 13y ago
I think anything too different from the standard manner of hiring is going to come off creepy to some extent. Much of the way we hire people is probably a deeply ingrained cultural ritual, and large deviations from that script would be dis
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by peterbessman 14y ago
I would up-vote this one thousand times over if I could. Blazing ignorance of the most basic verisimilitudes of the human condition is one of the more annoying characteristics of hacker culture.
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by peterbessman 14y ago
This. And resdency is not the life destroyer people make it out to be anyway. You can find plenty of single residents in the bars of Baltimore. Whatever the demands of their program may be, its not like they're spending a year on an aircraf
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by peterbessman 14y ago
Yeah... hackers are usually incredibly naive about compensation outside of their own world. For reference: http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/compensation/2011... Bottom line: here in the US of A, your average doc (most certainly
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by peterbessman 15y ago
Good stuff, I found it useful info whilst trying to decide between Backbone and Ember for a project.
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by peterbessman 15y ago
The problem with this is that the high-end of programming salaries is the low-end of, e.g. medical salaries. Yes, there is more to it than that, but on this axis alone, programming actually does not come out on top. Those inclined to seek
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by peterbessman 15y ago
Medical school is 4 years after college. Average cost is $100k-$200k. After medical school comes residency, which lasts from 3-6 years depending on speciality. Compensation during residency is $40k-$60k. After residency, you can get a job
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by peterbessman 16y ago
Intuitively, I would expect MD degrees to be very clearly on top -- the expected salaries are easily the highest, and there is relatively more data available on that (look at the merrit hawkins surveys). So when a low-end salary for a doc
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by peterbessman 16y ago
Certainly, but by how much? It's not nature vs. nurture -- it's nature and nurture. They both matter, but a priori, it's not clear how much. Further, their relative weights of importance could very well change based on what is being ev
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by peterbessman 16y ago
It could use better publicity though. I've been here my whole life, and it's far too easy to get the impression that Baltimore is just a satellite to the fed contracting epicenter in DC. That's why I'm so stoked about this event! I'll be th
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by peterbessman 16y ago
I've been unable to beat a plain old notebook, and not for lack of trying. I don't think technology has solved this problem yet. In the digital age, I use a simple "stuff.txt" file in my dropbox folder, which I manipulate with droptext on
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by peterbessman 16y ago
Really, the OP is complaining that she thinks people want the wrong things. There's nothing here particular to web apps.
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by peterbessman 16y ago
Toward the end the author says: "Simplicity" is a relative term, and perhaps inapt; try "convenience", which has more useful connotations. The lifestyle he describes and the programming style you describe are both, in the final analysis,
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by peterbessman 16y ago
Strong work.
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by peterbessman 16y ago
This is cool, though I think it might be late to the party. Doesn't everyone just suspend/resume these days? Not that it's zero value, but it would have been really noteworthy 5-10 years ago.
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by peterbessman 16y ago
The rub is that apparently the presence of this snake is a result of a human slipup to begin with. Maybe it's just an attempt to clean up after yourself, or maybe it's an attempt to stuff the genie back in the bottle. I feel like it would
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by peterbessman 16y ago
Maybe this is a dumb question, but why are they targetting motorola? Don't these patents apply to, well, every smartphone in existence? It can't be a matter of stupidity, so I wonder what made them decide to go after Motorola, and not Nok
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by peterbessman 16y ago
This is awesome. I passed along that article to some friends, the consensus was "great idea, never gonna happen." Now I get to pass this link along. That makes me :)
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by peterbessman 16y ago
Why not? It's perfectly reasonable to judge the quality of a work by the degree to which it succeeds with its desired audience. To quote Paul Graham: "Art has a purpose, which is to interest its audience. Good art (like good anything) is
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by peterbessman 16y ago
I can understand not liking that attitude, but that's as much Jersey Shore as it is anything else. It's not particular to the tech industry, it's not even predominantly in the tech industry. Take that comment I made, shop it around to 10
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by peterbessman 16y ago
I think the title indicates that you are less a member of their target audience than you might have suspected. It was pretty funny and effective to me? And to the poster who called that "mysogyny"...really? Hatred of women? All women?
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by peterbessman 16y ago
the idea of "click here to see what you could get into right nowish" is immensely appealing to me. if it could go out and aggregate all the event thingies out there and show me whats geographically and temporally close, that would get regul
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by peterbessman 17y ago
Put differently: if the goal is making money, lisp is frequently not the best choice.