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jeffreyrogers
11,353karma·2,915submissions·March 8, 2014
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Hedge Fund -> Defense Industry -> Big Tech
My career has mostly been at the intersection of hardware and software (including a couple of years designing FPGA gateware) and focused on designing and developing correct, performant systems, but I've been paid to do everything from PCB design to React frontends.
I also have an interest in improving clinical trials for novel therapeutics.
email: jeffreyrogers27@gmail.com
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No, they gave examples of the active voice that were actually passive voice, just better written.
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I don't know what the OP meant, but I remember reading it and noting that the section on not using the passive voice used the passive voice. There were probably more things like that. Unrelated, …
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Here is a more critical (and much shorter) viewpoint from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/upshot/andreessen-horowitz... …
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Don Knuth is a Christian, as he sometimes mentions in talks or things he's written. He also wrote this book which discusses each 3:16 verse in the bible http://www.amazon.com/3-16…
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> They’ve done studies at Harvard Business School where they’ve found that the largest cohort always went into the wrong field. So in 1989, they all went to work for Michael Milken, a year or two b…
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> This is why most economists' reaction was "nobody could see it coming" and their policy recommendation response to the crisis was "even more of the same, please" (deregul…
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> The rest of the time they make me feel constrained, confined, not empowered, and just another cog in the machine, i.e. not powerful. I used to feel this way too, but then I got a better fitting s…
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For people wondering how long this is, there are 33 slides total. It is pretty interesting and you can get the main points by going through it quickly. Also, does anyone know how something like this (…
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Do people actually read all the books they recommend? I often tell people books are good, esp. books on some mathematical topic, without having read the entire thing myself, just selected parts as my …
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Yeah, people are focusing too much on slack in particular and less on what the interview reveals about how VC and the tech industry actually operates. I'm really impressed by the way this guy thi…
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> A corporation is worth the discounted present value of all the dividends it will ever pay. Only if you can't cash out at the higher price first :), but joking aside I think your point is an…
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> For really intense graphical applications, like games, there is never a resting period where you can afford to spend a frame or more of time collecting garbage. Yeah, it's really interesting…
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If you don't have an FT subscription you might not be able to see more than the headline. In that case just google the title, "Breakfast with the FT: Ray Kurzweil", and click on the lin…
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I'm reading Measurement currently. It's a great book and if I'd been taught math like this when I was younger I'd be a math major right now.
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This looks great. If you're interested in learning modern OpenGL (not WebGL) here are two similar resources: http://www.opengl-tutorial.org/ http://ogldev.atspace.co.u…
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It depends on the environment you're in. At my college everyone came here because of the prestige (and generous financial aid). At my high school people chose schools based largely on size, locat…
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On a somewhat related note, I found it amusing that in OS X gcc has been aliased to clang.
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This happens to me as well. I have noticed, however, that while I can't recall facts very well from books I've read they often do change my perspective on things and that is much longer last…