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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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Yeah, there is a strange misconception on HN that the US legal system is totally broken and that everyone is out to get you. I don't think the data support this. Actually, I believe there is lega…
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I was shocked how complicated the glibc malloc is. Here's the source for anyone interested: http://repo.or.cz/w/glibc.git/blob/HEAD:/malloc/malloc.c …
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> Sort of a TAOCP for electronics and circuits. Except people actually read The Art of Electronics :)
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> is there a WP plugin to export to a static site? Here is one I found [1], I've never used it though, so I don't know how good it is. I'm sure there are others as well. It would be …
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Yeah, I actually know of at least one doctor who was on heroin (while practicing). Started with an opiate (painkiller) addiction and then led to heroin. Actually, it's pretty common for people wh…
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> ergo, one of their arguments is going to be that SR created a drug market, and made addicts of innocent children who were looking for my little pony pictures and got tricked into taking smack. Do…
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> In other words, you say, "I am recording this conversation" rather than asking, "Is it ok if I record this conversation?" I'm not sure that is legal. I've had a few …
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> Science rarely wins especially if there is uncertainty. I agree 100%. One of the most interesting books I've read lately has been The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb, which deals with this at len…
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Alternative hypothesis that also fits the evidence: You look bad if reality turns out worse than your forecast. You look less bad if reality turns out better than your forecast, thus there is a built …
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This is probably the most reasonable idea I've seen so far, however, this is problematic if you're under stress while simultaneously trying to access whatever system you want access to. To b…
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> It's unrealistic. I think you'll find this is true of most academic research :)
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It's been that way for a while now and happens with any large site. Try google.com for example and you'll see the same thing.
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I agree somewhat, but context switching has non-zero overhead since it requires that I keep in my short term memory what the previous code was doing as well. Also, I probably should have been clearer …
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I expect part of the problem is that people who are attracted by clear writing and thinking are turned off by the academic fields that suffer most from overly academic writing. There are some academic…
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The Princeton Companion to Mathematics does a pretty good job of explaining math to non-mathematicians, however, I expect that it was a huge undertaking and benefited from having excellent editors. Of…
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I think that if functionality is repeated it makes sense to abstract it into a function. However, I've recently been reading through a codebase in which every function is about 10 lines long, and…
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I find that a lot of what is taught as the "right way" to make maintainable code isn't actually that effective in practice. Particularly when I need to read someone else's code. Fo…
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They've still done good research lately. This is just the nature of business I think. Eventually others catch up to where you are, and it is difficult to constantly remain competitive. A further …
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Accenture's market cap is 1/3 of IBMs currently however, so management probably isn't too interested in that route.
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> This is what you get when business people make decisions on technology projects. I think this is a problem with people in general, not just business people. There is a huge amount of psychologica…
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When I see these sorts of things I'm reminded of the type of people who like having guns [1] (or watches rated to 100m when they've never gone on a dive in their life). It's like they&#…
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> that is when you get a cushy, highly paid job where you can virtually do no wrong because you studied at the right university, visit the right clubs and (therefore) know the right people While i…
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And coolness.
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Thanks for posting this :)