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jeffreyrogers
11,350karma·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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Japan is a bit of a special case since the Japanese can function well without learning English. In most European countries and increasingly throughout the rest of the world, English is the lingua fran…
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GitHub is easier to browse (both over the site and through individual repos). Also, GitHub has better integration between issues, commits, and pull requests.
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Not everyone works on open source projects.
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The author of this article, Lewis Lapham [1], is himself quite accomplished at 79, and founded the magazine, Lapham's Quarterly [2], which might appeal to some HN readers. [1]: https:/&#x…
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Thanks for posting that. It gave me some interesting things to look into.
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That doesn't mean she can't speak Chinese.
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I just have a dotfiles repo on github that I clone to any new computer I'm using. Then make a symbolic link between the dotfiles and the repo (`ln -s ~/dotfiles/.whatever ~/.whatev…
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What about the brain?
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That's true. I think the OP is talking about puzzles in the more general sense (e.g. designing novel algorithms). It seems to me that it takes a specific type of mental state to enjoy theoretical…
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There is a really good book that came out last year called Free to Learn [1]. The Sudbury Valley School model comes up frequently in the book. If it's something you're interested in, defin…
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That's a bit narrowminded on your end. Regardless of what you think of Summers personally, he is intelligent and his ideas are at least worth grappling with even if you ultimately think they'…
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Here is a link to an ungated copy of the paper mentioned in the article: http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/events/2013/november/... (The story itself should s…
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Yeah, I probably should't have said more valuable. It's more accurate to say that there a lots of people who can program poorly and for most jobs that's all that's needed. Far fewe…
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If you constrain a problem enough it eventually becomes impossible. The odds of staying "in the trenches" and getting a management level salary are extremely low outside of a company you own…
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CEO's and managers get a lot of shit on HN, but there is a reason they make more money (in general, obviously there are exceptions, especially at tech companies). The main reason is that what the…
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> Would you say the same thing for lawyers or doctors with 30 years experience? I don't have a reference for this, but I remember reading that other than surgeons, doctors' skills decline…
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> Application-layer randomness is a bad idea, and, like Nacl does, everyone should just use a single, carefully audit kernel RNG In Linux we already have this with /dev/random, right?
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I'm not sure if you're a native English speaker or not, but the meaning of taboo extends farther than this. A simple definition would be something like "something prohibited to do/…
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It would be interesting to look at the places where sharing has been very effective (Wikipedia, linux, open source software in general, etc.) and see if we can learn anything from them about structuri…
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Don't you at least learn some of the others to a passable extent? (I had a roommate who was from a French speaking part of Switzerland and he was able to speak at least passable German with my Ge…
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I never know how to approach massive (meta)-lists like this. I'm sure a lot of those books are worth reading, but I have no idea how to pick the good from the bad. (And how to prioritize the good…
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I'm curious about the author's experience with ML. He mentioned one of the Kaggle competitions, and from my understanding most of the people doing Kaggle are using R, Python, or some other l…
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>And I think it should be obvious: You've built bridges for thousands of years, so you expect you're pretty good at it now, and yet there are still improvements in bridgemaking today Righ…
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Over the last few weeks I've noticed an increasing amount of interest in Bitcoin and related technologies (P2P, blockchain, distributed computing, etc.) with the overwhelming majority of voices s…
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> kOS is coming. Nothing will be the same afterwards. There seems to be this strange idea going around that if we just get the right tool, everything else is going to change forever. I see this a l…
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Sapir-Whorf is largely discredited in modern linguistics (especially so for the strong form that your comment seems to suggest). The general consensus is that human languages are more or less equivale…
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I think you're taking the article a bit too seriously.
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Ah interesting, I wasn't aware of that. I think the Bluetooth part is still valid however, as is my point about the loss rate being determined largely by how the end hosts are connected to the ne…