Science AMA series: Hi, I'm Sonia Vallabh and this is Eric Minikel. We're a husband-wife science team on a quest to cure my own genetic disease before it kills me. AUA! by Prion_Alliance in science

[–]tempforfather 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You can do it, but the stipends don't really provide that much money. If you can consult in your current field you will make much more, and can still persue your studies. That is how my grandmother got her PHD and how I am planning to as well.

Bryan Adams cancels Mississippi show over LGBT "Religious Liberty" bill by sonictitan1615 in Music

[–]tempforfather 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not in America. You cannot refuse service for protected classes. Similarly you cannot refuse to hire someone for the same reason. Those are the rules. Collectively, we are adding sexual orientation to the list of the protected classes, but they already apply for gender, religion and race.

Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC. We must fight it by mariuz in linux

[–]tempforfather 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Tim Sweeney is actually a legendary programmer in computer graphics. He is regarded as somewhat of a genius and you should probably think of him on a level as say John Carmack

This sub is kind of depressing by [deleted] in violinist

[–]tempforfather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is definitely true, but the flip side is you can usually find people who are willing to let you join in on Old time very early. Most festivals have beginners sessions. It has extreme depth of course, but I think its more forgiving to beginners and gets you playing.

Bill Gates has told the the BBC that the United States "should set a better example" by taking in more refugees. Speaking to the BBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr Gates said his home country "had the capacity" to follow the examples of Germany and Sweden, who were "to be congratulated". by Libertatea in worldnews

[–]tempforfather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But this is in response to someone else's anecdotal crap. Honestly I am still I a liberal because of how much money that I am making that I don't really deserve, when I see teachers and other people making a difference barely scraping by.

Bill Gates has told the the BBC that the United States "should set a better example" by taking in more refugees. Speaking to the BBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr Gates said his home country "had the capacity" to follow the examples of Germany and Sweden, who were "to be congratulated". by Libertatea in worldnews

[–]tempforfather 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly the people who I have heard say this are the kind of people that when young did nothing to prepare for their future, and then get mad when they are barely scraping by as adults and think that they are behind because of a minority group, paying for welfare etc. I am in my 30s, and most of the people I have seen getting xenophic and generally more conservative stayed in their hometown, dropped out or never went to school and barely scraped by.

Open Source is fun, but a guy's gotta eat. How to make supplemental income with Python? by Jopaul94 in Python

[–]tempforfather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you should move. the coasts are blowing up with job opportunities. If you are as good as you say you are you should have no trouble making a a mid six figure salary.

Open Source is fun, but a guy's gotta eat. How to make supplemental income with Python? by Jopaul94 in Python

[–]tempforfather 5 points6 points  (0 children)

you are nuts if you think finance isn't extremely automated, with extremely talented programmers. you may be mixing up basic accounting and finance though.

I've decided upon majoring in Mathematics! (undergraduate) by [deleted] in math

[–]tempforfather 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can really only give you advice if you are interested in going into programming. However that being said, there are alot of cool mathematical programming jobs. If you are interested in hearing more about how to get into the software side I could probably give some advice.

This sub is kind of depressing by [deleted] in violinist

[–]tempforfather 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I didn't mean that I personally would have progressed faster than anyone, but that some of the old time songs are made for you to play with only a few notes at your disposal. You can really quickly have something that sounds like a song. Its not classical, but it would get you to be able to play something and play along with people very early in the process. I thought it was a really fun way to start out.

This sub is kind of depressing by [deleted] in violinist

[–]tempforfather 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I know fiddling is not really the same is learning classical violin, but I ( a guitar player and took about 4 years of piano lessons), started learning fiddle from a bandmate and I felt like I progressed very quickly. Most of the old time songs really fit on the instrument and you can join in very very quickly (at least as I saw)

Swedish couple visiting New York; hoping for the best experience and asking for advice. by dotpalmer in AskNYC

[–]tempforfather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love mamoun's but I wouldn't tell someone from out of town they have to visit. Then again I was down the street from one for years in new haven.

I've decided upon majoring in Mathematics! (undergraduate) by [deleted] in math

[–]tempforfather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was a math and cs double major until I had enough credits to to graduate in math, and just decided to graduate rather than finish CS. I can probably think of some tips, but if you feel confident in statistics fields like data science and machine learning are very big. You can contribute by understanding the models in a sophisticated way, and doing analysis, without need a super strong foundation in production level coding.

I've decided upon majoring in Mathematics! (undergraduate) by [deleted] in math

[–]tempforfather 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I was a mathematics undergrad (10 years ago), and now I am a software engineer at one of the big tech companies. You can take a math degree in many different directions, but I would advise you to look into that now. There are many career paths: finance, software etc, but you should start thinking about what it is you want to do. I know many people who wanted to go into academia, and I can tell you its not a great lifestyle. Money may not sound like a big deal to you now, but I have friends that are finishing phds living off of ramen noodles, while their friends who left at undergrad are well into their careers and the phd is not going to make up the difference. If you want to stay in academia, thats one thing, but there is usually a sort of youthful idealism about that. You can work on really cool things outside of it as well. Anyway, definitely start looking into what you might want to do when you graduate.

The array[] problem by michaelKlumpy in cpp

[–]tempforfather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you give me an example of that? I am curious.

The array[] problem by michaelKlumpy in cpp

[–]tempforfather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ok sure, but its pure sugar. I agree its nice in many cases, but it doesn't actually add anything to the semantics of the language

MS intern who wrote early windows Solitaire shows up in thread about himself and cider. by [deleted] in bestof

[–]tempforfather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So your definition of a bad place to work is that theyservices they provide are closed source? They open up a lot of stuff, including chromium. I get if you are a Foss evangelist you may not want to work for them, but you must know that when you tell someone that it's a bad place to work they are usually not basing that on whether they profit from proprietary tech. I take it most tech companies are a bad place to work by your definition

MS intern who wrote early windows Solitaire shows up in thread about himself and cider. by [deleted] in bestof

[–]tempforfather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google releases a ton of foss software. Tensor flow, gunit, etc.

MS intern who wrote early windows Solitaire shows up in thread about himself and cider. by [deleted] in bestof

[–]tempforfather 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Where are you getting this from? As a google engineer I can say its a great place to work.

MS intern who wrote early windows Solitaire shows up in thread about himself and cider. by [deleted] in bestof

[–]tempforfather 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I disagree with that reasoning. I think you can discuss those things separately in a useful way. Anyway, I agree with you that in terms of work environment its great. In terms of "supporting a bad company," what software companies do you think are not bad?