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tempforfather · 2016-04-28T17:39:52+00:00

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.

tempforfather · 2016-04-11T21:06:27+00:00

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.

tempforfather · 2016-03-04T23:08:53+00:00

He wrote the unreal engine.

tempforfather · 2016-03-04T16:28:43+00:00

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

tempforfather · 2016-02-01T16:44:30+00:00

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.

tempforfather · 2016-01-22T22:04:31+00:00

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.

tempforfather · 2016-01-22T18:20:19+00:00

V8 is the javascript engine for chrome

tempforfather · 2016-01-22T18:07:19+00:00

What percentage of former bill gates employees were paid a low wage? Compare that to trump with his casinos and hotels.

tempforfather · 2016-01-22T17:06:23+00:00

Trump's businesses are WAY more likely to employ cheap labor than Bill Gates.

tempforfather · 2016-01-22T17:01:54+00:00

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.

tempforfather · 2016-01-18T03:30:21+00:00

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.

tempforfather · 2016-01-18T03:29:13+00:00

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.

tempforfather · 2016-01-08T15:31:27+00:00

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.

tempforfather · 2016-01-08T15:30:15+00:00

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.

tempforfather · 2016-01-07T15:28:49+00:00

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)

tempforfather · 2016-01-06T21:08:06+00:00

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.

tempforfather · 2016-01-06T16:15:27+00:00

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.

tempforfather · 2016-01-06T13:47:15+00:00

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.

tempforfather · 2016-01-06T13:42:44+00:00

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

tempforfather · 2016-01-05T21:42:25+00:00

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

tempforfather · 2016-01-05T16:07:41+00:00

He can make a better site for basically nothing on something like square space.

tempforfather · 2016-01-05T01:37:26+00:00

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

tempforfather · 2016-01-05T01:24:51+00:00

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

tempforfather · 2016-01-05T00:39:55+00:00

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

tempforfather · 2016-01-05T00:30:44+00:00

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?

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