bmaisonp · HackerTrans

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The data is one thing, but what about factoring in a prevailing feeling that nothing will be done about crimes like smash and grab? Why report if you have no confidence that it'll even be taken seriously. Further, I've read more than a few stories of people trying to report something only to be actively discouraged by the officer they're talking to.

bmaisonp

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The Onion: Scientific American: Why the Term ‘Jedi’ Is Problematic

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Location: SF Bay Area

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Potentially

Technologies: Python (including Pandas, Numpy/Scipy), C++, Java (Rusty), SQL (PostgreSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB)

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Currently reviewing: Toying with Django, PostgreSQL stack and re-upping my C++ knowledge

Completed an extended contract at Apple working primarily on building python APIs for a data pipeline. Other technologies used include MongoDB, PostgreSQL and GO.

Interested taking on new challenges and learning new tools as well as deepening my knowledge of those I'm already familiar with.

bmaisonp

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For all of you still perservering against the tide on old.reddit, you can turn off this new "feature." There's a new opt-out under the privacy section of the preferences page: 'let other users see my online status'

bmaisonp

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Right now just private

bmaisonp

6 jaar geledendiscuss

They are certainly aligned with the US Democratic party, but I think it's a mistake to equate the Democrats with "the left" unless you're only speaking in that total American context where "Left=Dems, Right=GOP, end of story."

bmaisonp

6 jaar geledendiscuss

What makes you think that these platforms are actually taking action for "the left?" Is silicon valley actually a leftist paradise full of leftist megacorperations?

bmaisonp

6 jaar geledendiscuss

In some sense more fair, but also in some senses less kind and less efficient. Let me give an anecdotal view as someone who had a brush with it at another big state school.

University of Washington (Seattle) has a similar system in which some majors are 'capacity constrained' meaning some students would be directly admitted to the program, but the vast majority of them would only enter the major program after being accepted via application while already attending school.

Highly competitive programs included Business and Engineering, but this even spilled over into less popular STEM variants like Math. Their CS program was and is the most competitive of these. At its worst an application round would have ~2000 applications and only ~600 open slots.

During my time there, I met a handful of students that had applied every session for the last few years to no avail. The opportunity cost is enormous. It's both a waste of time and money on the part of the students to spend multiple years wasted taking intermediate courses, retaking major-application required courses and reapplying. That's why the administration is slowly converting over to deciding major on admission, too much visible grievance on the part of students.

That aside, if it's competitive enough, it turns into a second college admissions process. Students retake the core classes required for an application like they would retake the SAT or ACT. Never mind that they passed CS 142 with a 3.4, only a 4.0 will get them in so they waste a quarter perfecting the most basic java programs for content they learned a few months prior. Students also try to engineer around the competition: a common refrain was that the equivalent courses at community college were much easier, but given the same weight in the admissions process so students would go to another college to take an easier course just to have a better shot at their dream major.

The point is that the competition for these colleges will come to a head somewhere. If it's not the college application process then it will be at the school itself. It can be managed, but putting it off till later leads to a greater burden on the losers of this process. They are faced with the choice of changing majors, changing schools or persisting with the hope that maybe the fifth application will be different than the fourth.

Fostering this kind of environment was a mistake on the part of UW. Perhaps it would have been better if they restricted applications to first years and weeded them out completely from the start like they do in your area, but letting the college admissions process do it might be much more efficient on the part of both the schools and the students.

bmaisonp

6 jaar geledendiscuss

Great news for those who don't like certain religions.

bmaisonp

6 jaar geledendiscuss

Given they don't have to specify the rules broken nor the posts which broke the rule, that clarification is essentially irrelevant to the way in which this policy will likely be used.

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