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What sort of help would you want or expect? A severance package or help by having the employer pay a recruiter to pimp the former employee? Or something else? In any case I'm total…

What people actually do is write their long text, put it in an image, and tweet the image.

The goal is precisely feel good charity tourism as a safe adventure you don't need to quit your job over, so it seems like good advice to me. Remember, the top comment is looking f…

My favorite version is from http://hpmor.com/chapter/64 ... MORPHEUS: Where did you hear about the laws of thermodynamics, Neo? NEO: Anyone who's made it past one science class in …

Rich people contribute more to society, so the second order effects of benefiting rich people end up benefiting the larger population as well.

Practice your softer skills for interviewing. Do you get anxiety over other aspects of the interview, like the fact that there's an interview itself? Work on that. Many times candi…

Have you looked into commercial real estate at all? One of the factors that scares me off from residential real estate is that one bad tenant can really screw me over, especially a…

Placebo effect.

The return of the Ranger will be very welcome to me, if they don't screw it up...

For me, age 26, I'm already slower than I was when I was 18. I write better code though and can wade through harder abstractions, so on hard, novel material I'd likely win against …

I go back and forth on the singly-called function as a code smell. It really depends. What annoys me are the private method refactors that then can't be unit tested unless the 'pri…

It can still be non-obvious with an optimizing compiler, or with non-Lisp. I don't see the point in having beginning students think about tail call optimized recursion vs normal re…

I find the pen and paper method of visualizing invaluable. Make a small sample input that hits full coverage and trace it through step by step, writing out each call point with its…

As soon as you have to buy something that takes up physical space, the "skills", or maybe better put the "mindset", becomes quite different. I don't think I can explain it very wel…

I'm a fan of the out of the box immutable data structures and like the sugar, though you can get both in Lisp if you want. (Presumably Racket as well.) Lisp has everything, and mor…

Giving specific benefits often ends up going along with requiring specific proof of need for the benefit. I had classes in college where attendance was part of the grade. Additiona…

"Work", yup, I see this too. To fully pull it off though you still need to be somewhat responsive to emails / IMs for the 'normal business hours'. Sometimes it's worth burning a PT…

http://clojure.org/about/spec

"They seem to have learned the habit of cowering before authority even when not actually threatened. How very nice for authority. I decided not to learn this particular lesson." --…

Every so often someone will do a "what editor do you use?" poll here, vim is the top choice. Maybe it's not the most common in the industry, especially if you include the hordes of…

Not the parent but I have the same reaction, and I wouldn't describe my experience in big IDEs as "comfort", just less pain. I use them with Java only out of necessity, and only on…

It's still a lot better than not having the source. There are tons of other benefits too. The one downside is CPU cost to compile everything yourself.

"Want to grab some (Starbucks|Blue Bottle|Peetz|etc)?" Maybe they'll just get a cookie.

They're going to have to play that game anyway since the compiler/interpret won't spell out the exact issue every time. But they'll get through it anyway because their goal is some…

At least he knows who the lord is and in principle the lord can set things straight. A step above complaining to the void or casting a throwaway vote.