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strawbucks

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About strawbucks

Redditor looking for greener pastures. While I can't really identify myself as a hacker, I am an EECS major at MIT. I work at the McGovern Institute of Brain Science.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #3752673

    I don't get it. I just have under the heading, Plain Hacker News, "a01 a02". I mean, it's definitely plain. Edit: oh is this some kind of theme? I'm new.

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    Comment #3751649

    Sort of like the 'free' coffins, 'free' attorneys to help write wills, and 'free' burial sites or cremations?

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    Comment #3746470

    >"By the way, you should've taken it F10!" My god, yes. I wish I would have had the foresight to have done it earlier rather than in the Spring. I am definitely not a fan of TEAL.

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    Comment #3746448

    The culture varies across campus regarding those kinds of in-house projects. It is very common for people to have either an internship or research position outside of class, though…

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    Comment #3746441

    Burnout and subsequent energy management are only the superficial components, I think. I've found that the curriculum really cuts to the core of how people think as they work. To m…

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    Comment #3743886

    Was it TEAL last semester? That's really what made me dislike the class the most, as well as the less-than-helpful staff.

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    Comment #3742223

    Not stupid at all. Yes, as I remember it, this was pretty much all covered in a single, 14-week semester.

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    Comment #3742075

    I took this class (6.042) as a sophomore a few semesters ago. I wasn't terribly good at it. Additionally, the professor and staff were a real pain in the ass, so I didn't really ha…

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    Comment #3738352

    Isn't Google's dominance in the search engine business pretty well established at this point? Is there a sizable group of people that, upon using Chrome, will be using Google searc…

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    Comment #3734715

    I would disagree: I think there is a point. The issue isn't necessarily the wording of the joke or semantics in the apology. It's this idea that the entire tech community is male a…