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whynot-123

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    Comment #38828042

    100% - I went to Cal, however after spending time in finland I would've been equally happy going to University of Helsinki (which costs pennies on the dollar compared to here), or …

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    Comment #38764459

    I would love to delve into GNU Radio - but not really sure where to start without a background in communication theory. Should I start by reading a textbook on electronic communica…

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    Comment #38722411

    I wonder does reading anything at the level of stratechary make any impact? I use to religiously read this blog and matt l.'s 6-8 years ago, then i started growing my family and ha…

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    Comment #38675156

    This advice is wrong on so many levels. What gets you promoted is being aligned with your leadership and being easy going. You'll get bonus points if your skip level likes you - it…

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    Comment #38607047

    I question who this article is for - having worked at Qualcomm, they beat you over the head on how their business is built on patents and how they were going to go belly up some 20…

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    Comment #38534502

    I would like to point out how awesome it is that someone in high school is making this caliber of a post. I've thought at least a dozen times over the last 20 years how i would lik…

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    Comment #38478388

    that would make sense - they've reached out to me frequently over the years - seemed a bit desperate. Stopped the interview process the first time after learning what their PM sala…

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    Comment #38463072

    this reminds me the time I was 16 (which is almost 20 years ago), having an interest in communication theory, I somehow ended up on a IEEE journal review list on the topics. I rece…

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    Comment #38418383

    maybe i'm getting older (almost 40) - but I spent 5 minutes clicking through links and could not figure out what in the world this is. They need to do a much better job on the docu…

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    Comment #37963956

    Fwiw, I believe the romanticization of advanced mathematics needs to end. I'm 15-20 years out of university, and I had thought I might delve into some specific area of math after g…

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    Ask HN: How to contribute to open source data stores?

    I've been a software engineer for 15 years, mostly java and scala. I tried reaching out to the datastax/cassandra folks a few times in my career and didn't receive any guidance on …

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    Comment #37703346

    n=1 but over my 15 year career I've tried picking up elixir and found it too difficult to learn. I found the syntax hard to read and felt I had to spend 2x more time digesting a si…