Hacker News: Thirdegree

New comment by Thirdegree in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2017)"

Thirdegree — Mon, 01 May 2017 18:57:45 +0000

  Location: Tempe, AZ, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Python, Tensorflow, C/C++, linux, PSQL
  Résumé/CV: http://thirdegree.github.io/Joel_Christiansen.pdf
  Email: greenbadge.jc+HNJobs@gmail.com

I'm graduating with a degree in CS in a week. My preference would be to work in machine learning/AI, or something that involves working with large amounts of data.

New comment by Thirdegree in "Uber is designed so that for one employee to get ahead, another must fail"

Thirdegree — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 22:28:38 +0000

The answer, by the way, is to light one of the ropes on fire on both ends, the other on a single end. When the first is done, the second has half the time left and you can time whatever contrived thing you're timing with rope.

New comment by Thirdegree in "The Algorithms Behind Probabilistic Programming"

Thirdegree — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:11:48 +0000

It feel like a normal font that squished each character into a slightly-too-small box.

New comment by Thirdegree in "Introducing unlimited private repositories"

Thirdegree — Thu, 12 May 2016 01:13:19 +0000

> Lastly, this is a huge freebie for individual accounts that now get unlimited repos for $7/month.

It's also nice for student, like myself, who get unlimited private repos for $0 a month.

New comment by Thirdegree in "NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?"

Thirdegree — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 04:56:30 +0000

What would you recommend to a junior CS major to avoid falling into this pattern?

New comment by Thirdegree in "Ask HN: What are some examples of beautiful software?"

Thirdegree — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 21:13:07 +0000

The government should stop hiring HN programmers, that's clearly the problem!

New comment by Thirdegree in "In Colorado, a look at life after marijuana legalization"

Thirdegree — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 20:07:09 +0000

Still 100% true. I turned 20 earlier this month, it has always been easier to get cannabis than alcohol for me.

New comment by Thirdegree in "My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”"

Thirdegree — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 05:59:48 +0000

"How does anyone know for sure that all of that traffic (or at least the meta data related to the traffic) is not prepped for data mining on a per-user basis ?"

You can't, but that's not really the point. The point is that it's not permanent in a form that other users can access. Sure, maybe Snapchat stores every picture I ever sent. That sucks and should stop. But at least Grandma can't go back and look at some 2 year old picture I took with some buddies.

New comment by Thirdegree in "My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”"

Thirdegree — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 05:55:00 +0000

"What's the point of data if you can't save it? What if you capture a truly awesome moment?"

You can download your own snaps from the app within 24 hours if you posted it to your story (which you probably did).

New comment by Thirdegree in "My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”"

Thirdegree — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 05:53:24 +0000

"And unlike some forms of leisure, this one bears no fruit."

Increased connection with peers, for one. It's incredibly easy to network now. I'm young, and wasn't around for what you're looking back on as the good old days, but I disagree that there is no value to being able to send a one off "look what I'm doing" to a friend.

New comment by Thirdegree in "My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”"

Thirdegree — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 05:49:44 +0000

"Kids today it seems is responding to selfies"

Which is more social than either of the other hobbies you mentioned. How is it shallow and void of any meaning?

New comment by Thirdegree in "Judge tosses proposed class action accusing Google of CAPTCHA fraud"

Thirdegree — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 17:09:26 +0000

In their defence, reCaptcha are fairly ubiquitous. Very difficult to avoid.

New comment by Thirdegree in "A Group of American Teens Are Excelling at Advanced Math"

Thirdegree — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:53:45 +0000

Let me add one more thank you for that blog, it's one of 6 I have saved to bookmarks. I love it!

New comment by Thirdegree in "Why are Americans so angry?"

Thirdegree — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:51:34 +0000

My father is very conservative on most issues, where I am very liberal on most issues. We still get along perfectly because politics is not that important. He's still my dad, still a great person, and still an exceedingly good debater.

New comment by Thirdegree in "Uninstalling Facebook app saves up to 15% of iPhone battery life"

Thirdegree — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 20:11:35 +0000

This is the same app I use. No complaints so far.

New comment by Thirdegree in "What computer science can teach economics (2009)"

Thirdegree — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:36:50 +0000

I think it has to do with how integral computers are to every other field. Like if everything deeply depended on woodworking to function, carpenters would be offering input on everything.

New comment by Thirdegree in "Expand Your Programming Vocabulary (for Beginners)"

Thirdegree — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 17:53:38 +0000

I think part of it is someone sees a question and thinks "Well why didn't you just google xyz?" without realizing that the only way to know to google xyz is to already know the answer to the question posed.

New comment by Thirdegree in "Was Uber’s Branding Done While Uber High?"

Thirdegree — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 02:38:17 +0000

Pop 101 - Marianas Trench:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kpWkV7IBUw

"Get to the floor

And hear some words you should know

Like "DJ never let me go"

Or "Shots and then we'll lose control"

Or "baby, baby, baby, baby, baby"

How about one more last word like

"Hey girl, we've only got tonight"

Some things just go together like

Higher, desire, and fire

Higher, desire, and fire"

New comment by Thirdegree in "Apple’s declining software quality"

Thirdegree — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 18:01:47 +0000

The only issue I have with spotlight on El Capitan is a strange issue where sometimes after entering the first character the cursor jumps to start again and overwrites the first character, turning a search for "text" which should open TextEdit to "ext" which opens Extractor.

New comment by Thirdegree in "On Google's self-driving car acident rates"

Thirdegree — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 02:23:18 +0000

>Next time you pull up to a stop light, look to the left and then right. I'm willing to be the drivers on the left and or right are looking at their phone.

And the dude between them is busy staring at his neighboring drivers rather than the road!