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Re:Ask HN: Academics who switched to industry, what's your experience ... on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @06:50AM (#18799839)
Got a PhD in Europe and later moved to the US for postdoc, then visiting asst. prof. then tenure-track asst. prof. All of these were very positive experiences, teaching- and research- wise.

I switched to industry while in 3rd tenure-track year and moved back to Europe, though the topic is the same (nonlinear discrete optimization). Most of the work is software development.

Enjoying a better paycheck and working 9to5 Mon-Fri (rarely had a non-work evening/weekend while in academia) but the research is still great and I get to publish articles and go to conferences. Miss teaching a lot and clearly I can't pick my own research topics, but the switch was definitely worth it.

Re:Can you use the terminal for everything? [video] on Saturday September 01, 2018 @01:04PM (#17892769)
This will display the video as ASCII art:

  vlc -V aa <youtube link>
For color ASCII he suggests

  vlc -v caca <youtube link>
Re:XKCD: Voting software on Friday August 10, 2018 @02:06PM (#17735531)
Agreed, but even if we got voting machines to the level of resiliency of aircraft engineering, the effort of a determined adversary would still carry enormous consequences.
Re:XKCD: Voting software on Friday August 10, 2018 @09:43AM (#17733145)
No technology (aerospace engineering, building engineering, voting machines) is 100% resilient as long as there is an entity with tools, money, and knowledge to bring it down. I guess the comparison holds here because voting machines can be approached by said entity in a remote fashion, unlike an aircraft or an elevator.
Re:On Britain's Intellectual Decline on Monday May 07, 2018 @10:19AM (#17012927)
Long debates about philosophy might not have been what the public wanted, but BBC bosses thought they were good for us.

I think a form of education is one of the primary purposes and responsibilities of a country's national TV. Managing a broadcaster so that it gives the public what it wants, rather than what's better for them, is akin to giving kids fries and coke all day, because that's what they want.

Re:Ask HN: How did you become fluent in English? on Sunday April 08, 2018 @02:09PM (#16787380)
Record yourself while reading a random page from a book and then listen to the recording. When I did, I found a few defects and managed to fix them, though it took some time.
Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones on Saturday March 24, 2018 @11:07PM (#16670465)
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16670291
Re:How Bangladesh vanquished diarrhoea on Saturday March 24, 2018 @07:43AM (#16666122)
Italians use "water" (spelled váter") or WC (spelled "vee-chee"), rarely "tazza" or the less elegant "cesso".

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