IndianAstronaut

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Comment · 9 years ago
If life was not there, I would wager that life is exceedingly rare in our universe.
Comment · 9 years ago
Saturn's moons are much more likely to spread any contamination due to the presence of liquids. Liquid water on Enceldus and hydrocarbon lakes on Titan.
Comment · 9 years ago
Financial companies are also competing for tech talent. Anything that drives away top talent from tech companies is a win for financial ones.
Comment · 9 years ago
Not a CEO, but I am currently dealing with a very vindictive and petty VP. Absolutely no empathy or thought for others. Brings similar people on board her team and they run amock making the lives of their subordinates or others that deal with them miserable. The lower end managers are blatantly self centered, but the higher up you go, the shit just gets more polish. Capital One has been quite the nightmare.
Comment · 9 years ago
Do you have a separate link or confact for HNers?
Comment · 9 years ago
Mexico could capitalize on this as well. Guadalajara is a mini tech hub.
Comment · 9 years ago
R's data analysis libraries are still far ahead of Python. Dplyr, Shiny, etc. So much stuff is still in built in R.

Places where I still use R is its easy to use statistical functions, handling large amounts of missing data, etc.

Comment · 9 years ago
>commodiously embeds into Business Intelligence which creates an interurban transcendence

Wow.

Comment · 9 years ago
A better option would be to employ more people in the sciences. There is still a lot to be discovered and labs I have worked in have a range of work to be done from the low skilled cleaning glassware to high skilled design of experiments.
Comment · 9 years ago
I am curious why we don't focus more efforts on Titan, which already has a thick nitrogen atmosphere.
Comment · 9 years ago
Sure. Basically started off there working with analysis teams. You will be working with some very old school managers who follow a strict hierarchy. Things may seem golden for a couple months, but then the threats and intimidation go into full gear. I was told that I would be held liable for failures even though my manager was making the decisions which were resulting in failures. I was told multiple times that if a project was not done, I would be in big trouble.

If I spoke up about a new technology or method, I was told sarcastically that "oh you're so smart". I have been told that the work I am doing isn't rocket science.

Micromanagement has been the norm lots of digging into the details of the project by managers who don't even know the difference between Java and Javascript.

Nothing is in writing so managers frequently will bring up issues about things not getting done or taking a different direction. The politics are rotten.

Comment · 9 years ago
I am experiencing this now at Capital One. Routinely berated, intimidated into better performance, arbitrary judgements, a lot of belittling(e.g. you're no rocket scientist), and threats (eg you are screwing your reviews, I will hold you liable, etc.).
Comment · 9 years ago
>The future is probably artificially produced food, like the porridge / sludge shown in the Matrix. Something out of a chemical process instead of a biological one.

I imagine we can synthesize relatively simple molecules such as glucose to supplement calories when needed by astronauts.

Comment · 9 years ago
Do you have a link to your 3D printed growth substrate or an info page?
Comment · 9 years ago
Take a look into data engineering. A lot of data engineering jobs require you to implement mathematical models at scale.

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