emptysqua.re
Senior Staff Research Engineer in the MongoDB Distributed Systems Research Group. Photographer, Gunks climber, Zen Buddhist. Blog: https://emptysqua.re
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Exactly the same for me.
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Exquisite photos.
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Amazing.
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Following! I have "Bare Handed", it's a masterpiece, it's one of my lodestars as a photographer.
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Yeah, I graduated in 2001, so I began my tech career in the aftermath of the dotcom crash and 9/11. Getting a coding job in NYC in the early 2000s was grim. There was a very long bull market for tech labor, and it's still much better than the 2000s.
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(Not literature, but surely influenced literature.)
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"Nosferatu", Bela Lugosi's "Dracula", "Lost Boys".
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* Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems, Jean-Yves Le Boudec (I credit his former post-doc, Ramin Khalili, with teaching me everything I know about applying these ideas)
* Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking, S. Keshav
Focus on the basic model, not the math.
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Came here to agree with you - queueing theory is great and practical. Don't make the mistake I did - don't try to solve equations. There are far more useful ways to learn and apply QT, I'll check out the book recommendations in this thread.
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"Also thou shalt catch colds while traveling," said God. "Who in this empty world would I catch a cold from?" asked Adam. "Doesn't matter, you'll still get sick," said God.
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"But there aren't any religions yet, and I don't have any family and neither does Eve," he objected. "Nevertheless, December shall be really annoying for all the years of thy life," said God.
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AKA "the Gunks", the Shawangunk mountain range.
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Peter's Kill, in Minnewaska State Park, New York state.
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Au contraire, jumping a turnstile is a surefire way to get the cops to ignore him.
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Why TWO floating point arrows?
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Yes!!