EricDeb

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   Canadian Government just shut down my rails bootcamp.(drewsing.com)

   4 points by EricDeb 13y ago|0 comments
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   by EricDeb 13y ago

   that's awesome! That's exactly the service I was looking at. Thanks for creating it!
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   by EricDeb 13y ago

   One thing I've wanted to do is access files remotely without downloading them (streaming/virtual drives, etc). Do any of these services allow that (BTsync, dropbox, aeroFS), or am I forced to download files before accessing them?
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   by EricDeb 13y ago

   I'm going to take a quick stab and say it might be due to the compounding gains lost by forfeiting 2% year over year. To elaborate, when you lose 2% of 7% the very first year you invest, that 2% could have compounded over your entire worki
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   by EricDeb 13y ago

   Columbine shooting was april too I believe
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   by EricDeb 14y ago

   It is absolutely the governments job to give people places to live if they are unable (not unwilling) to do so on their own. The difficulty lies in determining who is truly unable and who is simply unwilling.
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   by EricDeb 14y ago

   Just an anecdote - I work on a team of about 12 developers and we have 2 remote guys that get far more done than anyone in office. Granted they are the most active on Skype (what we use for inter-office chatter).
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   by EricDeb 14y ago

   Depends if it was an investment or a loan, but in this case I would agree with you that it was largely an investment
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   by EricDeb 14y ago

   A minimum wage affords unskilled workers some amount of time to learn new skills or improve their lot in life. An unskilled worker who has to work 18 hours a day at $2 an hour to make ends meet will never be able to learn new skills and cl
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    Absolutely they should be given charity, and wages not solely determined by value provided. The American economy (and world economy to some degree) is evolving in a way that eventually only high-skilled workers will be needed, as most unsk
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    Any other tools or resources you'd recommend to a newbie web server admin? I've checked out a few books but it's hard to know what's being used in industry.
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    I love subtle, ingenious ads but I get the impression they may not be as effective in terms of conversions as traditional image projection type ads (ie showing the latest bmw model or an attractive model wearing a particular clothing line)
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    Articles like this tell me there is a strong need for improvement in tech recruiting. If a candidate truly is "a great coder, easy to work with, and knows data structures and algorithms backwards and forwards" then he/she should have no pr
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    There's a large percentage of Silicon Valley that is at least fiscally conservative - if the Republicans would just soften up on social issues I imagine many of them would jump ship.
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    I thought Safari and Chrome both use webkit? Shouldn't your site be at least usable in Chrome then?
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    Yessir. Very proud to be from Olympia, WA at this moment
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    I completed a dual MBA/MS in CS last may. An MBA is phenomenal for personal development and a broadening of perspective - certainly not essential to start or run a successful business. I personally think everyone should do an MBA as oppos
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    Reminds me of Walmart - everyone hates on it but they absolutely rake in profits. On certain purchases, Americans love cheap prices above all else. Plane flights likely fall in this category for most.
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    Couldn't agree more. The discrepancy between academia and industry is disgraceful. I just finished a particularly academic Masters in CS, and failed to learn a lot of skills that would have been useful in the real world - specifically lan
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    I would love to see more government funded research. There are so many problems that, if tackled via the unregulated private sector, have misaligned incentives.
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    One thing that does concern me about these types of programs is trying to teach kids who are too young, inadvertently causing them to conclude "programming is too hard" and give up. I consider myself of average intelligence and I struggled
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    I am quite surprised the pirating of eBooks has not taken off. The infrastructure certainly exists, but I'm not aware of any exclusive, prolific communities in a similar vein to music and tv shows/movies.
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    Is it possible ESPN will just make less money? The article assumes ESPN will charge an individual subscription rate such that it will make the same revenue as it would via cable bundles. If TV is like music or newspapers, it's entirely po
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    Interestingly I used JavaScript(Jquery) to generate a majority of the html for a site I did in the past to keep it free from page refreshes. In retrospect I thought it was bad practice, but maybe it will come into style with libraries like
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    I agree, but I feel the more likely scenario is the 40 year old with domain expertise who is rationally confident he could strike out on his own but is hindered for fear of losing health insurance/income not only for himself, but for his fa
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    I definitely agree. It just seems that if these companies and recruiters were really that desperate they would consider a Master's in CS as even a second-tier substitute, or at least someone who could ramp up quickly.
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    As a recent STEM graduate (Masters in CS), what irks me is the relentless focus on job experience. I don't even get interviews for jobs requiring a high school/GED equivalence + 3 years of experience. There seems to be little faith in our
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    In response to PG's article - I think most people would agree that wealth creation is a talent like any other. I think where people have a problem is that the particular talent of business and wealth creation buys so much more influence in
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    by EricDeb 14y ago

    I think most liberals would agree with you. I want the absolute minimum amount of regulation that effectively manages the free market as well as minimal basic social safety nets.