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by Grae 12y ago
This, this, a thousand times this. I graduated from a T25 school in 2011. I was one of about 15% of my graduating class that had a job lined up going into their third year, a time when strong candidates were typically choosing between sev
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by Grae 12y ago
That is precisely why the author relies on his smartpen: "After all, shorthand—at least my shorthand—isn’t foolproof. Even though, for short stretches, I can write 120 words per minute, the average American now speaks at more than 150
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by Grae 12y ago
First post!
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by Grae 12y ago
I find hilarious the widespread belief that everyone is expected to spend their first 22 or so years learning full time only to pivot completely away from education once they begin their career. I've spent the overwhelming majority of
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by Grae 12y ago
Scalzi's thoughts on the matter [1] are a classic entry into this genre and make for an enjoyable read. [1] http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/12/09/a-note-to-you-should-y...
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Google Voice Transcript of a Busy Signal(darrellsilver.com)
4 points by Grae 12y ago|0 comments
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by Grae 12y ago
Undergraduate education is not synonymous with vocational training. There is value in degrees like philosophy and other "questionable" majors not directly related to their utility in the job market. Don't get me wrong: many
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by Grae 12y ago
Actually, the final paragraph of the article directly addresses this point: "Taxonomically speaking, this is unfortunate. The coati has no more relation to an aardvark than to any other vertebrate, so the name is misleading. But langua
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by Grae 13y ago
Bill Hicks said it best, so I'll leave it to him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo
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by Grae 13y ago
I, for one, welcome our new branded linking overlords.
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Android and iOS demand in lock step. How long will we keep duplicating work?(indeed.com)
3 points by Grae 13y ago|1 comments
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by Grae 13y ago
At Thinkful we recently dug into our enrollment and performance numbers to see what we could learn about people towards the beginning of their careers as developers [1]. Turns out that women enroll in our courses at about the same proportio
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by Grae 13y ago
How long until we stop targeting bacterial cells and start targeting healthy human cells? I'm surprised no one's commented yet about the weaponization prospects for these polymers.
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by Grae 13y ago
It's unfortunate that the failures of engineering garner so much more attention than the everyday victories, though it isn't surprising that people expect things to "just work".