Joe-Z

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by Joe-Z 9y ago
As mentioned in a similar thread yesterday the role of universities has shifted to providers of vocation rather than education. That's why so many people make that point. I totally agree with you, everybody should study what they find
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
It's really a horrible experience. Just let us read the goddamn thing and don't spam me with animations!
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Well, I for one did a 3-year digital media / game development degree, but the bulk of our learning (programming, maths, foundations of game- and web-development and multi-media) was done with after the first year. The rest was far more
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Just this week: Popular science channel "Cody's Lab" got his account suspended. https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/7b3v93/12million_s...
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Wow, "Let them eat cake" is the first thing that sprang into my mind upon reading your comment. Yes, having good phones and laptops surely is something great. But we're talking here about a vast and growing gap between the ri
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Wouldn't it be possible that the material deteriorated over time and so today it's harder to view the details than back when it was created?
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
So, let them watch it? You and the GP are talking about different sets of people: A 2-year-old kid probably has no frame of reference to decide what to watch and what to avoid, so you step in - as the parent - and decide for them. In all ot
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
One can, but we're talking about 18-year-olds fresh out of high school here.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
But normal people also don't have huge amounts of money and time to spend on sending someone to the parliament to speak for their interests. What they have is parties they can vote for, which are then supposed to make policies as promi
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Oh, really? So how is one supposed to learn from just getting a list of corrections with no explanation whatsoever? If you want someone to learn, help them. If you're not willing to do that leave it be. If you can't leave it be, y
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
* Thank you * Mr. * Professor (in case you want some appreciation for your nitpicking)
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
That solution seems so obvious, I was thinking that the whole time I read the article: Why allow people to so zealously defend their property rights on a huge plot of land that's hundreds of acres big? It's not like you're st
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
I'm planning to look for a new position in about 6 months and that's what I was thinking to do also. Build a sample application, maybe something useful I wish I had anyway (a very simplistic budgeting app with no external data acc
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
But that's just the price they pay for working in an overcrowded market segment. The upside they have is that their work is (compared to a lot of other programming jobs) fun and hip. If you want to make money with what you're doin
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
I just came here from the "Yosemite bolt replacement"-thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15529497 ), where someone linekd the GP. The company I'm with at the moment has some horrible, horrible code,
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
I'd guess the catchier title has a lot to do with it as well.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
>starting a formal, whole-society debate by beginning to introduce legislation is, I believe, the right way forward. No it is not. Expecting everyone to know every way in which a person might get offended is just unrealistic. People, eve
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
>There is also currently a lot of precedent for saying there are wrong ways that people talk. No there is not. People are people and there have always been bigots and assholes. Just because now we have the technical means to shut everybo
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
If oppression stems from people fostering fear in others, then the news outlets are the real oppressors. Let's face it: Terrorism is really a minor threat to almost all people's safety, yet it's constantly evoked to further r
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
>...the wrong ways people talk... >...shaping and normalizing the culture and society we have. There is no wrong way to talk. Nobody is advocating giving terrorists and bigots a forum where they can publicly discuss their ideas with p
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
That comment has absolutely nothing to do with what was suggested previously, which was: IF you are in a place with at best sketchy food choices (travelling maybe?), going into a place like McDonald's and KNOWING what you're getti
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
The findings were that open-plan offices lead to more sick days (62% compared to cellular offices)
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Thanks for actually coming up with some numbers. The linked study also shows that the 2nd biggest worry is Terrorism at 38%. Now, I'm a believer that people are way too worried about terrorism because they get bombarded with terrorism
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
>It appears to me that Germans are very aware of social inequality Maybe, but I don't think they are in the sense that really matters. First, I think a lot of people just see social inequality as a global problem, like all the refug
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
I'm sorry, but do you know anything about my work as a coder besides that I work 30 hours a week? I bet you, if you were to ask my boss if I've proven a valuable asset to the company he would sing you a song of praise for my work.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
It actually started as a side-job while studying. I actually increased to 30 hours/week over time from starting with 20 hours/week. That said, I think most companies would be willing to find some agreement on reduced working hours
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Go for it! I'm working a 30-hour week right now. Like you, I feel even 40 hours/week of pure coding ist just not sustainable. Out of the 3 software dev jobs I had up to this point all the people that 'worked' over-time w
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Well yes, I must've missed your point. I was under the impression we're talking about the reasons why people use facebook and not engaging in a privacy discussion. I have nothing to add to that. Have a nice weekend!
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
>...but how exactly has a glorified message board which doesn't charge its users become one of the richest companies in the world? Because, as you just demonstrated with your programming example: For HIM it's a glorified messag
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
>To paint a less rosy picture... I think different companies, although they may be monopolies in their own right, spread out over multiple countries is still preferable to a global monopoly. Not just because of data collection, also rega

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