Kaveren

15 ms·

91.
by Kaveren 7y ago
You don't need to spend 10 years to become a fantastic programmer. Many people are clueless when it comes to how to learn things (this is why the question "how do I learn X" is so popular even when it has been answered many t
92.
by Kaveren 7y ago
Ok but that's a terrible definition of talent because that's not what talent is. Inherent ability is much more important than people like to admit to themselves or others. The 10,000 hours thing is also a myth.
93.
by Kaveren 7y ago
Creating companies should be as frictionless as possible. You shouldn't need to provide much information at all, and it should be extremely cheap. Some states do this pretty well, others not so much. I'd rather a library card take
94.
by Kaveren 7y ago
I imagine you could make a convincing counterargument that Big Tech has done plenty of great things for developers at large. We could look to the historical example of Bell Labs under the ownership of AT&T, which brought us the C progra
95.
by Kaveren 7y ago
fringe opinion. video courses in non-visual topics are a complete waste of time, made because the masses can't read and are lazy. there is a corresponding book better than the course available for everything listed. good books will hav
96.
by Kaveren 7y ago
It's reasonable to start from a point of "I think the earth is round, but why is this true?" Flat earthers, much like many conspiracy theorists, are generally not interested in logical reasoning, and prefer to invent elaborat
97.
by Kaveren 7y ago
you can say the same thing about hypothetical people who assert 2 + 2 = 5. there's nothing cool about it, or people experimenting and starting to doubt that 2 + 2 = 5. nothing would be lost if nobody believed the earth was flat. this i
98.
by Kaveren 7y ago
Knowing what functions and variables are is below high school level, and I'd say it'd be comparative to knowing basic greetings in a foreign language. I doubt that many students who don't go on to study math after high school
99.
by Kaveren 7y ago
As far as the U.S. goes, I doubt students remember much of the math they learn, or gain much more competency in math than they would via a language course.
100.
by Kaveren 7y ago
It's pretty embarrassing to live in a country for 10 years and not being able to use it for work.
101.
by Kaveren 7y ago
If you're living in a country where you don't speak the mainstream language, living there is more than reason enough by itself to learn it.
102.
by Kaveren 7y ago
you're very gullible to not take a side here. the idea that the same man responsible for something quite libertarian (pseudononymous distributed currency) would sue someone for saying he isn't satoshi in a court of law is insanity
103.
by Kaveren 7y ago
wright is a complete con man with absolutely no credibility. someone like satoshi would never, ever, ever reveal their identity publicly. this is the most obvious thing, and anyone who thinks this is up for debate is gullible. his credentia
104.
by Kaveren 7y ago
if a VPN is right for your use case, ProtonVPN is the best possible solution if you want a moderate degree of herd anonymity from endpoints you visit. if you don't care about that, run your own VPN. those are the only two answers. Prot
105.
by Kaveren 7y ago
don't forget the "military grade encryption" NordVPN makes the youtubers include sometimes.
106.
by Kaveren 7y ago
> "If all this information is out there, and the only people actually completing it are those who have already gone through a degree program" MOOCs are a complete waste of time. Boot camps are just a worse and cheaper version o
107.
by Kaveren 7y ago
My entire point is consistently that the point of college is a degree. It's completely sensible for the vast majority of people to go to college for the great economic benefits it provides in terms of job opportunities. This does not m
108.
by Kaveren 7y ago
To answer your point when talking about colleges, people like being spoonfed because they are lazy. This is why video tutorials for, say, programming are so popular, and why you see people ask about how to learn programming from scratch for
109.
by Kaveren 7y ago
See "The Case Against Education" by Bryan Caplan for an argument in favor of the signaling viewpoint.
110.
by Kaveren 7y ago
How is this your takeaway from the article? Anyone moderately intelligent is capable of learning most topics traditionally taught in higher education on their own, even if they use the same learning resources that colleges typically do for
111.
by Kaveren 7y ago
South America, Mexico, and other North American countries exist in the same timezones as the US and Canada. Is it something to do with hiring regulations being too much of a pain to deal with in countries where Stripe doesn't feel like
112.
by Kaveren 7y ago
Mcafee is not of sound mind, and definitely not to be taken seriously if anyone has even followed his antics in the absolute loosest sense of the word. I don't know why the article says it's "hard to know". Mcafee is an
113.
by Kaveren 8y ago
Firefighters have said no deaths, which is good. No reports of injuries from a religious official.
114.
by Kaveren 8y ago
Maybe I don't check [chat app] every time someone sends me a message. Let's say someone sends me a "hi" at 3:00 PM. I check it at 3:30 PM. I reply back. Person replies at 3:35 PM. I see this at 4:00 PM. An hour wasted! M
115.
by Kaveren 8y ago
It doesn't squeeze any humanity out of people to ask them to actually ask what they want, instead of just saying "hi". The annoying part is that they will wait until you reply to the "hi" before asking the question,
116.
by Kaveren 8y ago
Living with this person sounds miserable, and obviously they're in the wrong for everything, but it's still not cool to go through someone's wallet just because they leave it out just to check their ID.
117.
by Kaveren 8y ago
You don't think it's possible that teenagers place increased weight on what might normally be considered an insignificant difference? And that this has a non-zero market impact? There's a reason people buy Supreme. In another
118.
by Kaveren 8y ago
I do wonder what the impact of this is. I can't think of any good way you could study it other than surveying people. Does this have a discernible market effect under demographic most vulnerable to social pressure?
119.
by Kaveren 8y ago
You have no clue why someone is working more than 10 hours consecutively or more than 45 hours a week. Maybe that's something they're being paid quite well to do, and maybe they want to do so. This type of restriction just screams
120.
by Kaveren 8y ago
Really silly to state how much electricity "languages" use without specifying implementations. You can specify for unstandardized languages, but languages don't have performance characteristics in the typical sense, implement

More ›