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14y ago
I understand the yield idea. You're 100% right, and I believe I acknowledged it somewhere in there. Since you're a former hiring manager, any advice on how to get around that impediment, beyond just submitting a resume and waiting?
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Perhaps we're talking to different people then. It's something I regularly observe: Good programmers went to Ivy Leagues, Stanford, etc. The rest are just mediocre.
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Huh. Impressive how much of my personality comes across that way. You're right, on pretty much everything. I am insecure, though I've never understood the difference between rationalization and circumstance. When you're betting more or less
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14y ago
Well, I'm happy to be told I'm wrong and improve. What am I oblivious of that I need to understand?
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I have every intention of doing just that, when it comes to both improving myself and those positive indicators. Perhaps my frustration stems from that work seeming worthless when compared to an Ivy League degree. Would you say I'm wrong th
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Lol, okay. "Strange that a technically capable engineering student would be at UGA when GeorgiaTech is of similar cost (and both free to Georgia residents who maintain a 3.0 though the HOPE scholarship)." UGA has a combined bachelors &
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All Rockstars Went to Julliard
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>Historically, there have been several large accidents, Tschernobyl, Fukushima, Three Mile, and several more smaller ones which would almost been fatal. So what? Those accidents are miniscule in comparison to the everyday operation of a
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>some sort of Retina? The power of Apple's marketing cannot be overstated here. You're referring to a Microsoft screen by an Apple trademark.
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Why do you have ORCL stock?
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>No more being forced to use crappy windows computers I laughed at this part of your post.
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>Then why are they there? Because it's a state requirement, more than likely. > In many cases you can trace this back to some ambition for which calculus is a prerequisite for some reason or other. Doubtful. Not unless they're a STE
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This assumes a few things. 1) Teaching something repetitively means the students will learn more the second time. 2) Basic algebra is all that's needed as a general background in math for all majors. 3) Everyone in high school is there to
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>I have found that a great many of the students have not mastered high school algebra. Why should they have? It doesn't take 'mastery' to pass a class, it takes proficiency. Expecting perfection in all previous classes from students is
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Put the largest one in front?
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They were both made obsolete by satellites and now drones.
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15y ago
If you already happen to want to develop on the Windows Mobile platform, it's a free phone.
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15y ago
Has he ever seen anyone make a movie, or a program? Some people really are bad at looking at abstract layers.
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That's a terminology problem, not a design problem.
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>What the hell does that even mean? If that is your best advice, you are probably full of bad advice. I cannot comprehend the level of confusion required to think that quote is clever. It means go against the grain? I can't comprehend t
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Wouldn't the better question be, so what if it is accessible? Can't say I know anyone damaged by porn.
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How would you get your car back if it went and parked itself?
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I have no idea about how GSoC process or mentoring works, but I just wanted to say as a potential GSoC student it sounds like a cool project, and I hope that things like that are out there, whether yours or someone else's.
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See, in the eyes of an employer that makes perfect sense.