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by _qulr 6y ago
> Many people grow up in terrible conditions and are never given a proper chance to acquire a decent education. It's not especially fair or helpful to insult them. Hasn't it become painfully obvious by now that the upper class
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> There is plenty of evidence indicating socio-economic status correlates with educational outcomes. Of course, but not sure how that's relevant here. > The article unfairly refers to a "nation of idiots". Not sure that
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> Try telling the 100000+ homeless students in NY that ignorance is a deliberate choice. Let's not lose sight of the subject of the article, which is disinformation, promulgated for example via Facebook and Twitter. There's no
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For many people, the hardware is simply a container for the software. If you prefer Apple's operating system, then there's unfortunately little choice, except perhaps Hackintosh.
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In fairness, maybe we just start way too late? I mean, I'm all in favor of debates over the existence of God for example in elementary school, at the same age kids start getting forced to go to Sunday school. But a lot of parents would
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The major difference is that your own brain can stop disinformation, but it can't stop a bullet.
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I'm not sure you can teach critical thinking. In my experience, people are mostly "born" with it... or not. I say this as a former academic philosopher who actually taught "critical thinking" classes at the universi
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> shouldn't it be even more rude to ignore internet messages? Who says you have to ignore internet messages? It took you a half hour to reply to my comment, and that's fine. That leaves plenty of time to acknowledge a person IR
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> How do you "quickly go through" a stack of 100 resumes Well, by quickly I didn't mean only 60 seconds. :-) > in a way that is not subject to personal (conscious or unconscious) bias? In my opinion, a common conceit is
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I'm afraid you're missing the point. When I say people don't acknowledge each other's existence, I mean people literally within a few feet/meters of each other, who could easily see and/or speak with each other
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> Though life was more annoying without a mobile phone I disagree. My feeling is that life was much better, more "human" without mobile phones. I hate how everyone walks around staring down at their phones instead of looking at
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There's a lot of worry in tech hiring about the "faker", the engineer who lies or exaggerates on their résumé. The irony is that the tech hiring process, especially the job postings, encourage the fakers to apply. You're
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> you need to write better job descriptions Tech job postings are the absolute worst. Anyone who's having trouble with hiring in any way needs to start there. Everyone in tech knows that job postings are a joke, which is why you&#x2
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> I know that some of this is nerves but it can’t account for all of it. Why not? If you've never experienced severe situational anxiety, you may not know how debilitating it can be. And then, maddeningly, perhaps just minutes after
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> Surprising numbers of engineers look great on paper but can’t write working code when tested, even accounting for interview anxiety. How have you accounted for interview anxiety?
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Tech Sector Job Interviews Assess Anxiety, Not Software Skills https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23848039
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I would also say, since you mentioned developers making internal corporate apps, that the App Store doesn't really help them at all, and in fact makes their life more difficult, especially on a locked down software platform such as iOS
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> with the merest hint of objectivity That's all it is. Superficial objectivity. Auditions are not a good analogy. Programmers are not stage performers. We're usually sitting alone in front of a keyboard. That's where we d
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> I cannot give every application 1-2 hours of review if I get 100+ resumes. This is perhaps the biggest misconception of hiring, that out of some misguided notion of "fairness" or "objectivity" you have to treat ever
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> That wasn't a personal attack whatsoever. "You have become incredibly insincere in your arguments" > Tiny, micro-boutiques that are a little sliver of marginal prosperity in a desolate wasteland of failure. I would re
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by _qulr 6y ago
> You have become incredibly insincere in your arguments, or you are seriously misunderstanding this discussion. Please refrain from personal attacks. As you noted in another comment, I'm primarily a Mac developer, and in my experie
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Epic doesn't release these numbers, yet from third party analysis in the 30 days before being kicked from the respective stores, Fortnite made $43M on iOS, and a paltry $3.3M on Android, worldwide. "Sensor Tower puts iOS spen
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> It is rare to find someone who has paid a penny for anything else. Citation needed. Who are all those people attending the Microsoft developers conference every year? Who were all the people in the audience for Ballmer's infamous
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> So any transaction less than or equal to the $2.99 tier would be just as bad (as in, it costs you at least 30% of the list price), even if hosting was free. It's true that App Store has the best deal for payment processing for ver
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> Independent software development was an absolute wasteland. I had a 10 year career in that "wasteland". > we should note that iOS was the single most profitable platform for Epic, across all platforms Citation? From what I
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> People quickly forget what a tremendous liberation the App Store created for developers. People quickly forget that software was distributed on the web long before the App Store existed. >That's what has caused this flood of so
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No, developers demanded time-limited trials for paid apps, which we had for many years before the App Store. But Apple _never_ delivered on that. Instead, Apple pushed "subscriptions", which is just another name for rental.
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I have nothing against your mom, who I don't know, and I'm sure she's a fine person, but nonetheless, your mom is your problem. Why does your mom become my problem. Why must my freedom be restricted to protect your mom from h
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> Good things don't vanish randomly. Whenever someone tries to restore some old form of governance the question needs to be answered why it died out. Good things vanish because people forget history, or fail to learn it, and thus do
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> The Republic never really solved the problem of making sure you get a philosopher-king instead of a tyrant. I disagree. "train the guardians through a prolonged education that involves not just academic education but also characte

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