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by amvalo 8y ago
But your mentor can just be your coworker! That's how many professions have worked for a long time. I don't get where this idea that academia has a monopoly on difficult skills and knowledge comes from.
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by amvalo 8y ago
A year or two is enough time to get your foot in the door with web dev. For more advanced stuff, sure, it's an ongoing process. On the other hand, I question the utility of most university CS curriculums. There are usually only one or
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by amvalo 8y ago
Pretty sure the kids paying 60k a year to learn CS at Swarthmore are more elite.
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by amvalo 8y ago
This article is credentialism at its worst. The best programmers I know are self-taught, because they have a passion for it. I know people working at minimum wage, never enrolled in college, who got decent programming jobs after a year or t
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by amvalo 8y ago
I've been meaning to bypass this racket for a while. Can anyone recommend a good chinese/indian seller for eyeglasses?
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by amvalo 8y ago
> Some things I have inculcated as a part of my children's education: > 1. Lots of peer interaction and physical playtime Also known as being a normal human being...
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by amvalo 8y ago
This was my main complaint with OSX until I tried nix. When I ditched homebrew and reinstalled the same packages with nix, I don't think a single one had problems. The CLI has some stupid pitfalls though..
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by amvalo 8y ago
My dealbreaker with linux is the keyboard shortcuts. On mac, ^A and ^E work in every text field. Also, you can press cmd with your thumb, which is much more ergonomic than mashing ctrl with your pinky. OSX also has more well thought-out sho
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by amvalo 8y ago
> My kids need to be prepared for anything. If by "anything" you mean "any upper middle class knowledge work career." Let them hang out with some poor kids and get into fights, then they'll really be prepared for
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by amvalo 8y ago
> For example, software will be able to notice when you’re feeling down, connect you with your friends, give you personalized tips for sleeping and eating better, and help you use your time more efficiently. I'm sorry, I can't
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by amvalo 8y ago
Hey now... don't drag Signal into this.
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by amvalo 8y ago
Huh? Big bend is nowhere near sea level..
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by amvalo 8y ago
>Here's how it worked. The East India Company began collecting taxes in India, and then cleverly used a portion of those revenues (about a third) to fund the purchase of Indian goods for British use. In other words, instead of payin
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by amvalo 8y ago
My answer to most of these questions is either "No, that's not what universities are for" or "yes, and they've been doing that for decades."
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by amvalo 8y ago
"ddg.gg" is quite awkward if you ask me... or am I the only one who finds repeated letters harder to type than alternating ones?
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by amvalo 8y ago
> When it comes to direct evidence of an industrial civilization—things like cities, factories, and roads—the geologic record doesn’t go back past what’s called the Quaternary period 2.6 million years ago. What a nonsense argument, unles
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by amvalo 8y ago
I tried to enjoy this, but as writing it kind of flaunts "show don't tell." The author could have written half of this without ever setting foot on the boat. Like, it feels like she came in with her burns prepared beforehand,
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by amvalo 8y ago
This explanation sounds nice until you start thinking about other countries which experienced famine in the last century and don’t look anything like china...
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by amvalo 8y ago
I have to agree. There’s something about the way this is written, maybe the 2nd person voice, that makes it feel confusing and disjointed.
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by amvalo 8y ago
> b) they're making really solid machines that last longer. The MacBook Pro that I'm typing this on is closer to a decade old Erm... We can certainly conclude that a decade ago, they made long-lasting machines. The newer MBP ar
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by amvalo 8y ago
> For example you assume that we are currently at the maximum number of available slots. If we aren't, then it may well be true that adding more people is possible without disadvantaging existing people. Yes, they could "possib
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by amvalo 8y ago
I found out about battlecode ( https://battlecode.org/#/ ) which was lots of fun for many years.
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by amvalo 8y ago
Extracting a particularly tone-deaf or questionable quote from an article is useful in itself.
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by amvalo 8y ago
"Nonsense" is all it deserves.
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by amvalo 8y ago
It’s an observation, not a prescription. Is it “discriminatory” to suggest that gymnastics is a young person’s game?
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by amvalo 8y ago
This is just re-inventing sieve theory with physics jargon.
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by amvalo 8y ago
I for one was glad to see this WaPo article linked. Good reminder.
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by amvalo 8y ago
> Earth = eggs in one basket. A super volcano like Yellowstone could easily kill 90%+ of our species in the first year after an eruption and most of the other animal (and plant) life. Big rocks have smashed into Earth before and will aga
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by amvalo 8y ago
My point was that high blood sugar damages the kidneys, so if TiO2 in kidneys is an effect rather than cause of diabetes, we would see it in both type I and type II.
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by amvalo 8y ago
My first thought -- diabetes affects kidney function. The question is whether the same is found in type I diabetics.

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