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by asark 7y ago
Options like CLEP tests and even getting a GED after sophomore or junior year and going to community college early ought to be pushed harder. You can CLEP out of a solid year of college gen-eds over a couple Summers, with a little study. Ma
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by asark 7y ago
Low-latency UIs that respect user input are amazing. They're just quite rare these days. I guarantee the difference is noticeable and makes a difference—look at how everyone liked (and still likes) the UI smoothness and low UI latency
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by asark 7y ago
Those memory-bloat apps are never, never only memory hogs. They always come with an outsize hit to general system responsiveness, always have UI lag, and so on. These days almost all of them are webtech junk. I still have a few Java progr
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by asark 7y ago
I'm not especially interested in the "uneducated fools"—prod your average Christian, say, and it quickly becomes clear they barely understand the core tenets of their own sect and the sources of their beliefs, let alone even
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by asark 7y ago
They've been "trying" for years. They may truly be trying, but the fact that they've neither succeeded in any meaningful way, nor made the choice to shut off the parts of their service that make the whole site scam-tasti
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by asark 7y ago
Sorry if I was insulting, I wasn't trying to be. That's why I called out my own difficulty as stupid, since in fact such people sure seem to exist (though, again, my problem is that I can't listen to them without a "
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by asark 7y ago
> Looking into it, it mostly turns out they were either sentenced for other crimes or, as this article claims was the case here, that it was most likely a political move masquerading as being motivated by theology. Despite having been a
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by asark 7y ago
At least try it out before, say, quitting your day job. Submit some pieces, get some feedback, go through a few rounds of that. Don't do anything for free, that's horseshit and teaches/proves way less than selling some words.
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by asark 7y ago
What little pay remains in short fiction is almost all in genre fic. Not that there's a ton there, but there's way more than in literary fiction. Though even those are cutting editorial staff and want much more polished, nearly-pu
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by asark 7y ago
I've not read Passage (yeah, yeah, I know, it's supposed to be his best, I'll get around to it) but have read both of what I think of as his Italian novels (A Room With a View, Where Angels Fear to Tread) and English novels (
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by asark 7y ago
There's a big difference between huge-room open floorplans with no or low-walled cubicles, and open team rooms with a handful of people in them.
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by asark 7y ago
What, that it was a half-measure that'd allow the garbage OP mentioned to continue? I don't think it was half, though, since quite a few Democrats didn't seem to want to go full single-payer or nationalized healthcare, and ev
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by asark 7y ago
> I was surprised to learn that I really enjoy coding, whereas I rather dislike math. I feel like this article might resonate with some people, but not with me. I posted about this elsewhere in the thread, but a deeper insight for you ma
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by asark 7y ago
> That said, I relate to what the grandparent commenter is saying. Software allows me to think with visible, malleable and "living" mathematics while building up a system, to ask questions and have a dialogue with it. Programmi
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by asark 7y ago
It's pushing me to a "I'll watch it when it's done. The whole thing, not the season. Maybe, if I still feel like it by then" stance, which isn't where they want me for a monthly subscription. Cancellation immin
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by asark 7y ago
Yeah, I'm cancelling as soon as I get a couple things watched. Will just re-sub every now and then... maybe. Would leave it on—even with the hikes it's not that much money, though they definitely serve as reminders to maybe-canc
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by asark 7y ago
Unexpected (by the driver) braking, possibly while making a turn, or controls failing to respond (the accelerator, say) seems more dangerous than the status quo. Plus you'd have to roll it out everywhere at once, or my merge onto a 60m
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by asark 7y ago
Probably would. Again, I think the light was only part of it, the rest being that you're very limited in what you can do without electronics. Even if you make an exception for, say, putting on an album to listen to and then not messing
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by asark 7y ago
> 2) How do people just "go to bed" early because they get bored? I'm actually jealous of that idea. If I just decided to "go to bed" early, it would most likely involve me staring at either the ceiling, my phone
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by asark 7y ago
Also: consulting, curriculum design, instructional coaching and a bunch of other options, if you care to aim for them. Granted a lot of them are more likely to be parasitical than actual teaching is (though each of them can be useful and
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by asark 7y ago
> This is a really optimistic look on the system. Yes, teachers do get long breaks, but they often have to plan, grade, etc during those breaks. Yeah, I noted that. Even with the sometimes-long hours during the school year and their not
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by asark 7y ago
"Career" as synonymous with "job with lots of promotion potential" is... a sad place we've arrived at.
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by asark 7y ago
In the US teaching's in an interesting position, being one of the only salaried jobs with reasonable amounts of time off (once you take out the parts of Summer teachers are actually working—planning, late Summer meetings and such, plus
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by asark 7y ago
Human interaction isn't math. The law isn't even math. Neither ever will be.
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by asark 7y ago
> Often when working on a concept, you're too deep in to see the simple solutions anymore. I've seen at least as much stakeholder or designer (backed by stakeholder) ego keeping UX-harming crap in, while plenty of people on the
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by asark 7y ago
Tried one at a previous workplace ~1.5 years ago (IE/Edge test machine, convenient for carrying around to show people stuff rather than using a VM on your main machine for all Windows testing). Maybe with Linux or a BSD and if you igno
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by asark 7y ago
Midwest here, too. It's Macbooks all the way most any place under three-digit headcount. Or agencies, no matter the size. Larger places seem to favor Windows laptops where possible (all but iOS dev) because they're usually using M
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by asark 7y ago
I switched relatively late (2011 or so) after about a decade of Windows and Linux laptops. The actually-usable trackpad that didn't make me want to carry a mouse everywhere if I actually wanted to use the computer on the go, the batter
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by asark 7y ago
> It's also an indictment of this era of both hardware and software that nobody else produces a more compelling option. They were way ahead of other laptop makers in basically every way but upgradeability, so they could afford to sc
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by asark 7y ago
Not that you're necessarily emailing these, but on the "appears more polished" thing, you may be surprised how many C-level (and somewhat under) folks don't read email attachments unless they are .ppt(x) files.

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