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by awat 6y ago
What is the relationship between this study and the website? This reads like organic marketing/“thought leadership” to me. Could be just me being pessimistic though.
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by awat 6y ago
In fair turn I would say you are assuming if enough people are “screwed” they become interested in learning instead of turning to violence or some other sort of retribution.
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by awat 6y ago
I wonder how common this story is, my brother was accepted to Penn but our family didn’t have the money. We both ended up at large state schools getting honors degrees. The whole decision making process for us was money based not merit base
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by awat 6y ago
That assumes there isn’t going to be a repatriation tax holiday at some point.
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by awat 6y ago
This is going to create some interesting attack vectors.
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by awat 6y ago
You’ll occasionally get funny looks but it’s probably safer to just assume that pretty much anything that has sensors is or has been comprised.
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by awat 6y ago
+1 fantastic book for the person in the right state of interest.
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by awat 6y ago
Your point about PhDs is spot on. I’m increasingly seeing job postings with PhD asks for software and ent architecture roles that don’t seem to articulate the need for the PhD. Anecdotally it seems PhDs are also getting dragged into the cre
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by awat 6y ago
It’s getting more and more difficult to justify undergrad 4-year degrees I don’t find it all that surprising that when you strip out the facilities and don’t drop tuition it’s causing this effect. It’s essentially a luxury service in many w
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by awat 6y ago
Until risk exceeds reward to a degree where the reward is not worth the risk this will continue.
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by awat 6y ago
:(
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by awat 6y ago
Likely BMI of 30+
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by awat 6y ago
At what point does being non-partisan become less professional/respectable than being partisan?
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by awat 6y ago
Absolutely, referring to schools in Utah and this is exactly it. The buyer/user/student is penalized for the lack of upfront capital and generally the business model is more aggressive because they don’t have the ability to use ca
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by awat 6y ago
I’m quite involved in the Ed tech space and unfortunately it’s an environment where a lot of times it’s more expensive to be poor.
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by awat 6y ago
Interesting, probably at least partially explains the gobs of money they are throwing at content production.
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by awat 6y ago
Oh it definitely can be faked. But so many orgs don’t even attempt to show they’re faking it.
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by awat 6y ago
I don’t now that it’s specifically better to have a CEO that was an engineer. It probably is based on my experience. What I’m referring to is that period where engineers want to stay vs being heavily comp’d to stay. You can see people throu
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by awat 6y ago
Not directly a compensation component but organizations can make sure they have a technical leader supporting software organizations. Consulting with companies on productivity I can’t express how much devs not feeling like they have represe
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by awat 6y ago
To echo what lots have said in this thread this sounds like a cultural shift which is a large lift. I’d recommend reading Heart of Change by John Kotter for ideas on approaches for change management and influencing change.
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by awat 6y ago
To me this is a super underrepresented group if you can call it that. Tons and tons of mid market companies have more of these programmers than traditional CS grads.
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by awat 6y ago
"Before Enlightenment chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment chop wood, carry water".
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by awat 7y ago
In general I can appreciate the general tenets of minimalism. It may be just my own pessimism but it’s seems to becoming a movement that requires you to get rid of things and buy new “minimalist” items to replace them.
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by awat 7y ago
Personally I feel like, one one of the variables that isn’t considered in the returns conversation is time. Lots of employers have reimbursement programs that can be used while working up even of you currently work in big retail or corporat
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by awat 7y ago
Excellent stuff, will happily continue to donate and would encourage others to as well. *Not associated just an admirer of the EFFs work
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by awat 7y ago
This is an important point. Also this list by it’s very nature favors schools with less overall majors and more majors of a technical nature. Not sure how useful this data really is considering the number of variables.
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by awat 7y ago
Yikes. That’s pretty much the reason I left the org I was referring to.
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by awat 7y ago
I felt this when I joined a sales org as a Sales Engineer. I felt like I was making a healthy salary but couldn’t believe the cars I was seeing driven by the reps I supported. Until one day I had a conversation about it with a few of them a
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by awat 7y ago
If I had to take a guess this is related to books that have illegal PDF(s) in the wild. Paired with Amazon making little to no effort to verify product authenticity. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019&#
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by awat 7y ago
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