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by azanar 16y ago
If you take a risk and co-found your own startup with 0 years of experience, then even if you tank 2 years later, you are likely to wind up close to the 5 years of experience point of the hockey stick when applying for a job. That's proba
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by azanar 16y ago
There is an interesting subtext in this article, which is to suggest that you take more risks as you get closer to the asymptote of salary growth, because it's the way to avoid diminishing returns for the additional skills you've learned
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by azanar 16y ago
One is made out of a bunch of "edible food-like substances" (to quote Michael Pollan) the other is made with actual food. Because once we poison the well, only then can we have a fruitful discussion about this. Let's not drop this to the
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by azanar 16y ago
As we become dependent on products which are centrally produced (very efficiently) and widely distributed, we all become vulnerable when a disaster strikes the producers. True, and I tend to underestimate just how centralized the producti
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by azanar 16y ago
what happens if the global logistics infrastructure breaks down because of war/rising oil prices/political turmoil etc? What happens if some local infrastructure breaks down in a way that that the local community is put to a standstill un
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by azanar 16y ago
If I shop at Wal-Mart, the money leaves my local economy forever and basically just goes to shareholders and overseas manufactures. This is only the case if no one who gets money, either directly or indirectly, from Wal-Mart wants to buy
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by azanar 16y ago
I understand the point you are trying to make in posting this, and it is a good point to make. However, in the article, Norvig himself points out the worthiness of learning several languages, and doesn't claim that you have to get on a te
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by azanar 16y ago
That advice only works with people with little experience. True, but... For us folks on our late 20s, that have 7+ years of experience, compensation matters. If you already been into few good startups, or build from scratch successful pr
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by azanar 16y ago
What if your "boss" is only a boss by organizational title, but is in truth more of a peer? That is, they play the part for the areas of the company that need the organizational structure to be comfortable. But, amongst the developers they
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by azanar 16y ago
I don't know: people crave recognition from their communities. For some people, the boss is an important constituent there. I guess this depends on what someone wants to be recognized for. An interesting question worth asking is why the r
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by azanar 16y ago
The really good IT professionals will still cost you a pretty penny, but they’re worth it because they can make your organization more efficient or innovative, or both. So, in other words, the not-so-really-good IT professionals should co
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by azanar 16y ago
Well, wait. You've jumped one step ahead of me here, by asserting the following implication: You develop a familial bond if and only if you have introduced an child as a family member. Is this a necessary condition? If so, I suspect we are
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by azanar 16y ago
In what sense is marriage "archaic"? The bond of family is unlike any other bond. You don't need a marriage to have a family; if you disagree with this, I worry you are getting concepts and titles knotted to tightly with one another. Fami
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by azanar 16y ago
So far as being angry, Americans should be getting angry -- 30 years of conservative orthodoxy have all but destroyed the American Dream. They should be angry, but at themselves. They were marketed an image of a perfect, prosperous future
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by azanar 16y ago
It's definitely a challenge to discard your old mental models if/when they start to become hindrances, but far from impossible. I think this is actually the most important skill one develops by constantly reading up and playing with new t
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by azanar 16y ago
I'll make a tangentially related assertion that I think is a bit more defensible: people tend to become increasing resistent to training in new skillsets as a function of their age. Like you, I think they are perfectly capable; the problem
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by azanar 16y ago
Not every imbalance is due to the active discrimination of some powerful class over the "little guy," as popular as it seems to be to scream that whenever imbalances are discovered. The problems are usually not that simple, and attempting t
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by azanar 16y ago
...the entire culture is aimed at getting rich by startup, which is a mercilessly meritocratic process. I think the entire culture is aimed at a much broader motivation than that. It is aimed at a culture of intense intellectual curiosity
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by azanar 16y ago
I wonder about people being unable to think critically and deeply; I think that the degree that people think deeply is a gradient across a multi-dimensional space, where possible axes include: mental wiring, motivation, and practice. I've k
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by azanar 16y ago
You make what you measure, and usually, you can only measure a few things often enough to really make a difference. So, you need to be damn certain you pick the right metrics ahead of time, otherwise you will end up with nothing near what y
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by azanar 16y ago
I don't think it is reasonable to lay this at the feet of the education system. In fact, it is somewhat difficult to lay this at the feet of any system, to be honest. It is a systemic failure of both the system, and the people who depend
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by azanar 16y ago
Has modern education become so jaded that it now plays out as farce, where learning is not the goal but gaming the system is?...I have never understood this mind-set. There is a certain degree of faith needed to want to make progress towa
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by azanar 16y ago
The world is bullshit. And you certainly did your part in helping the world that direction. You were willing to undersell yourself in allowing people to pass off your work and knowledge and skills as your own, and then you wonder why ever
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by azanar 16y ago
I'll not speak for everyone else. But, for me, your point got lost in the righteous indignation that came in subsequent replies in the sub-thread. It is very difficult to assert humility while maintaining an impression of the same. I only s
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by azanar 16y ago
You have a tremendous number of potentially severe cognitive biases in just these few sentences. In fact, it strikes me as wearing a sense of pessimistic self-fulfillment in as much as the article author suffers from self-entitlement. You'r
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by azanar 16y ago
If you really care which programming languages I already know or which applications I have used before, I can only assume that you're overlooking my ability to quickly pick up new technologies and adjust to new ways of thinking. This is
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by azanar 16y ago
Usually, they are stumbling all over themselves, and completely failing every question they are asked. These become the sorts of interviews people write about on The Daily WTF and other blogs online. That is, unless they interview at an org
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by azanar 16y ago
The real title should be: "Theory without practice is overrated". It's not even that. His assertion seems to be that practice outside of a sufficiently business-like environment doesn't count, because you won't be compelled to focus all o
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by azanar 16y ago
I simply never had an external pressure that would throw me into the necessity to know ins and outs of Haskell by heart This is the real problem then, isn't it. External pressure is not the only thing that can exert the necessary motivati
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by azanar 16y ago
Do it where I work and you'll be out of a job. You might be out of a job anyway, even if you decide to go along. Companies do not fire people just for matters of insubordination, they fire people for budgetary reasons as well. If whatever

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