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No company would actually phrase it as "a willingness to get often arbitrary work done on schedule with acceptable quality", but in all but the most raw of startups, that is what they mean . That's the reality of having a
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It's still informative. If someone wants a technical job but doesn't have a degree in the field, it's totally legitimate to wonder why. Especially when, as you point out, it ain't that hard to get one. This matters a lot
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I think my point is more about working four years at McD when you're 16, vs working four years at McD when you're 26. At 16-20, it demonstrates some commitment. At 26-30, it demonstrates complacency.
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We are a long way from diluting the IT labor pool to the point where it systematically depresses wages. Assuming some sort of relationship between potential talent as a programmer and natural attraction to programming, then programming is a
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Staying at McDonalds for four years is proof of lacking ambition and creativity...
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Eh. A college student has a lot more independence and responsibility than a minimum wage burger-flipper. Moreover, they're given problems that presumably require a modicum of intelligence, literacy and numeracy, and other skills that g
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I just solved a system-wide, time-consuming problem by making it cease to exist. Rather than writing code, I rendered a lot of existing code irrelevant (it has architectural implications as well). According to the typists, that's not &
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A four year degree isn't necessary for coding proficiency, nor is it proof of coding proficiency. It is , however, a strong social proof for other things that matter a great deal. To complete a four year degree requires a commitment,
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Steve Jobs didn't have one...
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Proficiency in coding isn't the interesting part of solving problems with software, though. Or as I sometimes say, "That's not programming, that's just typing".
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After mastering a few skills, I can tell when I've mastered something when I hit that point where I feel like the more I learn, the less I know. There's a Zen saying for that (I know via Shunryo Suzuki)... Before you start zen, mo
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That sort of thing scares me. I'd rather have it automatically send notifications to me that I need supplies, and let me do the ordering.
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What I don't understand is... What's in this for Google? Why are they making such a radical, customer-hostile, partner-hostile change in direction? Strategically, this just seems all wrong to me, but there's clearly a Big Pic
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Mine still looks pretty sad and despondent after a couple of years. I hope it's beautiful someday, but for now it's pretty dull next to its glamorous Japanese maple neighbor.
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And around here, they have to be ok if it hits -20F sometimes in the winter. I have a magnolia, and it completely boggles me that it survives and thrives this far north.
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I'm a power user in three different directions - audio recording (like making records), serious photo editing, and software development. I'm drifting hard toward getting an iPad Pro for audio and photo work, and a Chromebook for s
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When my mother's last Windows laptop finally bit the dust, I bought her a Chromebook. Haven't had another service call in the three years since. She's old and tends to believe anything a computer tells her, from "YOU HAV
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Sometimes, that's due to blights. We're losing a lot of beautiful, mature ash trees to emerald ash borers. So any tree with even a hint of them leads to immediate destruction. I have a big, beautiful ash tree, and live a few block
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Living in an urban forest, ripping up wild young trees is part of normal yard maintenance. I probably get at least a dozen a year. Two of my full-sized trees in my yard were wild seedlings that I allowed to grow because I like those particu
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The "close cousins" thing is interesting for me. I live in a tree-lined streets neighborhood. Historically, they chose species on a street-by-street basis. My street was all linden trees for the curb trees (except for a last remai
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It's been working on older Chromebooks, too. I have a crappy three year old ARM-based Samsung that has followed along with the OS upgrades, as Chromebooks do. I now do a fair bit of development in its terminal (and more by ssh into a D
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Not everyone adapted to milk. Lactose intolerance is widespread, and even more common with people whose ancestors did not have a dairy culture.
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The success of agrarian diets doesn't mean they are healthier than what might be called paleo. Rather, it has a host of other side effects - a larger, more stable food supply means a larger population. A large population means speciali
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It doesn't mean going hungry, but it does mean taking some pretty extreme measures, because any day that exceeds keto-level carbs is going off the wagon and requires another physical reset to get back into keto.
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I think I mentioned in my OP that I appreciate the eye to modern safety here. But the proponents of nuclear as a (or THE) solution generally aren't talking about this design. They're either talking more of the same-old reactor des
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I have a market argument against thorium reactors - basically, if they were as awesome as their proponents argue, then someone would have built one by now, for commercial purposes. But there hasn't ever been a commercial thorium reac
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I've learned to never be bearish in the big picture sense. It's a human instinct that doesn't very well reflect our modern world.
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Another reason, as I have a moment to write... vulnerability to terrorist/military action. It's not enough to safeguard a plant against accidents. It needs to be safeguarded from malice as well - including inside jobs (a knowledge
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A number of reasons, but for starters, consider inequality. Are we going to give Yemen a nuclear power plant? Somalia? Can Bolivia afford one? They are expensive, require tremendous infrastructure, and mean deploying fissionable materials
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It depends in part on the cost/duration required to scale reactor power up and down. It's apparently being marketed (at least per reading of this article) as a supplement for when the solar/wind grid is inadequate. That puts

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