blueboo

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by blueboo 8y ago
> advanced training of any kind - credentialed or not - you had to go to university not true. from music, to plumbing, to software, to fiction writing... meanwhile the training MOOCs provide is hardly equivalent to a bachelor's degr
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by blueboo 8y ago
Weirdo nerd doesn’t get social media, news at 11
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by blueboo 8y ago
When were your particular good ol days, I wonder
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by blueboo 8y ago
10k, so...a couple weeks of a single professional engineer?
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by blueboo 8y ago
...but originating from Reddit? There's, ah, voat...
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by blueboo 8y ago
The pop-science belief is that brain damage is irreversible, so is anyone particularly surprised at this result
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by blueboo 8y ago
Better: A CS Education That's Free And Gets You A Job
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by blueboo 8y ago
Ah, the first--or maybe second--week of freshman ethics. Change from the inside, or from the outside... Take some responsibility. Are you evil for signing on? No, but let's not pretend they're welcoming you because you're
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by blueboo 8y ago
We found someone who hasn't logged onto their Facebook since 2011
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by blueboo 8y ago
A staggering, epic waste of talent, money, and time. Its advocates have harmed the US and its future prospects.
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by blueboo 8y ago
You don’t need unions to se nepotism, complacency and arbitrary rules ubiquitous in a corporate environment. You do need a union if you want to have a voice in those issues though
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by blueboo 8y ago
It's nicely written but I don't know how thoughtful it is. > Big institutions, whose dominance once seemed eternal, are on the brink of collapse. > The explosion of information has undermined and obsoleted the 20th-century o
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by blueboo 8y ago
Fun that you can post people’s gifs and images without attribution and make it the main body of your ‘content’
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by blueboo 8y ago
Doesn’t work in mobile afaict Or is that the Joke
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by blueboo 8y ago
Hah. I knew the top comment would be an Actually, In Defense of Persecuting a Whistleblower.
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by blueboo 8y ago
Unfortunately that leaves one vulnerable to the arsenal of concern trolling. The problem is that these strategies only work if your conversation partner is doing the same in good faith. (This is precisely what Arthur Brooks would have us
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by blueboo 8y ago
> ... effortless and safe also the most pertinent problem with a thousand similarly idiotic ideas, from edible knives to jetpacks
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by blueboo 8y ago
I still can't believe we paid for public awareness campaigns to promote turning off the water when you brush your teeth
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by blueboo 8y ago
> 10 years ago, traveling was that hype thing that everyone neede oh honey, it wasn't 10 years ago -- it was when you and your friends were 10 years younger. The post-adolescent wanderlust continues to cast its spell as it did 20,
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by blueboo 8y ago
Lol, what precious, hysterical overstatement. You think hat ten years ago we hardly kept in touch with people beyond our immediate circle because you were 13. All of your “maybe they...” rhetorical questions have a firm answer outside your
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by blueboo 8y ago
If you're listening to music/watching Netflix during work, your work will probably be automated or outsourced
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by blueboo 8y ago
Except that the only 'wealth' that matters. is that which translates into power. So wealth inequality is power inequality. That is, wealth inequality is the enemy of democracy.
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by blueboo 8y ago
not in any real practical sense
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by blueboo 8y ago
I read all that and still have no idea what the point of it is, nor how performant or usable it is. It reads like an amazon review if someone trying to justify on overpriced purchase to themselves. Meanwhile it looks like this product is t
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by blueboo 8y ago
It's good and you'll be fine if you leave it as is. IF you have extra time to mess with it, read on. Be aware that on average the people interviewing you will look at your portfolio for ~60 seconds. Show off the stuff you'r
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by blueboo 8y ago
nonsense i've done origami with well over a hundred folds and it wasn't quite as big as the universe,
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by blueboo 8y ago
i seem to remember at least one other company doing software and hardware... lol the author 'forgot' about Cruise/GM but what's that compared to the copious knowledge gained by haunting the tesla subreddit
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by blueboo 8y ago
And so the legend goeth: A friend exclaimed, "how do you afford to buy a house in San Francisco?" I, too, laughed! For lo': huts in the wilderness were mere pennies. He hadn't ever been to the bush, and had assumed the
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by blueboo 8y ago
And I dare say staying out of touch with news as Facebook and reddit presents it is ... how to put this, not enriching, but rather more like emotionally detoxing.
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by blueboo 8y ago
This is the kind of misguided mindset that effectively discourages people from making games. It’s as if someone urged people to look into lumber and the papermaking en route to making their own card game. This fellow’s mindset is a common

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