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by bootsz 9y ago
This is what has always confused me when hearing people talk about "the economy"... Clearly in the US we romanticize the post-WWII era beyond belief, and indeed it was an incredibly prosperous time. But is it really reasonable to
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by bootsz 9y ago
I imagine that's probably what the author would argue, but I'm not convinced that should be the only option. You can get a masters in a lot of different fields without needing a bachelors in the same subject. The question is whe
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by bootsz 9y ago
I agree, there is definitely a broad spectrum in terms of what amount of background a student needs to be able to complete a given MS program. But I'm not entirely convinced that it's appropriate to argue that the only "true&
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by bootsz 9y ago
The crux of the issue here seems to be that the author believes that a "true" MSCS is one that can only be obtained by those who have first completed a bachelor's degree in CS. We might want to consider whether that is a va
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by bootsz 9y ago
> Wilfra mentions “disdain for people who don’t have a BS CS who want to get an MS CS.” It was certainly not my intent to express disdain for people who follow this path! Many people pull it off admirably. However, it is a difficult path
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by bootsz 9y ago
Entirely depends on your use case most likely. While thus far I've mostly only used these services for side projects & academic research, I will say that I found Google Cloud to be the easiest to use by far for a casual / new
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by bootsz 9y ago
> I took it at 40% of my normal day-job rate I think one of the hardest things about starting out freelancing or consulting is figuring out how to properly charge for your time. Almost everyone comes in way too low when they're sta
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by bootsz 9y ago
I like that trick; might just have to adopt it myself! I've heard of it being applied to other things like sweets (e.g. you can have dessert but make your own from scratch, don't buy junk food). Just putting that extra obstacle
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by bootsz 9y ago
I'd definitely recommend trying a full detox at some point, once you can spare the time and temporary decrease in productivity. It's a good way to eliminate variables and get a better idea of what's really going on with your
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by bootsz 9y ago
TL;DR: It didn't change much. Better sleep on average, but I eventually missed the occasional bursts of inspiration and productivity that I would get with caffeine which caused me to pick it up again. -- I've gone off caffeine a
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by bootsz 9y ago
+1 on wall slides. Recently ended up in physical therapy for back pain, undoubtedly due to excessive sitting / bad posture. These were brutal the first couple of times but after 2 months I have a much better range of motion and notic
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by bootsz 9y ago
You are not alone in your frustration, and I suspect most people here will sympathize with you as this topic comes up quite often in the software community. Just be aware that drawing this kind of line in the sand is going to greatly limit
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by bootsz 9y ago
Facebook's biggest asset is their data. My guess is that if they can't show you ads, they lose some of the ability to track you and your behavior in terms of interaction with the ads, interaction which creates additional valuable
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by bootsz 9y ago
That's a great way of putting it!
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by bootsz 9y ago
> Many students, especially bright and motivated students, find algebra, geometry, and even calculus dull and uninspiring That was me. I grew up believing I hated math. Struggled all the way through middle & high school to AP cal
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by bootsz 9y ago
> What is life but a struggle to become the best person one can be? And who cares if the quest kills us? We're all going to die anyway. What else were you going to do with your short life? This. But as with many things, I think i
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by bootsz 9y ago
There's a lot of posts on HN related to this, some with links to spreadsheets of anonymized data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14538984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15501158 https:&#x2
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by bootsz 9y ago
I recommend the Princeton course on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies, available free on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency I took this last year and found it very informative
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by bootsz 9y ago
Worthless is not a fair adjective, I have rephrased. But I still maintain that (outside of Accounting) I would not personally recommend a young person to get their undergraduate degree in business assuming it will be their sole undergradu
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by bootsz 9y ago
* > (Separately: Don't get an undergraduate degree in business. What a worthless degree.) Depends on the major. Accounting is a pretty legitimate degree with high-ish earning potential. Finance can be semi-legit, but most Wall Str
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There Is No Steady State Economy (2011)(ourfiniteworld.com)
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by bootsz 9y ago
Yes but you can only really "have enough" once you've cashed out into a medium that has a negligible risk of being worth nothing. It still takes major cojones to leave that much in BTC for so long, thus my kudos
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by bootsz 9y ago
Congrats on your fortune. This is a very honorable thing to do. But my real question is: How on earth did you manage to resist selling your holdings for such a long time after you crossed the $1MM mark? That's some superhuman level of
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by bootsz 9y ago
Stuff like this is funny until you've seen & had to deal with enough real production code that's just as terrible. Then it's just depressing.
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by bootsz 9y ago
This really hits home: > How much of what software engineers now do is still devoted to the accidental, as opposed to the essential? Far, far too much
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by bootsz 9y ago
I'm not really trying to propose a concrete solution so much as shedding some light on why these things keep happening over and over again. For a successful founder it takes a relatively short amount of time to strike it rich and secu
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by bootsz 9y ago
That's very optimistic, though not entirely impossible. Have you ever tried to enact large-scale change in a massive organization from the bottom rung? Also are you gonna rock the boat when your options haven't vested yet?
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by bootsz 9y ago
I'm always a bit ambivalent about confessions/apologies of this sort by former execs and employees of these powerful companies. On the one had I'm glad they are speaking up and recognizing the harm being caused by the busine
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by bootsz 9y ago
I'd be interested to know if anyone has attempted to research that. I'd imagine it might be hard to accurately measure levels of "conformity"
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by bootsz 9y ago
> The problem is not that we are paralyzed with despair; the problem, more likely, is that we haven’t really internalized what’s in store for us. The problem is that our species is already delusionally optimistic by nature. > Not a

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