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by bromang 14y ago
the author seems to be in the business of creating fairly simple internet apps, so I'm not sure why his interviews would ever need to deal with the implementation of hash tables...
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by bromang 14y ago
the vast majority of German apprenticeships are not in traditional industrial roles or trades like plumbing. the existence of quality post-school training opportunities has little to do with the existence of a strong manufacturing sector.
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by bromang 14y ago
the UK system is an extremely poor version of the German system. To implement an apprenticeship model, the state HAS to take direct control over the hiring of almost all entry level employees. otherwise the incentives and work culture is si
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by bromang 14y ago
the ability to do all those things without having to work at the same time is a real luxury. it is certainly a nice thing to do, but someone (you or the state) has to pay for it, so the costs and benefits of different types of education/tra
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by bromang 14y ago
Most people reading this site are not doing machine learning or advanced technical work. The day to day work of the vast majority of programmers does not require completion of advanced formal education (or the self taught equivalent). Even
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by bromang 14y ago
C/C++ is the language of choice for scientific and massively parallel programming. as far as I know Haskell is not really competitive in that area.
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by bromang 14y ago
the only people who have the time and mental energy to get "offended" about this sort of thing tend be privileged
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by bromang 14y ago
the universal aims of this project seem a bit misguided. only a small percentage of students will have the ability to be productive programmers.
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by bromang 14y ago
is there any well known data/studies on selection methods for programmers? I can understand the reasons why not to use algo problems as a filter, but I would have thought simpler forms of intelligence testing would still be quite useful.
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by bromang 14y ago
depending on your area of specialization, microeconomics and game theory are no less bogus than DSGEs. MWG, for example, does not mention real world data once...
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by bromang 14y ago
When someone trots out the same old "multiple intelligences" line, that is a pretty good indicator of their intelligence. or at least their intellectual laziness.
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by bromang 14y ago
Citation needed for the claim that IQ tests are highly game-able. And nobody denies that there are different types of mental abiltiy, so I'm not sure who or what you are trying to argue against.
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by bromang 14y ago
can you provide a citation for the claim that quality of education has a significant effect on IQ?
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by bromang 14y ago
but perhaps there are reasons other than sexist bias for organization that favours one sex over another.
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by bromang 14y ago
This does not demonstrate any bias unless you decide that we can assume men and women with the same CV are equal in all respects
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by bromang 14y ago
why is it racism? I think you need to explain this rather rude and baffling comment.
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by bromang 14y ago
two big problems: 1) most people have a limited ability to make good decisions about policy. 2) the framing and presentation of the issues will have a large effect on how they are perceieved
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by bromang 14y ago
do you know if there have been any attempts to solve other perhaps simpler forms of poker? in particular, five card draw seems like it could be "solved"...
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by bromang 14y ago
The University of London offers full distance learning degree courses. They don't offer very much in the way of support but they are cheap and reputable. See: http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/
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by bromang 14y ago
I think it is quite obviously implied that Chomsky's understanding of all his examples is quite shallow and that they are being used mainly to add weight to a predetermined world view. falkenstein's point is that it is almost impossible to
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by bromang 14y ago
"unless you view 'reason' as an 'ideology'." hah. talk about an inability to self-examine...
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by bromang 14y ago
$10000 a month is a very good salary in Europe
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by bromang 14y ago
You don't need to go to university to learn computer science. That's something you can easily teach yourself using a book and/or the many freely available resources on the internet!
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by bromang 14y ago
you forgot to say why "industry is not the purpose of education".
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by bromang 14y ago
does solving mathematical problems actually increase your general mental ability? Is there any research that supports this?
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by bromang 14y ago
first year maths at a UK university normally includes a lot more than just "calculus and basic linear algebra"
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by bromang 14y ago
Then you should not hire them again! The quality is very poor. There are many grammatical mistakes and the style is quite clunky. It makes your company seem a lot less professional.
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by bromang 14y ago
I think you can also charge a lot more than you currently do
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by bromang 14y ago
you should hire a native english speaker to write your marketing copy
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by bromang 14y ago
It is not actually very clear how much difference a student's school makes. Going to a private school on its own does not help with university admissions (if anything, it makes it more difficult). The superior quality of private education m

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