bruce511

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by bruce511 2y ago
I didn't get to take English at college, but I've spent a lot of my career writing and training. I've written a couple text books, and more documentation than I care to remember. Writing well is definitely a skill worth lea
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I agree that that is how many people see it. Possibly even your professors. Fortunately I went to a place where the professors understood the real goals and made decisions as such. For example (and this is my history, not advice) I took a c
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by bruce511 2y ago
Congratulations on going back. I've considered it from time to time, but honestly it just seems like too much work :) And yes, especially the first couple years there's a lot of work. Especially if you "have a life" outs
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I think it plays a part. Just like personality does. And the college itself does. And the professors you get, and so on. But really the insight is internal. And it's just insight, it doesn't dictate your response. In other words I
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Not sure why you're being downvoted. It's a legit question. So, I think college can be different things to different people. Most will treat it as vocational training. And yes they'll end up being good office workers and we
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You're not wrong, many students approach college as a vocational training facility. I'd say they do want to learn, but the focus is on "learning to get a job". If you're lucky (and I was) at some point you understan
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I'm a parent and sure we posted the children's art on the fridge etc. We even kept some of it as momentos. But of course it has no value beyond the sentimental- the nostalgia and so on. Of course your child's work means somet
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I work in a field where most of my customers are self-taught, often (but not always) degrees in other fields. I can only use my experience as a reference, ymmv. What ive noticed is that people have different strategies to learning. Most ado
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Firstly, congratulations (seriously) on your efforts. Firstly for getting a degree in chemistry (not easy) and secondly for a rigorous approach to self-improvement. I would however suggest that you are not a prototype for self-taught progra
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Naturally not everyone is lucky enough to have the income to do this. The first part though is key - living within your means. It assumes you have means, and that it's possible to live within them. The advice is good - whether you use
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Van Goughs work is only popular now because after his death his sister in law. [1]. She spent her life promoting and selling his work. And it took decades to do. Without her, his work would average simply disappeared. Van Gough of course di
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I'll add that "sell yourself" has (Unfortunately) negative connotations in a Western context. (Possibly in other contexts as well, but I don't know.) We teach children modesty. We correct people who brag. We emphasize th
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by bruce511 2y ago
>> I would be surprised if Delphi 5 ran without a hitch on Windows 10/11 I'd be surprised if it didn't. Not Delphi, but I've been helping a client update their Windows program, from a compiler which shipped in 1998
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Alas I can't watch the YT link right now, so I can't comment on that. However I will point out that the goal of the current "effeciency drive" has nothing to do with the deficit. I confidently predict that the deficit wi
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by bruce511 2y ago
Your answer raises sooo many follow up questions that it's hard to know where to start. But I suppose let's start at the top - What do you mean by Freedom? Should you be free from community responsibilities? Can you pollute water
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It's worth noting that this "financial crisis" (which I disagree with) has been brought on by Republican governments. Bill Clinton left a budget surplus which is the easiest way to pay down the debt. Secondly, if I had to cut
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One minor counterpoint; Solar panels won't start degrading in 20 years. Their degrading is linear and starts when you install them. As a very rough guide you can think of it as 1% per year. The 20-year horizon therefore is not fixed. I
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Job searching, or the reverse Hiring, is always broken, depending on the market mood. This is baked into all industries and comes down to supply and demand. At this point in the cycle, the supply overwhelms demand. So naturally lots of peop
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>> It help make candidates identify weaknesses and collectively improve our field. Actually, and this will sound wrong, but it won't. Let's say the worker pool is 1000 candidates. If I give them sll advice, and they take it,
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On the one hand, yes, certificates are issued by certificate authorities. And this is a critical part of the current web landscape. But, I'll counterpoint that LetsEncrypt isn't the only ACME provider. Should they behave badly oth
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>> ads When you search for a product on Google or Facebook you're going to see ads. That's literally their business model. Frankly if I'm researching a new area then I welcome that. It gives me a place to start. Ads exi
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In my day to day I write code libraries. Some of that code is boring, but some is making something very simple out of something very complicated. Since I do this commercially, not for science, and since I don't agree with software pate
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Voters might not like being blamed. But that doesn't make it "not their fault". If the get defensive I just shrug and repeat "you voted for this".
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I'm not sure Elon is a "regular CEO". He's more like an active investor where the companies are mostly run by other people without him there at all. So yeah, not a typical "business owner" :)
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All democrats really need to say is "you voted for this". None of these actions are surprising so far, they were all well telegraphed before the election. In a year or so when there's truly new stuff to complain about the ln
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Trust me, if you own your own company anywhere, 50 days paid vacation is unlikely. Owners tend to work more, not less. Or let me be more flippant- sure I get 50 paid days off a year. I call it Sunday.
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I feel like perhaps you are seeing a change in this? Obviously the baker doesn't care about the license- but certainly a SAAS approach has gained momentum. Whether this is because the baker wants it that way, or because its easier, and
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>> They very well could make their case to the modern end user that their approach is better than closed source SaaS solutions, or other freeware. Lots of people benefit from Free Software, yes. But asking the consumer to understand l
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>> The reality that you can use many free software projects without much contribution at all is a happy and good accident of the system; but a dangerous one that can and has been often-accidentally weaponized to burn out the actual co
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Not sure why you are bring downvoted. Your argument is clear, and drives the discussion forward. I would agree that Free Software can (and is) used by everyone but only a very tiny fraction are able to exercise any of the Freedoms it advanc

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