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by carls 6y ago
Can you share some sources on these claims?
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by carls 6y ago
Even if you had gotten into Berkeley, I suspect your current mindset will just instead feel similarly insecure about why you didn't get into Stanford. And even if you had gotten into Stanford, I wonder if you would feel insecure around
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by carls 6y ago
While you are correct in that (1) the credentials/pedigree and (2) some measure of intelligence will strongly positively impact job searching, your original comment seems to imply that this is sufficient. Then, this comment that I&#x27
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by carls 6y ago
Have there been any info shared by Zoom explicitly about this decision? And are there any HNers who work at Zoom, or know someone who works at Zoom, who can speak to how this situation is perceived internally?
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by carls 6y ago
Former middle- and high-school CS teacher here. I also have used this with my students before. Most of the activities are definitely great and it's generally a well-regarded resource in the CS teaching community. The at home resources
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The case against CS master's degrees
1 points by carls 6y ago|2 comments
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The Bradfield Computer Science Intensive (12mo Program)(bradfieldcs.com)
1 points by carls 6y ago|0 comments
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ShareMyCheck(sharemycheck.org)
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Thumbtack lays off 250 due to Covid-19(techcrunch.com)
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Microsoft commits to paying hourly contract workers affected by coronavirus(blogs.microsoft.com)
11 points by carls 7y ago|2 comments
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by carls 7y ago
I remember reading How Will You Measure Your Life years ago right after college and enjoying it. I also found the following section from the article especially thought-provoking: > He second-guessed the wording of the label, but never th
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by carls 7y ago
Just to piggyback off of this comment, from anecdotal experience as a high school teacher, I found the portion of the replication quoted in Margin Revolution to be quite true: "… as expected, average effects were small because many s
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by carls 7y ago
I'm not the author of the original comment, but a few things I've found questioning the replicability of the "growth mindset" work are here: * Summary of a some criticism by researchers trying to replicate the original s
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Operation Paperclip(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by carls 7y ago|0 comments
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by carls 7y ago
I think it depends on whose perspective you're asking for. I think from an employee perspective, seeing leaders talk about squishy things like "company values" can feel hokey and gimmicky. After all, even Enron had plaques ha
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by carls 8y ago
I'm a high school computer science teacher (who has also taught middle and elementary school students) and would like to absolutely echo this. As folks who are fairly proficient in programming, our scales for what constitutes as a &quo
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by carls 12y ago
Well said.
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Memento mori(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by carls 12y ago|0 comments
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The Unabomber's Manifesto(editions-hache.com)
1 points by carls 12y ago|0 comments
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120 Data Science Interview Questions(datasciencequestions.com)
2 points by carls 13y ago|0 comments
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by carls 13y ago
Hey Jake, Carl here :-) Congrats on the launch of the new program! Really excited to see the growth and spread of the Insight program.
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by carls 13y ago
This seems to be a herald to the situation described in the poem All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace (1967) by Richard Brautigan. I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and com
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by carls 13y ago
The frustration and resentment articulated through the comments here towards Bret Victor's post seems to stem from one of two sources: (a) Bret Victor claiming that code.org is implicitly, via quotes from high-profile figures, supporti
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Technology and the Position of Women by John McCarthy(www-formal.stanford.edu)
49 points by carls 13y ago|19 comments
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by carls 13y ago
This reminds me of something I once read of Ralph Nader: Karen Croft, a writer who worked for Nader in the late 1970s at the Center for Study of Responsive Law, once asked him if he had ever considered getting married. She reports: "He
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Tribal Workers(msittig.freeshell.org)
1 points by carls 13y ago|0 comments
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Too Many Projects?(sebastianmarshall.com)
2 points by carls 15y ago|0 comments