chestertn

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Ask HN: Differences in Programming Style by Nationalities
39 points by chestertn 5y ago|37 comments
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by chestertn 5y ago
I would not say that EU grads are better than American grads or the opposite. They both have different set of skills and strengths. My experience is the following: I’m an European grad but did my PhD in the USA . In Europe tests were brutal
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by chestertn 5y ago
Historical reasons. Europe was wrecked in WW1 and WW2.
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by chestertn 5y ago
Bingo
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by chestertn 6y ago
Hey, I guess the Renaissance was a mistake. All those snobs reading Protagoras and Cicero, eh? Waste of time.
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by chestertn 6y ago
Again, I did not introduce the high culture vs low culture debate. I just said that there are better pieces of art and worse pieces of art. Is strange that there is such a debate when something like this is said about art but not about any
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by chestertn 6y ago
I wouldn’t characterize Whitman as kitsch. Maybe saccharine? Many poets from the romanticism sound like that. I won’t disagree with you in that Elliot is overrated. I’m just saying that Elliot and Whitman’s poetry (as an example) is at a hi
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by chestertn 6y ago
“Forever ever? Forever ever? Ever, ever?” - Kanye West
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by chestertn 6y ago
Well, I tried not to get into the "low culture" vs "high culture" debate by just trying to put an example that I thought it would be agreeable to most people. In Paris, Texas we see an slow but deep study of a character
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by chestertn 6y ago
See how heartbreak is depicted, for instance in a masterpiece like Paris, Texas and in a random Venezuelan soap opera.
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by chestertn 6y ago
Well, thank God “philantropist vaccine Bill” is a diferent person.
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by chestertn 6y ago
I didn't argue about that. I just said that before American rule they were ruled by Spaniards.
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by chestertn 6y ago
I just complained about the use of "western diet" as a catch-all epithet for unhealthy, processed food.
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by chestertn 6y ago
Western style != American style. Philippines was part of the Spanish crown and had Spanish customs. Plenty of European (Western) countries have balanced diets and healthy lifestyles.
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by chestertn 6y ago
Side comment: it’s scary how some group came with the idea that we had to capitalize Black as a racial/ethnical epithet and now every major news media does it for fear of not being sensitive enough. Not considering whether there’s any
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by chestertn 6y ago
This is interesting, I couldn’t read the article that the WaPo references since it is paywalled, but lots of doctors today are ethnically Asian and Indian - can the experiment be extrapolated to this doctors too? I’ve seen also some calls t