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by crpatino 12y ago
I think you are partially right, but the situation (I'd rather not label it as a problem just yet) goes on many levels. By example, Moore Law has allowed us to pack incredibly large amounts to transistors in reasonably affordable machi
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by crpatino 12y ago
Have you ever heard the term "social primate"? If not, or if you do not accept that human beings belong into that category, there is not much of a discussion to be had.
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by crpatino 12y ago
More likely, they will take your $500, drive you around in their trunk for a few days while extracting another $1500, then let you go under the promise to keep paying $100 per week until your original balance runs out and never talk to the
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by crpatino 12y ago
It's not as if they do not have a clue why... "Why might this be? Rudolf points out previous evidence that in the short term, capping hours often just means employees have to get the same work done in a shorter time, which is like
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by crpatino 12y ago
You can always work from home if it is your fancy. It sucks if your employer owns whatever you do offsite, though. Specially if they do not pay overtime. You see... do not attribute to sloth that which can be explained by envy.
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by crpatino 12y ago
Basically, the problem is that no sane person will let you mess with their teeth unless you lack the proper credentials, and experimenting on oneself can be painful enough that almost everyone will quit after their first equivalent of an of
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by crpatino 12y ago
This was closer to being growled at. "Getting bit" is more like the robber baron sending half-a-dozen of pinkertons to your home, and neither you nor your family is ever seen again. And the big deal is that is very much on the pub
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by crpatino 12y ago
How long would it take to get a restraining order if he had done as you say? And what would be the effect on the valuation of the company if that happened? Play fair. Don't be a Prolog interpreter.
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by crpatino 12y ago
You clearly have no children of your own, Mr. Throwaway. While Asparagirl might have been a bit too creative when filling in the details, every parent would be very concerned when some hostile entity hints to be "looking into... your f
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by crpatino 12y ago
Agreed. College educated people tend to never think much about the overwhelming amount of tacit knowledge needed for less prestigious and apparently simple jobs. Still, I can feel the pain of the author, having gone through several months o
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by crpatino 12y ago
Until your weasel executive terminates your job along with a thousand others, so the company looks more profitable prior to an IPO (which to my middle-class simpleton mind is indistinguishable from fraud, because the buyers of stock are not
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by crpatino 12y ago
- Software Engineer - ~6.5 hours from 1:00am - 7:30am (with occasional ups and downs) - ~7.5 hours for optimal - Every workday ~2-3 cups, 0-1 cup on weekend days. - Rarely after noon. I am an owlish kind of person, so I naturally stay late
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by crpatino 12y ago
> I find the hardest part in any project is avoiding and getting rid of technical debt early on. If you have struggled with that, you will love inheriting and refactoring 10+ years of technical debt... on a shoestring... due tomorrow.
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by crpatino 12y ago
This is a extremely long rant that seems to mix together tautologies, unexamined beliefs, either logical impossibilities or downright falsehoods with lots a lots of anger. I will rather be polite and say that I am not interested in keep goi
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by crpatino 12y ago
Agreed. If X does not have any observable evidence in my world, it might as well not exist to me (though it might exist Elsewhere(TM)). But people who brandish the "evidence based" argument do not mean that. What they mean is that
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by crpatino 12y ago
This is a most interesting philosophical question. How do you know that "evidence based reasoning" gives you access to the whole of reality, instead of an (admittedly large and very useful) subset of it? You do not have to answer
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by crpatino 12y ago
How can a system dominated by posers be called a "meritocracy"? I am sure it looks superficially the same, but in essence is the exact opposite.
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by crpatino 12y ago
How curious! I've always thought it will be the other way around. Your assertion assumes either Doomsday scenario (where humans wipe themselves from the face of Earth, and automated machines keep going for a few more decades until disr
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by crpatino 12y ago
Well, it has to be said. The rest of the world is pretty firmly for the idea that advanced education is professionalization (aka. practical skills training). The "critical thinking" idea is given lip service, but rarely taken se
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by crpatino 12y ago
All your points are worthy, and up to a point I agree. You are also right about my model, my ROI is probably flawed. I think the main flaw, though, is not lack of "expenses" but lack of a cost of opportunity analysis which explore
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by crpatino 12y ago
Agreed with the learning how to code part. You still have not addressed the question on how to land connections with wealthy individuals. Otherwise, you are going to end up making lots of money... for somebody else.
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by crpatino 12y ago
On the contrary, my personal experience is that Universities are very good to transmit specific knowledge (i.e. Python), but fail miserably to develop introspective and critical thinking in their pupils. By necessity, you gain the later by
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by crpatino 12y ago
>“Why would you spend a quarter of a million dollars and four years to learn to code in Python?” The "learning to code in Python" part qualifies you to earn in the ballpark of $125K USD per year, on average, over a career that
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by crpatino 12y ago
Most likely compete. Google excels at organizing information by means of symbolic processing/manipulation. Dog "know-how" is opaque enough to mix well with existing expertise. Unless they go meta and get in the dog training b
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by crpatino 12y ago
> Google doesn't even sell health insurance. ... yet. But even now, nothing prevents Google from selling personal data to established insurance players.
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by crpatino 12y ago
Agreed. I could have (and sometimes did) passed every high school exam with decent grades (~B+) without studying, just by having actually learned the K9 material during the previous years. However, what I got out of the experience was 2 thi
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by crpatino 12y ago
> I joined my last company with very little programming experience... I think you underestimate the bast amount of tacit knowledge it takes to write a simple (yet working and correct) 1-5 KLOC program. That itself requires as prerequisit
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by crpatino 12y ago
I am a Catholic too, though marginally attached to the Church due to multiple and systematic dubious ethical decisions from the top of our clergy hierarchy (of which the de-facto protection of pederast priests is just the tip of the iceberg
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by crpatino 12y ago
Honestly man, leave your religious hate at the doorstep. It's like saying that, because Motorola was making lot's money on the electronics business back in the day, then ought to provide Six Sigma Black Belt Certifications for fre
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by crpatino 12y ago
The locking out came when Sun sued Microsoft on copyright infringement (or trademark infringement, I don't recall), then they were forbidden from continuing to enhance and offer the product, but end up still providing minimum (security

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