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by dgabriel 16y ago
I think you've misread the article. You have worked hard, which is great. Other people have also worked hard, but they started later and had fewer opportunities in this field. Does this mean you should feel guilty? No. It means that yo
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by dgabriel 16y ago
The tone can be off-putting, but it comes from being treated like dirt by snotty kids who think that their good fortune == inherent superiority.
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by dgabriel 16y ago
I agree that the project is awesome, but without those who criticize and analyze, no thought gets put into how to make the world better. Note: there is no "fault." There are built-in injustices in society that are not due to some inherent
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by dgabriel 16y ago
My son and I are doing the exact same thing, on a smaller scale out of our basement in conjunction with the public school.
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by dgabriel 16y ago
The tennis players -- they're both, and so are you. The article asks you to accept that you were privileged, and there's nothing evil about that.
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by dgabriel 16y ago
Please don't miss the point: you had the opportunity, as did many of your middle class peers, to discover your aptitude for computers at an early age. This is not an opportunity afforded to children in low income homes. You are not requi
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by dgabriel 16y ago
I agree with you. I also think that the Robotics 4H club is great, and wanted to share the link...
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by dgabriel 16y ago
This isn't new, and has little to do with diversity programs. Frankly, it's not the unqualified poor minority students keeping you out, it's the unqualified wealthy legacy students. That group is almost certain to gain admittance to a pre
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by dgabriel 16y ago
That's because you are not a minority, and of course you don't see it on a daily basis. Out of curiosity, what sort of racism have you experienced?
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by dgabriel 16y ago
Unless it's this 4H club: http://www.air4h.org/about/
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by dgabriel 16y ago
That is not an accurate characterization of how the institutions themselves see poor whites. You may find some outspoken idiot students who hold these beliefs, but you'll find outspoken idiots who think lots of foolish things.
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by dgabriel 16y ago
I believe they did that in this study. It's not a single class, but many classes.
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by dgabriel 16y ago
Good for you. Alas, we have abandoned mobile phones for the sake of frugality.
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by dgabriel 16y ago
First, in case you're wondering if you should just keep your trap shut, it's ok to get called out once in a while. It can be embarrassing, but it's part of every learning curve & it will make you smarter, so long as you listen and hand
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by dgabriel 16y ago
I apologize for my sincerity. Please downvote any of my other comments to get your vote back. :)
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by dgabriel 16y ago
I don't buy that argument. In my opinion, the more talented developers there are, the fewer bad ones will be able to remain in the industry. I don't see the market being glutted by great developers under any circumstances. Artificial li
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by dgabriel 16y ago
I'm not being sarcastic at all. I know several people who would make excellent developers, but they went into teaching, or consulting, or marketing, or whatever. The pay is either equivalent or less, but the status for those positions is
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by dgabriel 16y ago
I once took a 20 thousand dollar pay cut by bailing on a company that was trying to kill me. I'm much happier now.
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by dgabriel 16y ago
Oh, I agree. It's misconceptions like these that keep very smart, talented people out of programming and development.
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by dgabriel 16y ago
From their site: "The company has experienced exceptional growth and currently hosts 5000+ dedicated servers and co-located machines, 5000+ Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and millions of websites." If it's one guy running it from his apartm
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by dgabriel 16y ago
>best school's Maybe.
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by dgabriel 16y ago
Ex-husband & I have one child. My current partner (also divorced) & I are not married and we have two children.
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by dgabriel 16y ago
This is an interesting article that explores the ethics and morality of walking away from a mortgage. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1597835 Frankly, I'm torn about whether or not I would do the same in a similar situa
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by dgabriel 16y ago
I am a woman who pays my ex-husband a small amount of alimony, and a significant amount of child support even though we have 50-50 physical custody. The courts do not favor the woman, they favor the spouse in the weaker position financially
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by dgabriel 16y ago
My now 8yo, then 3yo, almost drowned in a hotel pool while I was swimming just a couple of yards away from him. I reached him in seconds, and his reaction was to scale me like a tree, at which point I flung him onto the concrete. He had s
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by dgabriel 16y ago
Dolphins aren't whales?
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by dgabriel 16y ago
You did have parents to fall back on, which is huge. Sure, you worked hard, but you did have a family safety net.
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by dgabriel 16y ago
> the same people qualifying for $25/month rents were driving Escalades I have not known this to be true. The handful of people I know who qualify for section 8 don't own cars, or have 15yo beaters.
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by dgabriel 16y ago
Smokers know the risks (come on, everybody knows the risks), and generally don't care. As the following article states, the mentally ill smoke a lot. It's likely a combination of self-medication and deliberately self-destructive behavior.
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by dgabriel 16y ago
The very best homemade bread I make is the no knead bread -- it's as easy to make and clean up after as using a bread machine (you just need a bit of time). http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/dining/081mrex.html If you want to get all brea

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