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by elai 16y ago
A lot of community colleges consist of just teachers, being disconnected from the need to do research. All they do is teach, and often just have a masters. I've usually also found they are significantly better at teaching their subjects t
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by elai 16y ago
Professors have four jobs: fundraiser, researcher, teacher and tester. They're evaluated in that priority in most universities. They have a few assistants for their various jobs, but it's mainly on their shoulders. A university professor
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by elai 16y ago
He teaches a good chunk of first and second year math college courses. Especially the more popular ones applicable to a broad number of majors.
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by elai 16y ago
Oh I already have :)
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by elai 16y ago
Would you call his college level courses (high school in some countries) high school level lectures? He doesn't really skip rigour compared to any other college math course at that level.
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by elai 16y ago
And again, the community of learners can be better found in for quite a few on the internet, (especially tech fields) than a random sampling of a university classroom. Plus stuff like tech can be very solitary for large periods of time.
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by elai 16y ago
Gates should donate to khan, even if its a few thousand.
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by elai 16y ago
I think zuckerberg realized it when he looked at what the app store was charging, realized he was in a similar position and realized that it could work.
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by elai 16y ago
Many of these features are not hard to implement. Did google backstab twitter when they invented buzz? Did twitter and foursquare enter any sort of partnership or contract other than automatic api access with facebook?
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by elai 16y ago
If I've never lived in NYC, or am planning to move there, there is no way for this to be useful to me. Let us see the data once you've gotten enough without putting anything in. Or do it glassdoor style where you only partially see data.
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by elai 16y ago
Your not the mid-30s programmer, your the mid-20s programmer. The drop off happen after your mid-40s.
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by elai 16y ago
They often just get refused service, even after paying way more.
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by elai 16y ago
A typical CS-undergrad set of topics: -How to Program -Algorithms & Data Structures -Functional Programming -State Machines & Computation Classes (NP-Complete, Turing Machines, Regular Languages, etc) -Complier Construction -Physica
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by elai 16y ago
You have to realize that IRC, forums, mailing lists, etc are often just as good or better than some random-circumstance professor, and that programming and computer science are especially well equipped in this area.
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by elai 16y ago
Look at islamic societies, where having 3 wives and one husband is acceptable. This kind of relationship structure comes from war heavy societies which islam was born out of.
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by elai 16y ago
China is similar. I had to act like I was entering the country and leaving right after just for a transfer flight/layover. They're the only place that detected the belt buckle and cared about shaving razors.
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by elai 16y ago
If only it wasn't a single citizenship country :(
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by elai 16y ago
After a few years, my macbook has basically fallen apart, gotten stains that wont come out from book covers, the top case still cracking even after replacing it several times over. The build quality is pretty irritating. My girlfriends ne
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by elai 16y ago
Repair the bugs in the american health care system? Americans spend more per capita yet get worse services.
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by elai 16y ago
You'll spend at most 15 dollars a month on drinking water in those countries, they're doing it wrong!
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by elai 16y ago
Where are you? You can get a nice 2 bedroom in phuket for $200.
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by elai 16y ago
There has only been one airport blockage in history and three "coups" this decade, which is just political factions of elites fighting with each other in the background. Life goes on as normal for most of thailand, no matter if there is cou
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by elai 16y ago
Thailand is pretty relaxed. You can start a company with a thai friend who "hires" you and work there indefinitely. There are probably a few smart thais that already have that as a business. Property and companies must be majority thai own
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by elai 16y ago
It will also stay very similar. The outline of life in the 1970s vs 2010 is still fairly similar. Drive around in cars, live in a house, take the subway, read the newspaper, watch tv, go to the movie theatre, buy food at a grocery store,
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by elai 16y ago
A detailed mockup would probably a much better use of his time than possibly making something that would take a technical co-founder a few hours which for him would take weeks.
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by elai 16y ago
I can so see a too energetic kid throwing money on the table and not listening to the clerk to come get his change and running out of the door.
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by elai 16y ago
The cheapest new cellphone from in a developing nation would fit the bill.
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by elai 16y ago
Things like washers and driers only add a very small amount to the typical house price.
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by elai 16y ago
I wouldn't say protective vs more holding you back. People don't want to sign contracts with minors because minors do not have to hold their side of the contract and it's been like that legally for a long time.
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by elai 16y ago
Backpackers drink wine too.

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