elblanco

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by elblanco 17y ago
I wouldn't change it at all. I think you were being honest, which is commendable. It's a perfect example of the attitude that permeates top-level schools, employers and social organizations. An attitude most elites won't admit to. Yet we of
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by elblanco 17y ago
Either way, if either is a problem for him, he shouldn't have gone to a top school. A better example, using BJJ, is: "What martial art do you study?" "It's Brazilian." "Oh Capoeira?" "Something like that." "I heard it's not very good in a f
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by elblanco 17y ago
I don't believe you read the article. He's edited it now, but the ending was basically advice that "if you didn't go to X, don't try to compete, you'll only be met with disappointment". That's (was before the edit) calling Y crap pretty muc
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by elblanco 17y ago
Live and learn. You've suffered a withering attack here, but you've continued to engage. I like that, upvoted for balls. At the very least it was a popular and thought provoking article that warranted lots of passionate debate. Borderline t
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by elblanco 17y ago
No, that's actually what he said "oftentimes i don't tell people where i went to school because i don't want to automatically be viewed as a snob on first impressions."
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by elblanco 17y ago
http://www.stanford.edu/~pgbovine/advantages-of-name-brand-s...
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by elblanco 17y ago
Ugh, finally managed to read most of the article at the link. I would have preferred putting my hand in my garbage disposal. It's an absolutely accurate portrayal of what's wrong in the world with respect to the reputation that top-tier sch
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by elblanco 17y ago
It's amazing what people pay to go to school. I've known people who did their entire undergrad and master's programs for what someone might pay for a year at a top school. Even figuring in the higher starting salary, the pay gap closes pret
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by elblanco 17y ago
Yes, bad example. Ignoring it, I would counter-argue that the only people I've ever had introduce themselves with their school appended to their names were tier-1 school grads. I'm unsure of your definition of "elitism", "arrogance" and "sn
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by elblanco 17y ago
Glad the author is here, so this doesn't stay one-sided! Some people here apparently think I'm trolling, but I'm simply cutting to the chase and hoping for a spirited and informed debate. Mr. Guo, your article stands in opposition to itself
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by elblanco 17y ago
"Stating that you are among the elites" implies that everybody else is inferior to you. By definition, that is elitism.
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by elblanco 17y ago
The central claim of the article "Given two people with comparable levels of intelligence and technical skills, the one with less-reputable external marks of status will be more likely to display outward signs of elitism, arrogance, and sn
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by elblanco 17y ago
The subtle irony of this is lost on so many. I wish I could upvote this more than once.
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by elblanco 17y ago
Fair enough, I can see how that was trollish. So I'll elaborate. Mr. Guo exists in a world built upon a false axiom, "only the smartest make it into the top schools, and that people who don't make it into those schools are obviously not the
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by elblanco 17y ago
Feel free to downvote, but at least bother to type some reasoning. The number of tier-1 PhD grads that end up in teaching posts at state schools is pretty tremendous. And as anyone who reads this site knows, good schooling != life/work expe
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by elblanco 17y ago
Downvoted obviously from a Stanford grad.
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by elblanco 17y ago
He's on the fast path to a research job, buried in the bowels of some company, working on middle ware. Either that or he'll simply get a teaching job at one of the schools he decries in his post.
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by elblanco 17y ago
And for being duped into believing this little lie, Mr. Guo has singularly proven that Stanford folks are not as smart as their reputation makes them out to be.
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by elblanco 17y ago
The number of articles and editorials I've read in the last 5 years, written by people from tier-1 schools, decrying the tyranny and ill-manners of the unwashed masses, and the unfairness towards graduates of these so-called "top" schools,
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by elblanco 17y ago
At Walmart it's a "greeter".
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by elblanco 17y ago
I grew up in the demoscene, but got too old to keep hanging in it. I'm part of a bunch of semi-retired demo sceners and put out tunes and releases every once in a grand while. http://fulcrum.antisoc.net/ I did the music for this demo htt