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by fecklessyouth 14y ago
What you major in isn't that important. This community needs to break out of the "choose a major for the job you want" shell. That same line of thinking is partly to blame for this whole mess anyway, since college departments can't possibly
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by fecklessyouth 14y ago
Yes, get skills. But you don't necessarily need to get "hard skills" from a college major. Often, education that stresses the "hard skills" tends to undervalue the "soft skills" like reading and writing which, in my opinion, are more import
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
Biggest surprise among supporters: Al "Net Neutrality is the 1st Amendment issue of our time" Franken. Among opponents: Bachmann.
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
I had a mixed experience with FIRST, but it probably had more to do with my individual team than the program itself. I spent my freshman year on my high school's team, which was one of the top in the country. It was very professionalized an
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
But how often does someone have to click through an add to get to Facebook?
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
Honestly, HN? I clicked "comments" expecting to see a bunch of insight and analysis on the physics involved, and instead it's just a bunch of rage against local news stations because the station committed the unforgivable sin of making the
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
I really dislike posts like this that attempt to pigeonhole every college experience into "college." There are such a huge gamut of academic experiences, but whenever "college" is is addressed, its usually boiled down to "humanities majors
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
"Trust me, if he has an inquisitive mind, he'll explore all the weird and strange subjects on his own time. With the internet, he can even be challenged by greater minds. The best argument for college is the social environment, which can't
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
Spotify is alright, but I use iTunes far more and wish it could integrate.
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
Moms were scrapbooking before nerds. This profile could do a lot for Facebook's growing older population.
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
Isn't the idea that the human race is progressing intellectually a remnant of Enlightenment philosophy? Espousing that is hardly bashing orthodoxy.
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
Reddit could become an email replacement. My college campus has all-campus email that anyone can send to. Discussions in email simply don't turn out well, there's no good way to respond to just one person while letting everyone view it, the
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
As an ignorant observer, I feel like the Silicon Valley has to avoid becoming Wall Street--billions of dollars given to geniuses to make a profit while filling an existing but trivial need that truly helps a small portion of the population.
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
You might want to clarify the results. The best intro book for Javscript http://bestintrobook.com/books/javascript Begins with, "this is not for beginners." It's for already programmers.
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
You're right, but there's a sliding scale of rights, which can't be better demonstrated better than in 1A law. The way that the scale, and many other gray areas of rights, is determined, is greatly influenced by morality.
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
I agree with you more than most people in this thread. It's easy to turn our noses at "community values," but their absence, I think, can explain a lot of problems in this country.
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
Last fall I did my uni moot court competition, and the case was a (simplified) version of this. What the case came down to was whether violence can be treated the same way as sex. Ginsberg v. NY, a case from the 60s, gave an exception to th
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
Condensing constitutional law to the question of "legislating morality" is an incredible oversimplification. Of course the government legislates morality. That's why it's illegal to kill someone, make CP, and put certain context in broadcas
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
I don't think the students who miss out of high school history are the ones watching this video.
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
Traditional "Great Books" academia, or even the liberal arts, has never made the claim to produce innovation. It's quite the opposite. They produce students.
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
>The notion of disruption is not inherently anti-intellectual. The notion that whatever society or structure under discussion has reached a local maximum, and must be torn down somewhat to be built back up is not to say that a society i
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
I also have trouble accepting statements about college from someone who attended one for less than a year. I don't think there is a set-in-stone college experience, and it seems from his article that his experience differed sharply from min
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
This article merely proves the point that Thiel's coverage on HN has pounded into the ground: smart, driven kids interested in entrepreneurship don't need college. What seems to be missing from these kinds of discussions is a focus on what
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
Frankly, neither is most stuff we do on the internet...
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by fecklessyouth 15y ago
"The U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling which allows anonymous spending in the campaign finance environment and its impact on elections may be one of the issues triggering this review by the EFF." Sorry, but what does that have to
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Show HN:Giggilyzer, beta version of a book re-selling app
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by fecklessyouth 16y ago
After reading HN comments, I've come to the conclusion that, education bubble aside, you all went to really shitty schools. I can tell because of the emphasis on the degree and technical skills, one of which is useless and the other of whic
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by fecklessyouth 16y ago
Yet, correct me if I'm wrong, but Adams is advocating an entrepreneurship class. If all he's aiming for are the skills developed in entrepreneurship, why make it a class at all?
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by fecklessyouth 16y ago
>The productivity of virtually every job in the country depends in part on the employee's ability to use a computer. Don't you think that's somewhat of an overstatement?
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by fecklessyouth 16y ago
"Combine Skills. Fail Forward. Attract Luck. Conquer Fear. Write Simply. Learn Persuasion." Sorry, but that "education in entrepreneurship" curriculum just looks like a list of skills absolutely anyone should pick up in the natural course o

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