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by glesica 12y ago
My guess would be that it doesn't matter. Plenty of managers and senior people are hired from outside of companies these days. And in any case, if you don't make more money, it doesn't even really matter: http://ww
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by glesica 12y ago
> The OP suggested the American economy is still in a recession I didn't read it that way. Whether we are technically in a recession or not, from the perspective of many, many people, we never left the recession. The rest of the com
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by glesica 12y ago
Pretty sure that's not what I said. I said that would be a recession for that person , in other words, from the point of view of that one, individual person. Of course you've over-extended my point. I wasn't talking about in
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by glesica 12y ago
It takes about 10 minutes on Google to conclude that, regardless of any technical definition of a "recession", the economy is terrible unless you you're in a handful of industries or happen to make your money by owning the me
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by glesica 12y ago
Or maybe reality has a left-leaning bias in this case...
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by glesica 12y ago
> Few people willingly pay car insurance; fewer still have any confidence that their insurance will pay-out. But we pay the premiums because it is a legal requirement, even though it might be more effective for some people to put that mo
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by glesica 12y ago
That sounds like a great experience, good luck!
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by glesica 12y ago
Off topic, but I would be interested to hear more about how and why you ended up temporarily moving to Kiruna. Seems pretty random. But, as someone currently participating in Startup Chile, the idea of picking up and moving around the world
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by glesica 12y ago
Have you tried posting to the dev mailing list? You might also check out the IRC channel (#julia on Freenode).
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by glesica 12y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it would be easy, just that it would be a much, much better solution to the problem (in part because it would address the general problem of labor shortages / surpluses instead of being specific
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by glesica 12y ago
A possible solution here is for countries to treat labor the way they have started to treat capital and goods and services. Start signing reciprocal free-labor agreements. If country Y is willing to allow anyone who can legally live and wor
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by glesica 12y ago
It's true that they are different, though I disagree that the next-best option is always going to be "vary close"). However, in this case the "shareholder value" problem is systemic, meaning that there really isn&#x
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by glesica 12y ago
But I think you're making the same argument. A CEO is a "stakeholder". When the CEO makes decisions with an eye on the very short-term (to hit share price or EPS targets) he or she potentially destroys capital. It might even
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by glesica 12y ago
She did explain it, they are seeking to establish a foothold for Christianity in North Korea so that, at some point in the future when the regime falls or changes its mind about religion, they can "capture" the country. This isn&#
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by glesica 12y ago
No offense, but I think people who went to MIT (and similar) are least-qualified to comment on this matter. People who go to elite schools are generally going to be fine either way, they are highly motivated and high-achieving and their cla
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by glesica 12y ago
We definitely could have added a bit more prose about each clip. However, the site was primarily designed to be a resource for educators, so the blurbs were written mostly for that audience.
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by glesica 12y ago
Ahh, that makes sense. This project was a really interesting case study in how people move through the web. We had quite a bit of publicity for this early on, including some write-ups in print publications, major blogs, television, and radi
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by glesica 12y ago
We had planned for a mixed-content site, but never got around to it. My collaborators have used content from a number of shows in the classroom.
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by glesica 12y ago
Actually, we've been up for something like five years at this point. No lawsuits. Our contention is that it is fair use (clearly educational, in my mind). knocks on wood
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by glesica 12y ago
One of the creators here, happy to answer questions. This is a realllly old project, curious to know how it got submitted :)
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by glesica 12y ago
The interesting thing here is not that Ruby runs on both the client and server. The interesting thing is the client-server data synchronization, at least that was my perception having seen a talk on this a few months ago.
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by glesica 12y ago
Yep, I'm effectively not allowed to trade individual stocks in my job because of the fear of insider trading. And I don't even have access to insider information, it is just possible that I could, at some point, have access to suc
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by glesica 12y ago
Agreed, this is also a problem in economics (though even in economics there are some limited experiments that can be done). I think a key issue people overlook in this debate is the presence of a theory that makes sense. If you just plot da
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by glesica 12y ago
I just wish they'd focus more on producing a great browser and less on random, wacky, side projects. Not that the side projects aren't interesting, but the browser is what I care about. Even this person, who is associated with Moz
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by glesica 12y ago
But the best time, for me at least, to ask questions is during the lectures. That's when my mind is working to understand the material, so that's when I am most likely to have questions. The same process happens during labs and
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by glesica 12y ago
I actually took a for-credit online class last year and I did rather poorly in it, at least by my normal standards. There were several problems. First, I didn't find the material very interesting (it didn't cover what I thought it
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by glesica 12y ago
I am not certain of that. Not even a little bit. I don't think teaching will be identical, but I don't see how it can change that much. Human contact is important, that necessitates a "teacher" of some kind. One-on-one i
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by glesica 12y ago
"I think people should be able to donate to causes anonymously without worrying about retaliation.." But this has never been the case, it didn't start with Mozilla. Laborers used to be at risk of being murdered for attempting
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by glesica 12y ago
I strongly disagree. I have three college degrees but my completion rate on MOOCs is hovering around 10% right now. Obviously I'm a sample of one, but I just wanted to give a personal account to match your own. The classroom setting is
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by glesica 12y ago
"Students need someone to see them, to acknowledge their efforts, to monitor their progress and give them encouragement or advice when needed." I agree with this wholeheartedly. It is always important to remember that students are

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