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>'I'd say you did the right thing in not saying what the startup was — it isn't wise to look like a bridge-burner when you're looking for work.' So true. I abhor this, but I certainly understand it. I think the
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>'Well, the fact that someone has made it is proof that anyone can make it. It doesn't mean that everyone will have the same likelihood of making it, though.' Sure. Problem is, it takes a basic notion of statistics to gr
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>'There's definitely some kind of genetic factor at play, and some kind of environmental factor.' Absolutely. > 'The real question is, can you take somebody who could objectively be described as a failure at life
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>'I am seriously considering purchasing his book.' In my opinion, you should go ahead and do it. It's available on Safari where I'm a subscriber, but I grabbed a copy anyway - it's not just good, but pretty dam
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I find it odd that you conclude with a focus on an imparted or innate desire to succeed when the major factors among your family members who didn't succeed seem to be a deadly combination of mental illness and addiction. Having seen ex
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> 'I was able to escape that and do well through hard work.' I don't doubt it and I agree with every point. However, I think it's useful to consider this success in terms of your own advantages rather than a observat
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>'A great example of this is how often people point to outliers in discussing the structural barriers holding back poor kids. It's not rational.' So very true. I think of this as the 'Black President Dismissal'
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>'The council has not yet advertised its services directly to MOOC students'. Thank you for pointing this out. While I'm all about Hanlon's Razor some of this just feels so shady. In the case of the CSU offering the
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>'A University's Offer of Credit for a MOOC Gets No Takers' At glance, most coverage of this is a bit misleading as it leaves out a few key points. * It's not offering CSU credit so much as transfer credits to be ap
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> 'The report also suggests that MIT consider offering different levels of certification through its online-learning ventures, MITx and edX, and recommends that the Institute redouble its commitment to access and affordability — pos
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Very nice. I'll be using this. * At a glance, some sort of automated progress tracker would be my first request. I'm certain that I'll end up missing sections and/or losing my place and drifting away as long as it's
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>'It would be helpful if they offered a "degree" of some kind for completing groups of classes.' They do. EdX - xSeries [1] Coursera - Specializations [2] Udacity - Nanodegrees [3] Obviously, no one agrees on what t
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Looks neat, but... Are people actually OK with a privacy policy [1] that looks like this: --- Furthermore, in the course of using the Services, you or someone else in your organization may provide us with information about your systems infr
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I'm going to add this to my list of coin flip 'rules' I don't really care about. Coin flip in the sense that you might as well flip a coin, or perhaps a roll a die to determine the 'correct' answer for any give
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>'Then go back to your coding...' ...where you imagine that you actually are working on trajectories - at Gattaca Aerospace [1]. (Great movie, one of my favorites.) 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca
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>'All I'm saying that given the job fluidity within the tech industry as a whole, it is unlikely that individuals are going to allow themselves to be compensated at rates very much less than the value they provide.' The
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>'They have the wherewithal to go find another employer if they feel they're being treated unfairly.' That completely misses the point. The parent is observing a behavior in the industry as a whole, not a specific employ
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>'I can't think of many databases which can't export query results to CSV...' This is pretty much irrelevant as these requests are not going to end up in the hands of a DBA, or anyone with anything approaching direc
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>'I'm sure there are political reasons, but it is very hard for me to understand why agencies purposefully keep the data obscure.' I can understand / attest to both of the following stances by experience: Thinking i
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My general impression, having seen the 'inside' of such processes, is that everyone would be better served by mandates around open data than continued interpretations and amendments around FOIA. 1.) The most common sort of request
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>'It seems like the bureaucrats responding to these requests are specifically trained to not release information.' They are. I have witnessed someone reprimanded specifically for 'making it too easy' by providing an
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>'I've signed up for GoodReads, but nothing has come of it just yet.' I've had good luck with requesting recommendations [1] through GoodReads. 1: https://www.goodreads.com/recommendation_requests&#x
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Sounds good to me. I'm generally happy with Safari, have been a subscriber for many years, and consider it indispensable. On the other hand, I've faced nothing but disappointment and frustration with the Pearson operated sites I&#
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>'That's (supposedly) because a ticket for anything less than 10mph is simply not worth it for the cops.' Depends on your cops. I've witnessed tickets for 5 over (40 in a 45), 4 over (49 in a 45) and a stop, thankfu
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> 'Do you have thoughts as to why things are this way?' Off the top of my head, I'd think there's a lot of Apple / Steve Jobs mimicry in the use of flowery language. Everything your local startup produces is bea
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The designs he dismisses are props. Citing specific details would be begging for an immediate derailment directly into the sort details that are directly opposed to the larger point: >'We don’t need more superficial solutions to su
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>'I think Flowers' view is that MITx had the funding and talent to completely re-think digital education, develop new tools, and raise the bar. They did not do that. What they did wasn't bad, but it wasn't transforma
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My favorite course so far has been MITx - 15.071x The Analytics Edge on edX. Everything I've seen from MITx has been above average. Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course on Coursera is quite nice as well.
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>'MITx students probably won't provide any returns in the form of fame/alumni donations.' That's an interesting thought. If MITx were to ask me, I would be inclined to donate. As it is, edX does little/not
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I'm honestly not sure what Prof. Flower's view is here. I feel like I'm missing a lot of assumed history, context and perspective when I read this. I've completed several courses through MITx, perhaps half a dozen total

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