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14y ago
It's funny because the students at the competitive schools work their ass off for the entire semester/ quarter to learn this material. If you use the weakest possible definition for "learn," then you can claim you have learned anything you
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14y ago
Number of downloads? Price? Ads? No ads? iOS? Android?
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14y ago
Why do you say (3)?
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How much money can be made from a somewhat successful mobile app?
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14y ago
Functional programming is a leaky abstraction?
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14y ago
Great.
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14y ago
The question in philosophy is "how does consciousness arise from the physical?" While you can claim it's due to some complex interaction in our brains, and while we have significant evidence that this is the case, I don't think that answers
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14y ago
I've lost a significant amount of weight twice (> 80lbs) and, externally, I seem to have also changed my behavior in a substantial way. I am a much better student than I was before in part because of my own motivation and determination.
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14y ago
Why aren't we teaching our scientists and engineers in a similar fashion then?
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14y ago
I'm not making generalizations about the college experience. His claim seemed all encompassing to me.
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14y ago
"Getting an A is as easy as doing everything, it doesn't require any real intelligence or understanding. This is really what college is all about." You don't have a representative experience. Try going to a top 5 school in science/ engineer