jamesroseman

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by jamesroseman 10y ago
I'd wager there are more people who have snuck into top-tier universities than there are people who are there without paying/accruing massive debt. This is also ignoring the fact that Ivies and other top-tier universities are over
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
> Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months. Call it proximity bias to having just seen High
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
I would tentatively add a caveat to that. > A top tier college will get you out in front of more employers... ...when you don't have anything more impressive than your college choice on your resume. Harvard students will always beat
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
I have a lot of friends I graduated public HS here in Mass who went to Salem State and transferred to UMass Amherst. Best part was (to my understanding) they got full rides for their last 2 years of college because they met an arbitrary GPA
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
> But I don't see going here as being drastically worse than a better school. Honestly I'd be surprised if there are radical differences in how prepared you are for industry coming out of undergrad from Harvard, MIT, or an aver
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
Sorry, I wasn't particularly clear. I had intended to say they'd be in the Peace Corps if they didn't have to deal with so much debt in the now. I re-read my post and see how murky that meaning is, sorry.
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
[Anecdote] Here in Boston Microsoft built an entire office just to offer a great internship program (Foundry, now Microsoft Garage) to Harvard and MIT students. I think on average recruiters view top tier schools as places where your ROI fo
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
That experience sounds remarkably familiar. I know here in Mass at least UMass Amherst has a remarkably good computer science program for how cheap it can be (if you qualify for the right tuition credit programs by scoring well on standardi
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
I think a reality that will hopefully soon catch up with societal stigma in the United States is that college isn't right for everyone. I understand this as a separate point from college being unattainably expensive, but it is an impor
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
Have you ever tried building a web app in under six months and with three people? Step 1 is usually not "reading Apache Storm documentation". Your point is well-made, there are a lot of benefits of micro service architecture, but
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
> It's also worth pointing out that you can use your industry experience to develop essential political skills, and I'm not talking about how to be a Machiavellian dick. If you want to be a good leader, work on learning how to
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
> Ideally, what you want to do as a young programmer (IMHO) is to immerse yourself in a mature culture of fluent and proficient adult programmers. I think this might be the root of the benefit of being young and working at an at-scale co
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
You raise a lot of great points. It's interesting, I've learned a lot about what works at scale when you have thousands of engineers and by practicing some of those techniques on side projects I've learned what doesn't w
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
For what it's worth, I'm a 20-something working in the industry while my peers are off starting start-ups. I agree with the article, at least as far as technical knowledge goes. Some friends of mine who I graduated with are starti
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
One American's opinion. I'm in my early 20s and in good financial standing, I have 3 credit cards with airline miles programs. Using them means for the past year I've used a free flight every 3rd flight, and my girlfriend and
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
Sorry about that, I thought I had done a thorough read and obviously hadn't.
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
I think these are all really good points, but I was sad to see it didn't address one of the largest reasons my side-business is going to stay side-business until I find someone I can envision really starting with -- you need someone to
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
This article mostly covers a pretty impressive load-time reduction through caching, but I was left a bit worried by its implication. I've always been taught that you build your app and if the load times are prohibitively expensive, inv
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
The real takeaway here should be that engineers tend to make UX that feel good to them as engineers, and most of their clients will typically not be engineers. > I'd rather have confusing software that does what I want, than simple
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
I'm not trying to be antagonistic, but I am honestly curious how this differentiates from tj/co? https://github.com/tj/co
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by jamesroseman 11y ago
It should be noted that per the article, this is for a single project for which the candidate has up to a month to complete. It's not a whole truth to describe the $25/hr as compensation for a "full month's work". T
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by jamesroseman 11y ago
I'm not sure which way I lean, but I suppose there are two camps/use cases here: 1) People who regularly use one or a couple of package managers who can update all packages with a few commands. 2) People who regularly use packages
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by jamesroseman 11y ago
I think 'to do' differentiates itself from 'to be' in E' because while people use 'to be' to make global declarations of property (e.g. "That movie is bad" vs "I didn't like that movi
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by jamesroseman 12y ago
That's a really good point. In my university Networks & Protocols course we made an anonymous messaging fabric where all the nodes could talk to one another but none knew who anyone else was, and every node could connect into the n
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by jamesroseman 13y ago
Does http://blueapron.com not fit the bill? $10/meal /person I think? Ship to > 85% of the country.
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by jamesroseman 13y ago
I think I understand your point of view, it was my initial point of view as well. I thought, "well, you used a website that offers to connect you with people who want to use your home and you blame the website for the person who ruined
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by jamesroseman 13y ago
Thank you so much for the reply, it means a lot. These are the kinds of points I've been thinking, but wanted to make sure I wasn't overly confident in thinking. It's very very nice hearing it from someone else. Thank you for
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by jamesroseman 13y ago
Wow, thank you so much for replying, it really means a lot to hear any sort of feedback! We spent the past year on textbooks alone because we knew the space and had the code. As the year and summer progresses, we will be moving more permane
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Soon college graduate looking at options and for advice.
5 points by jamesroseman 13y ago|6 comments
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by jamesroseman 13y ago
I too shuddered at this instruction...

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