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by jcnnghm 15y ago
Did they charge for the placement exams? The school I attended had credit by exam, but it cost the same, or nearly the same, as actually taking the course. What was the placement exam like? I think to really be fair an exam like that shou
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You should move the video to the home page. It took me a while to find it. You may consider having a professional voice actor narrate the video, it's not as expensive as you might imagine, and the results can really take it to the next le
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by jcnnghm 15y ago
I absolutely agree with you. This issue could be addressed, but won't be.
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Perks are compensation.
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I believe that, as you say, the core of the issue is that some students are well versed at the start, and some have no knowledge whatsoever. As a student that was well versed, I can say with absolute certainty that I found it very frustrat
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I'm pretty sure he was fired because the honest and transparent reasons he had were totally inappropriate, and he was condescending and argumentative while positing some rather harsh allegations. I did not say anything about him being a "re
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The mountain of pending litigation?
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So if everyone is treated equally, with the same pay and the same benefits, why would anyone choose to work a hard job? What incentive do you have to spend years and considerable amounts of money learning a skill set when you could just be
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by jcnnghm 15y ago
The secret rule that your employer may not want to pay you, allow you on-site, and provide you access to their resources while you film an exposé on their labor practices that could potentially open them to outside scrutiny, legal and other
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by jcnnghm 15y ago
I've used LastPass since the Gawker breach. It works with iOS and automatically syncs password databases across all browsers and mobile devices. I've been very happy with it thus far.
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
Are you sure you aren't thinking about the children's variant of Monopoly? Monopoly proper is all about trading, which is in turn all about risk management, probabilities, and leveraging your holdings. If your strategy for Monopoly can be
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
I stopped using Facebook a while ago for this reason. Family, personal, and professional are better off separate. Incidentally, at every family event I go to now I'm asked if my sister is a lesbian because "she is in a relationship with
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
Some people actually believe it isn't possible to learn sufficiently complex things without instruction. I suspect this is because they themselves are unable, unwilling, or have not tried to learn without instruction. I had a professor th
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I had a similar experience. I built a iPhone app using the Titanium platform, and decided against releasing it in favor of rebuilding it in Objective-C. I was able to work around the lack of correct documentation, platform inconsistencies
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
I use four screens, 1 30", 1 24", and 2 20", for a total of 9.7 million pixels, with some awesome monitor arms. I wrote all about it at http://littlebitofcode.com/2010/02/07/how-i-learned-to-love-... . I like to think of multiple monitors
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This is my favorite part, and could be significant in the future as a citation supporting a broad fair use of published online comments, regardless of ToS. Each of the four factors either support Defendants’ fair use defense or are neutral
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When I taught myself to program, I learned a functional language, in no small part because the language that I was learning was not object oriented. After some time, my code was starting to turn into spaghetti, so I started enforcing a rul
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A Year with a SSD(littlebitofcode.com)
3 points by jcnnghm 16y ago|0 comments
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Cucumber Performance(littlebitofcode.com)
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
Why not praise them for both. Joel Spolsky wrote a whole book on the importance of hiring smart people, but also people that get stuff done. I tend to think that having a strong work ethic is more important than being smart, as longs as y
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Little Things(littlebitofcode.com)
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I know that I personally stopped, and never really started, saying "you're welcome" because I never really understood the point of it. When I was taught manners as a child, it always seemed to me that people did things because they got off
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by jcnnghm 16y ago
It depends on the internship. Lots of internships seem to be of the "do all the shitty jobs that nobody else wants to do because you are free labor" variety, and not the "trade the salary you deserve for lots of mentoring and training whil
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I absolutely believe that it is reasonable. Given two equally smart candidates, one with good academic credentials and no experience, and the other with no academic credentials and a portfolio of work, I'd take the guy that has actually bu
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IT jobs are skill jobs. Most new college graduates have practically no experience in their fields. This isn't so bad for most fields, but in IT, they will be competing with smart people that also have lots of experience and who are deeply
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I'm aware of that. The market for cloud computing should grow 50-100x in the next ten years, and Amazon is well positioned to capture almost all of it, with declining costs and increasing profit. Not only that, they will be a serious thre
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I think Amazon is worth it. Sun launched cloud computing ( http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/02/1839225&tid=... ) all the way back in early 2005, while Amazon didn't even start public beta testing until August 2006. The real ap
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More Groupon Problems(washingtonpost.com)
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How has being a founder of such a successful service affected your personal life?
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Except that over years of flying I was never patted down, and since the naked scan has started, I've been through that more than the metal detector (6 times v. 2 times in the last two months). This thing was supposed to be used for additio

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